Triple Confusion There is this very talented group of performing pranksters. First a couple of guys come out and juggle. Then a couple of people come out doing card tricks. Then a guy comes out doing some mentalism. So they end up with three groups of different performers all on at […]
Delicious Dirt
Internal Vs. External Drivers There was this doctor that has always been torn. He was always good at talking to people. Not because he enjoyed it, but because he would always get good results. Positive results based on what the people he was talking to wanted. So he won a scholarship […]
Wormhole Ghosts
Want To Be The Best There was this juggler than wanted to be the best in the world. He reverse engineered from the best jugglers in the world. Eventually his juggling skills surpassed even the best jugglers who had ever lived. But this wasn’t enough. He realized that no matter how […]
Linguistic Donuts
Buy A Girl A Drink? I met this really interesting rich guy in a bar a couple of weeks ago. He likes to give away money, but he makes the potential recipients work for it. What he does is find any group of girls at any club, bar or restaurant. Then the […]
Juggling Hobbies
Food Cult Openings I used to know this guy in my Toastmasters group, a place where you can not only learn public speaking, but meet some pretty fringe type characters. He said he’d joined this kind of food cult, where they had very strict restrictions on what you were allowed to eat. He’d […]
Evil Clown Show
Traveling Circus During the Great Depression, a lot of interesting ideas popped up that didn’t really exist before. A lot of traveling circuses and carnivals became popular. These had been around for hundreds of years, but they kind of became an employer of last resort. If you lost your job, and nobody […]
Juggling Stories and Hot Dogs
Old Friends I have a couple of friends in their late seventies. One of the things they do is take these bus trips. It’s mostly retired people, and they take day trips to these places. I know an old guy in Japan who does the same thing, with his wife. There […]
Juggling Clowns Pork
Hey, Buddy! A friend called me a couple weeks ago. Not a close friend, more of an acquaintance. She said her family was having this huge barbecue party in the park. She said it was for a bunch of different things, but one of the main thing was her daughter’s fifth birthday. […]
Protecting Market Share
Small And Hungry It’s a common phenomenon for small companies with zero market share to take a ton of risk. Since they don’t have anything to lose, and everything to gain, this makes perfect sense. Then as they slowly claw some market share and customers away from other more established, existing companies, they shift slightly. […]
Seduction Trifecta
The Juggler So a couple of weeks ago I was down at my local park. It’s a relatively big park. On the far left side there is a big huge flat cement area where a lot of kids come and do skateboard tricks. On the far right there is a more of a grassy […]