Archive for the ‘Ditties’ Category

Cajun/Creole Creations

1. Coca-Nola – A cola drink sold only in New Orleans
2. Beignet – Taste-testers felt beignets were passe and stale. Many commented, “Beignet, done that.”
3. Jumbo Liar – Big, spicy Cajun dish filled with fat fibbers, porcine perjurers and luscious liars, all served-up with a generous portion of shellfish-ness
4. Dumbo – You’ll roux the day you try this Disney version of Gumbo. Disney’s Dumbo soup is the elephant in the roux-m no one wants to talk about – let alone eat.
5. Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdads – I don’t know where any of them sing, but they do stick in my craw.
6. A-2-Fey – A Hip-Hop version of étouffée. Dish was doomed from the start when Tina Fey refused to endorse A-2-Fey.

 

Domestic Disasters

1. Fig Glutens – Great – if you’re a glutton for gluten
2. From the Makers of Planter’s Peanuts came an unsuccessful spin-off: Planter’s Fasciitis
3. Argue-la – A quarrelsome version of arugula. Made for some very angry salads.
4. Spaghetti É’s – The French version of Spaghetti O’s.
5. Twice-thawed Pizza – The makers of twice-baked potatoes discovered doubly-thawed and refrozen pizza wasn’t twice as nice
6. Flocked Flakes – Post Cereal’s answer to Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes. It fared poorly in test markets. People said they were uncomfortable eating anything that had been flocked.
7. Pepperidge Farm Seahorses – Goldfish, yes. Seahorses, neigh.
8. Cannibal Crackers – Animal crackers, yes. Cannibal Crackers, bite your tongue.

 

The Hostess Ho Ho’s Franchise

1. Hostess Ho’s – Illegal in most states. Very expensive to buy. Even more expensive to touch.
2. Hostess Ho, Ho’s – The traditional tasty snack cake. Always popular
3. Hostess Ho, Ho, Ho’s – Santa’s yuletide snack cake. It was like Christmas in your mouth.

 

Gender Identity Foods

1. Bi-Curious Bananas – Very a-peeling. But will they sell? As you’d expect with Bi-Curious Bananas, they could go either way
2. Mom-sicles – Female version of the Pop-sicle
3. Womangoes – Female version of mangoes
4. Non-Binary Gingerbread Men – They no longer identify as cookies and are referred to as Gingerbread Thems

Robert Culp was a guest-murderer on Colombo in 4 different episodes. And even though he was serving 4 consecutive life sentences for those murders, each time he was somehow released only to murder again. For God’s sake man, who was overseeing his probation – his agent?

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When will we learn to lock up and throw away the script on these make-believe TV murderers so they’ll never pretend-murder again. Won’t someone take responsibility for Robert Culp’s crimes and admit, “Mea Culp-a.”

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Robert Culp is not the only actor to kill again and again. I’m looking at you Patrick McGoohan, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Norman Bates. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the actors and actresses whose parts were cut short, snuffed-out if you will, by the deadly scripts of unfeeling screenwriters.

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Fortunately, Robert Culp has passed on to that great casting couch in the sky where he is no longer able to cut short the parts of deserving actors who’ve been written out of scripts all too early because of his murderous handiwork. Instead, Robert Culp is now being driven crazy by deceased Peter Falk’s Columbo character following him around and relentlessly pestering him: “Aah, there’s just one more thing Bob…”

1. Streetcars named Desire
   

   Stella? Is that you?

2. Warning: Streetcars named Desire are usually followed by streetcars named Syphilis, so be careful with that Desire
3. The Hindenburg – Oh the profanity! Riders drop a lot of F-bombs. A word to the wise: It’s highly advisable you get off before the Lakehurst stop.
4. The Mustang Ranch Pleasure Dome Car – Depending on where you sit, it can cost $300 just to go 2 blocks – and that doesn’t include the tip
5. The Enola Gay – Don’t expect the operator to drop any F-bombs. A-bombs are another story.
6. The E Street Coli – Riders say it’s like being in NJ with Springsteen, but with food poisoning
7. A Horse Drawn Streetcar – It’s not an actual streetcar, it’s just a picture of a streetcar drawn by a horse

