Humor
166 stories
Offering Fine Advice Since 2007 »
On tomboys, spiciness, and the end of the UT-A&M rivalry.
September 2012 by David Courtney
’Night, Mother »
There’s always at least one man in my life: my eight-year-old son, Henry. Sometimes, however, there are two, and that’s when things get complicated.
August 1999 by Spike Gillespie
1999 Bum Steer Awards »
A year of asking-for-it Aggies, badass broccoli, contraband coffee, Death Row decor, extrapolating elephants, faux feet, god-awful gimmickry, humongous heavyweights, incomparable ironers, judicial jimjams, kaput kowtowers, lame-brained liberals, moping millionaires, NASA ninnies, off-putting officials, prize-winning pignappers, quasi-comic quipsters, red-handed rapscallions, scarfable sod, theoretical thongs, ungodly ungulates, vomiting vegetation, wild-eyed window-breakers, xenophobic Xanthippes, Yankee yahoos, and zapped zealots.
January 1999
The 1998 Bum Steer Awards »
A year of altered antlers, bawdy broadcasters, comedian corrections, dining detectives, emancipated emus, fossilized felines, gullible Gore, hemline harassment, insatiable igniters, jazzed-up jewelry, Kay’s kennelwear, lottery loonies, metric madness, numerous nudes, 007 oenophiles, poultry protesters, questionable quizzes, revengeful revenuers, Spam slingers, tie tirades, unallowed uniforms, variant videotapers, warning! water, x-humed x-mascots, yanked Yvonne, and zodiac zombies.
January 1998
’Rithmetic »
The Bum Steers Math Quiz.
January 1998
Revoltin’ »
They’re Politically Incorrect.
January 1998
Retailin’ »
The Bum Steers Gift Guide.
January 1998
Readin’ »
The Bum Steers Bookshelf.
January 1998
Rightin’ »
They’ve Been Politically Corrected.
January 1998
Skip, Not Even a Peek? »
Farrah play. Plus: Remembering the forgotten people.
April 1997
The 1997 Bum Steer Awards »
A year of absent atheists, barbecue bias, College Station Cinderellas, devilish Disney, exiting egrets, far-out fingernails, goatsucker galas, hysterical historians, indoctrinated inmates, junkie joinings, kosher konfusion, loaded lawyers, murderous martinis, naughty Nolan, outvoted orbiters, porcine psychics, quaff quarrels, rapture rifts, senile senators, tackling tarantulas, unconstitutional urine, variable vegetarians, Web site warnings, x-pired x-cursionists, yoicks! YA-HOO!, and zany zoning.
January 1997
Meal Deal »
The Bum Steer Menu
January 1997
Gift Shrift »
The Bum Steer Catalog
January 1997
Fee Spree »
The Bum Steer Law Review
January 1997
Write Lite »
The Bum Steer Bookshelf
January 1997




