JOKES FOR APRIL 1997


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Up Yours!

A man with a bad stomach complaint goes to his doctor and asks him what he can do. The doctor replies that the illness is quite serious but can be cured by inserting a suppository up his anal passage. The man agrees, and so the doctor warns him of the pain, tells him to bend over and shoves the thing way up his behind. The doctor then hands him a second dose and tells him to do the same thing in six hours.

So, the man goes home and later that evening tries to get the second suppository inserted, but he finds that he cannot reach himself properly to obtain the required depth. He calls his wife over and tells her what to do. The wife nods, puts one hand on his shoulder to steady him and with the other shoves the medicine home.

Suddenly the man screams, "DAMN!"

"What's the matter?" asked the wife, "Did I hurt you?"

"No," replies the man, "but I just realised that when the doctor did that, he had BOTD hands on my shoulder!"

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Cruising Along

A depressed young woman was so desperate that she decided to end her life by throwing herself into the ocean. When she went down to the docks, a handsome young sailor noticed her tears, took pity on her, and said, "Look, you've got a lot to live for. I'm off to Europe in the morning, and if you like, I can stow you away on my ship. I'll take good care of you and bring you food every day."

Moving closer, he slipped his arm around her shoulder and added, "I'll keep you happy, and you'll keep me happy."

The girl nodded 'yes.' After all, what did she have to lose? That night, the sailor brought her aboard and hid her in a lifeboat. From then on, every night he brought her three sandwiches and a piece of fruit, and they made passionate love until dawn.

Three weeks later, during a routine search, she was discovered by the captain.

"What are you doing here?" the Captain asked.

"I have an arrangement with one of the sailors," she explained. "He's taking me to Europe, and he's screwing me."

"He sure is, lady," said the Captain. "This is the Staten Island Ferry."

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More Than 50 Ways To Get Rid Of A Blind Date

  1. At dinner, guard your plate with fork and steak knife, so as to give the impression that you'll stab anyone, including the waiter, who reaches for it.
  2. Collect the salt shakers from all of the tables in the restaurant, and balance them in a tower on your table.
  3. Wipe your nose on your date's sleeve. Twice.
  4. Make funny faces at other patrons, then sneer at their reactions.
  5. Repeat every third third word you say say.
  6. Give your claim to fame as being voted "Most Festerous" for your high school yearbook.
  7. Read a newspaper or book during the meal. Ignore your date.
  8. Stare at your date's neck, and grind your teeth audibly.
  9. Twitch spastically. If asked about it, pretend you don't know what they are talking about.
  10. Stand up every five minutes, circle your table with your arms outstretched, and make airplane sounds.
  11. Order a bucket of lard.
  12. Ask for crayons to colour the placemat. This works very well in fancier venues that use linen tablecloths.
  13. Howl and whistle at women’s' legs, especially if you are female.
  14. Recite your dating history. Improvise. Include pets.
  15. Pull out a harmonica and play blues songs when your date begins talking about themselves.
  16. Sacrifice french fries to the great deity, Pomme.
  17. When ordering, inquire whether the restaurant has any live food.
  18. Without asking, eat off your date's plate. Eat more from their plate than they do.
  19. Drool.
  20. Chew with your mouth open, talk with your mouth full and spray crumbs.
  21. Eat everything on your plate within 30 seconds of it being placed in front of you.
  22. Excuse yourself to use the restroom. Go back to the head waiter/hostess and ask for another table in a different part of the restaurant. Order another meal. When your date finally finds you, ask him/her "What in the hell took you so long in the restroom?!?"
  23. Recite graphic limericks to the people at the table next to you.
  24. Ask the people at the neighbouring table for food from their plates.
  25. Beg your date to tattoo your name on their derriere. Keep bringing the subject up.
  26. Ask your date how much money they have with them.
  27. Order for your date. Order something nasty.
  28. Communicate in mime the entire evening.
  29. Upon entering the restaurant, ask for a seat away from the windows, where you have a good view of all exits, and where you can keep your back to the wall. Act nervous.
  30. Lick your plate. Offer to lick theirs.
  31. Hum. Loudly. In monotone.
  32. Fill your pockets with sugar packets, as well as salt and pepper shakers, silverware, floral arrangements... i.e. anything on the table that isn't bolted down.
  33. Hold a debate. Take both sides.
  34. Undress your date verbally. Use a bullhorn.
  35. Auction your date off for silverware.
  36. Slide under the table. Take your plate with you.
  37. Order a baked potato for a side dish. When the waiter brings your food, hide the potato, wait a few minutes, and ask the waiter for the potato you "never got". When the waiter returns with another potato for you, have the first one back up on the plate. Repeat later in the meal.
  38. Order beef tongue. Make lewd comparisons or comments.
  39. Get your date drunk. Talk about their philosophy. Get it on tape, and use good judgement in editing to twist their words around.
  40. Discuss boils and lesions, as if from personal experience.
  41. Speak in Pig Latin throughout the meal (Or ubber-dubber language, or just nonsense).
  42. Take a break, and go into the restroom. When you return to the table, throw a spare pair of underwear on the back of one of the chairs. Insist that they just need airing out.
  43. If they are paying, order the most expensive thing on the menu. Take one bite.
  44. Bring 20 or so candles you, and during the meal get up and arrange them around the table in a circle. Chant.
  45. Save the bones from your meal, and explain that you're taking them home to your invalid, senile old mother, because it's a lot cheaper than actually feeding her.
  46. Order your food by colours and textures. Sculpt.
  47. Take a thermos along, and hide it under the table. Order coffee, and fill the thermos one cup at a time, taking advantage of the free refills.
  48. Insist that the waiter cuts your food into little pieces. In a similar vein, insist that he take a bite of everything on the plate, to make sure no one poisoned it.
  49. Accuse your date of espionage.
  50. Make odd allusions to dangerous religious cults.
  51. Don't use any verbs during the entire meal.
  52. Pass the hat in the restaurant. Use the proceeds (if any) to pay the bill.
  53. Break wind loudly. Add colour commentary. Bow.
  54. Feed imaginary friends, or toy dolls you've brought along.
  55. Bring a bucket along. Explain that you frequently get ill.
  56. Wet yourself and insist you have to sit on your date's lap.
  57. Bring your pet fish "Graham" and drop food or anything you can find on/around the table into the tank whilst singing "yellow submarine"
  58. Remove your date's shoe and eat food from it.
  59. Pretend to be doing everything backwards, including "vomiting" back your food onto your plate.
  60. Scratch your genitals wildly, insist your pubic lice are crawling about.
  61. Establish an alternative religion under the table.
  62. Establish a long conversation with the waiter when he asks if you are ready to order, try not to let him leave under any circumstances If he attempts to leave or cut the conversation short, Blackmail him.

