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Friday Funny January 23, 2015 A Triple Header of Jokes

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Happy Friday!  Congratulations, you have survived the first month of winter!  To celebrate, here are three jokes chosen especially for you.

Enjoy!

Lord of the Rings Pinball

The other day I was walking by an arcade and it occurred to me that I had not been in an arcade for quite some time.  I went inside and as I was looking around I noticed a “Lord of the Rings” pinball game.  I used to enjoy an occasional game of pinball and I like the “Lord of the Rings”, so I thought “why not?”  I usually do not carry much change, but I checked my pockets and was quite pleased when I discovered three shiny quarters, so I figured I was all set.  Well you can imagine my disappointment when I approached the machine only to discover that my quartets were of no use, this machine did not accept quarters, only Tolkens. 

Richard the Pourer

Many years ago there was once a royal baker who had an assistant, named Richard, whose sole job was to pour the dough mixture for making sausage rolls for the royal family who apparently had quite an affinity for sausage.  Because people were identified by their professions in that day, this man was simply known as Richard the Pourer.

As luck would have it, one day Richard ran out of a key ingredient, a secret spice that was essential to the batter. So, he called his young apprentice and dispatched him to town to buy more spices. When the apprentice arrived at the spice merchant’s place of business, he realized that he had, unfortunately, forgotten the name of the essential ingredient. Hoping that the storekeeper might be able to figure it out, he described it to him saying,

“You know, it’s the one for the royal family’s sausage rolls, the one used by Richard the Pourer, for batter for wurst.”

 Birds of a Feather

There was once a man who was very happily married, he had only one complaint about his wife: she was always nursing sick birds.  One very cold February evening, he came home from a hard day at work only to find a raven with a splint on its wing sitting in his favorite chair.  He went to the dining room and there on the dining room table, instead of dinner, there was a feverish eagle very deliberately pecking at an aspirin.  On he went to the kitchen and there he found his wife comforting a shivering little wren she found out in the snow.

While he had tried to be a patient man, he had now reached his limit.  He very quickly strode over to where his wife had the cold little bird wrapped up in a fluffy towel and erupted.  “I just can’t take it any more!  There is a bird in my chair, a bird on the dining room table and you have another bird here.  This is it! We have got to get rid of all of  all of these #@!##@ birds!”

Before he could finish his rant, his wife held up her hand and cut him off in mid-sentence and in her most soothing, most sincere voice she said.  “Please, Dear, watch your language in front of the chilled wren.”

 Thought for the Week

If things go wrong, don’t go with them ~ Roger Babson

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Friday Funny January 16, 2015 LIVING IN 2015

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Happy Friday!  We are halfway through this first month of the New Year.  As we continue to get settled into this year, I thought I would share some of the signs of living in 2015.

Enjoy!

You know you are living in 2015 when……

1. You just entered your PIN on the microwave.

2. You have a list of 20 phone numbers to reach your family of five.

3.  You have more than five email addresses for yourself.

4. You regularly send email to yourself.

5. You only communicate by Facebook with your friend who works in the adjacent cubicle.

6. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they are not on Facebook or Twitter.

7.  You know more about what is going on with Facebook friends you have not seen in twenty or thirty years than you do with your own family.

8.  You have scores of “friends” that you have never met personally.

9. If someone asks you for your home phone number, you have to scroll down on your cell phone to find it.

10. If you leave without your cell phone,  you go into a panic and wonder how you will make it through the day.

11. You stop to look at something in the store and your spouse keeps going and you call him/her on your cell phone to find out where he/she is.

12.  You text your kids to tell them dinner is ready.

13. Your have your resume in “the cloud.”

14. Your take pictures all the time, but you have no idea where your camera is.

15.  Contractors out number permanent staff at work and have been there longer than most of the staff.

16.  When you left for your last vacation, between your cell phone, GPS and tablet, you had more computer power than NASA had during the Apollo moon missions.

17.  You can’t remember the last time you received a hand-written letter in the mail.

18.  Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your new-born so she can create a screen saver.

19.  You have not looked up a phone number in the phone book for years.

20.  You can’t remember your anniversary, but you have committed twenty-seven passwords to memory.

21.  You start tilting your head sideways to smile. 🙂

22.  You find something very amusing but instead of laughing you say, “LOL!, LOL!”

23. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.

