A Dozen Limericks This selection of limericks originated many years ago as the result of a challenge. I was attending a conference dedicated to the study of British author G.K. Chesterton at St. Michael’s College within the University of Toronto. It is particularly memorable because I chauffeured Sister Bernadette Sheridan of the Immaculate Heart of […]
Knock on Wood: The Things People Do for Luck I am not and have never been a superstitious person but I am intrigued that so many people are. But I do believe in luck, even though it is a difficult thing to influence. So I decided to research the ways people seek luck out by […]
A Selection of Riddles Riddles are a category of joke best suited for little kids. They are short, simple and actually test their intelligence, if not their senses of humor. The format is simply the asking of a question that doesn’t suggest its answer. The unexpected twist is the rub of the thing. Those presented […]
Golf Jokes Mark Twain called golf “a good walked spoiled.” He thought of golf as a mindless obsession because he could not understand the appeal of the game. Not much has changed since golf became a popular pastime during the beginning of the 20th century. The lure of golf remains elusive but that doesn’t […]
Dumb Blonde Jokes In earlier years I and my team of assistants compiled many compilations of dumb blonde jokes for a variety of mass market paperback publishers. So I have tons of them. But I only want here to offer my Top Ten as we presented them in promotional card for The Ultimate Dumb […]
Drinking Jokes I’ve found and edited a ton of drinking humor, most of it incidental to my pub song sing-along show called Musica Inebriata. The following are jokes that can be labeled as “A man walks into a bar” story jokes. These are a special sub-classification of the broader body of drinking humor, which […]
It’s Bad Luck to Be Superstitious: Superstitions, Omes and Folk Beliefs from Around the World. This title is right out of The Confused Quote Book, found elsewhere in this website. I believe I said it myself but it’s possible I heard it somewhere and forgot about it. But you know how it happens, sometimes things […]
The Avant-Garde Prima Donna is a name I gave to a collection of foreign words and phrases that are commonly used in the English language. Many are so common they have entered the vernacular but most don’t know the sources or original meanings. So I compiled this list as I found them in my reading, […]
The Meaning of Trump In 1986 or thereabouts I wrote an unpublished book titled The Name is Trump which satirized Donald Trump’s penchant for shamelessly placing his name on his diverse entities. I was inspired by Dr. Sues and Shel Silverstein, so I styled it as a fun rhyming narrative. It was very clever and […]
Paradox of Our Time The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less. We buy more but enjoy it less. We have more but appreciate it less. We have bigger houses but smaller families. More conveniences but […]