April 1, 1946, Lanikai, Hawaii
Janie Powlison was doing the dishes at Hilltop House, looking out on Kailua Bay. She’d never seen the tide so low. All the water was gone, and the coral heads were showing. "Dad! Something is happening to Kailua Bay!" Her father, Skipper, looked and said, "I’ve never seen a tidal wave, but I think we’re going to have one."
Skipper called several radio stations who all told him the same thing: (more…)
I just love it when the "funnies" hit home. : -)
ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOR: A place where women curl up and dye.
CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest that asks readers to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
1. coffee (n): the person upon whom one coughs.
2. flabbergasted (adj): appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. (more…)
Here is the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational which asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. (more…)