I've circled back to my roots here, creating a hodgepodge of jokes and gags, then coming up with a premise to contain them all. It started out with a couple of "content creator" type bits that I thought up, but don't have a way to produce. One of them was Abbott & Costello Elementary, which I created and posted online. Then a Shrek joke presented itself. Then, from there, I decided to write out the ideas and figured to put them into a sequel to my first I.P. Daily Newsletter article. It started out random, but then I started to chase the news a bit, and worked them together. It came out quite well. I backed up and reworked the A&C bit into a political joke, but I forgot to do the same to the Shrek idea. I could have turned it into a Hunter Biden laptop joke easily enough. Weekly Humorist like the article and posted it today! So, check it out:
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Leave it to the Prose: Executive Order Declaration Concerning Bring Your Daughter to Work Day 20254/22/2025 I certainly have opinions about what was once called "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day." I understood the idea behind it, but I didn't quite get what me bringing my kid to the day job I hated was going to prove. I got my first piece in the NY Post on that very topic. The optics have changed over the years, but I still cringe at the thought of it, even though my kids have long since aged out of it and fortunately never got into my line of work.
But circumstances change but parody doesn't. I had a glimmer of an idea based on current events and it blossomed into this piece, now up at the Weekly Humorist. Enjoy! ![]() Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to but rarely get in runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter, where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my pun zone, so I often play. I set my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of entries and they many times get selection. I got a couple in this week. Not my favorites. One example, I tweeted (yes, I said “tweeted”) James Bong at 11:13. Someone else tweeted it at 11:27, but they listed the second one in their “best of list.” Rigged! On the other hand, they took one of mine (Indiana Jonesing) and made it part of their introduction to the list. How did they not included Wasted Ventura or Tarzonked? Their judging methods seem very suspect. But, in the end, they included 5 out of my 12 entries. I’ve included their link below, and for more fun, go to Twitter and look up #HighHeroes. Until then, here's a link to the online "best of" site at Weekly Humorist. ![]() A humor magazine I often submit to but rarely get in runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter, where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my pun zone, so I often play. I've added these Wednesday morning game to my PC calendar to remind me when it is so I can submit a bunch of entries and pretend I'm part of their staff. This week I almost wimped out because it was about supervillains and I was never a big comic book guy. I googled "famous supervillains and did those, then kind of went rouge with the idea of what is a villain, really? Anyway, I got several in this week. Here's the link to this week's game: ![]() Nuts, lost another outlet. I just found out that The Big Jewel pulled a Mad magazine and is no longer posting new material. This happened back in August, which shows how much I was paying attention. The last time they published anything of mine was in April, where I got two pieces up in April. Maybe I should have realized something was up. They're keeping the site up for now, archiving all the material they've posted over the years. They didn't pay a nickle, but I always got the sense they were a respectable place to publish material and I always had to run a gauntlet of editors to get the thumbs up or down. My stuff is there. I'll miss having that forum to work with whenever a prose piece idea hit. But the guy who ran it was dealing with other successes and was finding it harder to maintain the site, so at least it was for a good reason. And the search begins anew... Got another bit posted over at The Big Jewel website: "Some Excerpts From The First Weeks Of Our Company’s New Message Board." I hope you can give it a read!
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