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Top Ten Drug Using Cartoon Suspects

  1. Gargamel
    Most likely on LSD. Spends his life in pursuit of little blue guys in faggy white outfits and mentally abusing his cat. What does he plan to do with the blue dwarfs when he catches them anyway?

  2. Olive Oyl
    Probably Dexatrim abuse, maybe some amphetamines. Who is that skinny? She might even be anorexic, she IS always giving her burger to her friend. One side question, what the hell are Popeye and Brutus thinking? They almost made the list for courting her.

  3. Snagglepuss (Is this even spelled right?)
    Can't explain it. Maybe it's the name, or the look, but he is suspicious.

  4. HeMan
    This is an easy one. I mean c'mon. Roid monkey #1. "BY TDE POWER OF ANABOL!!!!!!" Makes me want to root for Skeletor. Alone in his castle, hitting the weights. And on top of that he even injects the stuff in his tiger. Animal Abuse.

  5. Yogi and Boo Boo
    We all know what is really in those picnic baskets. They go back to the cave and trip.

  6. Droopy
    The number one downer abuser in Toon land. Can't someone slip him an upper every year or two? The only time I ever saw him happy is when he sees the picture of the babe.

  7. Dopey Dwarf
    He openly admits it. The other dwarfs deny involvement but they are investigation. Allegations that Doc is writing some extra prescripts for Sneezy and all the guys are partaking are afloat.

  8. Daffy Duck
    If he isn't using crack, Merion Barry is clean. He is so wired he bounces around on his head without pain. Blows his beak off all the time. Some symptoms might be from "daffiness" but Haladol wouldn't work for him. Might for his buddy with Tourettes, Porky though.

  9. Shaggy
    By far the #1 suspect. His clothes, his hair, his bad goatee, the boy converses with dogs. But all of this is nothing until you go to the Munchie Factor. Anybody who averages 9.3 dog treats consumed per episode does pot. Scooby is guilty by association. And Look at the way him and his friends painted that van!

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Drug Dealers

There are two drug dealers who die and go to heaven. St. Peter is waiting for them at the pearly gates. He asks them to state their profession.

"Drug Dealers" they reply.

Well, St. Peters not sure, they've never had drug dealers in heaven before so he consults his boss.

God has a quick word with the drug dealers, he says "OK, we've never allowed dealers in here before but I'm willing to give you guys a chance. I'm going to send you back down to earth for a week and you've got to try to get as many people off drugs as possible. If you do well enough, you're in."

He then hand the dealers two metal rings each, one small one and one large one.

He says "Take these rings with you and see if they help you in any way"

A week passes and the dealers are back at the pearly gates looking pleased with themselves.

God says to the first one "How did you do?"

The first dealer says "Well I managed to get 92 people off drugs"

God replies "Wow, in one week that’s very good. How did you do it?"

The dealer says "Well first I showed them the large ring and said 'this is the size of your brain now'. And then I showed them the small ring and said 'This will be the size of your brain if you keep using drugs'. Seeing that most of them quit straight away."

God said "That's very good 92 people is only one week!"

Then he turns to the second dealer and asks "How about you?"

The second dealer replies "I got 4597 people off drugs in a week."

God looks amazed "How?"

The dealer smiles and says "Well I used a similar technique, but I used the rings differently. I showed them the small ring first and said 'That's the size of your asshole BEFORE you go into prison......'"

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Something To Sneeze At

A man and a woman are riding next to each other in first class. The man sneezes, pulls out his dick and wipes the tip off. The woman can't believe what she just saw and decides she is hallucinating.

A few minutes pass. The man sneezes again. He pulls out his dick and wipes the tip off. The woman is about to go nuts. She can't believe that such a rude person exists. A few minutes pass. The man sneezes yet again. He takes his dick out and wipes the tip off.

The woman has finally had enough. She turns to the man and says, "Three times you've sneezed, and three times you've removed your penis from your pants to wipe it off! What the hell kind of degenerate are you?"

The man replies, "I am sorry to have disturbed you, ma'am. I have a very rare condition such that when I sneeze, I have an orgasm."

The woman then says, "Oh, how strange. What are you taking for it?"

The man looks at her and says, "Pepper."

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Questions Of Life

  1. If you throw a cat out a car window does it become kitty litter?
  2. If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?
  3. If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex in the box?
  4. When a cow laughs does milk come up its nose?
  5. Why do they put Braille on the number pads of drive-through bank machines?
  6. How did a fool and his money GET together?
  7. If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they stick Teflon on the pan?
  8. How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?
  9. If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
  10. What's another word for thesaurus?
  11. Why do they sterilise the needles for lethal injections?
  12. What do they use to ship Styrofoam?
  13. Why is abbreviation such a long word?
  14. Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container?
  15. Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
  16. How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes?
  17. Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
  18. Does 'virgin wool' come from sheep the shepherd hasn't caught yet?
  19. When you choke a Smurf, what colour does it turn?
  20. Does fuzzy logic tickle?

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Fishing Buddies

There were two old men, they were friends for life. They loved to fish, and they did it very often.

One day one man said to the other, "We have been friends for life, so I feel that I can ask you anything and you won't be offended."

The other gentleman said, "You're right, what is it that you would like to ask me?"

The first man said, "What do you see in your wife? She's fat, smelly, and has got to be the ugliest woman I have ever seen. Is it that she gives ya good sex?"

