ARBITRATOR: A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonalds AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tried to do BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage BURGLARIZE: What a crook sees with CONTROL: A short, ugly inmate COUNTERFEITERS: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets ECLIPSE: What an English barber does for a living EYEDROPPER: A clumsy ophthalmologist…

Too funny.

It hasn’t been a year since the last batch, but this showed up in my e-mail today (thanks Jim) and it’s good stuff: Once again, The Washington Post published its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. And the winners are: Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed…

You’ve probably already seen most of these, but here is a great list of April Fools links.

Yesterday, University scientists released the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer. Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption. The theory is that beer contains female hormones (hops contain phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women. To test the theory, 100…

CRACK FOUND ON GOVERNOR’S DAUGHTER POLICE BEGIN CAMPAIGN TO RUN DOWN JAYWALKERS

We played Killer Bunnies this afternoon. It is a very fun and different game – check it out.

This showed up in my e-mail today. Thanks Jim, good stuff here. The Washington Post’s Style Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2003 winners: Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which…

In th’ meanwhile, if ye miss the Pirate Speak just click on this ‘ere link for yer daily dose of Yarrr! Shiver me timbers!

In celebration of the previously mentioned Talk Like a Pirate Day (and my birthday), my blog has undergone a wee temporary change. The excellent pirate jargon is courtesy of me matey Dougal.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do…

There are a lot of folks who can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in America. Well, there’s a very simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil. We just didn’t know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely geographical. All our oil is in Alaska, Texas, California,…

Last night we had a little fun at Bill’s expense… On a whim, we decided to see if Bill had left registration and posting on in his blog – sure enough, a few minutes later we were posting away on his site. Bill posted about this nice tricycle a few days back so we found…