Category Archives: humor

“Boston Dynamics’ Atlas shows off a new set of skills” yeah, but…

Posted on January 19, 2023 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Boston Dynamics’ Atlas shows off a new set of skills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X2qEPwbqJ4&t=42s Yeah but… After reading a number of the responses from tekkies and real brains on various websites featuring this news on what Boston Dynamics has been … Continue reading →

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More Grins “from the Grammatically Correct”

Posted on January 7, 2023 by pbn

  BTW, NOBODY made “synonym buns” like my late mom. Both kinds. – pbn

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A Stack of Seven Fun and Heart-Warming Stories from Christmases Past Redux (and updated in such a time as 2022)

Posted on November 23, 2022 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila To lighten your spirits this holiday season, here is my gift to you: a “stack” of [humor-enriched] posts from Christmases past drawn from family stories.  Enjoy! SUCH A TIME AS 2022 The original introduction with the added … Continue reading →

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Defying the Angst in ’22 From the Get-Go (and for Grins)

Posted on December 29, 2021 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila For my New Year’s resolution this year, I have decided to make a change where change begins: in thought and attitude. I have chosen this for a banner: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever … Continue reading →

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‘Tis the Season to Boost the Immune System with Grins and Giggles (oldies but goodies). New Holiday Humor Series

Posted on November 11, 2021 by pbn

  Phyllis Beveridge Nissila INTRODUCTION TO HOLIDAY HUMOR SERIES A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Proverbs 17:22) A friend of mine and I were discussing how tyrants dislike humor. And there seem to be a, ah, boat-load of … Continue reading →

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On “God’s Signal” in a Noisy World Awash in Deception (and humor helps)

Posted on August 20, 2021 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila I’m no communications enthusiast nor am I employed in any of its industries. I have little patience, in fact, beyond, “Where is the knob to turn this thing on?” But more and more as age takes its … Continue reading →

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No Joke–the Humor Police Are Out in Full Force; In Praise of Grins and Giggles; and a Guest Feature

Posted on July 30, 2021 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila NO JOKE When I first read, “It’s not funny anymore. Far-right extremists’ use of humor,” by Maik Faelitz and Reem Ahmed, “External Experts” from RAN (Radicalisation Awareness Network), a European Commission affiliate, I kept waiting for the … Continue reading →

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What? Cancelling Dr. Seuss?

Posted on February 27, 2021 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila I just read that the works of “Dr. Seuss” (Theodore Geisel, 1904-1991) are among the latest cultural specimens to come under the woke-roscope (to offer a Seussian kind of word) in the cancel culture lab. Geisel was … Continue reading →

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How Long Division Helped Relieve “COVID-19 Fatigue” and Clear Some Gloom

Posted on February 25, 2021 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila and Greg Beveridge UPDATE 2/26/21 Where the essay has an embedded “three dots to the left” (if your view does) of the text underneath “The Long Division” section, click on the dots for the full text which … Continue reading →

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ATTENTION: Be the First on Your Block to Get the Magic 666 Band-Aid Tattoo!!

Posted on December 6, 2020 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila In the dystopian haze of a future near us… Moms and dads! Boys and girls (etc.)! From The Ministry of Health, Global Tracker Division, down at the NWO, comes the brand new, self-administered, Magic 666 Band-Aid Tattoo … Continue reading →

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