One of the great things about doing this newsletter is that people send me interesting and clever articles and jokes. The following experiment from Cambridge University is courtesy of Cathy Moore and Kim Taylor:
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.Here are last year's winners:
I spend a significant amount of time studying philosophy and theology.I love science.I heard the following story and it immediately struck me how many people have a child’s view of religion or an ignorance of science.
On my website, I have a reference to an attorney who is an expert at dealing with traffic tickets, Mitch Greene.However, the following advice did not come from Mitch but rather from my brother-in-law, Larry.
Thanks to Jean Boone for forwarding this to me:I wanted to sent out some sort of holiday greeting to you, but it is so hard in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone.So I met with my lawyer, and after investing 45 minutes and $399 in fees, I’m prepared to offer the following:
One of the great things about doing a humor section of my bulletin is that many people think of me when they see something funny and forward it to me.Hardly a day goes by when my staff doesn’t hear me laughing about something that one of you sent.Of course, some of it is not printable in a family bulletin, but funny nevertheless.I thank Dr. Eugene and Esther Normand for these: