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Why Neanderthals Went Extinct

If only they could have hit the curveball.

The following is an extract from the best-seller, We’re French and You’re Not, so it must be true.
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“Robert, I wonder why Cro-Magnon survived and Neanderthal died out.”

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“Let me tell you ma chérie. My five-hundredth great grandfather was there.”
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“Your five-hundredth great grandfather?”
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“Yes, his name was Henri Ogg. Henri was upset that the Neanderthals didn’t properly spice their mastodon steaks. So, he started boycotting Neanderthal restaurants. Other Cro-Magnons followed suit. The Neanderthals retaliated by banning us from their hot springs. Fights started here and there. Soon, a stone-axe race began.
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“A war of annihilation nearly broke out. Instead, Monsieur Ogg tactfully suggested a baseball game to determine the extermination.“
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“Baseball was much different then, with bats fashioned from enormous twigs and five balls needed to get a walk. Both sides played this game of extinction in typical, jovial dawn-of-mankind fashion. Hunter-gatherers supplied food to the enormous crowd.
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“It was an exciting game. Many fans forgot to breathe and died. It all came down to the bottom of the ninth, two outs, bases loaded with the score: Cro-Magnons: All fingers of five men and three fingers of another, to Neanderthals: All fingers of five men and two of another.

“The Neanderthals had their best batter at the plate, Craggy. He sneered at our pitcher, Henri Ogg. Ogg hurled a blood ball, it was legal then. Craggy sneered and stepped away. Strike one!

“Henri hurled an anthrax ball. Craggy yawned. Strike two!
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“The crowd tensed. The Neanderthals smiled. Surely, Craggy would win the game now.

“Henri hurled a plain fastball. Craggy shattered the air with his mighty swing.

“Oh, somewhere the sun was shining and the people laughing, but there was no joy for the first cavemen; mighty Neanderthal was wiped out.”

“How do we know the Cro-Magnons were truly ahead?” says Harriet. “After all, cavemen were often missing fingers.”

“Hush.”
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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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So Depressed

The effect that that horrible man is having on my retirement savings, my home life, and on America is depressing me more than words can say.  I haven’t been blogging lately because I need to be a little bit happy to blog and I haven’t been so.

Sorry.

Paul De Lancey, Ph.D.

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I Accuse (This is Very Political)

I accuse that horrible man of:
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Abandoning our allies to Putin
Being a Russian asset
Enabling and encouraging bullies
Being willfully ignorant
Trampling on our constitution
Working towards a one-party state
Intimidating politicians
Intimidating even politicians of his party with threats of violence.
Gutting agencies that we paid for, just because they return our tax dollars to the lower 98%
Destroying governmental agencies that are essential to our nation’s security because he’s too lazy to investigate.
Destroying the wonderful Christian faith by converting huge numbers of them to worshipping him and hatred
Of making all sorts of people live in fear, including outspoken women, political opponents, handicapped people, and immigrants.
Of making America a highly divided country.
Of creating tensions within households of Republicans and Democrats, people who not too long ago lived in harmony. (My parents were such people and they amicably split their vote for over 50 years.)
Of an insane tariff war is not only savaging our economy, but our trading partners as well.
On a personal note, I have no source of outside income, except a little bit from Social Security, so most of my income comes from investments have been damaged from his tariff tantrum.
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I have to go now. I’m so upset, that it’s making my Parkinson’s disease flare up.
– Paul De Lancey, Ph.D.
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The Mysterious Staple Remover

It’s about to turn into a staple.

How many times has this happened to you?

You stapled a stack of papers, but you need to take out that staple because it twisted into an impossible shape that wouldn’t hold two pages together, or you need to remove it  to insert a new page into the middle of the stack.

You look for your staple remover that always occupies pride of place on your desk.

It’s not there! What the heck?

So you remove the offending staple using your fingers. This happens all the time. Life is truly hard.

But then, BUT THEN, as soon as the staple is thrown away, the stapler reappears in the place it had always been. Can this problem of the disappearing stapler be solved?

NO.

But I can explain why this occurs. You can have a staple to be removed OR you can have a staple remover. But not both. Staples and their removers are merely two  forms of the same entity. It’s kinda like Clark Kent and Superman(tm). You never see the two of them together, because they are the same being.

