Tag: wit
member name: Mike Ball
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August 08, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
Not too long ago I saw a television commercial for what has to be one of the most important industrial breakthroughs in human history. Even though major advances of this sort are not really the focus of . . .
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June 20, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
Yesterday, one of my favorite people left our world behind.
Her name was Donna Lemon. She had a gentle voice, kind eyes, blue hair, and a sometimes unnervingly knowing smile. She also knew enough about . . .
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December 09, 2009 07:14 PM EST --
OK, has anybody besides me noticed that Santa Claus is not getting as much attention as he used to get? At Christmas time when I was a kid, you could not throw a candy cane without hitting a fat . . .
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July 11, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
Yesterday we were on a boat belonging to my new friend, Mike. It was one of those cool "wakeboard boats" with a big chrome tower on it - the latest in tow boat technology. This tower is designed . . .
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August 22, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
Ever since my remote ancestor Oog Ball sat by the water in front of his cave and used his stone axe to hack a birch log into a 21 foot Mastercraft, my family has been involved with boats. Over many . . .
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September 27, 2007 01:24 PM EDT --
On Sunday, September 23, we experienced the magnificent Autumnal Equinox, one of the two days out of every year when we enjoy exactly equal amounts of day and night. It also marks the beginning of Autumn, . . .
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October 11, 2007 12:01 AM EDT --
I was just sitting here looking at my wife's bottle of pomegranate-scented shampoo and wondering why any woman would want her hair to smell like pomegranate.
OK, I admit this is a sure sign that . . .
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October 18, 2007 07:41 PM EDT --
I’ve discovered something at least as addictive as caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, heroin, or even Chex Mix ( the really good homemade kind, with way too much garlic salt). At this moment millions . . .
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October 25, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
Last weekend was my wife's birthday, so I wanted to surprise her and make dinner. I thought long and hard about it, and I prepared the perfect menu for the occasion:
• Steak
• Beer
• . . .
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December 20, 2007 01:06 PM EST --
What do you suppose Paris Hilton wants for Christmas?
I recently read in the New York Post (sometimes I like to go slumming - what can I say?) that the girl who is Famous For Being Famous just wants . . .
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February 25, 2009 10:34 AM EST --
Hi. I'm Mike, and I'm a Facebookaholic.
I discovered Facebook not too long ago, at the suggestion of some of my creative writing students. "It's great," they would tell me, "you . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:20 PM EDT --
Not too long ago I asked my readers to write and tell me about the crappy things they have done over the years to make money. The idea here was that I would get you to do my own crappy job, and write . . .
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November 01, 2007 09:10 PM EDT --
As I'm writing this I'm sitting in a big aluminum tube 32,000 feet above the Bering Straits, hurtling through the air at more than 550 miles per hour. The person sitting in the economy class seat . . .
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February 28, 2008 08:22 PM EST --
All right everybody, it's time to toss Sis, Mom, Granny, Cousin Elmer, Emmy-Sue and the young-uns into the old Ford pickup, grab a couple of cases of Budweiser, scream "Yeeeeeee-Hah!" . . .
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May 01, 2008 10:46 AM EDT --
This afternoon my friend and I dropped into a friendly neighborhood tavern to grab some lunch and to watch the Detroit Red Wings CRUSH the Colorado Avalanche in the second round of the NHL playoffs. Now, . . .
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February 18, 2009 01:49 PM EST --
I love my snow shovel.
Ok, I'll admit that doesn't exactly rank up there with Tristan and Isolde (look it up) or Rachel and Ross (see "Tristan and Isolde" or "Monica and Chandler"). . . .
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April 23, 2009 02:40 PM EDT --
Well, it's that time of year again. The ice dam in the driveway has been replaced by a glob of nearly composted leaves from last Autumn, I've extracted the last of the season's Slush . . .
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May 01, 2009 10:42 AM EDT --
At the end of last week's action-packed episode, we left our heroes, Tom and Mike, staring thoughtfully at a big heap of alleged dock sections, a fairly strange assortment of poles, augers, and connectors, . . .
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October 01, 2009 09:42 AM EDT --
I received a pretty unique voice mail the other day. According to the caller ID it was from a friend who likes to talk almost as much as I do, so I was not all that surprised to see that her message . . .
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July 18, 2007 10:52 PM EDT --
I was talking with a group of friends at a high school graduation party over the weekend, and the conversation turned to a problem that guest of honor, Jim, was dealing with. It seems that a very pretty . . .
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