The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational asked
readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting,or changing one letter; and then supply a new definition.
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid a...
Elimination Interviews We asked some of the questions that you (the fans!) sent in via Twatter and Facebonk! See what they had to say about their experiences on Survivor: GOP World, and decide for yourself who will be the ultimate candidate to take on current champion Bar Rack O'Bama in the Season Finale this coming November.
Front runner Risk Sanatorium:
Satan: When you spent forty day...
1· I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
2· There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.
3· Life is sexually transmitted.
4· Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
5· The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
6· Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying i...
I was privileged to be granted the first interview with Fuller, Great-Great-Great-Grandson of the famous Sitting Bull with captured German squaw Helga Schitt.
"I am Fuller Bull-Schitt, and I am standing for all Native Americans against the established 2 party race of Republicans and Democrats. My party is the Association of Native Amerind Leagues. (ANAL) he proclaimed. "I am going to make this...
Four days after arriving at the White House as an upstairs maid in the summer of 1863, 19-year-old Bronx native Bebe Meardsley lost her virginity to the President of the United States.
In an explosive and salacious new memoir, "It wasn't that much of a Secret: My Affair with President Abreham Lincoln and its Aftermath," to be published Wednesday by Bealistok & Bloome, Bebe Meardsley describ...
Waterloo, Grand Turk:
Many of you have noticed the flotila of tugs that have anchored in TCI waters during the last week. I can now reveal what will soon be happening.
HM Government has decided to tow the Turks and Caicos Islands across the Atlantic and relocate them in the Thames estuary. Do not despair, Belongers, for this is a measure in your own interest. Think of the advantages you will...
Within days of its release, this book has already outsold all other King books put together. People are standing in line at bookshops waiting for fresh deliveries. Printers are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the demand.
The plot centers on a mismatched group of 19 people who set off on a Mad mad mad mad mad road trip to gatecrash a Tea Party in Iowa. One by one they are bumpe...
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (German: Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl (Grusha) who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents.
The early parts of the play serve to introduce the main characters, but it is scene 5 (The Chalk Circle) that...
CARIBBEAN CORRESPONDENT - UNDER FIRE, PROVIDENCIALES, FRIDAY:
Here in my dugout, with shells flying overhead, it is clear that the situation worsens by the hour.
In the confusion of the Haïtian invasion, Sticky Micky slipped his shackles and fled to the Spanish Main(land), leaving his Proagressive National Piracy franchise in the unsure hands of Gilly Willy.
As Dominican warships loom on...
An elderly lady actually wrote this letter to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in The Times and this newspaper thanks him
most sincerely.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three 'nanoseconds' must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque a...