The second man says, "Oh Hell no, I wouldn't have sex with her... She's got Gonorrhoea!"

The first man says, "GONORRHOEA! Yuck, well she's fat & ugly and has Gonorrhoea... what do ya see in her? Does she give good head?"

The second man cringes as he says, "Hell no, she's got Piarrhoea! I don't want head from her."

The first man says, "Piarrhoea! Good God almighty, you say she's got Gonorrhoea & Piarrhoea... and she's fat & ugly?" He sits back and casts out a few more times. "Well I gotta know, what is it? Do you like anal sex?"

The second man has a look of astonishment on his face, "There is no way I'm having anal sex with her, She's got Diarrhoea!"

The first man says, " Diarrhoea, Piarrhoea, & Gonorrhoea? That's down right sick! What DO you see in her?"

The second man says, "Well we have been fishing here for many years and I always catch the most fish... that's because she has got some good worms too!"

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Elvis, Liberace and John Belushi

Elvis, Liberace and John Belushi are sitting around in Heaven bored out of their heavenly minds. They go to Gabriel and ask if there's any way they can get out. Apprehensively, he agrees to let them return to Earth for a short while, telling them that if they even *think* of committing a sin, they'll go straight to Hell.

So, zap, they're back on Hollywood Boulevard. As they're walking, Elvis sees a bar. He heads towards the door and the moment he touches it, poof!, he's gone. The other two realise that Gabriel was serious.

A little while later, John Belushi sees a little packet of white powder lying in the gutter. He thinks for a moment, bends over to pick it up and poof! Liberace disappears.

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Rodman's Rod

A woman is picked up by Dennis Rodman in a bar. They like each other and she goes back with him to his hotel room. He removes his shirt revealing all his tattoos and she sees that on his arm is one which reads, "Reebok". She thinks that's a bit odd and asks him about it. Dennis says, "When I play basketball, the cameras pick up the tattoo and Reebok pays me for advertisement." A bit later, his pants are off and she sees "Puma" tattooed on his leg. He gives the same explanation for the unusual tattoo. Finally, the underwear comes off and she sees the word "AIDS" tattooed on his penis. She jumps back with shock.

"I'm not going to do it with a guy who has AIDS!"

He says, "It's cool baby, in a minute it's going to say "ADIDAS".

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The Life Saver

A woman goes into a restaurant in a small southern town out in the country.

She orders the chicken and starts to eat. Eating too fast she starts to choke on a chicken bone. Well these two country boys in the next booth notice she is choking so they get up and go over to help her.

The first country boy drops his coveralls and bends over and the second country boy starts licking his butt. The woman watches these two go at it and is grossed out. She pukes all over the place dislodging the chicken bone from her throat. The country boy pulls his overalls back up and says to the other, "You're right Leroy, that 'hind-lick' manoeuvre works like a charm".

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Top 15 Signs You Forgot Someone On Secretaries Day

  1. Phone messages delivered on end of spear.
  2. Your important dictation somehow seems to blah blah blah I am a slavedriving cheapskate.
  3. A copy of the latest bestseller "So, Your Head's Up Your Ass, Now What?" appears on your desk.
  4. When did FTD start doing an "Up Yours" Bouquet?
  5. First, a message that Cindy Crawford is on line 2, followed a few seconds later by Satanic laughter.
  6. It's not so much the cold coffee, it's the staples at the bottom of the cup.
  7. Your big business dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant in Manhattan is rescheduled for Big Jeb's 24-Hour Truck Stop outside of Newark.
  8. Nude picture of Marlon Brando pops up in your Powerpoint presentation.
  9. Supposedly shredded Whitewater documents turn up in the Washington Post cafeteria.
  10. Now answers the phone, "Smith, Jones and Tightass."
  11. That NY-to-LA trip she booked for you now involves six plane changes, a 12-hour layover in Guam and a personal appearance on Ricki Lake's "I'm A Selfish Pig" episode.
  12. Newly-typed org chart lists your position as "Head Up His Ass."
  13. Your computer's mouse has been replaced by an electro-genital shock device.
  14. While admittedly funnier than usual, daily Top 5 list she forwards you contains 15 identical "You suck!" entries.
  15. Expense report you don't recall submitting comes back with denied charges for "beer & hookers."

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Walking Tall

A recent Scottish immigrant attends his first baseball game in his new country and after a base hit he hears the fans roaring run, run! The next batter connects heavily with the ball and the Scotsman stands up and roars with the crowd in his thick accent: "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-run will ya!" A third batter slams a hit and again the Scotsman, obviously pleased with his knowledge of the game, screams "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-r-run will ya!" The next batter held his swing at three and two and as the ump calls a walk the Scotsman stands up yelling "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-r-run!" All the surrounding fans giggle quietly and he sits down confused. A friendly fan, sensing his embarrassment whispers, "He doesn't have to run, he's got four balls." After this explanation the Scotsman stands up in disbelief and screams, "Walk with pr-r-ride man!"

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Starting A Cat Ranch

Knowing how frequently the financial struggle can get to all of us - starting a new job, school loans, daily bills, etc. - I thought you might be interested in an opportunity to make quite a bit of money with very little investment.

I spoke with my Podiatry friend Bruce Wellmon in Gaffney, SC, and the two of us are considering investing in a fairly large cat ranch, not too far from Gaffney. We think we should start small, with about one million cats. Each cat averages about 12 kittens per year; skins can be sold for about 20¢ for the white ones and up to 40¢ for the black ones. No, forget about the multicoloured. This will give us about 12 million cat skins per year to sell at an average price of around 33¢. This makes our gross revenues about $3 million per year, which averages out to about $10,000 a day, excluding Sundays & holidays.

A good cat man can skin about 50 cats per day, at a daily wage of $3.15. (Remember - we're in the northern part of South Carolina. In Charleston it's 2.97!) It will take only 663 men to operate the ranch, so the net profit would be over $8,200 per day.

