http://www.chortler.com All the gnus fit to sprint Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:42:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/typing-tourette%e2%80%99s-the-perils-of-being-an-internet-forum-writer-381452 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/typing-tourette%e2%80%99s-the-perils-of-being-an-internet-forum-writer-381452#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 15:52:06 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=452 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";I am one of the most prolific and widely read writers of our time. I can probably count you among my regular, if not loyal readers. Still, my name is not recognized in most households – including my own. In fact, when I say my name, I mean my names, my many, many names. I [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/typing-tourette%e2%80%99s-the-perils-of-being-an-internet-forum-writer-381452/feed 0 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/make-the-bbc-capitalist-381417 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/make-the-bbc-capitalist-381417#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:54:41 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=417 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";Today’s beef is personal. If you have started a media company or even a website, there is a good chance you may have found yourself in competition with the BBC. The corporation’s tentacles, backed by the British taxpayer, extend far and wide. Mr. Chortler watches BBC television or listens to “Auntie Beeb” on his wireless [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/make-the-bbc-capitalist-381417/feed 0 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/uncanny-satire-of-the-financial-world-from-1986-381410 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/uncanny-satire-of-the-financial-world-from-1986-381410#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:01:00 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=410 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";Before]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/uncanny-satire-of-the-financial-world-from-1986-381410/feed 1 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/i-don%e2%80%99t-like-the-new-facebook-like-button-381396 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/i-don%e2%80%99t-like-the-new-facebook-like-button-381396#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:01:03 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=396 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";Today, immediately after I awoke, I did what any egomaniac would do and checked to find out how many new fans I had on my Facebook fan page. Instead of the usual “Become a Fan” button on my fan page link, there was a “Like” button in its place. Given my half-witted tendencies, I clicked [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/i-don%e2%80%99t-like-the-new-facebook-like-button-381396/feed 0 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/jenna-bush-hager-and-luke-russert-long-live-the-elite-381390 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/jenna-bush-hager-and-luke-russert-long-live-the-elite-381390#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:45:47 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=390 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";If there were ever proof beyond this site that anybody can become a journalist, then massage the television dial over to NBC and behold the children of famous people interviewing former President Bill Clinton this week. First there was Jenna Bush Hager asking Clinton about Haiti and what it’s like to be a father of [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/jenna-bush-hager-and-luke-russert-long-live-the-elite-381390/feed 0 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/have-you-seen-our-voice-381400 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/have-you-seen-our-voice-381400#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:01:09 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=400 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";You might have noticed, dear reader(s), that there have been some changes on Chortler of late. The design for one. The type of content for another. We are no longer a satire site per se, though we will certainly do our best to maintain our sense of humor. And bear in mind that when the [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/have-you-seen-our-voice-381400/feed 0 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/skype-the-greatest-thing-for-a-one-man-business-381376 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/skype-the-greatest-thing-for-a-one-man-business-381376#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:16:49 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=376 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";This may seem like an advertisement for Skype. But why not? The company has saved me a bundle in telephone expenses over the past two years. Skype serves my telecommunications company, and I have recommended them to countless people and will continue to do so. And I will suggest to you too, dear reader, to [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/skype-the-greatest-thing-for-a-one-man-business-381376/feed 0 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/work-free-sundays-say-it-isn%e2%80%99t-so-europe-381369 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/work-free-sundays-say-it-isn%e2%80%99t-so-europe-381369#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:17:05 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=369 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";Way back in 1993, when I first arrived in Europe, the one thing I could never grow accustomed to were Sundays. I came with the Peace Corps to teach English in Hungary, at a secretarial training school in a small town in the west of the country called Papa. Papa was a lovely little spot [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/work-free-sundays-say-it-isn%e2%80%99t-so-europe-381369/feed 0 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/give-papa-an-asterisk-381302 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/give-papa-an-asterisk-381302#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:19:32 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=302 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";So much attention has been focused in recent months on a number of athletes who – fearing that their career statistics would only be remembered by a few trivia-crazed fans at a Vegas card convention – decided to elevate the level of their performances by taking various illegitimate substances. Marion Jones, Floyd Landis, Dana Stubblefield [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/give-papa-an-asterisk-381302/feed 0 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/mobileless-on-planet-earth-381295 http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/mobileless-on-planet-earth-381295#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:13:18 +0000 admin http://www.chortler.com/?p=295 embaPub="ff4d5fbbafdf976cfdc032e3bde78de5";This past Friday, at exactly 4:04 in the afternoon, I officially became the last person on the planet not to have a mobile phone. The news was delivered to me not by any formal ceremony or letter, but by the sound of Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher” emanating from somewhere on Mrs. Taylor, my 81-year-old [...]]]> http://www.chortler.com/archives/stories/mobileless-on-planet-earth-381295/feed 0