Tag: funny
member name: Joseph Ritz
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January 25, 2007 06:27 PM EST --
The second great war to end all wars ended in August, 1945. In 1948,the U.S. was preparing young men to fight the next war.
I went into the service as an immature youth of 18 lacking confidence and . . .
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August 09, 2009 11:29 AM EDT --
When I was a young boy in the 1930s our family always rode in a used car.
My father worked in a steel factory at a time the United Steelworkers of America had little bargaining power. As a result, . . .
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January 16, 2007 09:09 PM EST --
I was born a bastard and I’ve remained one all my life. I became a journalist.”
So begins Joseph P. Ritz’s story of his search for his background in his book I NEVER LOOKED FOR MY MOTHER . . .
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January 12, 2007 02:07 PM EST --
At times I read a newspaper or magazine article and I think that the author -- regardless of what the byline says -- is Hyman Kaplan.
Kaplan is author Leo Rosten’s . . .
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February 12, 2007 08:10 AM EST --
Army ski training is nothing like taking ski lessons as a civilian. For one thing, the army wasn’t as concerned about how we got down a slope as it was in our getting up it. It figured we could mostly . . .
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February 22, 2007 12:33 PM EST --
For most of the years when I was growing up we had no telephone. One reason for this was that for many years we couldn’t afford one. Another reason was that my mother had a poor . . .
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October 05, 2007 08:44 PM EDT --
We didn’t have classes in sex education when I attended a Catholic high school in the 1950s. We learned about it from more knowledgeable boys. Not only was there no sex education, there was . . .
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February 03, 2007 10:51 AM EST --
The second great war to end all wars ended in August, 1945. In 1948,the U.S. was preparing young men to fight the next war.
I went into the service as an immature youth of 18 lacking confidence and marketable . . .
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