Now the cats would be fed on rats exclusively. Rats multiply four times faster than cats. So to save transportation costs for feed we would start a rat ranch adjacent to the cat ranch. If we start with a million rats, we would have four rats per day for each cat. The rats will be fed on the carcasses of the cats that we skin. This will give each rat a quarter of a cat. You can see that this business is a clean operation, self-supporting and really automatic throughout. The cats will eat the rats, the rats will eat the cats, and we get the skins.

Eventually, it is my hope to cross the cats with snakes, for they will skin themselves twice a year. This will save the labour costs of skinning, as well as give us two skins for one cat. Better than twice the profit!

Let me know if you're interested. As you can imagine, we are rather particular as to with whom we're willing to "share the skin"; we want the fewest investors possible.

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Golf Injury

A couple of women were playing golf one sunny afternoon. The first of the twosome teed off and watched in horror as the ball headed directly toward a foursome of men playing the next hole.

Sure enough, the ball hit one of the guys, and he immediately clasped his hands together at his crotch, fell to the ground, and proceeded to roll around in agony. The woman rushed over and immediately began to apologise.

She then explained that she was a physical therapist and offered to help ease his pain. "Ummph, ooh, nnooo, I'll be alright... I'll be fine in a few minutes", he replied as he remained in the fetal position still clasping his hands together at his crotch. But she persisted, and he finally allowed her to help him. She gently took his hands away and laid them to the side, loosened his pants and put her hands inside, beginning to massage him.

"Does that feel better?", she asked.

"Ohhh, Yeah....It feels *really* great", he replied, "But my thumb still hurts like hell!"

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Blonde Flood Of Stupidity

A blonde woman is driving along a country road out in rolling hills of the Midwest when she sees some movement off in the distance. As she gets closer, she realises that it is another blonde woman in a rowboat in the middle of a field rowing the boat like crazy.

She stops her car at the side of the road and gets out. She yells out to the blonde in the rowboat, "What the hell are you doing?"

The blonde in the boat, obviously flustered, yells back, "I have got to hurry up and get home in time for dinner or I will be in real trouble!"

The blonde at the side of the road is aggravated. "I can't believe this! You are out in the middle of a field in a row boat! It is blondes like you that give blondes like me a bad name! In fact, if I could swim, I would swim out there and kick your butt!"

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You Might Be A Child Of The 80's If...

  1. You have deep, personal relationships via computers with people you've never met in real life before.
  2. You know, by heart, the words to any "Weird" Al Yankovic song.
  3. The Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories.
  4. You remember the first time "Space: Above and Beyond" aired - it was called "Battlestar Galactica".
  5. Songs by Debbie Gibson still haunt you to this day.
  6. You ever owned a pair of "Pop-Wheels" - that handy little combination of shoe and roller skate that lasted about a year on the open market.
  7. A predominant colour in your childhood photos is "plaid".
  8. You see teenagers today wearing clothes that show up in those childhood photos, and they still look bad.
  9. You remember when music that was labelled "alternative" really was.
  10. You were shocked and horrified at the Challenger explosion (which you were probably watching in school at the time), and yet, when someone mentions the name "JFK", the first thing you think of is "Oliver Stone".
  11. You can't remember when the word "networking" didn't have a computer connotation to it as well.
  12. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
  13. You knew all the words to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire", but it really didn't hold any meaning for you until about the third verse.
  14. You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases:
    a. "When I was younger"
    b. "When I was your age"
    c. "You know, back when..."
    d. "Because I SAID so, that's why"
    e. "What the HELL is this noise on the radio?"
    f. "Just can't (fill in the blank) like I used to"
  15. You can't remember a time when "going out for coffee" DIDN'T involve 49,000 selections to choose from.
  16. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
  17. Kids that work in restaurants and supermarkets are calling you "Sir" or "Ma'am".
  18. You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing, and you're ready to marry the next person who cards you when you want to buy cigarettes.
  19. The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance fell during "Crazy for You" by Madonna.
  20. You used to hold in your head the thought that all those gold chains on Mr. T actually looked kinda cool and the thought that Mr. T made millions seemed rational to you at the time.
  21. You read the "Hot Video Games Player's Secrets" guide for Mortal Kombat just so you could find the hidden screen, and play Pong again for old time's sake.
  22. You ever had nightmares about the giant red evil robot Maximillian from the Disney movie "The Black Hole" and those blender attachments he had for hands.
  23. You were convinced for years that Batman was a mildly overweight man with a moderate beer belly who wore his underwear outside of his clothes and talked strangely.
  24. You thought Sean Cassidy was "dreamy", lusted after "Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat and Chachi, or, to keep it fair to the comically interested, thought Fred was just a hunk on Scooby Doo.
  25. You're starting to dread you're 30th birthday, and have even begun going into denial about it's possibility.
  26. You've ever said "I'm a vegetarian" and immediately had someone call you a hypocrite by saying "Nice leather jacket you have here...and gee, is that a suede bag...those shoes leather, too?"
  27. You're starting to believe that maybe 30 isn't so old after all, and it's those people over 40 you have to look out for you freaked out when you found that you now fall into the "26 - 50" age category on most questionnaires.
  28. You have begun to lust after women (or men) that it would be socially inappropriate for you to date due to their age.
  29. Your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something which can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting".
  30. This timeline appropriately describes actual events in your life: Star Wars opens, you are still in single digit ages, and you think the creatures are WAY cool. Empire Strikes Back opens, you are now in early double digit ages, and you are convinced that the special effects are much better, the characters are cool, and you want one of every collectible out there. Return of the Jedi hits the theatres...you are now a teenager, you fantasise forever and ever about it, and send off to join every fan club for them on the planet, hanging posters, photos, and teen magazine spreads all over your walls and lockers at school.
  31. You've ever shopped at a Banana Republic or Benetton, but not in the last five years, okay?
  32. You're doing absolutely nothing with anything pertaining to your major degree.
  33. Going to keg parties no longer involves hiding out in the woods when the cops show up.
  34. You're starting to think that Corvettes really look good, and aren't REALLY for guy's going through a mid-life crisis. That's not YOU.
  35. You're starting to get that "why aren't you married yet" spiel, not just from parents, but now from friends that are married.
  36. You've recently horrified yourself by groaning as you get out of bed, not because of a hangover, but because it genuinely just hurt to do so.
  37. You're finding that you just don't understand more than half the lingo used on MTV anymore.
  38. You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon.
  39. U2 is too "popular" and "mainstream" for you now.
  40. When someone mentions two consecutive days of the week, the Happy Days theme is stuck in your head for hours on end.
  41. You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man.
  42. You know who shot J.R.
  43. Your first wet dream occurred to thoughts of Jeannie, Marsha Brady, Samantha from Bewitched or, for those hardcore comic fans out there, Daphne from Scooby Doo, Josie or any one of her Pussycats.
  44. You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar.
  45. You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle for second hand reports.
  46. You remember when there was only "G, PG and R", none of this R(A) crap.
  47. You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.
  48. You ever actually tried to turn on a jukebox by hitting it twice and saying "heeey".

