‘A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life’ Ian McEwan William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father’s farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet,Continue reading “Stoner * John Williams (1965)”
Tag Archives: wife
What self-esteem does to you * Joke
A man walked into a therapist’s office looking very depressed. “Doc, you’ve got to help me. I can’t go on like this.” “What’s the problem?” the doctor inquired. “Well, I’m 35 years old and I still have no luck with the ladies. No matter how hard I try, I just seem to scare them away.”
Translation Joke – Archeology
An esteemed professor of archeology was back from a dig in Israel where the oldest settlement in that part of the world had been discovered, along with a tablet containing drawings of what was thought to be the world’s oldest writing. The professor was there to give a slide show lecture and the hall wasContinue reading “Translation Joke – Archeology”
A biker and a cop
A guy was riding his Hyabusa at 95 on the M62, when he noticed a jam sandwich coming up behind him. The patrol car flashed him and put on the blues. The rider wound on the throttle and got up to 110, the copper was still there, he wound it up to 130, still theContinue reading “A biker and a cop”