Last day of 2007. So a quiz (or course) is in order. In WHAT YEAR did these famous “last” events take place? And a BONUS question related to that event. Answers coming some time next year. 1a LAST YEAR a US President had facial hair? 1b What political position did…

[translated from Spanish] God created the burro and said to him: You will be a burro; you will work tirelessly from sun-up to sun-down carrying burdens on your back, you will eat grass, you will have no intelligence and you will live 50 years. You will be a burro. The…

A large group of Iraqi soldiers are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune. “One United States Marine is better than ten Iraqi!” The Iraqi commander quickly sends 10 of his best soldiers over the dune, whereupon a gun battle breaks and…

[Know there are many folks of other/no religious persuasion, but I am an unabashed Christian and rejoice each year at the retelling of the Christmas Story.] And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.…

Dear Santa, I’ve been a good mom all year. I’ve fed, cleaned and cuddled my children on demand, visited the doctor’s office more than my doctor and sold sixty-two cases of candy bars to raise money to plant a shade tree on the school playground. I was hoping you could…

[More of the best Bumper stickers I’ve come across. Feel free to vote for a favorite] Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around. WWSD – What would Scooby do? The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on the list. I am…

[Bumper Stickers worth a chuckle. Feel free to vote on your choice] Gravity – It’s not just a good idea, it’s the LAW! All I want is less to do, more time to do it, and higher pay for not getting it done. The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography Nobody’s perfect.…

[Help to parents who want to communicate with their children over the Christmas break] Your bedroom isn’t cluttered; it’s just “passage restrictive.” Kids don’t get grounded anymore. They merely hit “social speed bumps.” You’re not late; you just have a “rescheduled arrival time.” You’re not having a bad hair day;…

AMBIGUOUS RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS 1. Is atheism a non-prophet organization? 2. If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? 3. If you go to a bookstore and ask “Where is the self-help section?” are you defeating the purpose? 4. If a deaf person swears,…

I grew up with practical grandparents who had been frightened by the Great Depression in the 1930’s. And a mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it. A father…

REMEMBER THIS AT CHRISTMAS TIME: According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-December. Female reindeer retain their antlers till after they…

Zebediah was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers, called pullets, and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs. Zeb kept records, and any rooster that didn’t perform well went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot…

50th Wedding Anniversary On their 50th wedding anniversary, a couple summed up the reason for their long and happy marriage. The husband said, “I have tried never to be selfish. After all, there is no ‘I’ in the word ‘marriage.’” The wife said, “For my part, I have never corrected…