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If Your Cable Company Were Honest, This Is What Its Commercial Would Look Like

Via: z • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

No nursing home for me

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 20 Comments • 9 years ago

No nursing home for me Okay, I admit it. I happened to be wandering around that "other" place the day before I intend to cancel my account and delete my groups there and happened to see...

RuPaul Sues NRA Over Withdrawal of Contract Offer

Via: swamijim-sez • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

Legendary drag queen performer, supermodel and television star RuPaul has filed a 20 million dollar lawsuit and a parallel Civil Rights gender-discrimination action against the National Rifle...

What’s All This Brouhaha About What Mariachi Is?

Via: swamijim-sez • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 4 Comments • 9 years ago

Every time I turn on the TV or listen to the radio or surf the Net, therere all these people out there in a swivet about what is a mariachi, does the Federal government have the right to...

The Shredded Wheat Ranches of Ohio

Via: swamijim-sez • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

Driving through rural Ohio offers a variety of beautiful pastoral scenes: gently rolling hills, orchards in bloom in spring, tall stands of waving cornstalks in summer...and the often seen but...

Donald Trump Arrested by Dept. of Homeland Security

Via: swamijim-sez • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

Former Presidential candidate Donald Trump is being held without bail in a Federal maximum security facility, after agents of the Department of Homeland Security raided his home around 3:00 am...

SECOND ‘WOW! SIGNAL’ PROVES EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

Via: swamijim-sez • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

In 1977, the scientific community was rocked by the announcement that Dr. Jerry Ehman at Ohio State University's SETI program, had received a narrow-band radio signal on August 15, lasting 72...

You said what was a illegal?

Via: miss-construed • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 6 Comments • 9 years ago

Nothing I like more than a good old fashioned blue law. If you didn't know; blue laws are interesting tid bits in the landscape of litigation. Usually the result of a waste of time, favor owed, or...

Check All The Pockets

Via: wheel • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 21 Comments • 9 years ago

First off I want to make it clear that every word is true, that's very important to remember.This happened about 29 years ago when my son was 18 months old, it was right after his mother and I...

One-liners. Let's see your favourites.

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 17 Comments • 9 years ago

No doubt you've heard some of these before, but do you have any other favourites? I had amnesia once -- or twice. Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic. All I...

What's in a name?

Via: geegee64 • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 62 Comments • 9 years ago

There are so many very interesting screen names here and I'm curious as to their origin. Are they nicknames? The name of your favorite pet or character in a movie? Or do you use your real name?...

The Zionist Plot to Take Over the World (satire)

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

The Zionist Plot to Take Over the World (satire)(A MANUAL FOR ISRAEL-DEMONIZERS, ZIONIST-BASHERS AND RUN-OF-THE-MILL ANTI-SEMITES)Back in October of 2011 I read a seed on Newsvine entitled The...

What is the acceptable time of day to have an "adult beverage"

Via: polly-cooper • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 38 Comments • 9 years ago

It's Friday. It's 5:30. I usually limit myself to a single scotch and water in the evening (or course, I drink it from a pint mason jar).Today a Dirty Martini is calling my name.I am officially on...

Our Encounter with a UFO- 1961, Lake Ponchartrain

Via: dowser • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 35 Comments • 9 years ago

In August, 1961, times were tense. I was not quite 6 years old, getting ready for first grade, and the world seemed to be a very scary place. Khrushchev, the Russian president had declared...

Addicted to Rush

Via: swamijim-sez • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

Seem to have fallen into Bad Poetry Mode over the weekend (or maybe just channeling the spirit of Weird Al Yankovick). In any case, once this fiasco appeared in my brain, I had to carry it through...

The Self-Checkout (b_tch)

Via: dowser • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 82 Comments • 9 years ago

We went to the local Giant store tonight, all of us. We needed three things: Milk, tiny little light bulbs for the camper that resemble those old Kodak flashbulbs, and peanut butter. Naturally,...

The Kentucky Oaks of Long Ago

Via: dowser • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 10 Comments • 9 years ago

Tomorrow, the Kentucky Oaks is runthe race for the girl stars of the horse racing industry. I can't help but remember the fun we used to have, all those many years ago... Many years ago, long...

35 Easy Ways To Identify A Southern Woman

Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 7 Comments • 9 years ago

35 Easy Ways To Identify A SouthernWoman Were real sweet, yall. When we want to be . Whatever it takes, as long as your hair is approximately the size of the head underneath it. 19....

Rants About Everything From NewsTalkers Own Comment-Taltler, Jonathan Livingston Pigeon-Poo, How Do You Do?

Via: jonathan-livingston-pigeon-poo • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

Joke of the Day-- An original!

Via: dowser • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

Tonight at supper, Peep, our 14 year old son, was talking about the history blog he enjoys, and was talking about the 50 most influential people in World History, as listed by someone on the...

Louis CK - the pony story

Via: hal-a-lujah • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

This is one of my favorite Louis CK bits. The whole thing is hysterical, but I'm posting it because there is a hilarious part at the end that I think we can all relate to, regarding the...

Mal Goes to the Theatre

Via: malamuteman • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

Mal has been away for a long time... Mal has been a stage manager at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts Theater... for months... and months... and months. Mal has been helping to produce a...

I Decided To Do Something Different For My Birthday. I Decided To See What I Look Like.

Via: wheel • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 30 Comments • 9 years ago

Yesterday was my 61st birthday. It's been a while since I saw my face. Decided I would take a look. Well...I still have a chin. My neck is red because I had to shave it 3 times to get it...

What was Jesus? Logic at Work.

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 11 Comments • 9 years ago

What was Jesus? Logic at Work. There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black: 1. He called everyone brother 2. He liked Gospel 3. He didn't get a fair trial But then there...

May the pork be with you: Pig bears an uncanny resemblance to Star Wars' Yoda