January 2010
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Auld Lange Syne
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to min’….” Auld Lang Syne” was played by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians as a New Year’s Eve song for the first time on December 31, 1929. Though it was played as the band’s theme song for years, and it had even occasionally been sung on New Year’s Eve, this was the first time that...
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December 2009
One Liner
I wondered why the Frisbee was getting bigger, and then it hit me.
"Hello, my name is John. Thank you for calling...
OMG, that was richly funny. I was rolling, and waiting to see what would happen in the next paragraph, all the while finding myself starting to look behind me and watching for the would-be assassins sneaking up on me.
We have all been on that call: The seemingly endless hold-time to get a live person that ends up being not much more than an extremely polite greeter from a made-up name that is...
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Baseball is Hard.
“Baseball is hard. You can love it, but it doesn’t always love you back. It’s a lot like dating a German Chick.”
Coach Butterball in “Bad News Bears” (played by Bad Boy Billy Bob Thornton, 2005 Version).
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Mammatus Clouds
Mammatus are pouch-like cloud structures and a rare example of clouds in sinking air.
Sometimes very ominous in appearance, mammatus clouds are harmless and do not mean that a tornado is about to form; a commonly held misconception. In fact, mammatus are usually seen after the worst of a thunderstorm has passed.
Mammatus typically develop on the underside of a thunderstorm’s anvil and can...
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art...”
– (Oct. 1986)
Elie Wiesel
“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”
– A. Powell Davies
