Anecdote Lover Gifts

"It's true that prescribing medication is not an exact science, but..."

He began with an anecdote, spoke off the cuff, digressed from an aside, and flew off on a tangent.

"First, I sent a rocket of a drive down the fairway, then I took the 7-iron, put that ball on the green...a hundred and eighty yards if it was an inch..."

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

"And that's when the therapist suggested… exposure therapy!"

'Caesar salad?'

Hot cross buns

Ask Sadie! I just read an article where Daisy Ridley said J.J. Abrams wrote drafts for Episode VIII and Episode IX. And then Rian Johnson THREW THAT OUT and went a whole different direction. This makes me lose all faith in Star Wars. Am I overreacting? **Actual reader question. Excellent question. This reminds me of the time I saw Gone with the Wind on opening day. I was the invited guest of an elderly veteran of the Civil War. He couldn't stop yammering about how seceding from the union didn't

"I don't mind emotional trauma if I can turn it into a really funny anecdote."

"I've been window-shopping..."

"My great-uncle Octavio always wore his hat in the house. That way, if bad company knocked on the door, he could say he was just leaving."

Newton discovers surrealism

Barry Cryer.

Lore and legend of the Pennypackers

'Sorry, what was that?'

"We never have any activities that make for cute anecdotes anymore."

"Without the drone we wouldn't have made it on time!"

Paddlithic Period

"I am reminded of a morbidly depressing anecdote. . ."

Anecdote Magazine

Meet the Author: The ghost writer behind celebrity autobiographies.

"Ha, ha, wait … so Cheryl from accounting, ha, ha, ha, is your, ha, ha, wife?!!"

'I'd like now to introduce Len who will tell slightly humourous stories in his inimicable self-serving way,'

"I just invented this. I call it "freezer bag"."

Napkin Writer

Queen Ranavola of Madagascar executed any of her subjects who appeared in her dreams....

Ramblers Association

'Could you just sign it 'Bobby'.'

'No, I don't think Dr. Williams will be mad because you came to me for a second opinion, but I'm mad because you didn't come to me first.'

"We'd like to go somewhere that will provide us with a rich source of after dinner anecdotes!"

Revelations of Robert M. Gates

"There's Colonel Clapworthy alone with his memories - dirty old devil!"

What's your question for "Ask Sadie"? Are you voting for Trump or Clinton? Excellent question. It reminds me of the time in grade school when little Chester Oswald threw my liverwurst sandwich on the ground. The schoolmarm gave me a terrible choice: I could either eat the dirt-covered sandwich, or I could go hungry. So I chose the only thing I could choose ... I switched my sandwich with hers, and when she yakked up her lunch I laughed and laughed. So ... you're saying ... what?

'I gave Brian his marching orders last night and he goose-stepped round the bedroom!'

"Don't you remember? We were at Herb and Sally's."