The comedy headliner is ordinarily the most promoted comedian of the event. There could be 2 or four comedians on the same evening but the star will normally be reserved until last as they are thought to represent the favourite among the gang.
At a number of comedy clubs, the stand ups will come and […]
Laughter and Health!
We’ve long known that the ability to laugh is helpful to those coping with major illness and the stress of life’s problems. But researchers are now saying laughter can do a lot more — it can basically bring balance to all the components of the immune system, which helps us fight off diseases.
As […]
Working from home day after day and night after night on a borrowed laptop is no fun. Especially when it is borrowed back off you. So, for that reason, I feel the time has come for a laptop of my own. Or do I want a desktop? A PC or Apple Mac? Or maybe one […]
In a startling announcement, President Vicente Fox of Mexico revealed that his nation has solved its immigration problem with the U. S. by requesting annexation as a province of China. As a result of its new status, a plentitude of domestic jobs will be available.
He made the surprise announcement, not during his recent visit to […]
While many restaurant workers worry and sweat in anticipation of an imminent job-related performance review, employees at Applebee’s in Westland have adopted an entirely different attitude toward the employment evaluation process. This is due in no small part to the fact that the general manager, Lisa Blanco, rewards superior employee performance the old fashion way.
“We […]
By Julia Hyde
Remember trading stamps? If you’re over 40, chances are you will. Every time you shopped at a participating grocery store or gas station they gave you stamps to paste into a book. When you’d accumulated enough stamps, you could cash them in for “free” gifts.
These stamps were one of the first loyalty […]
Those beautiful red lanterns that hang invitingly outside so many establishments have come to signify a lot - in Kabul, of all the places. Kabul, embattled, bruised and bleeding is not quite broken. It’s attracting Chinese restaurants by the dozens.
I can imagine the tough Pathans as they make their way out of the restaurants, smacking […]
Fancy coming up to my bedroom? There isn’t a chair but the bed’s comfy. You can lie down on it if you like but take the pink nylon bedspread off first or my ol’ lady’ll go bananas and knock you for six!
So what do you think then? Do you like my room? I’m a teenager […]
History does not record the existence of a single Canadian who has not wished his nation had a bit of tropical diversity.
As chilliness North of Niagara would have it, Ottawa has had an ongoing freeze-on, freeze-off relationship with the relatively trendy Province of Quebec, that charming faux-French survival of the Sun King’s proud misjudgments about […]
Joke writers are in such great demand. Anyone who thinks it’s easy to write a joke should try it some time. It’s not and professionals who can write good jokes for comedians are a rare breed. But certainly these joke writers didn’t come out of the womb with a built in funny […]