By Joanne Cronrath Bamberger
 
While playing with her daughters at a Chicago-area park recently, Karen Muller experienced what has become a rite of passage for a growing segment of adoptive parents. Pointing to her kids, a child asked, “Are you their grandma?”

Chronologically, she could be. But 56-year-old Muller didn’t even add “mom” to her […]

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A physician claims the following are actual comments from his patients made while he was performing colonoscopies:
1. “Take it easy, Doc, you’re boldly going where no man has gone before.”
2. “Find Amelia Earhart yet?”
3. “Can you hear me NOW?”
4. “Oh boy, that was sphincterrific!”
5. “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there […]

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Subject: Company Christmas Party
December 1st TO: ALL EMPLOYEES
I’m happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd at Luigi’s Open Pit Barbecue. There will be lots of spiked eggnog and a small band playing traditional carols … feel free to singalong. And don’t be surprised if the boss shows […]

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These two friends, Tom and Fred, both had dogs. Tom had a German Shepard and Fred had a Chihuahua. They often walked their dogs together. One afternoon, while they were walking, Tom suggested they go into a restaurant they passed and get something to eat. Fred pointed to a sign in the window that said […]

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Before an emergency joint session of congress yesterday, President Bush announced his plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of Bosnia. “The vowel deployment, the first in American history, will provide the region with the critically needed letters A,E,I,O,and U and will enable countless Bosnian names more pronounceable,” emphasized Mr. Bush.
“For years […]

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Fido’s diary:
7 am - Oh boy! A walk! My favorite!
8 am - Oh boy! Dog food! My favorite!
9 am - Oh boy! The kids! My favorite!
Noon - Oh boy! The yard! My favorite!
2 pm - Oh boy! A car ride! My favorite!
3 pm - Oh boy! The kids! My favorite!
4 pm - Oh boy! Playing […]

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From Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955.

The following is a ‘look how far we’ve come’ fabrication. There is no such magazine as Housekeeping Monthly. The list was one of those ‘email this to a friend’ jokes. Nevertheless, if you look at it as satire, it’s funny (I think). If you are offended by it, […]

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The “Betty and Veronica Syndrome” is a term used for when the protaganist has two potential romatic interests, thus assuring that neither relationship will come to full fruition without the protaganist having to choose one or the other.
Veronica and Betty first met in Archie comics in 1939
Blonde Betty and dark-haired Veronica were “best friends and […]

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Please accept, with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice […]

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The Bouffant“The 1960s bouffant hairdo:
Jackie Kennedy popularized it, but it took Hollywood, skilled hairstylists and an entire generation of glamour girls of that era to bring it to the pinnacle of eye-catching beauty as the decade progressed.
By perhaps 1965 or 1966, the bouffant reached its peak of spellbinding enchantment, and became synonymous with romantic […]

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