I was Christmas shopping in a department store and was checking out, being assisted by an older woman. Her appearance made me think she might be Pentecostal, I mean, she had the PHD, the glasses, the outfit etc…. not that it matters, I am just trying to set the scene.
She was sharing the register with [...]

‘Kids Say’ worthy quotes are fewer and farther in between, but occasionally one of the kids comes up with one. The most recent both came from Hannah.

Crisis in the Middle Ages
I overheard Hannah laughing in the back seat of the car and when I asked her why she said, “I just saw an old man [...]

‘George Carlin died Sunday of heart failure’
Not everyone’s favorite comic, but he made me remember, he made me think, and he made me laugh. From his Catholic school stories, to Al Sleet (the Hippy Dippy Weatherman), to the meaning of words and how people use them, he always had a passion for what he said [...]

Gems are something I stumble across that are particularly interesting, funny, poignant, or for some reason, something I just feel I have to write down. This is the first.
I was listening to Bob and Tom and one of the comics, I can’t recall who, said something I just found not only completely funny, but also [...]

I get an ‘interesting trivia’ email from a colleague just about daily and todays included the following:

Stumbled across this Navy headline in The Mirror on Wednesday night;

I must have missed the memo because there are new words being used that I never heard of…