I have thrown away my Miami Dolphins watch cap, my Miami Dolphins keychain, my Miami Dolphins Viagra prescription and my Miami Dolphins helmeted killer dolphin action figure. I have committed these unthinkable acts because this year, the Miami Dolphins smell… READ MORE
This was our non-commercialized Christmas haul in 1960, just before we left Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., for Torrejon Air Base outside Madrid, Spain. Image by Del Stone Sr.
Some cynics believe that in these crassly commercialized times, it is impossible to remain faithful to the real meaning of Christmas. Phooey! Have these Negative Nellies never seen an episode of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Part IV: Rudolph Takes Fallujah,”… READ MORE
Christmas means soon you will be feeling lower than dirt after reading the holiday newsletters of relatives and friends, the creeps. These newsletters are filled with glowing accomplishments that exceed anything you can conceive, much less actually do. But that… READ MORE
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Maybe it’s old age catching up with me, but certain things don’t smell as good as they used to. It’s not that the smells have faded. They’ve changed. For instance, remember the smell of paper money? It was a lush,… READ MORE
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Ah, Halloween. Time to start Christmas shopping – for 2005. Did I say “Halloween”? Of course I meant “Harvest Festival,” that time of year when Food World swaps out its summer yellow Ho Hos for the harvest gold Ding Dongs…. READ MORE
Today’s topic is so weighty it will tilt the earth on its axis: the evolution of the TV and movie death scene. In a more innocent time, an actor died with dignity. A gunshot victim, for instance, would clutch his… READ MORE
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When I think of the current administration and the job those people are doing, I am reminded of Irish setters abusing Quaaludes, or Inspector Clouseau trying to remove the shrink wrap from a CD while driving a stick shift through… READ MORE
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Husband: Hello, Honey Bunny. Guess where I’m standing? <Chirp!> Wife: Hi, Sunggle-Icious. You’re standing in line at the grocery store checkout. <Chirp!> H: Ha, ha! You cheated, Snooky-Ookems. You peeked at the camera on my new walkie-talkie cell phone. And… READ MORE
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About halfway through today’s Pulitzer contender you will mutter, “Stone, you dunce. You don’t have the sense God gave the clown known as ‘Idiot Face.’ ” I was paying bills in my post-work fugue state. I’m sure you’re familiar with… READ MORE
Image courtesy of pxfuel. — I don’t imagine Thursday, the first day of school, was much fun for a certain group of IB students at Choctawhatchee High School. To bring you up to speed, the students were quoted in a… READ MORE