By Dave Barry
Pulitzer Prize-winning slapstick comedian Dave Barry is a fine looking amiable man. yet in recent times, he is been getting a bit labored up. What can make a mild-mannered guy of phrases so sizzling below the collar? good, loads of things-like undesirable public paintings, web millionaires, SUVs, Regis Philbin ... or even higher difficulties, just like the slower-than-deceased-livestock left-lane drivers who it sounds as if think that definitely the right lane is sacred and Read more...
summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning stand-up comedian Dave Barry is a good looking amiable man. yet in recent years, he is been getting a bit labored up. What can make a mild-mannered guy of phrases so sizzling below the collar? good, loads of things-like undesirable public paintings, net millionaires, SUVs, Regis Philbin ... or even higher difficulties, just like the slower-than-deceased-livestock left-lane drivers who it seems that think that the precise lane is sacred and mustn't ever are available in direct touch with tires The parent-misery quotient of last-minute university technology reasonable initiatives Day buying and selling and different careers that by no means require you to take off your bathrobe The plague of the low-flow bathrooms, that's so undesirable that even in Miami, the place you should purchase medications simply by commencing your entrance door and yelling "Hey! i need a few crack, "you cannot even promote your first born to get a normal-flushing rest room Dave Barry isn't really taking any of this sitting down. he will rise up for the rights of all americans opposed to ridiculously named strong point "--Chino "coffees and the IRS. simply once he will get the darn bathroom flushed. From the exchange Paperback variation
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Guys generally like to find a recipe that works for them and stick with it. For example, I know a sportswriter named Bob who, to my knowledge, has never in his life cooked anything except Stouffer’s frozen French bread pizza. This is all he has in his freezer. If he hosted a Thanksgiving dinner, he’d serve a large Stouffer’s French bread pizza, stuffed with smaller Stouffer’s French bread pizzas. At the Stouffer’s factory, they probably have a whole department devoted exclusively to Bob, called “The Department of Bob,” which monitors Bob’s pizza consumption and has a fleet of loaded resupply trucks ready to roll when he runs low.
Change readers’ minds through reasoned argument. ” What is the best resource to consult when confirming a fact? The encyclopedia. The Internet. Confirming a what? As a journalist, you should always carry a notepad because it enables you to: Accurately recall conversations and events. Maintain a record of your research. Remove food wads trapped between your teeth. If you were given the opportunity to ask one question of the Pope, what would that question be? ” You write a column containing a so-called “joke” that is so tasteless, insensitive, juvenile, vicious, and cruel that thousands of readers write or call the newspaper to state that they are deeply offended.
Here’s Mud in Your Eye Recently I spent several days touring the California wine country, and I must say that it was a wonderful experience that I will remember until long after I get this mud out of my ears. I’ll explain the mud in a moment, but first I should explain that the wine country is an area near San Francisco that is abundantly blessed with the crucial natural ingredient that you need to have a successful wine country: tourists. There are thousands and thousands of them, forming a dense continuous stream of rental cars creeping up and down the Napa Valley, where you apparently cannot be a legal resident unless you own a winery named after yourself.
