reader's digest

question: what are two things that Reader's Digest is best known for?
answer: make people laugh and cry

so i was sitting around my bro's new rented house one afternoon, when i beheld a vision. it was a sight too good to be true: hidden inside an obscure book shelf are stacks and stacks of RD issues some dating as far back as 1981! can you say, "hours and hours of reading time over the sem break?"

how cool is that?

i'm sure all of us still remember RD. in the age of webzines, blogging, and e-books, RDs are a welcome change. and nobody does inspirational stories better than the people who contribute to RD. i know the stigma of a grown man crying is still pretty hard to swallow these days, but what the hey. i cry everytime i read one of those "rekindling the human spirit" mushy stories, it's my achilles' heel. and my, were there many in RDs.

and check out the joke departments! hehehe.

here's one really funny joke from Virtual Hilarity:

Little Girl to Friend: "I'm never going to have babies."
Friend: "Why is that?"
Little Girl: "I hear they take nine months to download."

hahaha.