School Daze: 1962 vs. 2012
Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack....
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Rick Townley
- Feb 27, 2012
- 2 min
A Day In The Life
Much later I went outside, unwound the hose, looked toward the driveway and noticed that my car needed washing. I put down the hose and...
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Rick Townley
- Feb 14, 2012
- 4 min
A Hallmark Moment
We were indoctrinated into giving cards at a pretty early age, starting with Valentine’s Day. Who doesn’t remember getting those little...
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Rick Townley
- Jan 31, 2012
- 4 min
Humor Is Just No Fun Anymore
“Most people have a sense of it [humor]. Some people don’t. I feel sorry for those people. The humor impaired.” Dave Barry, writer. “I...
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Rick Townley
- Nov 23, 2011
- 1 min
They Come And They Go
A quick look at the top selling toys of all time, with special thanks to Esquire magazine. Who here can remember a son or daughter trying...
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Rick Townley
- Nov 16, 2011
- 1 min
Just in Time for the Holidays
For Boomers Only, the book, is finally available! It took us a while, but we finally got a book together based on this blog site. It’s...
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Rick Townley
- Oct 19, 2011
- 3 min
How Green Was My Valley
We are certainly in favor of recycling and helping the environment, but someone sent this to us recently to remind us that a lot of our...
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Rick Townley
- Jul 30, 2011
- 4 min
This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Is You
If you think no one cares whether you’re dead or alive, try missing a few credit card payments. I also have bills sent directly to my...
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Rick Townley
- Jul 12, 2011
- 2 min
Summertime Blues
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker The one thing I don’t remember was a daily summer...
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Rick Townley
- Jun 24, 2011
- 3 min
The Graduate, 2011
“Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.” Erma Bombeck I’m not a...
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Rick Townley
- Jun 14, 2011
- 3 min
“Ground control to Major…corporations?”
The Future Just Isn’t What It Used To Be Many of us were into science fiction all the way back to the 1950’s and 1960’s when all we had...
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Rick Townley
- May 26, 2011
- 4 min
Boom Boom Boomers
“Boom boom boom boom I’m gonna shoot you right down, right offa your feet…” John Lee Hooker The original intent of Memorial Day,...
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Rick Townley
- May 10, 2011
- 3 min
What’s In a Name?
“…that which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.” Wm. Shakespeare As if the modern world wasn’t confusing...
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Rick Townley
- May 4, 2011
- 3 min
“Blow Away Dandelion”
“Make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.” Robert M. Pyle There has been wall-to-wall media coverage on the death of Usama...
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Rick Townley
- Apr 21, 2011
- 4 min
David and Goliath Redux
Newton was wrong. Sometimes two objects can occupy the same space. I was assigned to write a humorous but warm article about Passover and...
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Rick Townley
- Apr 15, 2011
- 4 min
Make Room for Daddy
“A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff. ” George Carlin As a kid I remember asking my...
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Rick Townley
- Apr 8, 2011
- 5 min
“Wild thing, I think you move me…”
Need a little more stress in your life? Try moving. Moving goes all the way back to caveman days when Oona told Og that their cave was...
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Rick Townley
- Feb 24, 2011
- 2 min
Point of View
“Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.” Horace, Roman poet, 65bc-8bc As you can guess, sometimes it’s hard to find funny things...
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Rick Townley
- Feb 18, 2011
- 4 min
Beechwood 4-5789?
“Communism is like one big phone company.” Lenny Bruce I want land lines back. And I want a phone from Bell Telephone. I want the kind of...
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Rick Townley
- Feb 4, 2011
- 4 min
“Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful…”
“LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW…” Okay, enough is enough is enough already. What’s with the weather this winter? This past week...
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