1. The Extra Virgin Virgin – If Olive Oil Can be Extra Virgin, Why Can’t People Too?
2. I Love Talking on the Phone to My Mother: And Other Lies
3. Moby Richard: The Politically Correct Version of Moby Dick
4. If You Won’t Trust Me with Your Emu, How Can I Trust You with My Ostrich?
5. Madame Ovary…. Flaubert’s masterpiece (Madame Bovary) reimagined against a backdrop of menstruation
6. The Ileum: Homer’s Reworked Epic Poem Takes a Heroic Journey Through His Digestive Tract
7. Seriously, Is There Anybody Out There Who is Not on the Spectrum?
8. Falling in Love with Your Type Face: Fonts I Have Cherished
9. 

   Feeling bookish and bike-ish.

   Hamlet and Eggs: Dr. Seuss Meets Shakespeare

10. A Thrower in the Oats…. The less successful sequel to A Catcher in the Rye
11. Sorry Earthlings, I’m Just Not that Evolved Yet: A Young Soul Apologizes for Being So Unenlightened F*cking Stupid
12. How to Win Friends and Influence Cannibals
13. Pretty, Pretty Good Expectations…. by Larry David not Charles Dickens
14. Tommy Quixote: Don’s Little Brother Tilts at Pinball
15. Can’t Count on Kant: Stories about Immanuel Kant’s Unreliability (May have inspired Better Call Saul)
16. Catch-99 Luftballons… Even Joseph Heller can’t resist Nena’s “catchy” German song
17. The Invisible Man…. I don’t see myself reading it
18. Blades of Leaves…. Whitman’s follow-up to his Leaves of Grass
19. The Miserables…. American version of Les Misérables
20. The Very, Very Good Gatsby.… The lesser-known prequel to The Great Gatsby
21. Sorry, I Thought it was a Drinking Fountain: And Other Bidet Mistakes
22. The Poetry of Vlad the Impaler…. Such a misunderstood tyrant. The newly rehabilitated Impaler displays his rapier-like verse in pointed ways. The sensitive skewer-master evinces a piercing understanding of the human condition. A great read – why not take a stab at it?
23. The Greatest Stories Ever Whispered: Pillow Talk at its Juiciest
24. Someday It’ll be 50 years in the Future: Things I Said 50 Years Ago
25. We’re All Non-Binary. We’re Just Choosing to Be Binary.
26. Lit From the Inside: The Karin Hardiman Story (Best Book Ever – Still Being Written)

 

1. I’m so confused. The Temp Agency got me a permanent, parttime job at the Unemployment Office.
2. It is said that centuries ago when there were 2 Popes, they sometimes raced down the Nave to get to the pulpit first. Occasionally one Pope might cut off the other sparking a hellacious case of Pope Rage.
3. After taking way too many Southwest flights I tried to speak romantically to my wife. It didn’t go well: “I know you have choices when it comes to husbands and I really appreciate you flying David Hardiman. I was thinking maybe we could get my “tray table” in the upright and locked position before we take-off.”
4. Did you ever iron your money when giving it as a gift?    Yes, but just the change.  

5. I’m writing a new Vincent Van Gogh biography. It’s called “A Brush with Greatness.” I think you’ll find it kind of earry.
6. My proctologist says there’s a big difference between being involved in a morass and being involved in more ass. (Alright, that joke is not completely odorless. So sue me.)
7. Now you know. When a Sign Language Interpreter gets arthritis, they call it laryngitis.

In a stunning turn of events at the Papal Conclave in Vatican City, the College of Cardinals has displayed bovine passivity in shunning more religious candidates and instead electing Elsie the Cow as the new Pope. For her papacy, Elsie will take the name of Lactose the Tolerant.

 

Groan Appetit Pilgrims: Punnery in the Nunnery

When asked to comment on Elsie’s selection, church spokesman Bishop Elihu Borden remarked, “We knew the Church was looking to moooove in a new direction, but this is udderly amazing.”

 

Long after the white smoke emanating from the Sistine Chapel indicated a new Pontiff had been elected, church officials delayed the announcement of the cow Pope in order to really “milk the moment.” The Church hierarchy can’t seem to figure out how the cow lobby managed this historic election, and they don’t expect any insider explanation either because nobody likes a cattletale.

