View from the Bleachers | A Humor Blog By Tim Jones

The Joy of Missing Out

TEJ — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:02:07 +0000

For most of my adult life, I've felt over-scheduled with social commitments that I really didn’t want to attend. Sometimes, I make the mistake of saying YES before my brain has fully engaged. That's when you need a last-minute excuse. And that’s the focus of this week’s VFTB.

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An Exclusive Interview with Alexa: The Truth Behind the Voice

TEJ — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:16:04 +0000

I recently had the rare opportunity to sit down with the world’s most overworked digital assistant: Amazon’s Alexa. I wanted to go beyond her polite, preprogrammed responses. Who is Alexa, really? What’s it like answering millions of questions every day? Does she ever just want to tell someone, “Read the instructions, Gary!”?

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AI vs. Zippy 1.0: A Comprehensive Scientific Analysis

TEJ — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:20:07 +0000

Recently, there has been almost nonstop coverage about Artificial Intelligence and how it just might be the most dramatic technological change ever to impact humankind. On the other hand, my cat Zippy is a wonderful kitty. Which got me to pondering: If I could only have one – the cutting-edge marvel of AI or Zippy – which would I choose?

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A Generic Husband’s Apology Letter to His Wife

TEJ — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:36:46 +0000

– As a public service to my male readers, I have crafted a generic apology letter for husbands who are looking for just the right, sensitive words to explain to their wives that they’re sincerely sorry for all their husbandly shortcomings. Guys, feel free to edit this to your specific situation to ensure your wife lets you stop sleeping on the couch for your latest screwup.

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Let’s Eat Grandma – and Other Abominations of the English Language

TEJ — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:08:26 +0000

When constructing a sentence, it’s important to pay attention to proper spelling and punctuation. Take the simple declarative sentence, “Let’s eat, Grandma!” Oh, what a profound difference a missing comma can make. Every day, I browse social media or read emails where someone has catastrophically misspelled a commonly used word, completely butchered a classic truism, or otherwise treated English grammar like a rental car.

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Trump Renames the World

TEJ — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:32:06 +0000

Following an Executive Order that officially renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” – a direct response to being rebuffed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during trade talks – President Donald Trump has announced an ambitious new international initiative: re-branding the entire planet. Leaked documents provided to The New York Times reveal several upcoming cartographic adjustments. Here are a few of them.

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Gerber Adult Baby Food – and Other Epic Marketing Disasters

TEJ — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:09:14 +0000

Most Business marketing experts study successful product launches like the iPhone, the Amazon Echo, or my personal favorite – the wheel. Not me. As one of America’s leading self-proclaimed marketing and brand management experts, I prefer to examine the spectacular, crater-sized smoking holes left in the market by history’s greatest commercial flops.

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Living in a Looney Tunes World

TEJ — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:35:05 +0000

There we were, glaring at each other awkwardly. I had foolishly suggested that my 30-year-old daughter spend an hour watching classic Looney Tunes on YouTube, fondly remembering the Saturday mornings of my youth wrapped in a blanket, eating sugary cereal, and laughing until my ribs ached. I genuinely thought we’d bond over it. I was wrong. Very wrong.

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Warning Signs Your Spouse Might Be a Birder

TEJ — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:44:28 +0000

Is your spouse at risk of turning into a birder? Look for these telltale signs: It may start innocently enough, when your husband points out a hawk circling overhead. Then he purchases a bird feeder. Then before you know it, he’s waking up at 4:15 AM on a Saturday, covered in camo netting, to sit in a swamp, hoping to catch a glimpse of a breeding pair of North American White-Crested Sapsuckers. By then it may be too late to save your marriage.

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Say What? The Hearing-Impaired Game Show Contestant

TEJ — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:20:19 +0000

Wilbur Deffinear is a retired construction worker with really bad hearing. Somehow he ended up on a game show and believe it or not, he did incredibly well.

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