History Quote

Cursive History

    This is pretty much historically accurate.

Greek Mythology Friday

    For all its silliness, the poetry-making is done quite well.

Roman Numerals

    If people from the Roman Empire visited us today, there would be issues.

An Almost Full Flight

    Laugh if you want, but I work with a guy who pulls this routine when the flight he's on is almost, but not quite, full.  No, he doesn't carry those books, but as the plane fills up, he goes into a coughing, wheezing, shivering routine.

    And it works.  Nobody will sit next to him unless its the last available seat.  It is truly amazing to watch him perform.  The whole trick is to not overdo it, to where people know it's a put-on.

Music Tuesday

    Groan.

Punctuation Wednesday!

  Commas are important!

Cartoons the censors missed

    The Argyle Sweater is notorious for testing just how close they can come without their cartoon getting bleeped.  Others that also play this game - Pearls Before Swine and Arlo and Janis.

Flamingo Friday

Today's Argyle Sweater Cartoon

    I'm embarrassed to say I had to read this cartoon three times today before I 'got' it.

The Worst Rock-n-Roll song Ever?

    Listen, I'll admit We Built This City is not the best song Jefferson Airplane/Starship ever put out.  But there are plenty of crappier rock-&-roll songs out there.

Where's your hairpiece?

    It took me an embarrassingly long time to 'get' this joke.

Roman Numerals

    Sometimes, the Roman numeral system works better than ours.

Wolverine's Previous Job

 

   

Horse-Drawn Carriages

    It's not every day you see one of these.