Category: Humor
Those Ironic Brits
October 31st, 2007, No Comments
The Sith arrive at last, courtesy of the British government. (Watch the first 30s)
A quote
October 30th, 2007, 1 Comment
Seen today in #haskell: <newsham> you see an opening to the north. The light shining through reveals a small booklet near the base of the door. There is a small compiler here.
Survival
October 17th, 2007, 2 Comments
Long enough in the country?
September 4th, 2007, 4 Comments
Perhaps this conversation is a sign that we’ve been in the country for awhile: “Terah, if you ever drive the pickup…” “Why would I ever do that?” “I don’t know, but if you ever do, I just want you to know something. The reason there’s a towel connecting the brake pedal to the steering wheel…” [...]
There’s a redneck joke here somewhere
August 16th, 2007, 2 Comments
Back when I was in high school, I heard a Jeff Foxworthy CD once. He had this “you might be a redneck if” routine. We resemble one of his comments: “If the directions to your house include ‘turn off the paved road’, you might be a redneck.” What if the road — the county road, [...]
Progress
July 17th, 2007, No Comments
While everyone else is excited about their iPhones and whatnot, technology isn’t leaving us country dwellers behind. Consider these two recent events: 1) The weeds growing down the middle of the road were gone for a bit. That was surely evidence that the county road maintainer has been by. 2) Word from our letter carrier [...]
Insurance
December 5th, 2006, No Comments
I was visiting with our homeowners insurance company the other day (very good folks). Because we weren’t living in our house during renovation, we had to get a more expensive type of policy. The agent that sold it do is is no longer with the company, so the new person handling our account asked me, [...]
Peter’s Evil Overlord List
December 2nd, 2006, No Comments
If you ever feel a bit like Darth Vader or some Bond villain, you really need to check out Peter’s Evil Overlord List. It starts out with “My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones.”
Debian GNU/Mom?
October 18th, 2006, No Comments
A couple of weeks ago, I posted this photo of Terah holding Jacob: When I first saw the gowns that the hospital was giving to people, I almost burst out laughing. Let’s take a closer look at the gowns: This looks similar to Debian’s logo: When Peter came to visit us, I said, “Do you [...]
Air Traffic Controllers Quotes
July 19th, 2006, No Comments
I found this amusing page today. My favorite is the one in Frankfurt.
