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Here's to all those with long Polish Names This post is for all for those poor Americans who have suffered their entire lives with long Eastern European last names. We have finally gotten our due. We are exacting our revenge from those Smiths and Joneses who have never had their names butchered by well-meaning teachers …
Emotions and TV shows Do you know what I hate? No, I guess you don’t. If you did you would have said, “Sure Do, Mr. Ohh!” or something like that, and went back to watching MASH reruns. Now, that’s something I really hate. With all the channels available on all those many broadcast TV, cable, …
Continue reading There’s No I In Team… Maybe Not The Way You Spell It!!
Mr Ohh! vs. technology When it comes to technology there are several kinds of people. There are the early-adopters, those folks who have to have the newest thing the day it comes out, and know how to operate it, even before it’s been programed. I’m not one of those. Next, there are the ones who …
Continue reading If There’s A World Wide Web… I’d Hate To Meet That Spider!!
A mother is a blessed creature I have a lovely wife and three wonderful children and they think the world of me. Yes, Mr. Ohh! is truly blessed to have a family that loves him unconditionally, as long as he’s doing exactly what they want him to do at exactly the time they want him …
Continue reading How Can I Miss You, If You Don’t Go Away?!?
I sincerely tried Ohh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to make people happy!!! I know this isn’t the exact quote but mine is much more apropos to my situation, seeing as how everything I have written or said, up to this point has been one hundred percent true, and humorous; …
A little bit of history In 1897 an eight-year-old girl, named Virginia O’Hanlon, wrote the New York Sun, a newspaper which is now out of business, a letter asking is there was a Santa Claus. The answer to her question, “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”, has become the most reprinted article in the …
It started so simply 88 Open mouth, insert foot, close mouth. 89 Open mouth, insert foot, close mouth. Oh, I’m sorry, I’m being punished and have to write that one hundred times. Yes, you heard correct. Mr. Ohh! is being disciplined because I did something that not only embarrassed the heck out of one of …
My aunt Grace is a lovely lady. Senile, crazy, nuts, out of touch, sure, but lovely. My daughter and I went to visit her last week and she put out of a bowl of snacks. Now, you may ask what my aunt would put out for snacks. You may not, because experience would make Chips …
In 1954 many thousands of school children rolled up their sleeves to get the new polio vaccine. You may ask what it was like? Well, I have no idea, I wasn’t there. The thing is the modern press wasn’t there either. Sure, there were celebrities telling folks to get vaccinated, and newspapers taking pictures, but …
The other day, I was watching an educational television show all about insects. The thing is, it made no sense. For one thing, it talked about coloration and mentioned Monarch butterflies. Apparently, monarch butterflies are poisonous so birds don’t eat them. That made sense. Don’t eat poisonous bugs is good advice in anyone’s book, even …
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