<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Dave Barry</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/barrydave?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><description>Dave Barry</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Laugh]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35015-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35015-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in the life of every writer when he asks himself -- as Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Hemingway all surely asked themselves -- if he has any booger jokes left in him.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Thanks for the Memories]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17687-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17687-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LOOKING BACK ON 2004, we have to conclude that it could have been worse.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Gentleman's Ideal Companion]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17691-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17691-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to convince my wife that we need a dog. I grew up with dogs and am comfortable with their ways. If we're visiting someone's home, and I suddenly experience a sensation of humid warmth, and I look down and see that my right arm has disappeared up to the elbow inside the mouth of a dog the size of a medium horse, I am not alarmed. I know that this is simply how a large, friendly dog says: "Greetings! You have a pleasing salty taste!"]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Off-Color Rift]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A218-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A218-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I thought that, in today's column, I would heal the nation.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Gift Is in the Male]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44760-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44760-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Christmastime is a festive time -- a time of parties and presents and songs that we all love, except for "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," which I, for one, got tired of in approximately 1958, and which now causes me to dislocate my forefinger stabbing the car-radio button.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Agony of da Feet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22965-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22965-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's game night, and the Pinecrest Wolverettes are getting ready.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The News in Briefs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9240-2004Nov24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9240-2004Nov24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Today we have some urgent breaking news, defined as "news that happened at some point in the past year, and we just now found out because we're way behind in our mail."]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gobble This]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54969-2004Nov16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54969-2004Nov16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is that very special holiday when we take a break from our hectic everyday lives to spend quality time with our loved ones, rediscovering all the reasons why we don't actually live with them. But Thanksgiving is also a spiritual time of quiet reflection -- a time when we pause to remember, as generations have remembered before us, that an improperly cooked turkey is -- in the words of the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- "a ticking Meat Bomb of Death."]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Important Heads Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38114-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38114-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I am often criticized for writing immature "bathroom" humor, and not enough about important topics. So, today I'm going to write about a major international event that is going to take place this week in Beijing, China: the World Toilet Summit.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sticky Situation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20234-2004Nov2.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20234-2004Nov2.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[So, my wife and I went to this meeting at our daughter's preschool. The purpose was to give us helpful information about our kindergarten options.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Man's Job]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3442-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3442-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Oh, swell. We have yet another survey showing that men, when compared with women, are scum. Just once, I'd like to see some survey asking questions that would highlight areas where men are more likely to be superior, such as:]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Takin' Care of Gridlock]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46887-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46887-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Our traffic problems are getting worse, according to a recent study by the Institute of Discovering Things That Make You Go "Duh."]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Jargon Is Too Stupid!]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31457-2004Oct14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31457-2004Oct14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Join us now for another rendition of "Ask Mister Language Person," the only grammar column mentioned by name in the Bible, as well as the official grammar column of the American Association of English Teachers in the Staff Lounge Counting the Days Until Retirement.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Vibrations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12293-2004Oct6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12293-2004Oct6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Over the years, I have been harshly critical of the scientific community for wasting time researching things nobody cares about, such as the universe. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of reading newspaper stories like this:]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muscle-Mass Hysteria]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58677-2004Sep29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58677-2004Sep29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I started lifting weights. But not for the reason you think. You think I want to look "cut" and "ripped" and have bulging muscles like the ones on male underwear models, who for some reason are always shown posing outdoors, looking sullen, as if a group of even more-muscular models stole their pants.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys and Flies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45590-2004Sep23.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45590-2004Sep23.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There comes a time when a man must go into the wilderness and face one of mankind's oldest, and most feared, enemies: trout.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Machine Politics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10553-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10553-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pretty soon you, the American voter, will enter the sacred sanctity of the voting booth and cast your ballot for the next U.S. president. Or, not.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Readers Share . . .]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3767-2004Sep7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3767-2004Sep7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When you've been writing a column for as long as I have -- 6 billion years this Tuesday --  you get used to receiving a certain type of letter. It's known, in journalism, as the "I Dare You To Print This!" (IDYTPT for short) letter, because the letter writer challenges you, the columnist, to print the letter, implying you lack the courage.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trying Game]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50656-2004Aug31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50656-2004Aug31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My wife is a sportswriter. This is good and bad.<br> The good part is this: Say I'm lying on the sofa watching pro football, and my team, the Miami Dolphins, has the ball, and it's third and four, a situation in which the Dolphins, after considering all 3,487 of their offensive plays, always...]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dodging Darts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30135-2004Aug24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30135-2004Aug24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave</guid><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 8:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How do you rate yourself as a driver?<br>No, that's a stupid question. You rate yourself above average. It's a well-known fact that all humans consider themselves to be above-average drivers, including primitive Amazonian mud people who have not yet discovered the wheel.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item></channel></rss>