Alabama: At Least We’re not Mississippi Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can’t be Wrong! Arizona: Dehyd-rific! Arkansas: Litterasy Ain’t Everthing Colorado: If You Don’t Ski, Don’t Bother Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only Dirtier and With Less Character Delaware: You Need a Map to Find Us Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids Georgia: We…
03/23/13 Weekend Grif.Net – Finding Common Denominator in Gun Violence
Like everyone in America, we’ve been saddened again and again over the years by crazy, evil or misguided men who kill the innocent. Whether they use guns or knives or explosives or sterile clinic rooms, they sicken us. So we need to look carefully at these killers and try to…
03/23/13 Weekend Grif.Net – Finding Common Denominator in Gun Violence
Like everyone in America, we’ve been saddened again and again over the years by crazy, evil or misguided men who kill the innocent. Whether they use guns or knives or explosives or sterile clinic rooms, they sicken us. So we need to look carefully at these killers and try to…
03/22/13 Grif.Net – Learning Something Stupid
[Someone told me at a person is “never too old to learn something stupid.” So before you age another day, here are some simple truths to learn.] To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.…
03/22/13 Grif.Net – Learning Something Stupid
[Someone told me at a person is “never too old to learn something stupid.” So before you age another day, here are some simple truths to learn.] To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.…
03/22/13 Grif.Net – Learning Something Stupid
[Someone told me at a person is “never too old to learn something stupid.” So before you age another day, here are some simple truths to learn.] To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.…
03/21/13 Grif.Net – Elementary Music Lovers
[DM share little know music “facts” written by elementary-aged children] “J.S. Bach died from 1750 to the present” “Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music.” “Refrain means don’t do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not try to sing.” “Handel was half…
03/20/13 Grif.Net – Two Great Economists Talk about Unemployment
[Labor Dept: 873,000 people come “off” the unemployment line but only a little over 114,000 jobs were “created”? Luckily I found a transcript of a conversation between two eminent economists discussing this very question!] COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America. ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times.…
03/20/13 Grif.Net – Two Great Economists Talk about Unemployment
[Labor Dept: 873,000 people come “off” the unemployment line but only a little over 114,000 jobs were “created”? Luckily I found a transcript of a conversation between two eminent economists discussing this very question!] COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America. ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times.…
03/20/13 Grif.Net – Two Great Economists Talk about Unemployment
[Labor Dept: 873,000 people come “off” the unemployment line but only a little over 114,000 jobs were “created”? Luckily I found a transcript of a conversation between two eminent economists discussing this very question!] COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America. ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times.…
03/19/13 Grif.Net – What Daddy Does
[RM shared this cute story] A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. “Tim, you be first,” she said. “What does your mother do all day?” Tim stood up and proudly said, “She’s a doctor.” “That’s wonderful. How about you, Amie?” Amie shyly stood…
03/18/13 Grif.Net – Looking Back
[Checking my “sent” file and saw a pun from 15 years ago that I emailed out to grif.net faithful. It was bad. How bad? Bad enough that I just HAVE to repeat it today.] On a trip in New South Wales, Australia, I happened on the little village of Mercy.…
03/16/13 Weekend Grif.Net – Two Birthdays in one Week!
[For new subscribers to the Grif.Net – on Monday-Friday we send out a slightly warped blend of humor. On the weekend we send out material that is more serious of a moral, ethical, religious or political nature. This week I had TWO BIRTHDAYS, and every year I share this story…