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Say It Nice: A Polite-English Phrasebook

October 20, 2020 Tags: humor, satire, word usage

To all our Associates: Herewith, we list some commonly used polite phrases to assist our public relations, political consulting, healthcare and customer service associates. It's crucially important that you understand their precise import. They

Advice: A Story

July 9, 2020 Tags: annoyances, fiction, humor, satire, whimsy

Ever noticed how we can't complain without giving each other advice? "The way I'm eating in this pandemic, I'm going to turn into a beached whale." — Don't you exercise? — "Like I told you, I have a stationary bike." — Oh right, what you

Donald J. Trump’s Short but Unabridged Dictionary of American English

August 31, 2018 Tags: politics, satire, word usage

A+. The grade I gave myself in the friendly confines of Fox Television for my performance as president; equivalent to my Wharton MBA. See “Fox Television”; cf. “Wharton.”   Attorney General. My personal lawyer. See “personal lawyer”; cf.

Them’s the Breaks

March 2, 2017 Tags: fiction, humor, satire

“We go to the top of the fifth, and once again here’s the voice of the Manhattan Madisons, Clint Hill.” “Why, thank you, Pete Gray. We’re coming to you today from the Loco Foto Booth. Loco Foto, the photo-sharing service that lets you spread your

Trumplodyte and the Arena People

February 2, 2017 Tags: morality and justice, politics, satire

Troglodytes were a tribe of cave dwellers. One of their descendants is American patriot Trumplodyte, living in a gold cave in the sky over Fifth Avenue. He loves his fellow Americans so much that he offered to come down and reign over them, even

Tricks of Memory

December 1, 2016 Tags: literature, memoir, memory, satire

1 The tricks memory plays on us are not always cruel. For decades, I thought I remembered a lush Italian garden from a book of Aldous Huxley stories that a high school girlfriend liked to read aloud to me. It wasn’t an image, let alone an idea. It

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