Storing Magazines
Eric Scheske's house has a magazine problem. They're all over the place. He ran
across a great idea in his local paper recently: use old cereal boxes to hold
them. Cut off the top inch or so, then cut at an angle to about one-third
Eric Scheske
Dog Funeral
We rarely offer straight jokes on this site, but this one cracked us up:
Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company.
One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, "Father,
me dog is dead. Could ya&
Get in the Encyclopedia
A.J. Jacobs read the 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, A to Z. He then
wrote a book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest
Person in the World. It's a good book: filled with facts and funny comments.
It&
Going to Europe?
If so, you may want to check this:
> To experience Old Europe, there's no better way than by eating, sleeping,
walking, studying, and praying in the houses of monks and nuns. Europe's
Monastery and Convent Guesthouses: A Pilgrim's Travel Guide by Kevin J.
Odd Consumer News
This place has devised an alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and
sizzle of cooking bacon. Link [http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/wakeNbacon.php]
.
> Once the alarm goes off, it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the
alarm sound. We hacked it such
More Fun with Female Workers . . .
. . . in traditionally-male jobs:
> A failed romantic relationship between two pistol-packing guards led to some
tense moments inside an armored car at a Slidell bank.
> Loomis, Fargo & Co. employee Quiana Anderson, 27, told authorities she was
driving to Hancock Bank at 1411 Gause Blvd. to make
Dissin' Sex?
We hear the measure didn't run into very stiff competition:
> Impotence drugs such as Viagra would not be covered by Medicaid and Medicare,
the government health programs for the poor and the aged, under new prohibitions
approved by the House on Friday.
> By a 285-121
While You're At It . . .
. . . make them all valedictorians, too:
> Today, San Ysidro Middle School will recognize 516 eighth-graders in a ceremony
to promote them to high school, regardless of whether they passed middle school.
> More than a fourth of them did not.
> In today's ceremony, 143 students who
The Oneness of Vice
> A woman shoplifter in Germany abandoned her three-month-old baby after being
caught stealing from a supermarket, authorities said Friday.
> "When the security man told the woman to enter his office so he could check her
identification, the perpetrator took off, leaving behind the baby and
Abelard and Heloise
The Claremont Institute has published a nice piece about the greatest love
affair of the Middle Ages. Link
[http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/summer2005/bramwell.html]. Excerpt:
> Abelard and Heloise inhabited a world that, like our own, was changing rapidly.
They saw themselves and their times as modern.