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Why is it so hard for pizza employees to understand that one 2 topping pizza and 1 cheese pizza uses exactly the same amount of toppings at two single topping pizzas?
1+1 = 2+0. I’m not asking them to do algebra here. Every freaking time I get put on hold so they can check with […]

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Chris Beth has posted a selection of notes from his junior high yearbook. Many of them sound familiar, I’ll bet most of us got the same notes from our friends. 7th graders just aren’t that creative.
Do kids today even do the yearbook thing? For us, the only evidence of our junior high mistakes and […]

A folk song mostly about President Franklin Pierce. Just listen.

1. On Sunday night we found ourselves at the farm at 9 PM, waiting for the Vet. Skip had a 103.4 fever, which is quite high for a horse. In the absence of any other symptoms, the Vet suspected anaplasmosis, which can kill a horse in a matter of days. (Anaplasmosis is a tick borne […]

diamonddave – Just click around. Too much fun for words.

These parent of the year candidates didn’t bother to report their adopted son missing when he disappeared 10 or 11 years ago. It is just coming to light now. Nobody noticed that a kid was missing for 10 years?

If you are going to write a scathing letter to the paper demanding that they cancel your subscription because they almost caused you to puke up your breakfast when you saw the picture of gay couple with a child embracing, it would be beneficial to take a second look at the photo, just to be […]

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