My wife and I had a New Year's tradition where I would carouse all night then come home the next day and she'd beat me with a club and chase me out of the house.

How much fasting for a whopper and fries?

Golf and Ronnie

Give him credit - if he keeps swinging like that, he may become
the first man to ever see the back of his own head.

Economists Predict...

that in the future, as the population ages, there will be a need to fill jobs ordinarily filled by younger folks.  So  "take heart" they say, there will be more job opportunities than ever!

Quantum Habit

Albert Einstein picked up cigarette butts off the street to get tobacco for his pipe.  He probably didn't do it if you were watching.  Relativity I guess.

GLUG, Maker of fine Soda Pops and Adult Beverages (since 2008). "the KAPOW is Free!"

Is Armageddon tomorrow? Autredamus (the other Seer) peeks into his crystal ball for a look-see.

Let us look at the "evidence".  Mayan calendar predicts the end of life as we know it on 12/21/2012.  The Hopi Indians had a very similar prediction for about the same time.

Keep your heads down folks.  If a creature as gigantic as the Brontosaurus gets knocked off his perch what chance have we got?  BTW the Mayan civilization was not pre-historic, fading out about 1500 AD, maybe

Here's some additional support for the End Argument.  In NYC the Museum of Mathematics opened! Imagine that or more appropriately imagine a straight line with a width of +/- Pi  and if etc...  We are discovering planets left and right while defrocking our closest such as Pluto and Planet X..  Experimental Philosophy has found a niche in the scientific job market and colleges are rushing to start a grad program. Sherwood Anderson or is it Anderson Cooper comes out of the closet.  We are getting ready to clone a Mastodon and I don't know why.  The Brontosaurus has lost its place in the dinosaur schtick  it never existed - poor kids with those bogus plastic figures.  Maybe they can get a refund.
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I've been using the same calendar since 1956. It's a Bettie Page pinup calendar.  Who is she  - kind of like Cher, Madonna, and Dolly Parton wrapped into one but of the fifties.  I never have the right date but it's a nice calendar.  It don't predict things either, except when my electric is gonna get turned off.  In conclusion the world will not end tomorrow but it will never be exactly like today, which is always true.

Ping Ponging the history of Ping Pong

Ping Pong was invented by the Chinese who got the idea from the English invention of Tennis which was an idea taken from the Chinese Badminton which came from an idea for Cricket which is a form of the Flemish Hockey which is similar to ancient Mongolian Chinese game of Beikou which may have derived from the ancient Gaelic pastime of knocking the sith out of your friends and neighbors.

PS  I always check my facts and references to make sure they agree with my essays.