In case you missed an earlier mention of it, Sheila is part of an amateur women’s basketball team called the Downtowners, the name taken from their specialty of making the three-point baskets from mid-court (“downtown”). Being a ‘roo, Sheila is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With me, it’s strawberries; if I eat more than a pawful at one time, I get a migraine to beat the band (said band having put the base drum into my brain). Cherries can be deceptively innocent in the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m hoping that both Paramount and Robert Beltran will forgive my indulgence. I seem to recall this coming up in conversation with Jy L (who, as I’ve noted before, is not to be confused with J Lo), and that he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Strangely, the first part of this conversation came about because a company that I was working for sponsored a women’s golf tournament, and this juicy tidbit of physiology and golf balls floated into my world. There was no way that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one pushes the PG envelope just a bit, but having overheard this conversation in a local branch of a national sporting goods store (and, somehow, managing to avoid howling with laughter at the time), I simply could not resist[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know my family certainly had a lot of potty jokes. Mind you, I’m not at all sure my family could have been called “typical” (and certainly not, heaven forefend, “normal”), and perhaps we attracted other families and friends who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is actually a true story, although no doubt without the pun. Texas is not a state with a large Jewish population (about half a percent of the total population of the state, according to a 2015 tally in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A real sixpence coin hasn’t been in circulation since 1980 (the internet tells me). An 1893 “Victoria jubilee head” is not only valuable for being over 90% silver but also for being exceedingly rare. Although there are sixpence coins (worth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is with great pleasure that I introduce to you a most treasured and beloved friend, the wonderful and pun-loving stallion Gabriel Clyde. Himself a fine author and fellow paranomasiac, Gabriel trotted into my life about seven years ago, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Milestone: This happily wretched pun is our 50th strip! As you can see, a fractured fibula and avulsed ankle (or, more accurately, “avulsion of the medial malleolus,” as it says on my x-ray report) will not keep me from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…