Entries Tagged as ‘Irony’

November 27, 2008

Larry From The South

Mulberry Street
November 28, 2008
Greyhound Corporate Headquarters
350 N Saint Paul St # 300
Dallas, TX 75201
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Dear Sir or Madam,
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If ever there was a time for a strongly worded letter to the management, it was not when the traffic on the turnpike crawled more like a sloth, or even like a well-trained poodle, than a racing dog.  For [...]

July 9, 2008

An open letter

General Manager
New York Yankees
Bronx, New York
 
Dear Sir or Madam,
I enjoyed my first outing to Yankee Stadium last night to see the home team beat the visiting Tampa Rays.  While the weather was hot and humid during the day, the temperature seemed to drop enough by early evening to be tolerable; the ambient air was not [...]

July 1, 2008

Getaway car

My friends Dennis and Susanna got married recently.  Here’s a cute picture of Susanna peeking out the window of the getaway taxi.

June 16, 2008

She probably uses a landline too

While at at the library today, I was distracted by a librarian giving a tour to a group of younger people–possibly summer employess.  They stood near me while the librarian gestured admiringly at the card catalogue.  I nearly laughed out loud when I heard her say,
“We can find a needle in a haystack, and believe [...]

July 26, 2005

Colorful captions…

“Sunlight-propelled spacecraft launched, but its fate is cloudy,” from the Dallas Morning News, Jun 22, 2005
“Approaching Heart Failure from a Cardiovascular Point of View,” a talk to be given by Dr Inderjit Anand, Professor at University of Minnesota College of Medicine. This should be much better than that “Heart Failure from a Podiatric Perspective” [...]