What happens if you take the five o’clock train home from= Chicago? You must give it back.   What’s wors= e than raining cats and dogs on a New York City vacation? Hailing taxi.   I took four hours to check out of my hotel in Japan.= The receptionist told…

Little Jacob saw his Grandma coming down the walk with his Mom.= "I sure am happy to see you, Grandma! Now maybe Daddy will do the tri= ck he’s been promising."   Grandma was curious and asked, "What trick is = that?"   Jacob answered, "I heard him tell Mommy…

“Figures don’t lie, but liars figure”, is an = old (and quite accurate) adage. Few statistics are consistent, few agree. B= ut here are some “general” percentages that are at least in the= vicinity of “fact”. How well can you play the matching game?NO GOOGLE. Please guess only ONE publicly.…

Centuries ago, in a small Mediterranean town, there was a poor = man who was in a great amount of debt. His banker, who was an old, unattrac= tive man, strongly desired the poor man’s beautiful youngest daughter= =2E The banker decided to offer the man a deal to forgive…

“We used to play spin the bottle when I was a kid. A girl= would spin the bottle, and if the bottle pointed to you when it stopped, t= he girl could either kiss you or give you a nickel. By the time I was 14, I owned my own…

Do you know how recently each of t= hese were invented/created/released?  ALL OF THEM in just a nine-year = span between 2003-2011. Wow!But does anyone remember the exact year of = any of these that changed our lives forever began? Probably not.  But = take a guess (you have a…

[Since we posted some activities in my bride’s life th= at show she’s passed =BE of a Century, many grif net blog readers hav= e sent additional “signs of aging”. I thank you. Teresa? Not so= much.]   >>You and your teeth don’t sleep together.   >>People cal= l at…

Two college buddies were out in the woods on a camping trip = in May when they came upon a great trout stream. They stayed there all day,= enjoying the fishing, which was spectacular.   At the end of the day, knowi= ng that they would be graduating from college…

We’re all time-travelers moving at the speed of exactly 6= 0 minutes per hour.   I have an irrational fear of speed bumps, but I’m slo= wly getting over it.   You can’t make everyone happy unless you’re a p= lane ticket.   Flat-earthers travel the world on a plane.…

[While we don’t know the origin of these thoughts, we kno= w the impact.]   “Time always exposes what you mean to someone.”   = “Don&= #8217;t be upset when people reject you. Nice things are rejected all the t= ime by people who can’t afford them.”   “Believe you…

I’m not too good at geography, but I’m sure I can n= ame at least one city in France. I think th= at’s Nice.   Where do Italian pepperoni like to go on vacation? The Leaning Tower of Pizza.   Where is a math teacher’s f= avorite holiday destination? Times…

A man went into a seafood restaurant and asked for a lobster ta= il. The waitress smiled sweetly, sat down, and began . . . “Once = upon a time there was this handsome lobster…”=   ~~   “Nothing looks good= on me anymore,” wailed a customer modeling an outfit…

[Fun for the kiddos today!  Here is a quiz on flowers that= will bring a spring smile once and floral. And I’m not pollen your l= eg.]   W= hat do you get when you plant kisses?Tulips   What is a bee’s favorite ty= pe of flower?A Bee-gonia   What…