Tag: humor
member name: Con Chapman
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July 25, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
KANSAS CITY, Mo. It's 6:30 p.m., and Anson Myers has a looming deadline for the thrice-weekly column he writes for the Kansas City Star. He hasn't written a word yet, but he doesn't appear . . .
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July 19, 2006 05:09 PM EDT --
EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. Amy LeBlanc couldn't wait for her eighteenth birthday, but it wasn't presents she was looking forward to.
"I wanted to go out and get a tattoo that would really . . .
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July 20, 2006 04:26 PM EDT --
GENEVA, Switzerland. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, today expressed "grave concern" over what she called "Top-40 Torture" by the U.S. and its . . .
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June 28, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
At Gerbil Interactive Media ("we", "us" or "Gerbil"), we value the privacy of people like you (a "Member", "you" or "you all" if you are . . .
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September 12, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
SAN FRANCISCO. If you thought the Barry Bonds steroid scandal couldn't get any weirder, think again. The San Francisco Giants today announced that Bonds is pregnant.
Bonds: "The . . .
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October 06, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
I have been a member of the male sex my entire life, actually longer, since my masculinity--such as it is--was determined when I first acquired one of those dust-bunny like creatures, the Y chromosome, . . .
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December 19, 2007 09:15 AM EST --
NEW YORK. A study released this week indicating that people who suffer from dyslexia are more likely to rise to the top in the corporate world has business leaders buzzing and headhunters riffling . . .
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December 20, 2007 04:49 PM EST --
BOSTON. At the Borders Bookstore in downtown Boston, the lines snake around the building with holiday shoppers making last-minute purchases. Sometimes the contrasts are striking, as ramrod-straight . . .
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March 10, 2008 03:16 PM EDT --
ALBANY, New York. Crusading New York Governor Eliot Spitzer today demanded a complete investigation into his involvement in a prostitution ring, saying he would not rest until he had determined . . .
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May 02, 2008 09:01 AM EDT --
If you're married or involved in a long-term relationship, you may have experienced one of those horrifying moments when your spouse or significant other says or does something that . . .
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June 21, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
MAYNARD, Mass. In a darkened room, Rose Alba Mercurio sits in a comfortable chair and repeats the words she hears on a self-hypnosis tape especially prepared for her by a local support group. . . .
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July 10, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
Boston--City of Big Shoulders!
No wait--that's Chicago. Boston's the City of Round Shoulders, because of the number of bookish types who live here. That's why I joined . . .
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October 20, 2008 02:45 PM EDT --
The news this morning was grim. Another Sunday, another no-holds-barred fight at a baby shower turned deadly. Four people taken to hospital emergency rooms at 11:30 p.m. When will . . .
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December 04, 2008 07:45 AM EST --
FLORISSANT, Mo. Amy Ratcliffe is a high school junior who says she's "on the bubble" for her first college choice, Vanderbilt University. "I bombed the math part of my SAT . . .
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July 30, 2006 10:55 PM EDT --
Once upon a time there was a Norway rat who made his living as a freelance experiment subject, running mazes and gulping diet soda for . . .
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October 19, 2006 10:34 AM EDT --
NEW YORK. The heads of the world's principal religions have agreed to establish an international pecking order by a sudden-death game of "One Potato, Two Potato" to be held at United Nations . . .
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July 06, 2006 08:44 AM EDT --
CROTON-ON-HUDSON, New York. Caitlin Morgan has dreamed about attending Wellesley College, her mother's alma mater, almost as long as she can remember.
"Mom took me there when I was a little . . .
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September 05, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Department of Homeland Security has taken the first official steps to place the Shriners, a fraternal organization that uses Arabian motifs in its costumes and rituals, on its "Specially . . .
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September 21, 2006 06:06 PM EDT --
NEW YORK CITY. The organizers of Spain's top fashion-show created a stir recently when they turned away a slew of top models on the grounds that they were too skinny, but scientists who . . .
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September 28, 2006 01:07 PM EDT --
CHILLICOTHE, Missouri. Lamar Gene Lange is a retired telephone lineman with a gut that hangs over his "International Harvester" belt-buckle, evidence of his fondness for red meat, beer . . .
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