Funny Inventions

There are untold numbers of inventions in the world. Hundreds of thousands are patented each year. Many of those are never used, or even spoken about by anyone but the inventor. The following list is a sampling of the funniest inventions. Rain Goggles. Goggles fitted with tiny windshield wipers. The rest of you may be …

Lightning Ride

Your place for the latest news in mountain biking is right here. Yes, indeed, you can hear it here first. The most recent conundrum for the hobbled subset of mountain bikers is the worry over lightning. Their question is if they are straddling what amounts to a lightning rod. It’s a valid concern when you’re …

Prebiotic Pepsi

The swiftest way to get there is this: prebiotics benefit probiotics. Probiotics are generally thought of as the bacteria which best suit the human anatomy. Or, in other words, they are good bacteria. Prebiotics are the fiber that is good for the good bacteria. Pepsi is considering adding prebiotics to a new line of their …

Randomizer

When I’m feeling like a crass, trashtalking set of wind-up plastic teeth with an overbite and bad breath, I disappear in the lyrical music of words. When I’m loud in the quiet room and they make more noise in the process of kicking me out, it’s a beautiful contrast. Like golf socks on a water …

Word Traps

There comes a time in every man’s, woman’s, and child’s life when a word gets trapped in the brain. A trick might help get the word out again. But what is the trick? The words that have been stuck in my head lately are Superfluous and Extraneous. It doesn’t help at all that people at …