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July 22, 2016 Leave a Comment

To Those Who Think They Know Everything

From out Humor Department:You are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

June 30, 2016 Leave a Comment

Fish Sees Submarine

From our Humor Department:It was just after VE Day at the end of World War I. A German submarine was steaming back to Germany when a couple of

June 16, 2016 Leave a Comment

Grandma In the Days of Daniel Boone

From our Humor Department:My Grandma, who had come out west with Daniel Boone, used to torture me with tales of what she had endured when she was

June 2, 2016 Leave a Comment

How Obvious Was Laplace’s Equations?

From our Humor Department:Pierre Simon Laplace wrote an equation on the blackboard. He turned to the class and pronounced, "Now it is obvious that

May 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

Franklin’s Reason for Poor Richard’s Almanac

From our Humor Department:I might at this place attempt to gain thy favor, by declaring that I write Almanacks with no other View than that of the

April 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

The Dead Sea Was Only Sick

 From our Humor Department:When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.-- George Burns, actor who lived to age 100.

April 14, 2016 Leave a Comment

The Communist Strip Club

From our Humor Department:In the 1980s the Soviet leadership decided to open a strip club in Moscow. It was a miserable failure. The commissars in

March 31, 2016 Leave a Comment

Soviet Solar Mission

From our Humor Department:An announcement is made about the new Soviet space program: a mission to send a man to land on the sun.Reporters

March 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

What Was Camelot?

From our Humor Department:Q: What was Camelot?A: A place where people parked their camels!

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