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Standard Dumping Form (For Guys)

If you're like me (and I know you are), you probably date quite a bit, and also like me, you find blowing off a chick the most difficult part of the dating process. After a second or perhaps third date that we know didn't go at all well, the closest we ever come to telling a chick it's over is to look her straight in the eye and say, "I'll call you next week." Of course, we have no intention of calling her and we may even feel a slight twinge of guilt.

But I have discovered a great way to blow a chick off. It's safe. It's affordable, and the best thing is the chick has noopportunity to throw things at you. And it's at your fingertips right now.

E-mail.

That's how all the happening, 90's kind of guys are telling chicks they're not worthy. You'll feel like a real man knowing you have told her how you really feel from the safety of your keyboard.

And you can delete her response without ever reading it. What could be more painless?

I have drafted the enclosed Email rejection letter and invite you to use it the next time you need to put your main squeeze on waivers.

The text of the letter follows. Hope it comes in handy.

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The Top 15 Changes In England Under A Non-Conservative Parliament

  1. New head of British Intelligence? Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery.
  2. Scandal-plagued Windsors removed from throne, replaced by scandal-plagued Kennedys.
  3. Emma Thompson forced to return to her natural hair colour.
  4. Driving on either side of the street now okay, if you know what I mean.
  5. Judges allowed to exchange wimpy white wigs for Dennis Rodman model.
  6. Steak & Kidney Pie replaced by Summer Vegetables & Kidney Pie.
  7. Beer will now be served cold, like God intended.
  8. Raisins added to gruel in school lunches.
  9. Maggie Thatcher "Swimsuit" Edition shower-curtains finally removed from Parliament locker-rooms.
  10. Secret plan to assassinate Spice Girls gets postponed indefinitely.
  11. Time to do a little downsizing on Prince Charles' ears.
  12. Government loan to Ringo to head off slide into Psychic Hotline commercials.
  13. Musicians union forced to admit Linda McCartney.
  14. Major cutbacks to their *BIIIG* SCAAARY ARMY!!!
  15. Massive infrastructure project begun on citizens' teeth.

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Dr. Seuss' Lesser-Known Books

  1. The Cat in the Blender.
  2. Are You My Proctologist?
  3. Fox in Detox.
  4. Who Shat in the Hat?
  5. Horton Feels a Ho.
  6. The Lemon-Fresh Lorax.
  7. How the Grinch Stole Columbus Day.
  8. Your Colon Can Moo---Can You?
  9. Zippy the Rabid Gerbil.
  10. One Bitch, Two Bitch, Dead Bitch, Blue Bitch.
  11. Marvin K. Mooney, Get the F*** Out!
  12. Herbert the Pervert Likes Sherbert.
  13. The Bitch Set Me Up.
  14. I've Fallen---And I Can't Get Up!
  15. Yentl the Lentil.
  16. My Pocket Rocket Needs A Socket.
  17. Aunts in My Pants.
  18. Hop On Mom.
  19. Oh, the Place You'll Scratch and Sniff!
  20. Horton Fakes an Orgasm.
  21. The Grinch's Ten Inch.

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The Top 15 Signs You Have A Gambling Problem

  1. Your attempt to sweet-talk your wife by comparing her eyes to "two oranges and a cherry" fails dismally.
  2. Who knew you'd lose your shirt betting Bruce would go bald before Demi?
  3. It's not that you bet on the Australians to win; it's that you bet on the America's Cup in the first place!
  4. You wagered against Ellen being gay... Double or nothing on Wolfe Blitzer!
  5. Caesar's Palace sends a limo to pick you up - and you live in Rushville, Indiana.
  6. Although uncredited, you were in more scenes of "Leaving Las Vegas" than Nicolas Cage.
  7. Strong desire to have sex with Keith Richards and/or Courtney Love.
  8. Every night during "Wheel of Fortune," you scream, "Screw the vowels, spin the damn wheel!!"
  9. You bet "yes" on whether or not your suicide attempt will be successful.
  10. Every year you have to get a goofy haircut because you lose the bet about being elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  11. You're the proud inventor of a do-it-yourself gold filling extractor.
  12. When your 12-year old complains about conditions in the mines, you retort, "Try slaving over a hot craps table all day, kid!"
  13. That stack of lottery tickets in your shirt pocket is thick enough to stop a bullet.
  14. Donald's newest casino: The Trump Taj McLarry. Your name: Larry.
  15. When someone spins a lazy Susan, you slap a C-note on the counter and yell, "Creamed corn, baby, come on!"

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University Courses For Men

Once again, the female staff at Whatsamatta University will be offering courses for men of all marital status in an attempt to help males and females understand each other better. Attendance in at least 10 of the following is required.

