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Will’s Thoughts – I met Crazy Lady on a online personals website. I reckon that our world’s changed a heap in the last century, though our basic nature remains remarkably unchanged. I recently thought about how Crazy Lady and I met, and I realized that without the technology of today, our paths would probably have never crossed. My parents still …

True or False? The first traffic laws were written by a man who never drove a car. : Born in New York City in 1858, William Phelps Eno became a progressive thinking man who observed the massive traffic jams of his era, and from his observations, formulated traffic solutions that carried over from the time of horse and carriages, to …

Do all-boys schools have girls bathrooms? Conversely, do all-girls schools have boys bathrooms? Do astronauts change their clocks when they move over different time zones in space? Do people in prison celebrate Halloween…. if so how? Do the security guards at airports have to go through airport security when they get to work? Doesn’t ‘expecting the unexpected’ make the unexpected …

One night, a grandson asked his grandmother what she thought was different today than it was when she was a child. The grandmother replied, “Let me think a minute. Well, let’s see. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, contact lenses, frisbees and birth control pills. There weren’t any credit cards, laser beams or ball-point pens yet. …

Will’s Thoughts – Movember Every November, men all across the nation demonstrate the incredible power of male unity, and, every November the nation’s women secretly think ‘typical men, their mind’s always in the same place’. But as hair sprouts like facial antlers, it’s all about the real reason for growing our mustaches, to bring attention to the peril of prostate …

When people in China pray to the god of the household, it’s to the kitchen god, Zao-jun, which literally translates into ‘stove spirit’ or ‘stove god.’ Of all the Chinese mythological domestic gods, he’s one of the most important. Zao-jun is a god that protects the hearth and family. It is thought that on the twenty third day of the …