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James Fennimore Cooper wrote about the life of Santa Claus. Naturally he titled it The Deer Sleigher. On the inside cover appears a photograph of Santa taken with his North Polaroid camera. In the pages of the book, you’ll find out that Santa’s primary language is North Polish. You’ll learn…

James Fennimore Cooper wrote about the life of Santa Claus. Naturally he titled it The Deer Sleigher. On the inside cover appears a photograph of Santa taken with his North Polaroid camera. In the pages of the book, you’ll find out that Santa’s primary language is North Polish. You’ll learn…

When the wife and I were dining last month in Moscow, we enjoyed a meal with former Communist Party leader Rudolph Petrovich. He came into the restaurant from the cold drizzle, complaining about the nasty weather. My wife said it was sleeting, but he argued that it was just a…

A famous chef developed a new Eggs Benedict dish to be served in a 50’s style eatery. It just didn’t look good on the regular serving plates and he wanted something retro and classy. He spotted some shiny hubcaps on the wall and it gave him the idea for a…

An international chess tournament was held at a large hotel in New York City. Everyone watched games with great intensity and argued into the wee hours over moves and counter moves. But the hotel manager finally had enough when one group nailed up banners all over the lobby about how…

Reading a local paper and their trivia about famous doctors helped me develop this little quiz to see if your BRAIN survived the Thanksgiving Weekend overload. Fill in the missing doctors’ (real/fictional) names. DOUBLE POINTS FOR FIRST AND LAST NAME CORRECT. 1. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote about the dual personality…

Does this make sense to you? We need some major change in thinking, immediately. If you cross the NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, you get 12 YEARS HARD LABOR. If you cross the IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, you get DETAINED INDEFINITELY. If you cross the AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, you get SHOT. If…

There was a post office worker whose job it was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day a letter came addressed in a shaky handwriting to God, with no actual address. He thought he should open it to see what it was about. The letter read:…

From our house to yours . . . MAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY, MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP. MAY YOUR POTATOES ‘N GRAVY HAVE NARY A LUMP, MAY YOUR YAMS BE DELICIOUS, MAY YOUR PIES TAKE THE PRIZE, MAY YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER STAY OFF OF YOUR THIGHS. Gobble till you…

A recent bride called her mother one evening in tears. “Oh, Mom, I tried to make Grandma’s meat loaf for dinner tonight, and it’s just awful! I followed the recipe exactly, and I know I have the recipe right because it’s the one you gave me. But it just didn’t…

Dear Mr. Grim Reaper, So far this year you have taken away my favorite actor Patrick Swayze, my favorite entertainer Michael Jackson, and my favorite actress Farrah Fawcett. Just so you know, my favorite politician is Barack Obama. Thank you. [If you are of a more liberal persuasion, feel free…

A cowboy from Montana appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. ‘Have you ever done anything of particular merit?’ St. Peter asked. ‘Well, I can think of one thing,’ the cowboy offered. ‘On a trip to the Black Hills out in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of…

Baseball & football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. And as such, it seems they tell us something about ourselves and our values. I enjoy comparing baseball and football: Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a 20th-century technological struggle. Baseball is played on a…