Redux post of the day

I saw Inception the other evening. As the token woman on the team, they have Ellen Page. I think she was the architect.

Anyway, that brings us to today’s redux post, from three years ago.


What with the pregnancy featured in the movie Juno, as a public service to my seven readers NewMexiKen is going to answer some common pregnancy-related questions.

Q: I’m two months pregnant now. When will my baby move?
A: With any luck, right after he finishes college.

Q: Do I have to have a baby shower?
A: Not if you change the baby’s diaper very quickly.

Q: When is the best time to get an epidural?
A: Right after you find out you’re pregnant.

Allen Stewart Konigsberg

. . . is 75 today. I saw Woody Allen doing stand-up once upon a time when we were both a lot younger (about 45 years ago, sigh).

Here’s a few of his insights, some possibly from that very time.

“A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said ‘no’.”

“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”

“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.”

“Some guy hit my fender, and I told him ‘be fruitful, and multiply.’ But not in those words.”

“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”

“If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.”

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”

Best Plagiarized Lines from Bush’s Book

“After it emerged that entire sections of George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points were plagiarized from books by former aides, The Borowitz Report asked our followers on Twitter to come up with the best plagiarized first line for the book. After a several hours of crowdsourcing, here are the results (and thanks to the thousands of people who contributed):”

Follow this link to read the Best Plagiarized Lines from Bush’s Book from the Borowitz Report.

The Night I Learned to Follow Directions

Dilbert creator Scott Adams bravely takes on the dreaded jalapeño pepper — and lives to tell a hilarious tale. This is just the beginning.

At this point, an obscure statute in the Guy Code came into play and Steve realized that nagging me wasn’t the way to play this. Instead, he decided to let me take a run at the jalapeño peppers bareback. If he was laughing on the inside, he did a good job of not showing it.

I sliced up the jalapeño peppers, and removed the seeds. Then I washed my hands thoroughly, successfully avoiding contact with my eyes, mucous membranes, and genitalia. It was no problem at all. Apparently this whole jalapeño peppers scare was overblown, I thought.

A few minutes passed . . .

Read all of The Night I Learned to Follow Directions.

Reprise Pretty Good Jokes

A lady walks up to a pharmacist and asked to buy a bottle of cyanide.

The pharmacist said, “Why in the world do you need cyanide?”

The lady then explained she needed it to poison her husband.

The pharmacist’s eyes got big and he said, “Lord, have mercy — I can’t give you cyanide to kill your husband! That against the law! I’ll lose my license, they’ll throw both of us in jail and all kinds of bad things will happen! Absolutely not, you can NOT have any cyanide!”

The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist’s wife. The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, “Well, now, you didn’t tell me you had a prescription?”


A penguin walks into a psychiatrist’s office wearing a santa suit.

The doc says “It’s clear. You have bipolar disorder.”


A blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.

The blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver’s license. She dug through her purse and was getting progressively more agitated.

“What does it look like?” she finally asked.

The policewoman replied, “It’s square and it has your picture on it.”

The driver finally found a square mirror, looked at it and handed it to the policewoman.

“Here it is,” she said.

The blonde officer looked at the mirror, then handed it back saying, “Okay, you can go. I didn’t realize you were a cop.”

Sympathy for the wretched politician

Amusing stuff from Mark Morford. It includes this:

Paladino might be a clown, but Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., makes Paladino look like an amateur. Here is DeMint, saying how gay people should be barred from teaching in public schools. Not wretched enough? DeMint added that the ban should also include single women who have sex. That’s right. Dear Sen. DeMint: Your mom called. She’s having some regrets.

The Good Enough Baby

3: Is My Baby Stimulated Enough?

During the past few decades, early-development “experts” have stressed the importance of so-called “enrichment activities”: reading to babies, singing to them, even talking to them. We are now finding that these activities, in addition to being excruciating for the parent, may actually be harmful to the baby, lengthening her attention span to the point where she will be unable to enjoy most popular entertainment. . . .

Excerpt is from The Good Enough Baby by Andy Borowitz.

Top 10 Reasons People Don’t Use Turn Signals

The top 10 reasons people don’t use turn signals.

10. I prefer to remain aloof and mysterious.

9. I find it easier to just leave one turn signal on all the time.

8. I don’t wear seat belts either.

7. I’m not from around here.

6. It’s my tax dollars that built these roads and I can turn wherever I want whenever I want

5. I would use turn signals, but every time I try the windshield wipers come on instead.

4. Our Christian Founding Fathers didn’t use turn signals.

3. The dog in my lap ate my turn signal lever.

2. The click-click-click sound messes up the thump-thump-thump of my bass woofer.

And the number one reason people don’t use turn signals,

I’m texting and drinking coffee and I don’t have three hands.