Twenty years ago, the scary, fearsome, and dreaded Y2K bug was going to destroy life on the planet as we know it. Chaos and rioting in the streets were going to wreak havoc. What that was all about was when computers started taking over the world, their programmers only used two digits to signify the […]
I enjoy a lot of the old-time radio shows and have a membership on Vintage Radio Shows. Here is an Old Time Radio classic. Abbott and Costello with Peter Lorre. Costello gets a cold and winds up at Peter Lorre’s Sanatorium. Peter Lorre was a famous horror actor in the 40’s and 50’s, known for […]
Our entire household has been smitten with the Influenza B virus. from the 3 month old to the 89 year old and everyone in between. I am feeling puny and not even punny. So, my posts will be puny as well. I’ll do my best, though.
Christmas was over. Santa and his reindeer finally had a chance to rest. And they deserved it. They had done a good job. Rudolph had a chance to do something he had wanted to do for a long time. He made an appointment with a plastic surgeon because he was so sensitiveabout his looks. However, […]
It was a good day for me, yesterday. Full of friends and family And fun. The first thing in the morning…well, let me back up and tell you that I am a big Coca-Cola fan and a collector of Coca-Cola related paraphernalia…The first thing when I got up, my son-in-law greeted me with this: A […]
Wait! Wait! Back! Put the torches down! Ouch! Watch out with those pitch forks! They’re pointy! Stop! Let me explain! Okay. So. (phew!) Here’s the deal. The X in Xmas has been there since the year 1021 AD. Actually, before that, but it was an abbreviation by some Aglo-Saxon scribe, XPmas. Those letters, X and […]
You’ll get a more substantial entry, but right now I’m pretty busy. Merry Christmas!
This piece was often sent around in e-mails with a note saying that Julie Andrews sang it on her 69th birthday at an AARP function. That is not true. Unfortunately, in 1997, she had a surgery to remove a non-cancerous polyp from her vocal chords which ruined her voice and resulted in a $30 million […]
December 2019 – The Haps With Herb