24. As you read this list, you think about posting it on Facebook or re-blogging it.

25. As you read this list, you keep saying to yourself, “LOL. LOL”

Thought for the Week

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.  ~Paul Valery

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Friday Funny January 9, 2015 It Is So Cold

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Happy Friday!  This first full week of 2015 has brought cold temperatures to many of us.  We can’t do anything about the weather, but we can laugh about it.

Enjoy!

Jack Frost was nipping at his own nose!

Hitchhikers were holding up signs with pictures of thumbs!

Chickens were lining up at KFC and asking to be put in the pressure cooker!

I tried to buy “Icy Hot” but I only found “Icy”!

The only things cannibals were eating was a cold shoulder!

To help me with me my cold, I had a block of chicken soup!

The barbershop was doing a booming business in thermal hairpieces!

We went ice-fishing in the bathtub!

The winner of the ice sculpture contest was disqualified when it was discovered he WAS the ice sculpture!

Kids were telling the most outrageous lies – hoping their pants might catch on fire!

It took me two hours to walk one block – my shadow kept freezing to the sidewalk!

The lights in my house only come on if I open the door!

Every kind of cereal in the cupboard is FROSTED!

I saw an Amish man buying an electric blanket!

The last time he was seen, Smokey the Bear had grabbed a box of matches and was seen running into the woods!

I was shivering more than a mobster at an IRS audit!

Apple just introduced the iParka.

Politicians were putting their hand in their own pockets!

Thought for the Week 

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember, written by Delmer Daves, Donald Ogden Stewart, Leo McCarey, and Mildred Cram

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Friday Funny January 2, 2015 New Year’s Resolutions

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Happy Friday!  Today brings a brand new year!  Happy 2015!  I want to wish you and yours a Happy New Year and hope that 2015 will be filled with happiness and blessings for you.  And just in case you have had difficulty making a New Year’s Resolution, here are some suggestions for you to choose from.

Enjoy!

I resolve to be more decisive, maybe.

I resolve to have a password other than “password.”

I resolve to conserve energy by spending more time laying on the couch.

I resolve not to text a family member while we are both in the same room.

I resolve to limit myself to seventeen e-mail addresses.

I resolve to stop sending e-mails to myself unless absolutely necessary.

I resolve to chat with my spouse live instead of on Facebook.

I resolve to not say, “LOL… LOL!” out loud when I hear something funny.

I resolve to balance my checkbook — on my nose.

I resolve to be an optimist, forget that, I don’t think I can keep it.

I resolve to watch more TV, if I am paying for 250 channels, then by golly I need to watch 250 channels.

I resolve to learn how to program the VCR I purchased in 1998.

I resolve to get ready for Y2K.

 I resolve to figure out where Waldo is.

Thought for the Week

Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ~Quoted in Benjamin Franklin’s 1755 Poor Richard’s Almanac, December (quoteinvestigator.com)

Friday Funny December 26, 2014 Fruit Cake

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This Friday Funny greets the day after Christmas.  The presents have all been opened and a lot of goodies have been eaten.  All that remains are the leftovers, the returns, the bills, and, for some, the fruit cake.  Perhaps you are a fan of fruit cake, this Friday Funny is not for you.  If you are in the 99.98% that are not fans of fruit cake, read on and enjoy!

Did you know that fruitcake has been around since the time of ancient Rome, some even think that the fruit cakes passed around to today were originally re-gifted in the mid-first century.  Perhaps it is an urban legend, but some people have been rumored to have actually eaten fruitcake, most likely after all of the figgie pudding and mincemeat pies were gone.

We you hear the words “fruit cake,” perhaps it brings to mind an image of fruits and nuts with just enough batter to hold them together. Why eat something that might be healthy like fruits and nuts by themselves when you can take away the nutritional and the taste by adding a little cake batter?

Did you know that if wrapped properly and sealed tightly, a fruitcake may be kept for months or even years?   However, if your fruitcake is older than you are, it is probably time to pass it along or consider burying it at the nearest site that accepts hazardous material.

But, if by chance you want to live on the wild side and get the urge to make your own fruitcake, here are a few basic Fruitcake-Making Tips:

  To prevent over-browning (we wouldn’t want the appearance of our fruitcake to be less appealing than it already is would we?), line the bottom and sides of the pan with foil. If you leave extra foil overlapping the sides, it will make a little carrier that will help you transport it to the trashcan.

