A language instructor was explaining to her class that French nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine. Things like ‘chalk’ or ‘pencil,’ she described, would have a gender association although in English these words were neutral. Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked, “What gender is a computer?” The […]
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One summer, on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, California, a blonde woman new to boating was having a problem. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn’t get her brand new 22-ft. Bayliner to perform. It wouldn’t get on a plane at all, and it was very sluggish in
Like most sensible people, I stopped watching Saturday Night Live a long time ago, because I just didn’t find it funny anymore. The original cast was great, but now, not so much. Consequently, I missed last Saturday’s piece, “The Democrat Party’s Presidential Field For 2024” set as a horror movie trailer that I just discovered.
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Over 50-years ago we took the Winchester House tour accompanied by our two oldest daughters who were around three and five at the time. Around mid-way through the tour, the youngest complained that she had to go potty. I told the tour guide about our predicament and was advised that she would just have to
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