Tag: Your Humor Source
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Influencer Aspirations
Well before “Mad Men,” Hollywood’s golden-era seemed often to glamorize the advertising executive, and between then and now came classics with characters in advertising roles such as the TV series “Bewitched” or the movie “Kate & Leopold.” And rightly so, as advertising is a big deal. Superbowl LVI (that’s “56” for you non-Romans) charged $VII…
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We Have No Place
“Wanna Get Away?” Inflation is making that more difficult, with fuel prices climbing and hotels marking up rooms even while scaling down amenities. Airbnb is a sound alternative, which I plug shamelessly because my wife Carrie and I run one. Before we bought and fixed up a full-time house for this, we got our feet…
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Do-Overs
From time to time, I hear it said (something Roy Clark sang almost fifty years ago), “If I had it to do all over again….” Have you uttered this proposition of regret? Well, tough cookies, because without reincarnation, it isn’t happening. And even so, that wouldn’t strictly be your life do-over, would it? Suppose, though,…
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Tactical Clothing
I like that capitalism generally offers us choices and value in goods and services, although inflation seems to be diminishing much of that lately. I do not take for granted that I enjoy prosperity and only must manage “first world problems.” So, I attempt to guard against greed and discontentment, which includes being wise to…
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Rider Wordsmithing
Indulge one more Olympic-inspired post, please. I’ll move on next week to other goodies in my queue. The only snowboard trick I ever executed was an air-and-fakie, without the air, so obviously I am impressed by recent riding performances in the 2022 Games. Yet I want to offer a shout-out to the skateboard and snowboard…
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Olympic Sliding Spree
The 2022 Olympic Winter Games are wrapping up as I write this, and I’ve noticed both serious and casual viewers like to comment about the current medal count (I’ll restrain from my rant on that, because it’s not a humor bit) and mock certain events. Now, although I once penned and performed a clever, silly…
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Priority Mail Thievery
Our throwaway society can be somewhat hilarious even while tragic, such as the widespread desperation to keep upgrading our phones (and Kate McKinnon acting hilariously on a TV ad while telling us we all deserve this). Or the true story told me of a millennial who tossed week-old leftovers—along with the cooking pot they were…
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Winning the Coin Toss
Some people are just lucky, but does that make them winners? A ceremonial coin toss marks the beginning of each NFL game, and of course, one team “wins” the toss. This team often choses to “defer” for the purpose of receiving the ball in the second half. So, correctly calling a coin flip makes you…
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Real Time
Welcome to the future long promised: one in which, instead of paying for cable or satellite TV, we’d stream entertainment from the Internet for free. It has arrived—other than the free part, as I know I’m not the only one getting subscription-service soaked. Besides that, I still stupidly pay for Dish because they discount me…