Category: Human Interest
Professional Sport Career Allows Man to Enjoy Data Entry Hobby
Local man, Clive McNeish, revealed today how fortunate he feels being paid a reasonable annual salary for just two hours work a week as a professional squash player. This leaves a full 38 hours a week free for McNeish to…
Barbie Enters Her 50s: Danger – Cougar Alert
Barbie doll is now well into her 50’s. She sure doesn’t look it. She looks like she’s either discovered the Fountain of Youth or had her whole body Botoxed. Of course it helps when you get all your plastic surgery…
Art You Don’t Want Your Kids Doing For Show & Tell
Being an ‘artiste’ is not an easy thing. At a book store I saw salmon print art that someone made by inking the side of a fish and pressing it to paper making a beautiful wall motive. I thought to…
East Texas Town Succumbs to Old-Fashioned Steapl Chase
Raisin, TX-The East Texas town of Raisin has found itself in a predictable predicament culminating from the holier-than-thou atmosphere that often pervades small towns across the United States. When you approach Raisin, a town of 2500 that sits in a…
GOP Blasts Don’t Ask/Tell Compromise as Sub-Fabulous
On this snowy day in our nation’s Capitol, one can feel the power of hope overtaking all vestiges of cynicism. This lame duck Congress seems to this reporter’s eyes, to be driven by a spirit of bipartisanship seldom seen in…
Cooking with Barack: Lame Duck Stew
Even though this is called duck stew, critics of the administration are quick to point out that there is no duck involved. It is only served at this specific time of year in Washington DC. It is not to everyone’s…
Baby Boomer Planning Ap Pushes Retirement Age to 170
A new computer application available to baby boomers, who are now reaching retirement age at the rate of 10,000 a day, allows optimistic boomers to plan for an affluent retirement at the ripe old age of 170. The program allows…
Lab Results Show Hot Dogs Contain Extra Lips, No A**holes
A team of research scientists from Kentucky State University have concluded a year-long study of the average American hot dog to determine once and for all if they are, in fact, made from lips and a**holes. The results indicate that…
Pot Tops Booze as Most Popular Adult X-mas Gift this Year
Forget slippers and socks, power tools for the guys and tennis bracelets and earrings for the gals, this year for the first time, marijuana (pot) is the most sought after gift, both for giving and receiving. While spirits and wine…
Jailed Chinese Dissident on Nobel Prize: Thanx F-ing Loads
The Western world was excited this week at news the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to imprisoned Chinese democracy advocate Xi Liang Jing. Media watchers are in consensus on the surprising development. If not for the unfortunately timed…