 

Lactose the Tolerant is expected to take up in the Vatican with her husband Red Bull. By all accounts “Red” sleeps very little, and when he does, he keeps Elsie up with all his snorting. We’re told he’s requested decorators to remove all the red curtains in the Pope’s bedroom which seem to enrage the papal consort.

 

The new Pope is a brown Guernsey from Britain. At her investiture a reporter from the inhouse publication L’Osservatore Romano was allowed one question.

Reporter:    How now brown cow?

Lactose the Tolerant:    How now brown cow? Do you know how many times I’ve been asked that? Next. Oh, that’s it then. OK. Well, I’d just like to say I’m looking forward to the new Popemobile.        

 

 

Vati-cans and Vati-cants: Do’s and Don’ts in the New Bovine Papal Order

 

1. In keeping with the spiritual ascendancy of foraging livestock, the Church’s supreme hymnal has been changed to “Amazing Graze.”
2. In a sign of things to come, it was reported that Elsie’s milk (Lactose the Tolerant’s milk) will not be homogenized due to sensitivities within the Church about anything with the word “homo” in it. Her milk shall be pasteurized only and referred to as EVMM (Extra Virgin Mother’s Milk)
3. Henceforth, during communion, sacramental milk will replace sacramental wine as the blood of Cheesus Christ – the True Dairy Savior.
4. Traditionally a papal bull is a type of public decree issued by a pope through the organ of the Vatican Press Office. Lactose the Tolerant however, is expected to issue her first Papal Bull (a baby papal bull) through her own personal organ.
5. Cow-tipping is now a venial sin and instead of meatless Fridays, Lactose the Tolerant has mandated meatless lifetimes.
6. In deference to the herding instinct of the Pope’s new flock, she has instituted a new university of higher learning called Flock U. So, if you’re a beast of prey in search of salvation, the Church heartily suggests you go Flock yourself.
7. The Vatican kitchen will no longer serve veal (unless the life of the mother is at steak). Conversely, the kitchen will now begin serving cow pies, cud spuds and gummi grass.

 

Some critics are forecasting that Lactose the Tolerant’s papacy will be “all mitre and no cattle.” Other more charitable observers believe the Church has chosen well and that placing a herding animal at the head of the Church will only make shepherding the flock that much easier.

Hay, you herd it here first folks. The good news is that there is a new wind blowing through St. Peter’s Basilica. The bad news is that it’s filled with methane.

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♫ I am they, as you are they, as you are them
And they are all together♫

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1. What airport is Irish and hirsute…                                 O’Hair
2. What airport is the most boring and uninteresting…    Dullest
3. What airport is considered careless…                             Lax
4. What airport is careless and makes you poop…            Ex-Lax
5. Name a President you can land on…                               JFK
6. What airport has toffee candy bars lined-up…              Heathrow
7. Name an airport with a lot of nerve…                              Charles “De Gaulle” (the gall of that airport)
8. What do babies say when someone is leaving…             Dubai

I write this quiz on a layover in Frankfurt while grabbing a quick hamburg. I’m sorry, I meant to say I write this in Hamburg while grabbing a quick frankfurt. Anyway, they’re boarding my plane, so Dubai for now everybody.

1. I’m organizing a 2-Mile Run to promote Metric System Awareness
2. I’m tellin’ ya…Chuck Norris has no safe word
3. They asked the Marquis De Sade’s wife why she stays with him.

What did she say?

Beats me.

4. They asked the married cannibals why they stayed together.

What did they say?

Eats me!  

5. Remember what Narcissus said to himself before bed: “You had me at me.”
6. What are you reading?

Oh, it’s the poorly selling sequel to The Little Engine That Could

Really? What’s it called?

The Little Engine That Threw a Rod

7. Do you know he was never sick a day in his life. Nope, he did all his puking at night.
8. That little girl scout out front selling her cookies– she sure knows her market
9. I’m jittery, like a squirrel, about ready to cross a busy highway. If only I remembered where I buried my nuts.
10. I’m tellin’ ya…Chuck Norris has no bucket list items
11. I never feel quite right watching a Thursday Night edition of Monday Night Football. Those are weak days.
12. I have it on good authority that when you die, they ask you to take a brief “How did we do?” survey. And I didn’t think they cared.