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[Back snug at home after 2500+ travel. Visualize 6 grandkids all sitting around “Grandpa” and singing at the top of our lungs “Grandma’s Feather Bed” and you can understand the past 10 days! But loved every minute!] Here are some jokes t0 make the grandkids laugh while I’m gone .…

I have to admit it. My liberal friends were right. They told me if I voted for McCain, the nation’s Hope

According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated, “Wash. Biol. Surv.” The following letter from an Arkansas camper…

While driving along the back roads of a small town in Wyoming, two truckers from Alabama came to an railroad overpass with a sign that read CLEARANCE 11’3″. They got out and measured their rig, which was 12’4″. “What do you think?” one asked the other. The driver looked around…

[This is a “rerun” from 13 years ago when I was teaching college full time. I was reminded of it when I was playing with grandkids and mentioned a “happy fizzies party”. Needless to say, that anachronism was as out of place as Pinkie Lee, Howdy Doody, or even Archie…

[Yesterday’s entire “special” paragraph was missing the most common letter in the English alphabet – E. In honor of me watching Wall-E 4 times with my grandkids . . and going crazy!!] Two robins were sitting in a tree. “I’m really hungry”, said the first one. “Me, too,” said the…

This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study…

A woman was walking home one winter eve and came upon a snake that was freezing to death. The snake begged her to take him into her home and let him warm up. She told the snake that she could not do this as he was a snake and would…

In 1875, a Danish couple converted to become Mormons and moved to Cache Valley, Utah. They set up a farm in Rural Providence, Utah, and were self-sufficient for a couple of years. By the third year, the husband decided to take a second wife, as Mormons of the time did.…

A Native American (nee Indian) returned home to the reservation after serving in the Army. While in the Army he became an accomplished electrician. He was sitting around smoking the peace pipe one evening when the Chief suggested that he might put lights and heat in the outdoor toilets. He…

While visiting his niece, an elderly man had what was apparently a stroke. She drove wildly to get him to the emergency Room. After what seemed like a very long wait, the ER doctor appeared, wearing his scrubs and a long face. Sadly, he said, “I’m afraid that your uncle’s…

Happy St Patrick’s Day. While I am Scot and Welsh, I do have a drunken grandfather whose family came over from Ireland during the famine. Mom said I should be thankful I lost the Irish blood in me when I had a nosebleed at age 7. But love the humor.…

There’s a new movie out this weekend. It’s about the time that Marc Antony’s wife was a slumlord in the Mideast in World War I. It’s called “Low Rents of Octavia.” ~~ There’s another new movie out this week. It’s about a crusading attorney in the Deep South who heroically…