  When baking, set the fruitcake pan in a baking pan (13×9-inch) half-filled with water to prevent burning around the edges.  Set the pan in the garbage can and place at the curb.  You might need to check local laws regarding hazardous waste.

  Let fruitcake cool in the pan for about 10 days, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.

  For long-term storage, bury the fruitcake at night at a safe distance at an unmarked location.

If, on the other hand, you find yourself on the receiving end of a fruitcake, here are a few suggestions for what to do with it.

1) Put it in a safe place for ten years, then re-gift.

2) Use ti as a weight to hold down your portable basketball goal, this will help to keep the goal from tipping over during periods of high winds.

3)  If you get two, tie at each end of a study pole and use as a free weight.

4)  If you have pickup truck, you can place fruitcake in the truck bed to add weight for traction in the snow.

5)  Fruitcakes make excellent boundary markers for your driveway or yard during snowy months and the hold their shape no matter how many times you or the snow plow run over them.

6)  If you cannot use it during the winter months, just hang onto it until spring and use as a boat anchor.

Thought for the Week
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time.  Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton

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Friday Funny December 19, 2014 What Not to Buy Women

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Earlier this week, I shared some good tips I found on the Internet for buying gifts for men.   So, on this Friday before Christmas, I thought it only proper, to deal with gifts for women.  While men are extremely easy to shop for, women are extremely difficult to shop for.  Given this, I thought it might be easier to offer some general suggestions on what not to buy.

Enjoy!

Appliances are to be avoided like the plague.  Well pretty much any gift that translates into work (i.e. blender, toaster, vacuum, anything for the house “as seen on TV.”  I have been told that the general rule of thumb is that if it has a plug, don’t buy it.

Cleaning supplies are to avoided like the flu.  If the thought ever crosses your mind to buy a women Tide, Windex, Tidy Bowl just fight it or prepare to spend the rest of your life alone in a house you will have cleaned with those supplies..

Avoid sharp objects like a 24 hour stomach virus.  Ginsu knives may sound really neat and you may look forward to the opportunity to cut a pop can and a tomato with the same knife, but believe me, she will not share your enthusiasm.  Plus she will have a sharp object in her hand while she is upset with you,

Just avoid any gift for yourself that you intend to pass off as a gift for her.  This applies to power tools, sporting event tickets and DVD’s of the Three Stooges.  If you really want it for yourself, but it for yourself, just make sure you buy her something nicer.

Don’t even think of no name perfume like a $3.99 pint of Eu de Paris, which will not remind anyone of France unless it might be the local waste water plant.  If you are going to buy her perfume, at least purchase a brand that both of you have  heard of.

Please, please, please do not give her any type of cubic zirconia jewelry you saw on some shopping network and never, never, never try to pass this off as a real diamond.  The day will come when she will be embarrassed and you will be lucky to have all your teeth.

You will be tempted to buy clothes.  You have gone shopping together, you know think you know what she likes, you know her size.  So, no problem, right?  Wrong! This is a trap!!  Please do not fall for it.  There are three possible outcomes when you but her clothes: a) they do not fit, b) it is the wrong color, c) she just does not like it.

If you want the relationship to last past Christmas Day do not give her a gift certificate to Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem,  or Weight Watchers. Please tell me you already knew this one. 

Never buy a woman anti-wrinkle cream, or anything that is supposed to help her look “younger.”  These gifts may result in serous bodily harm to your person.

If this has eliminated all your gift ideas, just go with a nice pair of earrings.  Happy Shopping!

Thought for the Week

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

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Friday Funny December 12, 2014 Christmas Mondegreens

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Happy Friday!  Christmas is fast approaching and the airwaves are filled with holiday songs.  Perhaps you enjoy singing along with your favorite tunes and carols.  But are you sure you are singing the correct words?  If have found yourself mishearing words to songs, you just might have found a mondegreen.  Here are some amusing Christmas song mondegreens to kick off your weekend.

Enjoy!

Dashing through the snow, on one horse soap and hay…

Round John Virgin, margarine child…

Later on, we’ll perspire, as we drink by the fire…

O tiny bomb, O tiny bomb…

See the grazing mule before us, fa la la la la la la la la…

Good King Wences’ car backed out, on the feet of Steven…

Olive, the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names…

Rudolph, the red-nosed stranger…

He’s makin’ a list, of chicken and rice…

Get dressed, ye married gentlemen…

Chipmunks roasting on an open fire…

Hark, the hairy angels sing…

We three kings, of porridge and tar…

We three kings from Oregon are,  Bearing gifts, we’ve traveled so far …

On the first day of Christmas my tulip gave to me…

Sleep in heavenly peas…

The cattle are lonely….

