Fun Stuff

Brain Squeezer: Numbers Describing Letters

Brain Squeezer: Numbers Describing Letters

Okay, let’s see how clever you are. This quiz will rattle your brain. And you thought this was going to be a relaxing weekend.

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Golf Pros…and Cons

Golf Pros…and Cons

Golf can be fun. If the ball doesn’t bop you on the head. As Dean Martin once said, “If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”

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I Want to be a Cowboy When I Grow Up.

I Want to be a Cowboy When I Grow Up.

Boomer boys loved Westerns. There are parallels between their coming of age and the mystique of the Old West.

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Bugatti’s Masterpiece, the 1938 Type 57SC

Bugatti’s Masterpiece, the 1938 Type 57SC

It sold in the spring of 2010 for well over $30 million, the highest known price ever paid for a car. Can we put you down for one?

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Blackout Dinner: A Thanksgiving Realization.

By Greg Tamblyn Dining in the Dark: Scary Fun We are invited to a swank hotel lobby, given beverages, finger food, and aprons. An excellent musician plays piano in the background. Lots of upscale people are milling around, waiting, like us. Finally, a chef from California instructs us to line up according to table numbers, [...]

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A Facelift for her 50th Birthday

A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthday. She spends  $15,000 and feels pretty good about the results. On her way home, she stops at a newsstand to buy a newspaper. Before leaving, she says to the clerk, ”I hope you don’t mind my asking, but how old do you think I am?” “About 32,” [...]

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The Disease of the Month Club.

By Roy Klein Forget about those silly fashion trends. Pop culture icons? They’re a dime a dozen. And the hula hoop, yo-yo and Rubic’s cube were mere child’s play. The hottest craze around these days is illness. That’s right. It’s become de rigeure to be sick. But not any run of the mill sickness will [...]

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Screwed Up English: Twisted Translations Of The English Language

Excerpt from a Book By Charlie Croker HOTELS AND TRAVEL: Chapter title from a book about the history of Garuda Airlines in Indonesia: Total Quality Qontrol Qatar: Please do not use the elevator when it is not working. Notice on a broken turnstile at Salzburg, Austria, passport control: Out Of Work Zurich: We have nice [...]

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