Tuesday, May 06, 2008

hUMOR For May 6th

Commit the Husband

A woman went to her doctor and said, "I want to have my husband committed."

"Well, it's not that simple. You need proof that he's mentally incompetent."

"He goes ice fishing."

"Okay. Close enough for me."

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They say not to put all of your eggs in one basket, but I'll

be darned if I am going to roll 12 shopping carts out of the

grocery store!

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I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent

Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing

on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a

weapon.

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Most people are unwilling to sell their souls; but they

usually aren't opposed to renting them out for an hour or

two.

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I was helping a friend of mine with his roadside farm stand

when a man stopped by and asked how much the eggs were.

"Sixty cents for the small, seventy cents for the medium,

ninety cents for the large and thirty cents for the cracked

ones," I answered.

"All right," he said, "crack me a dozen of the large ones."

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A group of junior-level executives were participating in

a management training program. The seminar leader pounded

home his point about the need to make decisions and take

action on these decisions.

"For instance," he said, "if you had five frogs on a log

and three of them decided to jump, how many frogs would

you have left on the log?"

The answers from the group were unanimous: "Two."

"Wrong," replied the speaker, "there would still be five

because there is a difference between deciding to jump and

jumping."

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Weird News

Thief runs off with empty register

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (UPI) -- A thief was caught on surveillance video breaking into a Florida restaurant to steal an empty cash register, police said.

Kissimmee police said security footage shows a robber smashing the restaurant's window and going into the building, WKMG-TV in Orlando reported.

Police said the robber was a 175-pound Hispanic male about 5 feet, 9 inches in height. They said he had on white shoes and was dressed in a short-sleeve shirt and shorts.

The video reportedly was taken April 5 at the Azteca restaurant in Kissimmee.

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No more strain on grid from TV audience

LONDON (UPI) -- Engineers with the British National Grid have found a symptom of the fragmented TV audience -- the end of huge surges of electrical use after popular shows.

The 1990 World Cup semifinal between England and Germany set an all-time record of 2,800 megawatts as more than 1 million people turned on their electric kettles at the same time after the game, The Scotsman reports. The final episode of "The Thornbirds," a mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain that aired in Britain in 1984, is a close second at 2,600 megawatts.

But the latest incarnation of "Doctor Who," the science fiction series that has been running for decades, created only a 400-megawatt surge, roughly the equivalent of 160,000 electric kettles.

While sports events, especially late World Cup games with England playing, can still cause a surge, the 2,290-megawatt surge that followed the 2002 "who shot Phil Mitchell" episode of the popular prime-time soap opera "East Enders" appears likely to be the last caused by a dramatic TV episode.

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Cop rescues pet store owner from python

EUGENE, Ore. (UPI) -- An Oregon police officer and firefighters saved a pet store owner from a 12-foot Burmese python, using a screw driver to pry open the snake's jaws.

Sgt. Ryan Nelson told the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard his first thought when he reached the store Thursday was to cut off the python's head. But Teresa Rossiter, who owns Best Friends with her husband, begged him not to, even though the snake was biting her ring finger and coiled around her body.

While Rossiter lay on the floor, the snake slowly tightening its grip, Nelson put on gloves and tried getting the mouth open. A firefighter poured cold water on its head, which did not work either.

Finally, a firefighter used the screw driver while Nelson pulled Rossiter to safety. He then wrangled the angry snake into its cage.

Rossiter said she opened the cage to show off the python and forgot she had been handling mice.

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Rare Disease Diet

A man returns from Africa and is feeling very ill. He goes to see his doctor, and is immediately rushed to the hospital, to undergo a barrage of tests.

The man wakes up after the tests in a private room at the hospital. Suddenly, the phone by his bed rings.

"This is your doctor. We've had the results back from your tests and we've found you have an extremely nasty virus, which is extremely contagious!"

"Oh my gosh," cried the man, "What are you going to do, doctor?"

"Well we're going to put you on a diet of pizzas, pancakes, and pita bread."

"Will that cure me?" asked the man.

The doctor replied, "Well no, but it's the only food we can get under the door."

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A Real Person

Manning the computer help desk for the local school district was my
first job. And though I was just an intern, I took the job very
seriously. But not every caller took me seriously.

"Can I talk to a real person?" a caller asked.

"I am real," I said.

"Oh, I'm sorry," the caller said. "That was rude of me. What I meant
to say was, could I talk to someone who actually knows something?"

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"In Texas, pranksters threw a snake into the drive through

window at a Taco Bell. Fortunately, the snake was immediately

killed by all the rats in the kitchen." -Conan O'Brien

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"An 18 year-old woman was arrested after spending the past

eight months pretending to be a student at Stanford

university and living in their dorms, even though she was

not enrolled there. She pretended to be a student for eight

months. Hey, that's nothing. I pretended to be a student

for four years!" -Jay Leno

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"It's always the same with new inventions. I can remember

when calculators came out. We weren't allowed to use them

in school. The teachers would say, 'Calculators prevent

you from learning arithmetic.' I'd say, 'I'm going into

show business.' 'Well, you'll need arithmetic to count

your crushed dreams.'" -Craig Ferguson

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One evening, two girlfriends and I went to a nightclub,

only to find the place packed with young people. At 40,

we felt old, but before we could make a dignified exit,

a tall, handsome man approached us.

"Perhaps we were being a little hasty in leaving," I

thought.

Then with a big smile, the man extended his hand to one

of my friends and said, "Hello. Remember me? You were my

third grade teacher."

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Woman: "No, I'm telling you, I'm right! He couldn't eat the

Trix because he was an adult rabbit, and Trix were only

supposed to be for kids."

Man: "Well, I always thought it was just because he was a

rabbit and not a person."

[A period of silence -- the woman looks down at her food.]

Man: "What's wrong?"

Woman: "I'm just really getting tired of you always being

wrong."

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Birth Facility

My pregnant daughter and her husband were checking out a new

birth facility that was more like a spa. The birthing room

had a hot tub, soft music, and candlelight. "What do you

think?" she asked.

He looked around. "Isn't this how we got here in the first

place?"