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Oh, What A Year!
Rather than print some cute little story about rabbits and chicks for Easter, we decided to offer up something completely different…but...
Rick Townley
Apr 5, 20125 min read
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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...
Rick Townley
Jan 31, 20124 min read
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The Night Before Christmas, 1969
Things were a little different back then… We have always made it a policy to avoid humor about sex, drugs and politics, but this season...
Rick Townley
Dec 15, 20113 min read
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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...
Rick Townley
Nov 16, 20111 min read
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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...
Rick Townley
Jul 12, 20112 min read
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Happy (and Safe) 4th of July from Boomers Only!
“It took a lot of good people to build this place, let’s not get stupid and mess it up.” Unknown #babyboomers #4thofjuly #holidays...
Rick Townley
Jun 30, 20111 min read
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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...
Rick Townley
Jun 24, 20113 min read
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“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...
Rick Townley
Jun 14, 20113 min read
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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...
Rick Townley
May 10, 20113 min read
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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...
Rick Townley
Apr 21, 20114 min read
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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...
Rick Townley
Feb 24, 20112 min read
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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...
Rick Townley
Feb 18, 20114 min read
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“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...
Rick Townley
Feb 4, 20114 min read
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Shop Til You Drop
EMO USQUE AD MORTEM Right after the holidays the usual thing to do is visit the mall to return or exchange things. Around here however,...
Rick Townley
Jan 13, 20114 min read
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“…Love Is All You Need”
The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Dating Part 2 A week later we returned to Dr. Lee Vittalone’s office in Beverly Hills to resume the interview...
Rick Townley
Dec 17, 20104 min read
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“All You Need is Love…”
The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Dating Part 1 The following is an interview with Dr. Lee Vittalone, author of His last self-published book,...
Rick Townley
Dec 9, 20104 min read
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November News Briefs
Since this is a holiday week our entire staff decided to take time off so publishing was left to our night watchman Fred (see, Survivor...
Rick Townley
Nov 23, 20104 min read
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Happy Halloween!
From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! Old Scottish Prayer...
Rick Townley
Oct 30, 20101 min read
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Women and Shoes: A Guide for Men
Miranda: I had to walk all the way from the subway in these heels. My feet are killing me. Steve: Why didn’t you just carry them...
Rick Townley
Oct 19, 20104 min read
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“Wrap Rage”
noun. Anger and rage, especially among people over the age of 50, caused by frustration from plastic product packaging that is difficult...
Rick Townley
Oct 16, 20104 min read
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