Category Archives: Off The Plate

The Mobile Home: Re-envisioned

Since everyone knows mobile homes are tornado magnets, I’ve always wondered why mobile homes aren’t, you know, mobile.  If we learned anything from that crappy movie Twister, it’s that tornado’s are malevolent, sentient monsters that yearn for maximum destruction. They … Continue reading

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Another Sign Our Civilization Is Doomed

  Many who have read Edward Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire draw parallels to today’s America. This was not Gibbon’s intention, of course, since the first volume was published before the American Revolution (February, 1776) with the … Continue reading

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Vikings Were Wussies

While at my other job last week someone asked, “Is mead wine or beer?” “It’s beer, ” I said immediately. Then I paused, briefly, reexamining my assumptions. “It’s honey based… I always assumed it was a beer.” This last phrase … Continue reading

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I think that’s called irony

i·ro·ny (r-n, r-) n. pl. i·ro·nies a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning. c. Shortly … Continue reading

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Guns and Tentacles (nt… big difference)

  Because random things strike me at random times I carry a notepad. Often, my barely legible chicken scratches have already been done by someone else. Not so with Spiderman’s new and improved nemesis, Dr. Glocktopus. Really, what good are … Continue reading

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