  1. Combating Stupidity.
  2. You Too Can Do Housework.
  3. PMS - Learn When To Keep Your Mouth Shut.
  4. How To Properly Fill An Ice Tray.
  5. We Do Not Want Sleazy Underwear For Christmas (Just Give Us Credit Cards).
  6. Understanding The Female Response To Coming Home Drunk At 4:00am.
  7. Wonderful Laundry Techniques (formerly called "Don't Wash My Silks").
  8. Parenting Roles Beyond Initial Conception.
  9. Get A Life - Learn To Cook.
  10. How Not To Act Like An Asshole When You Are Obviously Wrong.
  11. Spelling - Even You Can Get It Right.
  12. Understanding Your Financial Incompetence.
  13. You, The Weaker Sex.
  14. Reasons To Give Flowers.
  15. How To Stay Awake After Sex.
  16. Why It Is Unacceptable To Relieve Yourself Anywhere Except In The Bathroom.
  17. Garbage - Getting It To The Curb.
  18. You Really Can Fall Asleep Without Doing It, If You Really Try.
  19. The Morning Dilemma - If It's Awake In The Morning, Take A Cold Shower.
  20. You Cannot Always Wear Whatever You Damn Well Please.
  21. How To Put Down A Toilet Seat (formerly called "No It's Not A Bidet").
  22. Give Me A Break - Why We Know Your Excuses Are Often Bullshit.
  23. How To Go Shopping With Your Mate Without Getting Lost.
  24. The Remote Control - Overcoming Your Dependency.
  25. Romanticism - Other Ideas Beyond Sex.
  26. Helpful Posture Hints For Couch Potatoes.
  27. Mother-in-Laws Are People Too.
  28. The Weekend And Sports Are Not Synonymous.
  29. How Not To Act Younger Than Your Children.
  30. You Too Can Be A Designated Driver.
  31. Male Bonding: Leave Your Friends At Home.
  32. You Don't Look Like Mel Gibson, Especially When Naked.
  33. Changing Your Underwear - It Really Works!
  34. Attainable Goal - Omitting Foul Expletives From Your Vocabulary.
  35. Fluffing The Blankets After Farting Is Not Necessary.
  36. You Don't Really Need That Porsche After Thinning Hair And Mid-Life Crisis.
  37. How To Tolerate Bras And Pantyhose Hanging In The Bathroom.

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Toasters : The Next Generation

Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"

One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?" The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as the index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up the toast. Come back next week, and I'll show you a working prototype."

The second advisor, a computer scientist, immediately recognised the danger of such short-sighted thinking. He said, "Toasters don't just turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm frozen waffles. What you see before you is really a breakfast food cooker. As the subjects of your kingdom become more sophisticated, they will demand more capabilities. They will need a breakfast food cooker that can also cook sausage, fry bacon, and make scrambled eggs. A toaster that only makes toast will soon be obsolete. If we don't look to the future, we will have to completely redesign the toaster in just a few years."

"With this in mind, we can formulate a more intelligent solution to the problem. First, create a class of breakfast foods. Specialise this class into subclasses: grains, pork, and poultry. The specialisation process should be repeated with grains divided into toast, muffins, pancakes, and waffles; pork divided into sausage, links, and bacon; and poultry divided into scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs, and various omelette classes."

"The ham and cheese omelette class is worth special attention because it must inherit characteristics from the pork, dairy, and poultry classes. Thus, we see that the problem cannot be properly solved without multiple inheritance. At run time, the program must create the proper object and send a message to the object that says, 'Cook yourself.' The semantics of this message depend, of course, on the kind of object, so they have a different meaning to a piece of toast than to scrambled eggs."

"Reviewing the process so far, we see that the analysis phase has revealed that the primary requirement is to cook any kind of breakfast food. In the design phase, we have discovered some derived requirements. Specifically, we need an object-oriented language with multiple inheritance. Of course, users don't want the eggs to get cold while the bacon is frying, so concurrent processing is required, too."

"We must not forget the user interface. The lever that lowers the food lacks versatility, and the darkness knob is confusing. Users won't buy the product unless it has a user-friendly, graphical interface. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users click on it, and the message 'Booting UNIX v. 8.3' appears on the screen. (UNIX 8.3 should be out by the time the product gets to the market.) Users can pull down a menu and click on the foods they want to cook."

"Having made the wise decision of specifying the software first in the design phase, all that remains is to pick an adequate hardware platform for the implementation phase. An Intel 80386 with 8MB of memory, a 30MB hard disk, and a VGA monitor should be sufficient. If you select a multitasking, object oriented language that supports multiple inheritance and has a built-in GUI, writing the program will be a snap. (Imagine the difficulty we would have had if we had foolishly allowed a hardware-first design strategy to lock us into a four-bit microcontroller!)."

The king wisely had the computer scientist beheaded, and they all lived happily ever after.

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How Not To Die : The Dumbest Deaths In Recorded History

  1. Attila the Hun:

    One of the most notorious villains in history, Attila's army had conquered all of Asia by 450 AD--from Mongolia to the edge of the Russian Empire--by destroying villages and pillaging the countryside.

    How he died: He got a nosebleed on his wedding night.

    In 453 AD, Attila married a young girl named Ildico. Despite his reputation for ferocity on the battlefield, he tended to eat and drink lightly during large banquets. On his wedding night, however, he really cut loose, gorging himself on food and drink. Sometime during the night he suffered a nosebleed, but was too drunk to notice. He drowned in his own blood and was found dead the next morning.

  2. Tycho Brahe:

    An important Danish astronomer of the 16th century. His ground breaking research allowed Sir Isaac Newton to come up with the theory of gravity.

    How he died: Didn't get to the bathroom in time.

    In the 16th century, it was considered an insult to leave a banquet table before the meal was over. Brahe, known to drink excessively, had a bladder condition -- but failed to relieve himself before the banquet started. He made matters worse by drinking too much at dinner, and was too polite to ask to be excused. His bladder finally burst, killing him slowly and painfully over the next 11 days.

  3. Horace Wells:

    Pioneered the use of anaesthesia in the 1840s.

    How he died: Used anaesthetics to commit suicide.

    While experimenting with various gases during his anaesthesia research, Wells became addicted to chloroform. In 1848 he was arrested for spraying two women with sulphuric acid. In a letter he wrote from jail, he blamed chloroform for his problems, claiming that he'd gotten high before the attack. Four days later he was found dead in his cell. He'd anaesthetised himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

  4. George Washington:

    First President of the United States of America

    Washington died as the result of syphilis. The treatment in those days was "bleeding." The doctors believed that his disease was caused by "bad blood," so they slit his arms with five razors and removed a few pints. Surprisingly, he was only worse the next day, so they reasoned that not enough blood had been removed. They repeated the procedure. This continued for eleven days until Washington died. The syphilis helped to insure Washington's role as "the father of our country!"

