by david allan van nostrand | Feb 6, 2023 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, The world around us
A friend sent a noise yesterday, February 5th, in honor of National Fart Day. I decided to take a closer look and found it is “a comical holiday celebrated for humorous purposes.” I also found there is a National Pass Gas Day, a Fart Out Loud Day and much more....
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 9, 2023 | Americana, Items in the News, Social Desirability, The Wayback Machine
Annie Oakley was a television series in the 1950s. The half-hour show was a highly fictionalized account of the legendary sharpshooter (née Phoebe Ann Mosey) who appeared as a star attraction with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. The executive producer was singing...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 26, 2022 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, The world around us
Goats are hoofed, horned and bearded ruminants that are closely related to sheep but are hairy instead of woolly. The males are billy goats, the females are nanny goats and the kids are called kids. Goats were domesticated by humans who drank their milk, ate their...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 19, 2022 | Anthropology, Items in the News, The world around us
“Hello walls (Hello, hello). How’d things go for you today? Don’t you miss her since she up and walked away? And I’ll bet you dread to spend another lonely night with me, but lonely walls, I’ll keep you company.” This song about a...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 12, 2022 | Human Behavior, Items in the News
The original definition of a stereotyping was printing by means of a solid block of type, an image that was perpetuated without change. Anything that fit onto a single sheet, such as letters, posters and the like. Only 100 years later did it come to mean preconceived...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 5, 2022 | Items in the News, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Point of view
Tiger Woods to Head New PGA-LIV Tour! That’s the headline you’ll be reading soon when the powers that be get the details sorted out. It will not happen until early in 2023 because there are a lot of things that need to be done first. Why Tiger? Tiger Woods is the...
