As my barber, Skip, was clipping me, he began to discuss Cyber Monday.
“Why do they call it Cyber Monday?” I asked.
“It’s the day you can find all kinds of good deals on the internet.”
“Okay, but what does the word cyber mean?”
“I don’t know,” he replied.
“They have cyber space, cyber cafes, cyber speak, cybersex and who
knows what else. But what does cyber mean?” I again asked. We then
asked Mike, his partner, and he didn’t know. That’s strange; I thought
to myself. Most barbers think they’re experts on things they know
nothing about! And to hear, not one, but two say, “I don’t know,” puts
them on the cutting edge of truth.
Oh, by-the-way, I looked it up. Cyber is anything involving
computers or computer networks, (such as the internet). That’s according
to Dan “the Man,” Webster.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Friday, May 27, 2016
No Pew
I went to a service at a new
church today, and it didn’t have the traditional style benches. Instead,
they had padded chairs. Could it be that the parishioners don’t want to
sit in their pew?
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
The Bread Man
It always amazes me when I hear
folks raving about how much money they saved by buying this or that on
sale. Excuse me, but when people spend their hard-earned money, how in
the world do they figure they saved it? Does it really matter if they
bought the items on sale or paid full price? Isn’t the result the same?
Meaning, now they have less money than they had to begin with.
If I had a hundred dollars and saved some more money, wouldn’t I now have more than a hundred? Conversely, if I spend some of that money, no matter how good the deal, wouldn’t I now have less? Logic would tell any rational person that spending money is not exactly the same as saving it. Hence, a sale is just a means to sell the gullible a bill of goods while lightening their purses and convincing them that they actually saved money. If only I could get my wife to understand this, I’d save so much dough; they’d call me the bread man!
If I had a hundred dollars and saved some more money, wouldn’t I now have more than a hundred? Conversely, if I spend some of that money, no matter how good the deal, wouldn’t I now have less? Logic would tell any rational person that spending money is not exactly the same as saving it. Hence, a sale is just a means to sell the gullible a bill of goods while lightening their purses and convincing them that they actually saved money. If only I could get my wife to understand this, I’d save so much dough; they’d call me the bread man!
Friday, May 13, 2016
Monday, May 09, 2016
Lent
To Mass on Sunday he went.
To pray for his sins and repent.
When he caught her eye,
As she slowly walked by,
He didn’t repent until Lent,
To pray for his sins and repent.
When he caught her eye,
As she slowly walked by,
He didn’t repent until Lent,
Sunday, May 08, 2016
Thursday, May 05, 2016
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Gina
After talking to Gina, our
waitress at the Athenian restaurant, who has sort of an olive-colored
skin, I asked, “Gina are you Italian?”
“No, I’m three-quarters Indian.”
“Indian? Like American Indian?”
“Yeah.”
“Do they still wear loin cloths?” I jokingly asked.
“Sure, they have nothing to hide.”
“No, I’m three-quarters Indian.”
“Indian? Like American Indian?”
“Yeah.”
“Do they still wear loin cloths?” I jokingly asked.
“Sure, they have nothing to hide.”
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