Humor by <strong>Nightwire</strong>baseball hit by a ceiling fan.7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words “Uh-oh,” it’salready too late.8. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.9. A six-year-old can start a fire with a flint rock even thougha 36-year-old man says they can only do it in the movies. Amagnifying glass can start a fire even on an overcast day.10. Certain Lego’s will pass through the digestive tract of afour-year-old.11. Play Dough and Microwave should never be used in thesame sentence.12. Super glue is forever.13. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming poolyou still can’t walk on water.14. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.15. DVD players do not eject PB&J sandwiches even thoughTV commercials show they do.16. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.17. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.18. You probably do not want to know what that odor is.19. Always look in the oven before you turn it on. Plastic toysdo not like ovens.20. The fire department in Pittsburgh has a 5 minute responsetime.21. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not makeearth worms dizzy. It will however make cats dizzy andcats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.Washington Post’s Style Invitational:The Washington Post’s Style Invitational asked readers to takeExpiration Date12/31/12any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting,or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.Recent winners:• Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lastsuntil you realize it was your money to start with.• Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.• Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for thepurpose of getting laid.• Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.• Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic witand the person who doesn’t get it.• Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you arerunning late.• Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.• Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.• Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending offall these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earthexplodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.• Glibido: All talk and no action.• Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seemsmarter when they come at you rapidly.• Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and a jerk.Dear God: From The Dog!Dear God: Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, ifever, smell one another?______________________________Dear God: When we get to heaven, can we sit on your couch?Or is it still the same old story?______________________________Dear God: Why are there cars named after the jaguar, thecougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, butnot ONE named for a dog? How often do you see a cougarriding around? We do love a nice ride! Would it be so hard torename the “Chrysler Eagle” the “Chrysler Beagle”?______________________________Dear God: If a dog barks his head off in the forest and nohuman hears him, is he still a bad dog?______________________________Dear God: We dogs can understand human verbalinstructions, hand signals, whistles, horns, clickers, beepers,scent ID’s, electromagnetic energy fields, and Frisbee flightpaths. What do humans understand?______________________________Dear God: More meatballs, less spaghetti, please.______________________________Dear God: Let me give you a list of just some of the things Imust remember to be a good dog.1. I will not eat the cats’ food before they eat it or after theythrow it up.2. I will not roll on dead seagulls, fish, crabs, etc., justbecause I like the way they smell.3. I will not munch on “leftovers” in the kitty litter box,although they are tasty.4. The diaper pail is not a cookie jar.5. The sofa is not a “face towel”. Neither are Mom and Dad’slaps.6. The garbage collector is not stealing our stuff.7. My head does not belong in the refrigerator.8. I will not bite the officer’s hand when he reaches in forMom’s driver’s license and registration.9. I will not play tug-of-war with Dad’s underwear when he’s36 • December 2012
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