Tag: frivolity
member name: Greg Schiller
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December 14, 2009 07:18 PM EST --
Raise your hand if you have ever changed a flat tire.
Okay, put your hands down.
Now, who has waged that battle with the emergency equipment found in the typical trunk?
Okay, you can stop . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
Obviously the Humor Gang has recovered from the long July 4th weekend. (For those living at latitudes and longitudes not tormented by American electoral politics, there is less of an excuse, for instance . . .
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July 14, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
The happiest man in the world is a pink little guy I used to care for at the Faribault State Hospital in Minnesota. "The Colonel" was born with severe Down's Syndrome, yet he enjoyed . . .
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December 14, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
The forecast says, "cold with snow", it's the sort of . . .
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November 27, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
No one described home better than the poet Robert Frost
In Death of the Hired Man , he wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
And so it . . .
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November 19, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
" What makes some of us tightwads and others spendthrifts?”
I still don't know, but American RadioWorks explored the question in a documentary titled Design . . .
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April 28, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
There was a time when almost everyone in Minnesota lived in a tent. The equipment in those days was pretty basic stuff: buffalo hide shelter, wicker backpacks, wooden utensils and maybe a clay vessel . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
I remember my son's coach ticking his way through the roll-call before the soccer games: "Joshua, Jeremiah, Jason, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua".
You get the idea.
To . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I have been told by experts in such matters that on a golf course I am a clear and present danger to all living things as well as any inanimate object within the range of half a mile.
Much of this . . .
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November 12, 2007 11:40 AM EST --
Religion in America is in steep decline, and I know why. Simply gaze upon any church built after 1950, and you will know why too. Modern churches are ugly as sin, and so too is modern religion.
In . . .
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January 28, 2008 06:25 AM EST --
I bought something the other day I shouldn't have. It was a little thing, a memory chip for my camera, but it came in a large clam-shell package. I needed the chip, but I swore I would . . .
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March 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Bud asked Irene, "If gambling is so fun, how come no one here is smiling?"
She didn't have an answer for that, neither did she have an excuse for dragging him into Ceasar's Palace. . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
In January of 1976, Jimmy Carter smiled his way toward the presidency, I worked third shift in a steel foundry, a communist army occupied Saigon and the coldest winter in decades gripped the Twin Cities. . . .
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May 12, 2008 06:54 AM EDT --
My ex-wife waged endless war over the mess in our kid's bedrooms.
She was a master of command and control who viewed every tiff over cleaning as the final battle of Armageddon. . . .
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May 08, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
Imagine the day after the 2008 election. The Democrats will be whooping it up, having bagged the presidency and padded their power in the House and Senate.
They will be giddy as newly weds - . . .
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July 14, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
This afternoon, the missus and I endured an usually long line at the coffee shop.
Our cashier, a fresh young man with crisp tattoos and silver piercings, pecked warily at the register. He seemed skittish . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
I pryed open my wallet and bought a new camera this weekend. To try it out my wife and I traveled to Mantorville Minnesota. For those not familiar with the state, Mantorville . . .
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September 29, 2008 11:54 AM EDT --
Welcome to Northfield Minnesota, for years my hometown and current home to my favorite pub.
The town motto of Northfield is: Colleges, Cows and Contentment.
So it . . .
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December 08, 2008 12:48 PM EST --
We all have our morning rituals. Mine is waking up well before sunrise and padding into my home office to fire up the computer. While it struggles from slumber, I make coffee and argue with the cat. . . .
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