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Day Brightener - Mind Blogging

BREAKING NEWS Launched in 1977, space probe Voyager 1 is now officially “ONE LIGHT DAY” away from Earth = 1.609×1010 miles, or, 25.9 billion kilometers. To put this in context, we often see distances like one or more – often times many more – light years distance to other items in our universe. An example, The new study estimates the size of the Milky Way’s disk at 200,000 light-years across.…

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Day Brightener - Old Ladies at a Baseball Game

This is a detective story So Pay Close Attention! Three elderly ladies are excited about seeing their first baseball game. They smuggled a bottle of Jack Daniels into the ballpark. The game is really exciting and they are enjoying themselves immensely, mixing the Jack Daniel’s with soft drinks.  Soon they realize that the bottle is almost gone, and the game has a lot of innings to go. Now………

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Bonus Friday Frivolity - More Wisdom From The Bard

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Friday Frivolity - A Potpourri Of Comments On Life

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Day Brightener - Ponderisms & Trueisms, A Light-Hearted Look At Life

Why do peanuts float in a regular coke and sink in a diet coke. Go ahead and try it….. I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why do you have to “put your two cents in”… but it’s only a “penny for your thoughts”? Where’s that extra penny…

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Bonus Day Brightener - 5 Undeniable Facts

A wise person once said: 1. We all love to spend money buying new clothes but rarely realize the best moments in life are enjoyed without clothes.   2. Having a cold drink on hot day with a few friends is nice but having a hot friend on a cold night after a few drinks is PRICELESS.   3. Breaking News: Condoms don’t guarantee safe sex anymore. A friend of mine was wearing one when he was shot…

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Day Brightener - A Parable

I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner.  I took out my wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked, “If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?” “No, I had to stop drinking years ago,” the homeless man replied. “Will you use it to go fishing instead of…

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Day Brightener - Words Of Wisdom From The Bard Of Avon

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Day Brightener - Not All PC But Funny And Sometimes Also True

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Day Brightener - 18 Quotes from C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. Lewis wrote…

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Friday Frivolity - Another Few Things To Wrap Your Head Around!

You know you’re over 50 when you have ‘upstairs ibuprofen’ and ‘downstairs ibuprofen.’  If only vegetables smelled as good as bacon. I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise. But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope. Anyone who says their wedding was the best day of their life has clearly never had two candy bars fall down at once from a…

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Day Brightener - The Wisdom of Charles Schultz - A Departure From My Usual Fare

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Day Brightener - A Few Good Laughs To Start The Weekend

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Friday Frivolity - One Look At Government Efficiency

It’s late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn’t tell what the winter was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going…

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Day Brightener - Things I Now Know

LSD helps you lose weight.  Makes sense.  It’s kind of hard to get to the fridge when a dragon’s guarding it! When I walk into a car dealership, I bring twenty senior citizens who are dying to talk to someone, so I can look at vehicles in peace. You know how they throw the ball into the crowd after they win the game.  That’s not allowed in bowling. I know that now. I saw a guy earlier today…

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Day Brightener - Words Of Wisdom From Children

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Day Brightener - They Walk Among Us!

They Walk Among Us! I was at the checkout at Walmart, minding my own business, when the cashier rang up my total: $46.64. I handed her a crisp $50 bill. She looked me dead in the eye, gave me back $46.64, and continued scanning items like a professional. Me: “Uh… I think there’s a mistake.” Her: huffing dramatically “Sir, I am educated. I know what I’m doing.” She pushed the money back at me…