There’s a “gentlemen’s club” (titty bar to those of you less refined) in our town called The Peppermint Hippo. I wonder if the name reflects the physiques of the dancers or the clientele, but I haven’t dared to seek permission from my wife to investigate in person. It did remind me of a book premise where…

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09.01.2025

Pissin’ Post – What's So Funny?

According to Wiktionary, a Pissin’ Post is a cylinder-shaped public urinal, formerly us as a site for posting public notices. We can only surmise that not all the public notices were well received by local residents. Thanks to Al Gore, we now have the internet and an array of social media sites which means you…

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20.02.2025

Tax Codes Simplified – What's So Funny?

(Intro in honor of Black History Month) One of my earliest memories is attending a baseball game in 1958. What made this event particularly memorable was seeing my first black person. A black woman, holding a toddler the same size as me on her lap, sat ten feet from us. I don’t recall if my…

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03.04.2025

The Rebus Puzzle – What's So Funny?

One of my favorite game shows as a kid was Concentration. Contestants had to match squares to reveal a hidden rebus puzzle (pictogram), then solve the puzzle to win the game. According to some historians, pictograms were the earliest form of written communication. Then the Egyptians came along and got all uppity with their hieroglyphics. What…

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