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Remember Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer best known for his weekly broadcast “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney,” a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes? Here are some of his favorite [Read More…]

Did you know these things had names? The space between your eyebrows is called a glabella. The way it smells after the rain is called petrichor. The plastic or metallic coating at the end of [Read More…]

Submitted by an Oyster Pointer reader The Washington Post conducts an annual Neologism Contest where readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. Among the winners are: Coffee (n): The person upon whom [Read More…]

Submitted by an Oyster Pointer friend Dad, are we pyromaniacs? Yes, we arson. What do you call a pig with laryngitis? Disgruntled. Writing my name in cursive is my signature move. Why do bees stay [Read More…]

I don’t like it when I see an old person and then realize we went to high school together. I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes — so she hugged me. My wife says I [Read More…]

Do airlines plan in advance that the person who will sit in front of you will wish to recline his seat as far back as possible, the person next to you will be smelly and [Read More…]

The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to [Read More…]

If the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, what is the speed of dark? Why do ships have portholes but not starboard holes? Do you recall when calling one a politician was not [Read More…]

Excerpts from Live and Learn and Pass It On, by H. Jackson Brown The following thoughts have often been attributed to Andy Rooney, the 60 Minutes commentator known for his wry, humorous and contentious television [Read More…]