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TBT! The Elf From Hell

This isn’t really a throwback because it’s timely and relevant every year and I intend to keep posting it until all the demented parents stop waging psychological warfare on their young children.

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(12/22/2012) Most of you are familiar with the Elf on the Shelf right?  In the Elf on the Shelf tradition these poorly dressed little plastic elves are mischievous minions of the red suited overlord who spy on the every move of children and report back to their tyrannical leader. That allegedly quai...

Wordless Wednesday! Time Travel Proof?

Ok, it’s not really wordless, but I thought this was funny when I came across it yesterday. Have a great Wednesday! ~Phil

Tagged: humor, The Phil Factor, time travel proof, Wordless Wednesday

A South Floridian’s Guide To Moving North

This is from my blogging friend Christine who actually believes that she’s experiencing winter in the Carolinas! I guess everything is relative. I’ll respond in my post on Saturday!

I'm Sick and So Are You

My people hail from New England. My hand to God, I had an uncle that was a lobsterman and looked just like the Gorton’s fisherman. My stock are a rustic people. I, however, was raised in south Florida because after my parents got married my father said, to hell with this crap, and packed up...

Top Ten Tuesday! Ten Reasons To HATE The Holidays

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You’re a mean one Mister Grinch.  You really are a heel. You’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as an eel, Mister Grinch. You’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel.

Yup, that’s me; King of sarcasm and hater of all things jolly. I’m not saying that there aren’t things to love about the holidays. There are plenty, but c’mon everybody, if we’re truly being honest with ourselves, there are a lot of things to hate about the holidays. Here’s my top ten, and in the spirit of a gift that...

Music Monday: Francis & The Lights Featuring Chance the Rapper

A fun unusual combination that works both musically and in the video. Don’t forget to vote for my book cover in the AllAuthor.com November Cover Contest by clicking HERE. Also, if you haven’t read Time To Lie yet, it’s free on Amazon for Kindle today. Have a great Monday! ~Phil

Tagged: Francis and the Lights, May I have this dance, May I have this dance Chance the Rapper, Music Monday, The Phil Factor

Sarcasm Outlawed? Ron Burgundy To The Rescue!

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Kim Jong Un loves The Phil Factor

Apparently I’ve lapsed in my consumption of North Korean news. I just heard from a comedian on Netflix that last year North Korean leader Kim Jong Un outlawed sarcasm in North Korea because he didn’t want anyone making fun of him. Well, there goes my vacation to the North Korean riviera. How the hell do the police pull someone over for sarcasm?

North Korean Judge: Your client is on trial for sarcasm. How does he plead?

North Korean Lawyer: My client pleads in...

New Books and FREE Books from Amber Cove Pub!

To celebrate today’s new releases of Villains Pride by M.K. Gibson and Esoterrorism by C.T. Phipps, Amber Cove Publishing is offering a bunch of Kindle books for free, today through Sunday!

If you’ve got a Kindle and want to load up on a bunch a great books for free, today is your day! My publisher, Amber Cove Publishing has all the books below for free. Grab a few and try them out. You just might find your new favorite author.

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Time to Lie by Phil Taylor: Yes, it’s my book. It’s a humorous...

Ten Unusual Things I’m Thankful For

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This is another of my annual features that I’ve written since 2005. (Don’t believe me, click this. It’s my Thankful post from 2005 ) I like to do this post every year because it forces me, and hopefully you to think “outside the box.” Then again, who cops to be an inside the box thinker? How would that go at a job interview? “My strengths? Umm…well, I’ve never had an original thought. My ideas are exactly what you’d expect and probably a lot like the bloke you let go. If you need a problem s...

Wordless Wednesday! Sunset on the Gulf

Three weeks ago I was here and now I’m dealing with snow. It’s stuff like this that makes me wish I could travel in time. Have a great Wednesday! Hope you have better weather than I do! ~Phil

Tagged: sunset, sunset on the gulf, The Phil Factor, Wordless Wednesday

Top Ten Tuesday! Ten Things You’ll Wish You Didn’t Know

11. On Thanksgiving every year thirteen people die while reading blogs. OK, I made that one up, but the rest might be true because I read them on the internet.

10. FDA regulations allow 10 insects and 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz of raisins. Yum! Natures candy!

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9. When the sun goes out we will only have eight minutes and nineteen seconds before it gets very, very cold.

8. Your cell phone has more bacteria than your toilet.

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7. The movie Toy Story is full of references to the movie The Shining....