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Let's Laugh: Can I Write a Best Seller?
  Millions of writers dream of the day when their book will be best seller. I faithfully read the Sunday “National Best Sellers” list to see what the public is buying.    Non-fiction is my favorite...
Posted by creid - Mon May 12, 2008 10:08:07 PDT
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Let's Laugh: About Camera Intersections
  A recent phenomenon in the world of law enforcement is the red light camera at busy intersections. I have to admit that I was highly intimidated by one that was installed at an intersection I drive through every...
Posted by creid - Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:56:18 PDT
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Let's Laugh - And Trudge up to the Gym
  One of my younger friends has been particularly encouraging to me as I sweat it out at the gym. She suggested that I increase my stamina day by day and do a variety of speeds, inclines and minutes on the treadmill. She...
Posted by creid - Wed Mar 26, 2008 14:00:30 PDT
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Let's Laugh: About Birthday Cards
A dear friend whom I’ve known for close to 30 years recently celebrated her 82nd birthday.  She was the first person I met when I went to work in Houston, Texas for an oil company.  Later, we were included in a large...
Posted by creid - Sun Jan 20, 2008 07:47:16 PST
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Let's Laugh: My Christmas List?
My Christmas List?  A Poinsettia and a Cordless Screwdriver please--   I bought a cordless screwdriver some years ago and could hardly put it down!  Everything in the house was screwed in, tightened down and...
Posted by creid - Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:15:29 PST
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Let's Laugh: About opening Christmas presents
Christmas is right around the corner!  I received a lot of really nice gifts for Christmas last year.  I am still trying to get some of them open!     My granddaughter gave me a new curling iron.  It was in a...
Posted by creid - Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:54:17 PDT
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Let's Laugh: About "maturing"
President Bush celebrated his 61st birthday this year. His physical and mental condition were reported to be in the top 1 percent of people in that age bracket. That's good considering he's the President of the United States and will...
Posted by creid - Mon Sep 24, 2007 09:54:59 PDT
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Let's Laugh: About Kindergarten
When my daughter started kindergarten I was excited but at the same time felt sad about her first step out of my direct care. I cried for a week and then started to enjoy home for half a day with just one child.    She was...
Posted by creid - Tue Aug 21, 2007 09:14:09 PDT
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Prince Andy the Flying Puppy flys again
Vallejo--The Sonoma County Fair Splash Dog Challenge was a success for local flying puppy "Prince Andy".  On Friday Andy qualified for the "Open" Division by finishing 2nd in the Junior class with...
Posted by Softballjoe - Wed Jul 18, 2007 09:51:38 PDT
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Let's Laugh - About Going to the Dentist
I went to the dentist the other day. Everyone should go to the dentist on a hot, Bakersfield summer day! I’m sitting in this chair with dozens of metal things hanging down in front of my face, moving around like trapeze artists at...
Posted by creid - Tue Jul 10, 2007 15:51:21 PDT
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Let's Laugh: Can you compete with Angelina Jolie?
I lounged in my comfy chair watching the Golden Globes. I wore my orange $7.99 T-shirt from Target over worn out brown sweat pants.  This would be in contrast to the “dove gray strapless organza gown” that Mrs....
Posted by creid - Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:59:33 PST
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Sound Familiar? Hopefully Not
     The following starts out as a typical family trip to the Grand Canyon. Little Johnnie is strapped into his seat belt and finishes his Lifesaver lollipop, he looks out the window and asks, ...
Posted by themelaman - Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:27:31 PST
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Let's Laugh –– The Holiday Bulge
The busy Christmas season has come and gone and we have another whole year to wait for a repeat. The celebration of the New Year is over and it’s back to work, back to school, back to schedules, back to the gym, back to the diet...
Posted by creid - Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:38:22 PST
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It Happened to Me Part IV: 15 minutes
The traffic school teacher showed a video in which various drivers described how their lives had been ruined in moments of carelessness. At the end of each segment, the drivers would say, “It happened to ME. It could happen to...
Posted by themelaman - Thu Dec 7, 2006 09:39:27 PST
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It Happened to Me Part III - Aches, Dents, and Coffins
     Midway thought the class, the teacher introduced an unexpected hero: the truck behind the man. In its old age and heavily-dented condition, the truck kept him relatively safe. “Well, she goes zero to sixty...
Posted by themelaman - Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:34:40 PST
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