I hope that this, at least, solves the mystery. Carry on the best you can.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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The Great Cats Latch Hook Project – Part 2

Hi there. I’ve made some project. As you can, it’s going to be two cats. I’ve sorted enough of the yarn to progress more quickly. However, the kit calls for me to use two nearly identical bits of yellow yarn. I just can’t tell them apart. I’ll see if I can get a better pair of eyes to tell the yellow colors apart. Then it’s full speed ahead

And here’s the inital progress.

02/22/25

 

 

 

 

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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Dear Healthy People

It’s depressing that this needs to be said so many times. We’ve heard so many times, “Have you tried …,” “Cheer up,” “but you look so good,” “stop whining,” “others have it worse,” and more. So, here is complete list of what to say to chronic sufferers.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

 

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My Favorite Serious TV Shows

This is the sixth installment of my favorite, serious TV shows. I’m probably forgetting some great shows. Some I never saw.

Death Valley Days (really good)
Greek Myths
Hetty Wainthrop Investigates
Klaus
Madam Blanc Mysteries
McDonald & Hobbs
Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Murdoch Mysteries
Rosemary and Thyme
Shintaro
Sister Boniface’s Mysteries
Vera

Watch and enjoy.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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Goldilocks and the Three Clouds

We last saw Goldilocks banished to the Gobi Dessert for eating the Three Civilized Bears’ porridge. The Three Bears starved to death. This new branch of fauna called “humano bears”  or “homo ullamcorper” in Latin went extinct. Goldilocks, you bitch.

Wandering the Gobi Dessert, perpetually looking for food and water gave Goldlocks time to think. She eventually gained maturity and repented of her selfish, destructive ways. She decided to consult for fire departments in Southern California.

So, one year Goldilocks took the sky and seeded a small cloud.

Not much rain resulted from this cloud seeding. Grasses, crops, and other flora dried out and became tinder for all the sparks of fire around the counties. Great big sections of the southern counties becames ever-growing firestorms. Thousands of acres and home burnt to the ground. Thousands of wildlife and hundreds of people died. Goldilocks, that cloud was too small, you bitch.

The fire department gave her a chance to redeem herself. So, Goldilocks took to the sky and seeded a large cloud. It then rained and rained all over Southern California. Grasses and shrubbery sprang up and flourished every. So when the grasses, crop, and other flora inevitably dried out in the coming summer, there was even more tinder for all the the sparks of fire around the state. Tens of thousands of acres and home burnt to the ground. Tens of thousands of wildlife and thousands of people died. Goldilocks, that cloud was too big, you bitch.

People calling Goldilocks a bitch time after time saddened her. So much so that the fire department chiefs game her one last chance. So, Goldilocks took to the sky and seeded a medium cloud. It  rained just enough to water the regions crop and also  just enough to put out all the tiny fires that were just starting. Only a tiny amount of grasses and shrubbery sprang up and flourished. So when the grasses, crop, and other flora inevitably dried out in the coming summer, there was not enough tinder for anything more than quite manageable fires. Nothing burned to the ground. All wildlife and thousands  pranced around safely. And all lived happily ever after.Goldilocks, that cloud was just right, you clever angel.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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Annual Blank Verse Poetry Slam Contest

Poway, California, has just nailed the bid to host this year’s acclaimed Blank Verse Poetry Slam Contest (BVPSC.) Beautiful Poway edged out strong entries from such fine cites as: San Franciso, New York, New Delhi, and Lhasa (Tibet), Is there nothing Poway can’t do? It’s the happening place, for sure

The cut-off date for submitting applications is June 29. Don’t delay! The competition is sure to be fierce. See you there.

Just remember the main rule. Your entry must not contain any written or spoken words. It’s a blank-verse competition after all. Please send your application form, your blank page, and a tape of silence, for those submitting a audio entry.

Note that mimes and monks who’ve taken a vow of silence are usually the most likely to win.

 

Last year’s winner, Amos Keeto’s “Ode to an Artichoke”

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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So Tired

I slept even worse than usual. I drove to doctor’s appointment. There was a hospital emergency, so I had to wait quite a bit. It wasn’t the worst of news, but it could have been better. I drove to another crafts place. There seems to be about four different latch-hooks patterns in the whole county. So I purchased one that’s okay. I drove and made Tacos Adobada for the natives.

Monday, I think, Number Two Son and I will drive to his new job in Chicago.

I was tired that I accidently ordered an invasion, but I was so exhausted that I never started the darn thing.

Take care. You’re important to me.

 

Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

 

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