Dave Barry

I frequently get letters from readers asking me to explain how humor works. Of course they don`t ask in exactly those words. Their actual wording is more like: ''Just where...

HERE AT THE BUREAU OF Medical Alarm, we continue to receive shocking new evidence that being human is an extremely dangerous occupation that probably should be prohibited by law. For...

IT`S TIME ONCE AGAIN FOR THE award-winning feature Ask Mr. Language Person. Our first common grammar question is: Q-You never won no award. A-Did so. Q-Did not. A-Did so. Q-Which...

I STARTED AGING RAPIDLY LAST week. Until then, I had been aging steadily at the rate of about one year per year, with a few exceptions, such as during the...

OUR TOPIC TODAY, IN ''THE Sportsperson`s Corner,'' is: Fishing Tips. Call me a masculine stud hombre if you wish, but fishing is in my bloodstream. This was also true of...

I`M SURE THAT BY NOW ALL OF YOU taxpayers have heard the exciting news about how we`re finally going to lick this pesky federal budget deficit. President Bush, reversing a...

RECENTLY-AND I BET THIS has happened to you-I ran out of clean underwear in Los Angeles. So I wandered into the men`s clothing department of an upscale department store, the...

TODAY WE PRESENT THE exciting results of a Scientific Taste Test we ran recently here at the Institute of Scary Foods. This test was inspired by alert consumers Ken Weidner...

MANY, MANY OF YOU HAVE written to me in recent weeks asking the following question: ''Dave, are there any new developments in the field of artificial falcon insemination, and could...

SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ALL the guys in the world except possibly Phil Donahue, I want to say that I am really ticked off about the results of this recent...