I Only Glanced Away For A Moment! Dang Cat!
Author: Larry Campbell
License, Please :-)
Going Pretty Fast There, Fella!
The Jordanaires and Bob Hubbard
The Jordanaires: 1950-51 The group was formed in 1948 (with a different pianist, Bob Money). Bob left the group in ’52. Gordon Stoker, below, became the manager and central figure and from then through the Elvis years and into the turn of the century. Left to Right: Bill Matthews (1st Tenor), Monty Matthews (Baritone), Cully […]
World’s Funniest Joke?
Excerpt from Mathematics and Humor: Freud Would Be Proud by Jerry Johnson; Hold That Thought Publishing, 2020 World’s Funniest Joke In the early 2000’s, British psychologist Richard Wiseman and his colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire conducted a long research study called “LaughLab.” Their study tried to measure the humor in jokes using a five-point ‘glggleometer,” […]
Country Western Song Titles
Top 10 (Base 12) Country Western Song Titles 10. How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away? B. It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night, That Chewed Your Ass Out All Day Long. A. I Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim’s Getting Better 9, I Wouldn’t Take Her to a Dogfight, […]
An Intriguing COVID-19 Question – A Mathematics Answer
“Suppose the COVID19 test is 97% accurate, and you’re in a room where everyone has just tested Negative. With that 97% confidence-level percentage, how many people would it take in the room to have a 50-50 chance that someone’s test is inaccurate?” What an interesting question! It came from a participant in a pre-pandemic Math-is-Fun-type […]
Lack of Interest
Have Ladder, Will Travel
Shoplifters, Beware!
I guess this would deter most people?
Teaching Fish to Climb Trees?
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole live believing that it is stupid.” This quote is frequently attributed to Einstein, though there is no evidence he ever said it. It appears to have emerged from an old allegorical tale. Nonetheless, […]
