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Cats and Video Games

Bret, who knows that Cats are demonic creatures, asks: I want to train my cat to play video games with me. Any ideas?

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Canoeing with Elephants

Wesley Deever of Mount Horeb WI, (former) site of the famous mustard museum, asks: Is it safe to canoe near elephants? If you exercise reasonable caution, these gentle giants can actually enhance your canoeing experience.… 

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Compose Yourself

Terry Whitehead, age 10, of Boulder CO, asks, “which famous composer is most like a bathroom?”

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Dead Elephants Are a Hotter Topic than You Might Guess

A while back I answered someone’s question about whether elephants could stand after death. Well, I didn’t exactly answer it but you know. As it turns out, this is a topic of apparently greater general… 

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The 12% Solution

Al Benbow of Ketchum, Idaho writes: I’ve been trying to figure out what the patent they’re talking about on the label that says that my pork chops may contain up to 12% of a patented… 

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MFAs and Literary Conventions

Why is it that… the most dreadful stories submitted to Stupefying Stories, come from people [with an] MFA in creative writing?

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Legal Recourse (a Halloween story)

Mr. Edgar Mallory woke at noon, hours before he’d intended to rise. It was that damned dog again. He stumped over to the window and scowled down into the neighbors’ yard, and picked up the… 

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