  5. Francis Bacon:

    One of the most influential minds of the late 16th century. A statesman, a philosopher, a writer, and a scientist, he was even rumoured to have written some of Shakespeare's plays.

    How he died: Stuffing snow into a chicken.

    One afternoon in 1625, Bacon was watching a snowstorm and was struck by the wondrous notion that maybe snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way that salt was used. Determined to find out, he purchased a chicken from a nearby village, killed it, and then, standing outside in the snow, attempted to stuff the chicken full of snow to freeze it. The chicken never froze, but Bacon did.

  6. Jerome Irving Rodale:

    Founding father of the organic food movement, creator of "Organic Farming and Gardening" magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major publishing corporation.

    How he died: On the "Dick Cavett Show", while discussing the benefits of organic foods.

    Rodale, who bragged "I'm going to live to be 100 unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver," was only 72 when he appeared on the "Dick Cavett Show" in January 1971. Part way through the interview, he dropped dead in his chair. Cause of death: heart attack. The show was never aired.

  7. Aeschylus:

    A Greek playwright back in 500 BC. Many historians consider him the father of Greek tragedies.

    How he died: An eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.

    According to legend, eagles picked up tortoises and attempt to crack them open by dropping them on rocks. An eagle mistook Aeschylus' head for a rock (he was bald) and dropped it on him instead.

  8. Jim Fixx:

    Author of the best selling "Complete Book of Running," which started the jogging craze of the 1970s.

    How he died: A heart attack....while jogging.

    Fixx was visiting Greensboro, Vermont when he walked out of his house and began jogging. He'd only gone a short distance when he had a massive coronary. His autopsy revealed that one of his coronary arteries was 99% clogged, another was 80% obstructed, and a third was 70% blocked....and that Fixx had had three other attacks in the weeks prior to his death.

    And finally there's Lully, one of our favourite 16th-century composers, who wrote music for the king of France.

    While rehearsing the musicians, he got too serious beating time with his staff, and drove it right through his foot. He died of infection.

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Official Rules For Indoor Golf

  1. Each player will furnish his own equipment for play, normally one club and two balls.
  2. Unlike outdoor golf, the object is to get the club in the hole and keep the balls out of the hole.
  3. The owner of the hole must approve play on a course.
  4. For the most effective play, the club should have a firm shaft. Course owners are permitted to check shaft stiffness before play begins.
  5. Course owners reserve the right to restrict the length of the club to avoid damage to the hole.
  6. The object of the game is to make as many strokes as necessary until the course owner is satisfied that the play is complete. Failure to do so may result in being denied permission to play the course again.
  7. It is considered bad form to begin playing the hole immediately upon arrival at the course. The experienced player will normally take time to admire the entire course, with special attention paid to the well formed bunkers.
  8. Players are cautioned not to mention other courses they have played or are currently playing to the owner of the course being played. Upset course owners have been known to damage a player's equipment for this reason.
  9. Players should assure themselves that their match has been properly scheduled, particularly when a new course is being played for the first time. Previous players have been known to become irate if they discover someone else playing what they considered to be a private course.
  10. Players should not assume that a course is in shape for play at all times. Some owners may be embarrassed if their course is temporarily under repair, and the player is advised to use tact in this determination. More advanced players will find alternate means of play when this is the case.
  11. Slow play is encouraged; however, players should be prepared to proceed at a quicker pace at the course owner's request.
  12. Responsible indoor golfers always use a golfbag.
  13. It is considered outstanding performance, time permitting, to play the same hole several times in one match.
  14. Players are not permitted to tee off on the back nine without the express permission of the course owner.
  15. The course owner will be the sole judge of who is the best player.

    Membership at a given course - Additional assessments may be levied by the course owner and the rules are subject to change. For this reason, many players prefer to continue to play several different courses.

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Miss Ebonics U.S.A.

Question: Why were there only 49 contestants for the "Miss Ebonics U.S.A." Pageant?

Answer: No contestant wanted to wear a banner that said "Idaho"!

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Answers To Science

These beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays, exams and classroom discussions. Most were from 5th and 6th graders. They illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

  1. One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
  2. You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
  3. Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
  4. The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
  5. When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
  6. When people run around and around in circles, we say they are crazy. When planets do it, we say they are orbiting.
  7. Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
  8. Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
  9. South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.
  10. Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.
  11. A vibration is a motion that can't make up its mind which way it wants to go.
  12. There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.
  13. There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the centre of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.
  14. Lime is a green-tasting rock.
  15. Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
  16. Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't, why you should.
  17. Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.
  18. Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help to make water. So, sometimes it's brother against brother.
  19. Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but I have never been able to make out the numbers.
  20. We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
  21. In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.
  22. Clouds are high flying fogs.
  23. I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
  24. Clouds just keep circling the Earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.
  25. Rain is saved up in cloud banks.
  26. In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
  27. Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man.
  28. A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
  29. A hurricane is a breeze of a bigger size.
  30. A monsoon is a French gentleman.
  31. Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
  32. Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
  33. It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
  34. The wind is like the air, only pushier.

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Mind Reading

Read this message one line at a time and just do what it says. You will be glad you did.

  1. Pick a number from 1-9.
  2. Subtract 5.
  3. Multiply by 3.
  4. Square the number (multiply by the same number - not square root).
  5. Add the digits until you get only one digit (i.e. 64=6+4=10=1+0=1).
  6. If the number is less than 5, add five. Otherwise subtract 4.
  7. Multiply by 2.
  8. Subtract 6.
  9. Map the digit to a letter in the alphabet 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, etc...
  10. Pick a name of a country that begins with that letter.
  11. Take the second letter in the country name and think of an animal that begins with that letter
  12. Think of the colour of that animal (keep scrolling)

    But, there are no grey elephants in Denmark.

    Did it work?

