Tag: gather writing essentials
member name: John Philipp
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May 26, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
This Monday the Humor Gang slowed down a little probably because it's
Memorial Day and a holiday — and possibly because I didn't remind them. We are . . .
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October 19, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
Don’t take life too seriously , or so they say. What if you got to Heaven and found yourself in a comedy competition with ten other candidates? The rules: the humor has to be true; losers . . .
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October 28, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
(I published this column in 2006. This year there’s another pumpkin shortage in certain areas and I thought this might be appropriate reading this week.)
Good grief, Charlie Brown, there’s . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:38 PM EDT --
A bountiful day on Humor Monday - a baker's dozen and then some of articles to tickle your funny bone.
WARNING: Reading ALL these humor articles at one sitting may be deleterious to your . . .
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June 02, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
This Monday the Humor Gang did themselves proud once again — 20 plus articles and cartoons to tickle your fancy.
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August 03, 2008 11:54 PM EDT --
“Before bombing we will be careful to evacuate all citizens of voting age.”
(With all the commentary streaming 24/7 from political pundits with too much television . . .
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August 18, 2008 05:25 AM EDT --
“ Bathroom behavior is an example of inelastic demand. ”
The price of fuel is killing the airlines. They are left with only two choices: “fee-for-all” or “free fall.”
The “fee-for-all” alternative . . .
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August 24, 2008 11:47 PM EDT --
Labor Day weekend is a good time to catch up on your culture. Of course, you can go to the Sausalito Art Festival (SAF) — voted the best in the country since, well, forever — or . . .
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September 07, 2008 11:51 PM EDT --
“People who fell off their bikes when they were five have a stronger group identity than I do.”
I belong to a missing generation. Maybe belong is not the right word as my generation doesn’t . . .
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September 28, 2008 11:38 PM EDT --
Now we’re into the Fall season, I can finally let my guard down. Grills are cleaned, oiled and covered; picnic baskets are stowed and the red-and-white checked tablecloths are washed, dried . . .
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October 06, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
It's October, 2008. Do you know where your Pet Rock is? I think mine died, but I’m not sure. Even alive, Rolph wasn’t much of a conversationalist.
It’s been twenty years since I heard . . .
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October 26, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
Last week I was invited by the Endoscopy Center of Marin to attend a colonoscopy. Mine. Katie Couric made me do it even though I’m only 39 and have been for some years.
Seriously, . . .
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November 23, 2008 11:47 PM EST --
I don’t know how your innocence died but for me it happened in stages. The Easter Bunny was the first fatality, just after my fifth birthday. This wasn’t such a shock. We didn’t have a TV then so I . . .
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January 11, 2009 10:48 PM EST --
A country knows it is in deep doodoo when one of its iconic institutions shows signs of terminal failure. When that institution is a corporation, the country knows the doodoo is economic in nature. . . .
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January 26, 2009 12:07 AM EST --
America is suffering from brain drain . This is not the same as brain freeze , which is what happens when you sip a Slurpee swiftly. Brain drain traditionally refers to “the departure . . .
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February 02, 2009 09:33 AM EST --
Good evening listeners. I am John Philipp, your host for Strange Interviews, the radio show that questions guests no one else can. Tonight I will be interviewing perhaps the strangest guest . . .
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April 13, 2009 12:15 AM EDT --
You may read this column only if you promise to shred and burn it immediately afterward — and then completely destroy it. I do not want my name falling into the hands of a certain government agency . . .
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April 19, 2009 11:53 PM EDT --
In my other job, facilitating innovation meetings, we encourage people to be wishful and suspend feasibility temporarily, an approach that often leads us to genuinely new thinking, but also results . . .
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May 11, 2009 12:06 AM EDT --
I woke up this morning to a disturbing realization. Magazine writers and television reporters have stopped using the term millions and started talking about billions . I must . . .
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June 22, 2009 12:07 AM EDT --
Did you ever wonder how life would be different if we named things using the first name of the inventor instead of using last name? The Earl of Sandwich reportedly was the first person who put meat . . .
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