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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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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 - Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:29:17 PST
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Vigilante Justice: Homeowners at War with Rats, Part II
Day Two I would like to think that I’m fairly well-read, that I know at least a little about many subjects, but it turns out that I am ignorant about rats.    I’m ignorant about rats and about people named...
Posted by sunnica - Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:07:07 PST
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Let's Laugh: What am I putting on my English muffin?
Have you ever, on a cool November morning, put sugar-free raspberry preserves on your toasted English muffin? And even better, enjoyed it with a cup of hot, steamy coffee?  For some reason, to me it tastes more like the fresh...
Posted by creid - Wed Nov 15, 2006 09:51:27 PST
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It Happened to Me Part II: Blind Men and Horses
After three hours in a DMV guided lecture, I became convinced that the enemy was not the highway patrol. Rather, it was the system that gave us traffic “school.” No orange cones; no driving course; just a lecture that no one...
Posted by themelaman - Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:31:37 PDT
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It Happened to Me Part Two: Engines and horses
I once sat in a business meeting in which the speaker tried to break the ice by telling a joke. “What has two hundred legs and three teeth? Give up? The front row of a Willy Nelson concert. Hahaha.” When several...
Posted by themelaman - Tue Oct 17, 2006 13:03:32 PDT
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Let's Laugh: About dieting
All of my friends are on a diet. Even my men friends. It’s either a diet to gain weight, lose weight, redistribute weight or maintain weight. It gets so dratted boring.  The only one who is any fun is my friend’s...
Posted by creid - Thu Sep 7, 2006 10:49:55 PDT
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Let's Laugh: Surviving a Power Outage
When power was finally restored two hours after our latest power outage, everything was blinking! Or clinking! The clock on the microwave blasted “RESET” in gigantic, frantic letters! And the timer for the automatic...
Posted by creid - Sat Aug 19, 2006 13:40:18 PDT
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Let's Laugh at Life: Babies
Millions of us have had a baby. Big deal, right? It used to be if you got married, babies were the natural outcome, assuming health and eggs and sperm all matched and were at the right place at the right time.    I...
Posted by creid - Tue Aug 1, 2006 07:57:03 PDT
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