Tag: humor
member name: Joseph Ritz
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July 20, 2008 10:30 PM EDT --
Ireland is a country of spell binding beauty. Its people are deservedly known for their friendliness and hospitality, but I'm convinced that a major reason its population is less than . . .
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June 04, 2006 02:54 PM EDT --
"Why do you always lie when you leave a message on the answering machine?"
The voice on the machine belonged to my youngest daughter.
"I've lived there . . .
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August 06, 2006 12:00 AM EDT --
<font size="3"><span style="">I look back on my high school years in the 1940s with the sentient of an ex-con recalling hard time in a maximum security prison.
We didn't . . .
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January 09, 2007 12:14 PM EST --
This is meant mostly for those in the The Quote Boat Group, but anyone can join in.
I recently wrote a play in which Mark Twain introduces Sam Clemens, 34, and his bride of one day.
See . . .
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August 25, 2006 11:49 AM EDT --
Undertakers were the politest people I knew when I was small. I remember clearly them setting up folding chairs in the cramped living rooms of the homes of my foster father's dead relatives and I remember . . .
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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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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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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 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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February 21, 2006 10:44 AM EST --
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I have no idea why my foster mother thought I should play the violin. I . . .
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May 19, 2007 07:44 PM EDT --
I was born a bastard and I’ve remained one all my life. I became a journalist.”
So begins I NEVER LOOKED FOR MY MOTHER AND OTHER REGRETS OF A JOURNALIST.
The book is a journey which . . .
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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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March 30, 2006 09:03 AM EST --
I was born a bastard and I have remained one throughout my life. I became a journalist. A bastard in the vulgar sense of being unpopular or disagreeable is not a serious handicap in that sometimes unpleasant . . .
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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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July 13, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
I have no idea why my foster mother thought I should play the violin. I had shown no musical talent and we had little money. Nevertheless, she convinced her husband to buy me an old instrument . . .
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