I thought I would share the unvarnished truth about "Black Friday." The first recorded use of the term Black Friday was applied not to holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up a …
I'm excited...my favorite holiday is just about here. No presents exchanged, no religion, no politics (maybe:) and of course great food. I'm particularly looking forward to frying a turkey and barbequing a couple of ducks. Both require a bit of finesse and thought. The ducks in particular have quite a bit of fat and the drippings can easily spark …
Yes it happened here....well in Florida anyway. Police arrested a 53-year-old woman and charged her with drunk driving. The funny thing is, she was riding a horse. The police had received a few 911 calls about someone riding down the road on a horse. So they responded, located her and pulled her over. The officers peformed a sobriety test, found …
Hey, what do you feel like doing today? I've got it...let's throw some axes. C'mon... Well if you were in Paris, you could. There's a place called Les Cognees - French for "axes" or "hatchets" - where people can gather after work and pay to hurl heavy edged weapons around. All you need is about $17 and for an hour you can feel like a warrior : …
Fall is trying to arrive, leaves are starting to turn and it's a unique time in New York... Basketball season is starting Hockey season is starting Football is in full swing and the Yankees are in playoff baseball (one win away from going to the World Series as I write this and, hopefully, will be on their way by the time you read this:) Are yo …
In my college days, cold pizza in the morning was one of the staples of my diet. Leftover pizza was unceremoneously stuffed into the frig, box and all. I would grab a slice on the way out to my first class and I was good to go. Apparently this has been somewhat commercialized. Tino's in Oneonta, New York, about 175 miles northwest of Manhattan, c …
Yesterday at 4:02PM marked the arrival of the autumnal equinox. In my never ending quest for truth, I googled it and found some interesting facts. (Remember, everything on the internet is true:) Myth: You can stand a raw egg straight up on the day of the equinox. Truth: If you have enough focus and patience, you can do this anytime of year. M …
How often do you lie to your friends or loved ones? I'll bet it's more than you are willing to admit. No one wants to be the bearer of bad news, but the fact is that in this life, you often have to be cruel to be kind. Protecting other people's feelings, most times, doesn't do anything but make situations worse. I've had close friends lie to me a …
As the folks in the Houston area are recovering, Floridians are bracing themselves. As I write this Hurricane Irma is just starting to hit the keys...see here. Apparently it hit Cuba and the wind speeds have descreased to only 130 mph and who knows where Jose will land. I was curious this morning to know if there were other significant weather ev …
If one of your closest friends was going to get a serious elective medical procedure and you strongly didn't want them to do it...how far would/should you go to dissuad them? A friend of mine is struggling with this now. One of his closest friends is going for gastric sleeve surgery and he strongly feels that best friends and family should always …
Is Terminator that far behind? A Japanese company has introduced a new application for their humanoid robot acting as a Buddhist priest for hire at funerals. They put the robot on display at a funeral industry trade show in Tokyo chanting sutras in a computerized voice while tapping a drum. The funeral robot could step in when a prie …
I had to dig deep this week...finding a unique and funny story from around the world. This one I just shook my head. Asda, one of the UKs largest supermarket chains (and is part of the Walmart group), is selling green grapes that it says taste like 'candy floss'. The supermarket has been experimenting in recent years with varieties of fruit known …
Chalk this one up to the French. They are starting to offer fresh oysters from vending machines...yes, fresh oysters. Tony Berthelot, an oyster farmer is offering a range of quantities, types and sizes of live oyesters 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Ile de Re island off France's western coast. The refrigerated dispenser, one of the fi …
This week is not about anything but sharing a smile and a laugh. I found this selection of parent tweets and hope you have the same reaction as I did. Enjoy! No one is full of more false hope than a parent with a new chore chart.— Simon Holland (@simoncholland) *Sees burglar hiding in closet*Me: Hey, mind if I hide in here with you? I nee …
This weeks true and funny story comes from Corpus Christi, Texas. Just the other day, in a bank that was being remodeled, an ATM repariman was there to replace a lock inside the machine. He left his phone in his truck while he went inside the bank and inside the ATM machine. Unfortunately he locked himself inside the machine and couldn't call for …
It's Saturday...and anything goes.
