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January 05, 2009 12:00 AM EST --
Washington, D.C. Jan 5: Santa’s out, sleigh stays says Bush
President Bush is taking his remaining 29% “mandate” a little too seriously. According to an impeccable White House source who . . .
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December 21, 2008 11:54 PM EST --
Today we’re going to talk about wrapping Christmas presents. If you’re of the male persuasion, this information will save you considerable frustration. If you’re female, give this column . . .
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December 21, 2008 11:55 PM EST --
It’s Christmas and that means presents under the tree — some clearly wrapped by Martha Stewart’s elves and the rest apparently by a pygmy tribe with a central nervous system disorder. But . . .
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October 19, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
Don’t take life too seriously , or so they say. What if you got to Heaven and found yourself in a comedy competition with ten other candidates? The rules: the humor has to be true; losers . . .
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October 28, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
(I published this column in 2006. This year there’s another pumpkin shortage in certain areas and I thought this might be appropriate reading this week.)
Good grief, Charlie Brown, there’s . . .
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January 02, 2009 12:04 AM EST --
As I look back on 2008, it occurs to me that in addition to people I have thanked, there are a lot of people I’d like to NOT thank.
* I would like to not thank Pietro, who introduced himself . . .
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December 26, 2008 07:08 AM EST --
The older of you will remember the Burma Shave signs, others have heard of them. For those who are new to Burma Shave poetry, it is a part of Americana.
“At their height of popularity there were . . .
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August 04, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
Welcome to Humor Monday Update.
Not only are there plenty of posts here to get your week off to an amusing start, there is excellent prose and poetry as . . .
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November 23, 2008 11:47 PM EST --
I don’t know how your innocence died but for me it happened in stages. The Easter Bunny was the first fatality, just after my fifth birthday. This wasn’t such a shock. We didn’t have a TV then so I . . .
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October 01, 2007 08:51 AM EDT --
"To be safe, I used separate dryers for each color."
The urban mythology goes as follows: If you are male, you can change spark plugs, . . .
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October 28, 2007 07:58 PM EDT --
I'm filling in today for Chris Carlisle, who does such a fine job moderating this Monday romp together. He's come up with some lame excuse about going on vacation with his family this week and . . .
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January 30, 2008 06:28 PM EST --
If you want the "straight skinny" on the difference between men's and women's brains, take a look at Mark Gungor's 5-minute clip Tale of Two Brains .
Enjoy.
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April 06, 2008 11:56 PM EDT --
In a previous article, we discussed " stealing from the very best . But you don't have to steal the joke itself, you can steal the device , the method used by the writer to achieve a desired . . .
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April 21, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
Another funny day on Humor Monday - lots of articles to tickle your funny bone.
WARNING: Reading ALL these humor articles at one sitting may be deleterious to your mental . . .
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June 02, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
This Monday the Humor Gang did themselves proud once again — 20 plus articles and cartoons to tickle your fancy.
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June 23, 2008 04:53 PM EDT --
This Monday the Humor Gang is back to speed after Fathers Day. More than twenty essays, poems and cartoons to tickle your funny bone. Like clockwork, here . . .
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July 03, 2008 06:52 AM EDT --
Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th in honor of the day the citizens of the United States, after asking nicely for over 150 years, declared their independence from George III of England and also voted to . . .
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July 27, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
When things aren’t going as planned, Americans have one strategy that has gotten them through thick and thin: they change the rules — especially when they are in a war.
In Vietnam, America . . .
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August 10, 2008 11:55 PM EDT --
It has come to my attention that there’s a possibility the Beijing Summer Olympic Games are not real but a giant hoax, a calculated conspiracy. Also, due to some minor surgery, it’s more than a possibility . . .
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August 31, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
Today, I am Captain of Beer Booth #3 at the Sausalito Arts Festival. For those who have never been in a position of REAL POWER, where the hopes and dreams of six booth attendants, the unborn grants . . .
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