Recent studies have shown that there are now well over one hundred websites available on the computernet. This puts it second only to ceefax as a useful source of information. Monkey Empire has rounded up the best of these sites, ones which enhance the life of real people like you, not the...
People lie! They lie about the bliss of rural relocation. They lie about the size of fish they catch. They lie about being there for you. But, mostly, they lie about bats! Such a silly thing, yet no one can admit the ugly truth. Bats only come into your house. It never happens to me, friends...
Since the 1950s, when short but fast players had a chance of making it onto a professional court such as the legendary Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics, known for startling innovations like dribbling and passing behind the back the sport has been dominated by ever taller athletes, starting with...
Baby Boomers Moderate Exercise; Notice Scarcity of Seniors In Marathons
Baby boomers, who exercise more than any generation before them, have been flocking to orthopedic surgeons to tend to their aching tendons and joints.
As news of the growing need for surgical intervention...
An American avant garde composer, who takes his inspiration from the most upstart composers of recent times, had a piece performed last night at Carnegie Hall, titled Making Popcorn.
The Boston Pops Orchestra, which commissioned the piece, left the stage to make way for the...
Audit Report on Katrina Debit Cards; Some Recipients Swam In Champagne
A federal audit on the spending proclivities of people who were issued debit cards by FEMA during the Katrina disaster indicates that some of them were swimming in champagne and good stuff, too.
Among the...
One of the best and funniest April Fools tricks was invented and played by me last year. I should say that my friend and me used to make fun of each other regularly on April Fools Day with varying success. That is my friend was on his guard and knew he should be ready for my dirty tricks, which...
This week Warner Brothers joined the Walt Disney company in attempting to transform Broadway from a venue with a whisper of hope for social relevance into one that presents works that are the intellectual equivalent of Mickey Mouse caper.
If Disney could do it with, for example, The Lion...
Evidence of the extraordinary longevity of tattoos has finally been discovered, in a mummified Mayan female whose panoramic tattoos have lasted almost two thousand years.
Tattoo artists were ecstatic at the discovery, immediately citing the mummy as proof that once youre lucky enough to...
This morning, as usual, I was pressed for time. I had to be to my “9 to 5” especially early and I woke up late. Instead of rushing around more than I already had been, I thought I would take the time to finish my “getting ready for work rituals” in the car. After all, I...
America, which has sacrificed the lives of its citizens and its material plentitude more selflessly than any other nation in history to come to the assistance of other countries, noted the astonishingly heated negative commentary about it emanating from virtually every corner of the globe and...
If sometimes, weighed down with the complexities of uneasy empire, we perchance wonder if America could be freedoms fading star, its somewhat reassuring to realize that the nation is so young it still does not recognize the existence of Americans. Even the Indians dont completely get the nod,...