Thought for the Week

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home. ~Carol Nelson

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Friday Funny December 5, 2014 Santa Jokes

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Happy Friday!  Now that it is December, I thought it was time to break out the Santa Claus jokes.

Enjoy!

What do they call Santa’s helpers? ————————————-Subordinate clauses!

What kind of music do elves like best? —————————————“Wrap” music!

Who sings “Blue Christmas,” and makes Christmas toys? ——- Santa’s little Elvis!

What do you call Santa Clause after he’s fallen into a fireplace?——Krisp Kringle!

What did the Gingerbread Man put on his bed?————————-A cookie sheet!

Where do Santa’s reindeer like to stop for lunch?———————–Deery Queen!

What reindeer has the cleanest antlers?———————————————Comet!

Which of Santa’s reindeer needs to mind his manners the most?——“Rude”olph!

What is the cow’s holiday greeting?———————————-Mooooory Christmas!

What does Santa like to eat?———————————————————–A jolly roll!

What do you call a cat on the beach at Christmas time?——————–Sandy Claus!

What do you call the fear of getting stuck while sliding down a chimney?——————Santa Claus-trophbia!

What does Santa say when he is sick?————————————————–OH OH NO!

Who says Oh! Oh! Oh!—————————————————–Santa walking backwards.

What do you call someone who doesn’t believe in Father Christmas?————————-
A rebel without a Claus.

How much did Santa pay for his sleigh?————————–Nothing, it was on the house.

Did you hear about the dyslexic devil worshiper?—————–He sold his soul to Santa!

The 3 stages of man:

  1. He believes in Santa Claus.
  2. He doesn’t believe in Santa Claus.
  3. He is Santa Claus.

 Thought for the Week

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith

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Friday Funny November 28, 2014 Thanksgiving Movies

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Happy Friday!  I hope you had a great Thanksgiving!  Perhaps you have some extra time on your hands this weekend, you might consider a Thanksgiving-themed movie.  Here are the top ten sure to be at a theater near you.

Enjoy!

10. To Kill A Walking Bird 

9. My Best Friend’s Dressing 

 8. Life of Pumpkin Pi 

7. Casserolablanca

6. The No-Hunger Games 

5. Silence of the Yams

4. The Leftover Parts I, II and III 

3. The Matrix Reheated 

2. Indiana Jones and the Last Casserole 

and the Number 1 Upcoming Thanksgiving-Themed Movie…

1. Harry Potter and the Giblets of Fire

Thought for the Week

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt

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Friday Funny November 14, 2014 Signs Your Not a Kid Anymore

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Happy Friday!  I certainly hope this week finds you doing well.  I must admit from time to time I notice how many years have passed by and that I ain’t as young as I used to be.  Perhaps some days you feel that way too.  Here are some signs that just might indicate you are not a kid anymore.

Enjoy!

Everything hurts and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work.

The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals.

Your little black book contains only names that end in M.D.

You finally reach the top of the ladder and find it leaning against the wrong wall.

Your mind makes contracts your body can’t meet.

You look forward to a dull evening.

Your arms are almost too short to read the newspaper.

Your favorite part of the newspaper is “20 Years Ago Today.” 

You get the newspaper.

You sit in a rocking chair and can’t get it going.

Your knees buckle, and your belt won’t.

Your back goes out more than you do.

The little old gray-haired lady you helped across the street is your wife.

You sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.

You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.

You’re asleep, but others worry that you’re dead.

You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.

You are proud of your lawn mower.

You sing along with the elevator music.

You enjoy hearing about other people’s operations.

You consider coffee one of the most important things in life.

You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.

People call at 9 p.m. and ask, “Did I wake you?”

You have a dream about prunes.

You take a metal detector to the beach.

You wear black socks with sandals.

You know what the word “equity” means.

You get into a heated argument about pension plans.

Your ears are hairier than your head.

You watch the Weather channel.

You know about slide rules (they have nothing to do with the playground).

You used computer punch cards.

Thought for the Week

 Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis

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