From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Why I Hate Running – and Why I Can’t Stop

March 31, 2008

The weather was so gorgeous this past weekend I went for a run. I don’t know why. I hate running. I have always hated running. I have been running for the best part of 45 years and I still don’t like it one little bit. I know some people talk about getting a “runners high” [...]

Read the full article →

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

March 31, 2008

A man was on trial for murder. The case against him seemed pretty good except for one fact, there was no body. The police had never found the corpse. The defendant’s lawyer tried to use this in his summary of the case saying “Ladies and gentlemen, I have a surprise for you, in one minute [...]

Read the full article →

The Knees Go First – and other news

March 28, 2008

Living in earthquake country you become familiar with one of the early warning signs that a quake may be on the way. It’s GG, which stands for gone gatos. Gatos is Spanish for cat and apparently cats are sensitive to earthquakes, so when they sense one coming they disappear. Now we may have a similarly [...]

Read the full article →

Water Water Everywhere But What’s A Chap to Drink

March 27, 2008

When I was a kid growing up in England we played football (soccer) all the time. At half time we would take a 5 minute break and eat half an orange. At the end of the game we’d have a cup of tea. That was it. And as far as I can remember none of [...]

Read the full article →

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

March 27, 2008

A man is walking along through a field when suddenly he stumbles into a deep mine shaft. He falls a hundred feet before he manages to grasp a root sticking out of the ground. He’s left hanging there, clinging to the root, with a vast drop below him. He calls out for help saying “Is [...]

Read the full article →

Eating with a vengence!

March 26, 2008

Did you know that if you skip breakfast you are more likely to gain weight and become fat? Yeah, think about it, say you have dinner at 6:30pm, so by 7:30pm you are finished with dinner and go about your normal activities and hit the nightlife at 11:00 and sleep till 7:30 in the [...]

Read the full article →

Meat, Marriage and Gas Prices – It’s all News to You

March 24, 2008

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From the Vegetable Counter
If you are what you eat, then a new study suggests that men are meatheads, and women are fresh and fruity.
The research, presented at the 2008 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia, is based on a survey of the eating habits of [...]

Read the full article →

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

March 24, 2008

Two cows are standing in a field. One cow turns to the other and says “Although Pi is usually abbreviated to five figures, it actually goes on into infinity”.
The second cow says “Moo!”

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries