Author: Larry Campbell
March/April ’22 Brain Teasers
NOTE: Newest BTs in red, Bonuses in blue, comments in green, updates in purple. If all of the integers from 1 – 1000, inclusive were written out – and then arranged in alphabetical order – what would be the very last entry in the list? (Hint: This one’s in honor of a recent specially-celebrated numerical day. […]
An English Bar?
An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.” A bar was walked into by the passive voice. A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes […]
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Jan/Feb BTs
REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration on solutions, please feel free to ask! Simplify: (2 + 0 + 2 + 2)2 – (2 – 0 – 2 – 2)2 + 20 – 22 36 – 4 + 20 – […]
The First (and Last?) “Make Lemonade Sale”
If you’re not familiar with the background here, visit A Comically Sad Glitch If you’re not familiar with the Tao Te Ching, visit What is the Tao Te Ching For more details on the book itself, visit Parallel Tao Te Ching The Make Lemonade Sale ** This sale will expire on March 14. Prices will be honored until then […]
New Book: An Unexpected Glitch
WHOOPS! Not long after the last mailing, the first official batch of my new books arrived ! Content of the book aside (others can judge that), I was most pleased with the look of the book – inside and out – until I looked at the back cover. Somewhere between the cover my editor and […]
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What is the Tao Te Ching?
What the heck is the Tao Te Ching anyway ? A Google search will undoubtedly reveal something to this extent (cobbled together by Campbell): The Tao Te Ching is an ancient (4th or 5th century BCE) text which translates very roughly as “the way of integrity”. Authorship is usually attributed to Lao Tzu, though whether […]
Random (Hilarious) Thoughts 2
RANDOM THOUGHTS TO START A NEW YEAR … Every box of raisins is a tragic tale of grapes that could have been wine. Theme parks can snap a crystal clear picture of you on a roller coaster going 70 mph, but bank cameras can’t get a clear shot of a robber standing still. Someone posted […]