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Saddam (Iraqi) Jokes

  1. Question: Why did Saddam Hussein take up scuba diving?
    Answer: So he could inspect his Navy.
  2. Question: What's the worlds fastest land animal?
    Answer: A retreating Iraqi.
  3. Question: Why doesn't Saddam take up water skiing?
    Answer: He can't find any lakes on the side of a hill.
  4. Question: Why doesn't Saddam go ice fishing?
    Answer: He can't get his boat through the little hole in the ice.
  5. Question: What happened to Saddam's Ice hockey team?
    Answer: They all drowned in spring training.
  6. Question: Why doesn't Saddam eat pickles?
    Answer: He can't get his head in the jar.
  7. Question: Why did Saddam order glass-bottomed boats for his new Navy?
    Answer: So they could see the OLD Navy!
  8. Question: How do you sink an Iraqi submarine?
    Answer: Knock on the hatch.
  9. Question: Did you hear that Saddam has bought 600 septic tanks from South Africa?
    Answer: As soon as they figure out how to drive them, they're going to invade Iran again.
  10. Question: Why do Iraqi tanks have rear-view mirrors?
    Answer: So they can watch the battle.
  11. Question: How does an Iraqi pilot commit suicide?
    Answer: He gets in his plane.
  12. Question: Why doesn't Saddam eat M&M's?
    Answer: They're too much trouble to peel.
  13. Question: How do you get a one-armed Iraqi out of a tree?
    Answer: Wave to him.
  14. Question: Why doesn't Saddam drink cool-aid?
    Answer: He can't figure out how to get 2 quarts of water in to the little envelopes.
  15. Question: Why do Iraqi men wear beards?
    Answer: So sodomized camels can't recognise them in police line-ups.
  16. Question: Why don't Iraqi women breast feed?
    Answer: It hurts too much to boil their nipples, or
    Answer: Camels don't like milk!
  17. Question: Why do Iraqi women wear veils?
    Answer: So they won't stampede the camels.
  18. Question: How do you spoil an Iraqi party?
    Answer: Flush the punch bowl.
  19. Question: Did you hear about the Iraqi that drowned getting a drink of water?
    Answer: Toilet lid fell on his head.
  20. Question: What are the first words an Iraqi baby learns?
    Answer: "I surrender!"
  21. Question: Have you heard about the new Iraqi main battle tank?
    Answer: It comes with a 16 gear transmission; 1 forward and 15 reverse!
  22. Question: What's the difference between Saddam's wife and an outhouse?
    Answer: The outhouse has a smaller hole, and it smells better.

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Cat Bathing : A Martial Art

Some people say cats never have to be bathed. They say cats lick themselves clean. They say cats have a special enzyme of some sort in their saliva that works like New, Improved Wisk--dislodging the dirt where it hides and whisking it away. I've spent most of my life believing this folklore. Like most blind believers, I've been able to discount all the facts to the contrary - the kitty odours that lurk in the corners of the garage and dirt smudges that cling to the throw run by the fireplace.

The time comes, however, when a man must face reality; when he must look squarely in the face of massive public sentiment to the contrary and announce: "This cat smells like a port-a-potty on a hot day in Juarez." When that day arrives at your house, as has in mine, I have some advise you might consider as you place your feline friend under your arm and head for the bathtub:

Know that although the cat has the advantage of quickness and lack of concern for human life, you have the advantage of strength. Capitalise on that advantage by selecting the battlefield. Don't try to bathe him in an open area where he can force you to chase him. Pick a very small bathroom. If your bathroom is more that four feet square, I recommend that you get in the tub with the cat and close the sliding-glass doors as if you were about to take a shower. (A simple shower curtain will not do!!! A berserk cat can shred a three-ply rubber shower curtain quicker than a politician can shift positions.)

Know that a cat has claws and will not hesitate to remove all the skin from your body!!!! Your advantage here is that you are smart and know how to dress to protect yourself. I recommend canvas overalls tucked into high-top construction boots, a pair of steel-mesh gloves, an army helmet, a hockey face mask, and a long-sleeve flack jacket.

Prepare everything in advance. There is no time to go out for a towel when you have a cat digging a hole in your flak jacket. Draw the water. Make sure the bottle of kitty shampoo is inside the glass enclosure. Make sure the towel can be reached, even if you are lying on your back in the water.

Use the element of surprise. Pick up your cat nonchalantly, as if to simply carry him to his supper dish. (Cats will not usually notice your strange attire. They have little or no interest in fashion as a rule. If he does notice your garb, calmly explain that you are taking part in a product-testing experiment for J.C. Penney.)

Once you are inside the bathroom, speed is essential to survival. In a single liquid motion: shut the bathroom door, step into the tub enclosure, slide the glass door shut, dip the cat in the water, and squirt him with shampoo. You have begun one of the wildest 45 seconds of your life.

Cats have no handles.

Add the fact that you now have soapy fur, and the problem is radically compounded. Do no expect to hold on to him for more than two or three seconds at a time. When you have him, however, you must remember to give him another squirt of shampoo and rub like crazy. He'll then spring free and fall back into the water, thereby rinsing himself off. (The national record is, for cats, three latherings, so don't expect too much.)

Next, the cat must be dried. Novice cat bathers always assume this part will be the most difficult, for humans generally are worn out at this point and the cat is just getting really determined. In fact, the drying is simple compared to what you have just been through. That's because by now the cat is semi-permanently affixed to your right leg. You simply pop the drain plug with your foot, reach for your towel and wait. (Occasionally, however, the cat will end up clinging to the top of your army helmet. If this happens, the best thing you can do is shake him loose and to encourage him toward you leg.) After all the water is drained from the tub, it is a simple matter to just reach down and dry the cat.

In a few days the cat will relax enough to be removed from your leg. He will usually have nothing to say for about three weeks and will spend a lot of time sitting with his back to you. He might even become psychoceramic and develop the fixed stare of a plaster figurine.

You will be tempted to assume that he is angry. This isn't usually the case. As a rule he is simply plotting ways to get through your defences and injure you for life the next time you decide to give him a bath.

But, at least now he smells a lot better. :)

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