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One of the few to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and a Grammy, Mel Brooks is an American writer, comedian, actor and producer. The American Film Institute has listed three Brooks films, ‘Blazing Saddles’, ‘The Producers’, and ‘Young Frankenstein’, among the funniest of all American films. He recently updated [...]
Continue Reading →Scott Adams, the cartoonist whose social commentary largely focuses on the world of corporate management, is best known as the creator of the comic strip “Dilbert.” Adams is no stranger to the business world. He earned a four-year degree in economics from Hartwick College and an MBA business management degree from the [...]
Continue Reading →From the pen of Lane Olinghouse, who seems to be best known for quotes like this one…
“Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?”
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- Lane Olinghouse
Continue Reading →Many a city could vie for the distinction that Manchester, England held for Mr. Clemens… a place to retire and gaze out at the tranquil view of green pastures.
“I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.”
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Continue Reading →From Caryl Rivers, author of numerous works on gender, culture and family issues…
“He knew he’d have to go to Disney World eventually. It’s middle-class America’s version of a pilgrimage to Mecca. Every family that can scrape up the cash must make the long and arduous journey to a shrine peopled with more minor deities than [...]
Continue Reading →From Caryl Rivers, author of numerous works on gender, culture and family issues…
“He knew he’d have to go to Disney World eventually. It’s middle-class America’s version of a pilgrimage to Mecca. Every family that can scrape up the cash must make the long and arduous journey to a shrine peopled with more minor deities than [...]
Continue Reading →We who reside in the rest of Minnesota, which the media refers to as “Greater Minnesota,” (for obvious reasons to my mind), further shorten up Minneapolis and St. Paul and refer to the Twin Cities simply as “The Cities.” We are united with the people of “the Cities” in our belief that while brief visits [...]
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut wrote novels, short stories and essays. On a personal note, Bonnett and I have read most all his works and found them to be bitingly funny and poignant commentaries on hypocrisy in a multitude of political, social and personal of guises.
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Garrison Kiellor - Prairie Home Companion Host
Both Bonnett and I first listened to Garrison Kiellor’s morning radio while getting ready for our day of high school in Little Falls, Minnesota. It was aired starting in 1969 on Minnesota Public Radio and broadcast from St. Johns University in Collegeville, MN. In [...]
Continue Reading →Scott Adams, the cartoonist whose social commentary largely focuses on the world of corporate management, is best known as the creator of the comic strip “Dilbert.” Adams is no stranger to the business world. He earned a four-year degree in economics from Hartwick College [...]
Continue Reading →Lawrence “Yogi” Berra is a former Major League Baseball player and manager, whose fractured use of the English language gave rise to the term, ‘yogism’. He quit school in the eighth grade, and has simultaneously denied and confirmed his reputation for malapropisms by stating, “I never said [...]
Continue Reading →I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with “Guess” on it…so I said “Implants?”
- Unknown
Continue Reading →“The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.”
- Jack Handey
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