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According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated: Wash. Biol. Surv. Until the agency received the following letter from an Arkansas camper: "Dear Sirs: While camping last week I shot one of your birds. I think it was a crow. I followed the cooking instructions on the leg tag and I want to tell you, it was horrible." The bands are now marked Fish and Wildlife Service. (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) Three Pastors in the south were having lunch in a diner. One said "Ya know, since summer started I've been having trouble with bats in my loft and attic at church. I've tried everything--noise, spray, cats--nothing seems to scare them away. Another said "Yea, me too. I've got hundreds living in my belfry and in the narthex attic. I've even had the place fumigated, and they won't go away." The third said, "I baptized all mine and made them members of the church... Haven't seen one back since!!!" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) A funeral service is being held for a woman who has just passed away. At the end of the service the pall bearers are carrying the casket out when they accidentally bump into a wall, jarring the casket. They hear a faint moan. They open the casket and find that the woman is actually alive! She lives for ten more years, and then finally dies. A ceremony is again held at the same place, and at the end of the ceremony the pallbearers are again carrying out the casket. As they are walking, the husband cries out, "Watch the wall!" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) There was a new hair salon which opened up right across the street from the old established hair cutters' place, They put up a big old sign, "WE GIVE SEVEN DOLLAR HAIR CUTS!" Not to be outdone, the old shop put out their own sign: "WE FIX SEVEN DOLLAR HAIR CUTS" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) A young ventriloquist was touring the South one summer and stopped to entertain in a rural Arkansas fair. He was going through his routine of stupid redneck jokes, when suddenly, a big, burly, tobacco-chewin' fellow stood up in the audience and interrupted him. "Hey you," the man drawled. "I've just about had it with these hillbilly jokes! We ain't all that stupid here in Arkansas, ya know!" Not wanting to offend his audience too much, the ventriloquist began to mumble an apology. "You stay out of this, mister!" scowled the local man. "I'm talking to that little jerk on your knee!" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." "Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at him because you know it would hurt his feelings." "Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday." "Love is if you hold hands and sit beside each other in the cafeteria. That means you're in love. Otherwise, you can sit across from each other and be okay." "Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redbird." "I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." "When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." "You can break love, but it won't die." (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) A couple invited some people to dinner. At the table, the mother turned to her six-year-old daughter and asked her to say the blessing. "I don't know what to say," she replied. "Just say what you hear Mommy say," the mother said. The little girl lowered her head and prayed, "Dear Lord, Why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) Several weeks after a young man had been hired, he was called into the personnel manager's office. "What is the meaning of this?" the manager asked. "When you applied for the job, you told us you had 5 years' experience. Now we discover this is the first job you've ever had." "Well," the young man said, "in your ad you said you wanted somebody with imagination...." (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) You know it's your last day at work when... You hand a bank teller an envelope, and when she asks, "What's this?" you realize you just dropped the company's deposit in a mailbox. A woman comes into the store, you turn to the other salesman and say, "I waited on the last fat ugly old lady. This one's your turn". Your boss is standing behind you. It's his wife. You sneak into your boss' office and look at some confidential information on his computer while he is at lunch. You spill coffee on the keyboard. It shorts out. You return from a week's vacation to find that you had scheduled *this* week as vacation, not last week. You take a "sick" day. The next morning the boss asks you, "So, how was the fishing on Rock Creek yesterday?" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) A guy walks into a post
office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter
methodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over
them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over
them. An English explorer was taking part in an expedition to the Himalayas. Led by a grizzled local guide, they ascended one of the less frequently climbed peaks. Roughly half way up the side of the mountain, one of the expedition came across a set of large manlike tracks in the snow. "Yeti tracks," the guide said with a gruff voice as he passed them. "One thing you must know before we proceed; do not, under any circumstances, touch the yeti." The expedition heeded his warning and continued to climb the slope, night fell and the explorers set up their tents. In the dead of night the Englishman awoke to the sound of his tent entrance unzipping. Half asleep he looked up to see an enormous eight foot yeti standing above him. In fear for his life the explorer jumped up and ran out of the tent, banging into the yeti in the process. The yeti, after being touched by the explorer let out a deafening howl and began to chase the explorer down the slope. The explorer ran away from the camp as quickly as his legs could take him, after he rounded a corner he looked behind him to see the bounding form of the yeti still chasing him. So the explorer continued to run, reaching the bottom of the mountain in just two days, exhausted he paused to rest awhile. After just a few moments, the explorer began to hear the soft 'thud thud thud' of yeti feet on snow, he looked up the slope to see the yeti still chasing him and only moments away. The explorer took off again, reaching a supply shack a couple of miles away, once there quickly buying a mountain bike and pedaling his way to the nearest town, some fifty miles away. The journey took him several days over