I recently took my wife out for drinks. Hey, don’t look so surprised — I’m as spontaneous and romantic as the next guy (assuming the next guy is Fred Flintstone). So after work one Friday, I looked into my wife’s eyes, smiled boyishly, and said, “We’re out of toilet paper, dear.”
That’s how we [...]
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I recently took my wife out for drinks. Hey, don’t look so surprised — I’m as spontaneous and romantic as the next guy (assuming the next guy is Fred Flintstone). So after work one Friday, I looked into my wife’s eyes, smiled boyishly, and said, “We’re out of toilet paper, dear.”
That’s how we [...]
Happy International Bacon Day!
Finally, a puppet show that doesn’t “talk down” to kids (but does give them nightmares and the need for years of expensive counseling).
I’ve come to the conclusion that watching a TV Food Network show about preparing crabs while suffering from the flu isn’t a great idea. I was never a big fan of crabs (sometimes called ‘icky giant sea beetles’), but now I’m not sure I’ll be able to watch Sponge Bob Square Pants ever [...]
Forty years ago today computer scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, established a network connection between two computers, creating the very first node of what we now know as the Internet. I’m guessing the first email offering cheap Viagra was received 2 or 3 minutes later.