It’s bad enough that our kids are hooked on video games and computers, now a dog food company is trying to get our four-legged companions hooked on TV commercials. A Nestle Purina dog food commercial, for Beneful dog food, has created a commercial with sounds that only dogs can hear. Inaudible to humans, the commercial contains high-frequency noises, as well …
True or False? A golfer was killed by a golf club that he broke in anger. There is a story about a young spoiled golfer, so upset by a bad drive that he had made, that he smashed his golf club on a nearby bench. When he did, the golf club’s shaft broke and sprang back at him, the jagged …
Cosmetic surgery for pets has evolved. Now, no longer are your options limited just to cropped ears and tails. No sir! Now there’s prosthetic testes (artificial dog testicles). Is Duke a little down in the dumps since the ol’ snip and yip? Does he feel even worse, because you have not only made him a canine Eunuch, now his missing …
Will’s Thought’s – I’m sorry for things that I have not done for senior citizens. I drove past the cemetery on a cold, gray blustery day, and saw an old woman kneeling beside a grave. As the wind whipped her scarf, her concentration never faltered, her gaze was fixed far beyond our world. For a brief second, empathy flooded my …
It’s not enough that dumb crooks have unwittingly called 911, but sometimes it is old cordless phones that summon help. Operators across North America still get calls from old cordless phones that malfunction and dial 911, said Nancy Branson, a spokesperson for a 911 district. She said, “What happens with cordless phones, is that there’s a kind of chatter between …
Sandi and Clara were best friends forever, until they had a fight. It was over some unimportant trivial point, The next day Clara tried to talk to Sandi, but was given the cold shoulder. She tried smiling at Sandi, who just tossed her hair angrily, ground her teeth and stomped away. While Clara said nice things about Sandi, Sandi spread …
Will’s Thoughts – What We Mean When We Say That’s Okay Why is it such a big part of our nature to say “That’s okay”, when it’s really not okay? In fact, we use ‘that’s okay’ in a number of strange ways! ‘That’s okay’ may mean that the mistake we just made wasn’t that bad, “That’s okay, it’s only a …
