Who said philosophy was boring?
We’ve all heard the proverb “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” as a way of expressing how a child is similar to his parents. This is a good thing if your parent is Bill Gates, a bad thing if he’s K-fed, and a mixed blessing if he’s Stephen Hawking. For those of you who think you’re nothing like your parents and would be offended at the mere suggestion that we share the same driveway much less the same genetic material, I bring you a suitable response to the above saying. It’s assertive yet tactful. more
Ever feel like “happy birthday” is overused and cliché and just plain not creative? Feel lost when handed a birthday card to sign and don’t want to be the 30th person to write a bland “happy birthday”? Then the list below is for you. Cut and paste onto the walls of Facebook friends you hardly speak or even work up the courage to say some of the more off-color examples to their face. You might lose some friends, but at least you had the gall to go out in a blaze of awkwardness.
“Hey what is all that cake for? I thought you were on diet”
“Cheer up buddy” more
Dave Chappelle once cracked a joke about how he tested whether someone was a real Native American:
A friend recently wrote to me that he’s having a great time trespassing in dangerous buildings undergoing construction. He even e-mailed some photographs of the floor plans he filched. Show-off. more
In my previous post, I talked about how I compared my childhood growth to the Center for Disease Control’s 2000 growth charts. Some questions I had while doing this: more
If she wasn’t my parent I would’ve filed a restraining order. It was freaky yet touching. more
Most people by now have received a facebook friend request from someone they have never met. more
Hopefully everyone is having a fun Thanksgiving. If you are not, sexy pilgrims singing R&B will cheer you up.