WordPlays is an inventive collection of stories on a theme. They are quite clever and were one of my earlier projects, back when I was working on producing for newspaper syndication. That’s how I got my start in writing, editing and publishing. Since I saw myself as a journalist first and foremost, newspaper and magazine […]
Why in the World? This variety of question have delighted and puzzled people for ages. They really have no answers, which is what makes them fun. So I thought it would be a good idea to jot the best of them down for anybody’s and everybody’s use. These are not copy-rightable, at least not in […]
Universal Hand Gestures Years ago I decided I wanted to learn, or at least have a practical knowledge of American Sign Language. So I enrolled in a high school evening course and stuck it out for ten weeks. I enjoyed it but it didn’t penetrate the thickness of my skull. A week afterward I remembered […]
Scrap Irony These items can be described as “things I discovered while looking up other things.” I have tons of them and I will continue to supplement this compilation from time to time. They are in no particular order but each is a great conversation starter. The only thing they have in common is that […]
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 […]
THE CONFUSED QUOTE BOOK is a compilation of funny and ironic statements made by both famous and infamous people…ad a few unknowns as well as long as they were made in ear shot of Gwen Foss, who is responsible for it. Gwen is a virtuoso list and quote compiler who I had the pleasure of […]
Back-Handed Compliments We have all been the victims of intentionally kind remarks, which weren’t really that kindly intended. What they really were are handy insults disguised as praise. The speaker’s true intentions poke through like a jolt of whiskey when water was expected. This collection of “back-handed compliments,” as they are commonly known, is a […]