the rough terrain and after his arrival he booked into a hotel to recuperate. Two days later the man left his hotel to see about booking transport back to England. As soon as he turned around though he saw the form of the yeti on the horizon, bounding towards him at great speed. Mortified by this sight, the explorer hurriedly bought a car and drove it away from the village all the way to Delhi. Once he arrived, the man wasted no time in getting on the next plane to London. After his arrival back in London, the man went back to his London home for a while to recover and to plan his next expedition. He had been there less than two weeks and was gazing out of a window when he saw a familiar large bounding, manlike creature running down his street; the man couldn't believe it, somehow the yeti had followed him to England! The man had little choice but to run away again, he used any means he could, bike, car, or on foot to try to escape the yeti, but each time he looked behind him, it was just moments before the yeti came into view. Eventually the man made it all the way to Edinburgh and from there ran into the open Scottish countryside. He continued to run but the yeti just kept getting closer and closer, and in the end the man could run no more. With the yeti less than a minute away from him, the man finally stopped and turned around to face the oncoming creature. With the last of his strength he stood up straight as the yeti caught up with him. The eight foot tall yeti towered above the man who could only stare in terror. The yeti extended his hand and poked the Englishman squarely in the chest with one long finger and with a low rumbling voice the yeti began to speak: "Tag! You're it!" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) After just a few years of marriage filled with constant arguments, a young man and his wife decided the only way to save their marriage was to try counseling. They had been at each other's throats for some time and felt that this was their last straw. When they arrived at the counselor's office, the counselor jumped right in and opened the floor for discussion. "What seems to be the problem?" Immediately, the husband held his long face down without anything to say. In contrast, the wife began talking 90 miles an hour, describing all the wrongs within their marriage. After 15 minutes of listening to the wife, the counselor went over to her, picked her up by her shoulders, kissed her passionately and sat her back down. Afterwards, the wife sat speechless. The marriage counselor looked over at the husband, who stared in disbelief. The counselor said to the husband, "Your wife NEEDS that at least twice a week!" The husband scratched his head and replied, "I can have her here on Tuesdays and Thursdays." (Gotcha!) (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) U.N. Tries To Hide Endangered Wildlife
LOS ANGELES, CA (AheadOfNews.com) - After years of trying without success to protect endangered elephants, rhinos, and gorillas from poachers, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is trying another approach. "We're hiding them," says Norman Alepho, Director of Special Operations for UNEP. "We've hired airbrush artists to paint camouflage patterns on them, and then we release them in different parts of the world." So far, the program is working out pretty well, according to Alepho, although the "urban release" trial has had some unexpected issues. A man who was stocking fruit in at an outdoor fruit and vegetables market was surprised when what he thought was a stack of orange crates suddenly "came alive" and stole a bunch of bananas. In another incident, a man who thought he was standing next to a large green dumpster suddenly found himself shin-deep in elephant poo. "There are a few wrinkles to work out," says Alepho, "but so far it's working out OK. The animals seem to be adapting to it fairly well, also, although we do have one black rhino who thinks he actually is a Ford Expedition. But that isn't really much of a problem, either, except around mating season." (TOP) (Back to Humor Index)Creation Story As Told By
The Dog Little Johnny came downstairs bellowing lustily. His mother asked, "What's the matter now?" "Dad was hanging pictures, and just hit his thumb with a hammer," said Johnny through his tears. "That's not so serious," soothed his mother. "I know you're upset, but a big boy like you shouldn't cry at something like that. Why didn't you just laugh?" "I did!" sobbed Johnny. (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) A kid called up his mom from his college and asked her for some money, because he ran out of it. Mom said, 'Sure, sweetie. I'll send you some money. You also left your calculus book here when you visited 2 weeks ago. Do you want me to send that up too?' 'Uh, oh yeah, OK,' responded the kid. So Mom wrapped the book along with the checks up in a package, kissed Dad goodbye, and went to the post office to mail the money and the book. When she gets back, Dad asked, 'Well how much did you give the boy this time? Mom said, 'Oh, I wrote 2 checks, one for $20, and the other for $1000' 'That's $1020!!!' yelled Dad, 'Are you crazy???' 'Don't worry hon,' Mom said, as she kissed Dad on the on top of his bald head, 'I taped the $20 check to the cover of his book, but I put the $1000 one somewhere between the pages in Chapter 19!' (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) Little Johnny is constantly late for school and what's worse is that he always has a big lie explaining why. The teacher tells the principal that she has had it with his exaggerations. The principal tells her to send Johnny to him the next time he shows up late. He will tell Johnny a lie so big that he will never tell another one. Ever. The next day, Johnny shows up 2 hours late. Johnny says, "I was 2 hours early today so I had time to fish in the pond on my way to school. I caught a 17-pound trout and had to take it home. If I didn't clean it and freeze it, my mom would've been angry. That's why I'm so late". The teacher promptly takes him to the principal's office and explains the story to the principal. The principal tells Johnny about his own trip to school that day. He says, "I was walking to school through the park on the trail today when I heard something behind me. I turned around and was shocked to see a giant grizzly bear behind me. He was 24 feet tall and had 6-inch fangs. He was going to eat me, Johnny! Just then a little dog ran out from the bushes, jumped up and attacked the bear. The little dog killed the bear and then ate the whole bear right there in front of me. What do you think of that, Johnny?" Johnny replies, "Oh yeah, that's my dog Sparky. That's his third bear this week." (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) PAUL REVERE'S MOTHER: "I don't care where you think you have to go, young man. Midnight is past your curfew!" HUMPTY DUMPTY'S MOTHER: "Humpty, If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times not to sit on that wall. But would you listen to me?" COLUMBUS' MOTHER: "I don't care what you've discovered, Christopher. You still could have written!" MICHELANGELO'S MOTHER: "Why can't you draw on the walls like the other children? