Tag: Your Humor Source
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Ignorance is Courage
I work regularly at a lab in eastern New Mexico, flying there and consulting a week at a time. With evenings and some Saturdays free, I make sure to get outside, even though that area offers little of NM’s “Land of Enchantment” claim. (Likewise, but in an opposite way, most of Idaho isn’t “Famous Potatoes.”)…
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Complimentary Breakfast
Welcome again to “Real Life Voyeur,” the award-winning program on the Life Happens Network where you can watch unsuspecting and likely unwilling participants navigate life in public places. Last night, our crew meticulously mounted cameras for a secret HD view of Bestway Inn’s complimentary breakfast arena. I’m Jason “Jay” Walker, here with my colleague Thomas…
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Fixing Crap
I’m content to work my job or perform household chores, but I sure don’t enjoy having to fix things. I have studied physics, so I somewhat understand why unmaintained things tend toward disorder, which is to say, stuff will break down. Objects offend me when they can’t keep their act together, and we rely on…
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Prosperous Lives of the Medically Afflicted
Prosperity may be about accomplishments and wealth, but it’s also about attaining the lifestyle—the whole vibe of who we are, who we’ve become, and our purpose in what we do. Which is why I wish I could emerge from a drug commercial. By all appearances, those humans have it made. If one doesn’t feel well-established,…
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Unlimited Bacon
Events pair well with food, such as youth group activity night and pizza. In the 90s I was a youth pastor, and at first, I asked parents to rotate covering the Domino’s order and beverages for the teenage horde. I soon ditched the idea, because food-logistics parent (usually the mom) would figure on four kids…
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A Non Sequitur Tale
I felt super-intrigued one afternoon, like the feeling one might get while reading an essay on correlation and causality, which I happened to be doing. My study was interrupted by a knock on the front door: someone taking a survey had shown up because I don’t have a doorbell. I sent them away because they…
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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,…