Senior year religion class at my Catholic high school, our Deacon teacher asked, “What are the two words that you should never say to a Jehovah’s Witness? The class was a wasteland of boredom. Figuring, ‘what the Hell,’ I raised my hand and responded, ”Come in.” Dead Silence! You could hear a tumbleweed rolling by.
Just for the record, it’s “Happy Birthday.”
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The teacher announced that to practice spelling, each member of the class would say what their fathers did for a living and then spell the occupation.
Mary went first. “My Dad is a baker, b-a-k-e-r, and if he were here, he would give everyone a cookie.”
Next came Tommy. “My dad is a banker, b-a-n-k-e-r, and if he were here, he’d give each of us a quarter.”
Third came Jimmy. “My dad is an electrician.” But after struggling through a number of attempts to spell the word, the teacher asked him to sit and think about it for a moment while she called on someone else.
She then turned to Johnny. “My dad’s a bookie, b-o-o-k-i-e,” Johnny said. “And if he were here, he’d lay you 8 to 5 that Jimmy ain’t never gonna spell electrician.”
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TEA IS AN EVIL SUBSTANCE
Tea is much more dangerous than beer. Please avoid drinking tea.
I discovered this last night. I drank 15 beers up until 3:00 AM at the pub, while my wife was just drinking tea at home. You should have seen how angry and violent she was when I got home.
I was peaceful and quiet, and headed to bed, but she shouted at me all night long, and into the next morning.
Please ladies, if you can’t handle your tea, just don’t drink it.
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I love it when I leave work early to surprise my wife at home, and she greets me with those three special words.
“Were you fired?”
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When my wife asked, “What’s your favorite position in bed?” I probably shouldn’t have said, “Near the wall so I can use my phone while it’s charging!”
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A woman called 911 complaining of difficulty breathing. The EMTs quickly arrived and placed a sensor on her finger to measure her pulse and blood oxygen. Then they began to gather her information. “What’s your age?” one asked. “Fifty-nine,” the patient answered, eyeing the blinking device on her finger. “What is that thing?” The EMT answered with a straight face, “It’s a lie detector. Now, what is your age?” “Sixty-three,” said the woman, sheepishly.
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The three-year-old emerged from the bathroom smiling. “I brushed my teeth!” she proudly announced. “And then I brushed Wilbur’s.” Her horrified mother explained she shouldn’t have brushed the dog’s teeth and now they’d have to get her a new toothbrush. The next day, the girl asked, “Mommy, why did I need a new toothbrush?” Her mother answered patiently, “Remember? You used your toothbrush to brush the dog’s teeth, so you got a new one.” The youngster replied, “But, Mommy: I didn’t use my toothbrush on Wilbur’s teeth, I used yours!”
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The fact that jellyfish have survived for 650 million years without a brain, gives hope for a lot of people.
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You reminded me of the three years we did class scheduling for local high schools. We were surprised at the number of students whose fathers were either wielders or diseased.
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Thanx! More fodder (and mudder) for my next wrong usage post. 😳
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Spelling was always a strong suit for me, so I’d take the bookie’s daughter up on those odds for a nice payoff. Besides, if I couldn’t spell Teletype or Bell System, I’d have been DISOWNED. 🙂
The two words not to say to a Jehovah’s Witness are bible scholar, what my brother-in-law is. He speaks, reads, and writes Latin, Hebrew, and Greek. With a simple Email, I could find out what EVERY version of the Bible actually said, and shoot holes in just about every topic. Especially when they stumbled around when the End Times might have started, and I reminded them that at the end of WW1, two Caesars fell – the Russian Czar and the German Kaiser. One beat a hasty retreat, dragging another who was trying to run the maths. Fun people. 😉
And just remember, tea is “a noxious infusion of Oriental leaves containing a high percentage of toxic acids”. That is a direct quote from the fifth Doctor Who, and one of Peter Davison’s few redeeming qualities in the role. (Yes, I have that memorised. I am a true Whoite/Whovian! 😀 )
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Who’s on first? 🙄
BTW: I finally sent Rants’ wife an email, and received today, a long, newsy, gossipy response. She’s busy, quelle surprise, but is open to occasional correspondence 😀 😀
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So, should I have you write her, to ask him “Those little Bradley tanks, those are what you drove, right?”. Just tell me before you send it, because I want to be outside so I can hear his scream of outrage. 😉 (Bradleys are NOT tanks, and insinuating that an Abrams (the REAL tank) and a Bradley (an Infantry Fighting Vehicle) are the same would be like asking a Northside Chicagoan if they’re a White Sox fan. In other words, ask, then HIT THE DECK! 😀 )
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You probably could hear him, all the way from DC. No Thanx!! I’m dumb, but not that dumb! ‘Sides, He still got Grandpa’s 1911A.. 😳
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It ain’t the 1911 that scares me, it’s HIM! I think that boy sucked exhaust fumes and burnt cordite too long, picked up a touch of werewolf. (Set and ….. 😉 )
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Okay, Archon, I’m callin’ ya out. I set you up with a straight line, right out of “Young Frankenstein”, and you don’t pick up on it? Phooey! I say “werewolf” and YOU are supposed to reply “Where wolf?”. Jeez, do I gotta carry ALL the bad jokes all by myself? :p 😀
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I carry all the older ones. They’ve had more time to go bad. 😉
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I think some went bad LONG before you started carrying them. 😉
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I had no idea the Jehovah Witness people don’t celebrate birthdays, or any holidays. How incredibly dull.
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I worked with one in a factory. Nice young guy – but dense. He’d been thoroughly brainwashed. Come a Mother’s Day, The gal behind me asked him what he was doing for his mother.
We worship Jesus! We don’t worship our Mothers
But don’t the Ten Commandments order you to honor thy Father and thy Mother??!…. Uh – uh – I gotta ask my preacher 🙄
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A cult by any other name…
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Hahaha I’ll remember not to drink tea. Favorite position – near the wall! 😜😂Hope you didn’t end up sleeping on the couch! 😆😂😂
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Not for that. The wife and I both have head-colds. If I lie down, my nose plugs up, or runs. If she’s not snoring, her CPAP machine is. The last week, I’ve been getting what little sleep I get, rocked back in the recliner. This too shall pass. Just in time to take her to the hospital for her operation. 😳
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Wait a min…shouldn’t that icon be “award-free”? (not “award free”)
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Uhhh…. By visiting my site, you are awarded the right to read any of my trash, and it doesn’t cost you a cent, peso, lire, euro, kopek, zloty…. That’s what I meant! Yeah! 😉 😀
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I especially had to laugh at the toothbrush story. It reminds me of the time my youngest developed a suspicious nasty bruise on her arm. I confronted the middle daughter, who swore up and down that she did not cause that bruise, so I let the subject drop. A few days later, the middle daughter came to me and admitted that she had pinched her sister – but “I pinched her on the OTHER arm.” 20 years later they’re the best of friends, so all worked out ok.
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Kids will be kids, but all too soon, they become adults. 😀
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