The Internet humor piece variously entitled “The L.A. Math Proficiency Test” or “The City of Los Angeles High School Math Proficiency Exam” has been part of online lore since at least 1993, and some of our readers recall having seen photocopied versions of it as far back as the mid-1980s. (Authors Unknown) Answers to the City
A story told to me by a trusted friend follows. His name was Phil and he told the story in this way. I was a very happy man. My wonderful girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married. There was only one little thing bothering me…
Most of you won’t care a hoot about this post because, in all likelihood, you don’t create and manage a WordPress Site. The WP Hosting company, I now use is www.siteground.com and one of the plugins that they suggest to install is one called ‘loginizer‘ (See https://wordpress.org/plugins/loginizer/) if you’re so inclined. Their website is https://www.loginizer.com – I
You will be reading “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité, written nearly 100 years ago in 1922, designed to demonstrate the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation. Someone said that if you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the
Perhaps the Ten Commandments are a little out of date. As an atheist, I really don’t give a hoot about having more than one god, as I don’t have one in the first place. The graven image thing and the lord’s name in vain mean little to me. I am a big believer in thou
I’m probably not the only one who follows a zig-zag path while looking up just about anything in a dictionary, encyclopedia or even worse (perhaps better) the internet. Today was no exception. While watching the TV Game Show called The Chase an unusual question arose asking what’s approximately equivalent to 250 Watts? The possible answers
I can’t find the original source of this piece of mirth and truth. On Jan 7, 2016 I found it! See Found It I’m at the ripe old age of 68 and I don’t feel that old. When my parents were 68, they were old but somehow as the world ages, the aged just don’t want
I spent some time trying to find the source of this incredible piece of writing and first I found it it on a BBC Website <LINK> which eventually led me to a blog named www.loriborgman.com (She wrote the source document in 1998 <LINK> ) It turns out that she also published her original blog post in
There are a few postings on the internet from Einstein and Abraham Lincoln with quotes from them that say. “Many of the things, they say I said are not not necessarily true!” or words to that effect. However, I do believe that Mr. Carlin did say the words below and I could not have said
Can you get four or more right? Now be honest! THE QUIZ