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Archive of posts published in the category: Humor

A Slave to Our Narrative

You will believe the most outrageous things if it fits your narrative. If your first response to an outrageous story is to smile or cheer or become enraged  then a professional should stop and triple check every detail and then wait 48 hours to see what clarifications emerge.

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The Truth About Chuck Norris

Ian Spector was an undergraduate student at Brown University and noticed an Internet forum that mocked Vin Diesel’s role in the Pacifier. Spector linked to the site and launched his own www.4Q.cc/vin and created a ‘random quote generator’ where visitors

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Israel in One Word

A CNN reporter in Israel was interviewing an Israeli veteran of the 1967 War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War who was now a scholar and a distinguished member of the Knesset. Attempting a different approach the interviewer asked the

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Hemlock Could Be Terminal

My dad just spent a week at the Medical Center in Macon, GA. He is doing fine. The Medical Center’s Main Entrance is located on Hemlock Street. The pharmacy in the building bears the last name of the owner; David

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The Agnostic Nutcrackers

My daughter plays bass, guitar, piano, and french horn. She has formed a band that will play a few local gigs before school starts. We could not resist the temptation to annoy her with some potential band names. Loose Truth,

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Sheryl Crow’s Bathroom

tip to http://mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com/ – Blond Sagacity- one of my favorite bloggers.

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The Master of Metaphor

Just gazing through Dennis Miller’s “Rant Zone”, an old collection that makes perfect bathroom literary fare. He is the absolute master of the comic metaphor. A few shining examples:“…even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around

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Some Very Bad Analogies

for my literary friends out there….. These are the winners of the “worst analogies ever written in a high school essay” contest run by the Washington Post: McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with

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The Scrap Movie Review- Live Free or Die Hard

Growing up in the scrap business we see the world a little different. Occasionally I will judge movies by how much scrap metal was generated in the story. The 4th in the Bruce Willis Die Hard Collection is “Live Free

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