Posts in the category “comedy”

Questions: The Anti-Drug

There is an anti-drug billboard near my house with a picture of a bunch of kids playing basketball. Superimposed on the photo is the line, “After school my child likes to _______ .” Below that is some blather about questions being the anti-drug. “Know what your children like to do,” or something like that. Some

Rock, Paper, Scissors

I love the design at The Official Rock Paper Scissors Society. This is quite a handy resource if you employ this mode of decision-making often. There are tutorials here for beginners, as well as more detailed, complicated gambits for the professional RPS strategist. They have their own membership cards! And swag, swag, swag … I

Semi-nude Housekeepers

NEEDED Semi-nude Housekeepers (LA area) Happy Housekeepers, Inc., is expanding from the New York City market into Los Angeles. We provide semi-nude housekeepers to “lightly” clean apartments, condos and homes in the Los Angeles area. We are hiring 3 to 5 attractive, voluptuous, or sexy young women between the ages of 18 and 30. This

Droopners

I think it’s true: These really are the world’s funniest refrigerator magnets. Warning: Adult Content

Evil Coffee Nerves

From The Orphange of Cast-Off Mascots: Case #752: Mr. Coffee Nerves Not a popular mascot. This poor reproduction doesn’t do justice to the hideous domestic discord he delights in wreaking. While employed, his job was to exhibit glee over the violent effect of caffeine consumption …

Practical Hints for World Domination

There are several places on the ‘net where you can find lists of Practical Hints for World Domination. These are always handy and I don’t understand why people – especially evil villains – don’t study them frequently. Here are a few of the rather important ones: 7. When I’ve captured my adversary and he says,

Good Puns

Three excellent puns, via eMail, from my mom: I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded. Without geometry, life is pointless. Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.

New Payment Methods Accepted

While advertising as a form of support for independent Web sites has proven about as effective as sugar-frosted dental floss, the Web still manages to serve as a massively multiplayer open mic night for many the aspiring writer/artist/poet/revolutionary. The reason for this is simple: money and fame have historically been a less powerful motivator for

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.