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  • 80sAnecdotesGermany

    Tour Guide in Berlin

    by tod 2018-11-01
    California boy guiding tour bus of Germans through Berlin
    In the 1990s I worked for an outfit that had developed a reasonably inexpensive way to to transmit voice and data over fiber optic cables.  One of the investors was Deutsche Telekom and we had an office in Bonn.
    1996
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  • 00sAllAnecdotesLifeMoments

    Learning a New Dialect

    by tod 2018-09-09
    Sometimes simply relocating elsewhere has amusing consequences
    Shortly after moving from the San Francisco Peninsula to Bloomington, Indiana, I needed to set up refills for some prescriptions. Read More

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  • 10sAllAnecdotesMoments

    Picking Up Mail

    by tod 2018-09-05
    Never follow a set routine
    Our neighborhood is served by a community mailbox where all of our mailboxes are contained in one large box on a pedestal where the mail carrier delivers our mail. Read More

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  • 60sDecadesGermanyhumorMoments

    Saturday Morning Army Inspection 1960s Berlin

    by tod 2018-08-21
    You can never pull a fast one on a 1st Sergeant – they will eventually catch on
    I was in the Army in the mid-60s, stationed in Berlin as a telephone repairman / switchboard operator. Our outfit was a Signal company, which included any job pertaining to communications – telephone, radio, microwave, crypto, whatever. Read More

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  • 90sAllAnecdotesFiona

    Drizzly Day

    by tod 2018-08-13

    Verse by Fiona

    Fiona created an amusing verse after an afternoon of play ended by a drizzle
    One afternoon in 1993 or 94, I took our daughter Fiona to Foothills Park above Palo Alto. It’s great for enjoying a picnic, hiking the trails, or playing catch.
    1990s
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  • Allhumor

    A Collection of Puns

    by tod 2018-07-29
    Not everyone enjoys puns. Puns are rarely funny. Most people groan after hearing a pun. Here are some of my favorites.
    Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. When they lit a fire in the craft it sank, proving once and for all that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.
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  • 80sAll

    Dave’s Insanity

    by tod 2018-07-26
    Beware bosses bearing gifts!

    Back in the mid-1980s I had a boss who knew that I liked to spice up soups with Tabasco sauce. One day he gave me a new bottle of Dave’s Insanity. Read More

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  • 10sAllAnecdotesPeople

    Fourth of July 2018

    by tod 2018-07-25
    Getting together with neighbors
    Daunna and I joined two other couples for burgers, dogs, watermelon, corn on the cob. Read More

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  • 80sAllAnecdotesAustralia

    Ugly Encounter at a “T” Intersection in Australia

    by tod 2018-07-25
    Take the road less traveled but choose your route wisely
    One afternoon as I varied my route from work at IBM, taking a different road to my motel, I came upon a T intersection, with my road ending at the cross street.  On approach, one lane became two:  One for turning left, the other, right. Read More

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