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that stuff off the ceiling?" NAPOLEON'S MOTHER: "All right, Napoleon. Take your hand out of there and let me see what you're hiding!" MONA LISA'S MOTHER: "After all that money your father and I spent on braces, Mona, that's the biggest smile you can give us?" ALBERT EINSTEIN'S MOTHER: "But Albert, it's your senior picture. Can't you do something about your hair?" BATMAN'S MOTHER: "It's a very nice car, Bruce, but do you realize how much the insurance is going to cost?" GOLDILOCKS' MOTHER: "I've got a bill here for a broken chair from the Bear family. Do you know anything about this, Goldie?" LITTLE MISS MUFFET'S MOTHER: "All I've got to say is, if you don't get off your tuffet and start cleaning your room, there'll be a lot more spiders around here!" GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOTHER: "The next time I catch you throwing money across the river, you can kiss your allowance good-bye!" CUSTER'S MOTHER: "Now, George, remember what I told you... don't go biting off more than you can chew!" JONAH'S MOTHER: "That's a nice story, Jonah. Now tell me where you've really been for the last three days." SUPERMAN'S MOTHER: "Clark, your father and I have discussed it, and we've decided you can have your own telephone booth." THOMAS EDISON'S MOTHER: "Of course I'm proud of your inventions, Thomas. Now turn off that light and get to bed!" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) Two alligators are sitting on the edge of a swamp. The small one turns to the big one and says; I don't understand how you can be so much bigger than me. We're the same age, we were the same size as kids... I just don't get it." "Well," says the big alligator, "what have you been eating?" "Lawyers, same as you," replies the small alligator. "Hm. Well, where do you catch'em?" "Down at that law firm on the edge of the swamp." "Same here. Hm. How do you catch'em?" "Well, I crawl under a BMW and wait for someone to unlock the door. Then I jump out, bite'em, shake the tarnations out of 'em, and eat'em!" "Ah!" says the big alligator, "I think I see your problem. See, by the time you get done shakin' the s*** out of a lawyer, there's nothing left but lips and a briefcase..." (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) Show and Tell Birth Stories by Irene Zutell (a grade school teacher) Usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model
airplanes,
Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very out-going kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater. She holds up a snapshot of an infant. "This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday. First, Mommy and Daddy made him as a symbol of their love, and then Daddy put a seed in my mother's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord." She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and wishing I had a video camera rolling. The other kids are watching her in amazement. "Then, about two Saturdays ago, my mother starts going, 'Oh, oh, oh!'" Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. "She walked around the house for, like an hour, "Oh, oh, oh!'" Now the kid's doing this hysterical duck-walk, holding her back and groaning. "My father called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my mother to lie down in bed like this." Erica lies down with her back against the wall. "And then, pop! My mother had this bag of water she kept in there in case he
got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!"
"Then the middle wife starts going push, push, and breathe, breathe. They start counting, but they never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff they said was from the play-center, so there must be a lot of stuff inside there." Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat. I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, if it's show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder - just in case another Erica comes along. (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) This guy was in an institution to get evaluated to see if he was alright to live in the outside world. One day as he was looking over the wall watching the traffic, a truck pulled up to the stop sign. It was an open-bed truck with a tarp over it. The guy looking over the wall shouted, "Hey driver, what do you have in the truck that smells so bad?" The driver said, "I got a load of horse manure I'm taking home to spread on my strawberries." The guy at the wall says, "And they got ME in here for mental tests." The truck driver says; "What do you mean?" The guy at the wall says; "Well, I usually put sugar and cream on my strawberries! (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) Survivor 2002 (Not my dad but might be my brother!?)
Two guys were working at a sawmill one day when one of the guys got too close to the blade and cut off his arm. His buddy put the severed arm in a plastic bag and rushed it down to the hospital to get re-attached. The next day he goes to see his chum, and finds him playing tennis. "Incredible!," says his friend. "Medical science is amazing." Another month goes by and the same two guys are again at the sawmill working when the same guy gets too close to the spinning blade and this time his leg gets cut off. Again his buddy takes the leg, puts it in a plastic bag and takes it to the hospital to get re-attached. The next day, he goes down to see his chum and finds him outside playing football. "Incredible!," says his friend. "Medical science is amazing!" Well another month goes by and again the same two friends are at the mill cutting wood when suddenly the same guy bends down too close to the blade and off comes his head. Well his friend takes the head, puts it in a plastic bag, and heads to the hospital to get it re-attached. The next day he goes to see his friend but can't find him. He sees the doctor walking down the hall and says, "Doc, where is my friend? I brought him in yesterday." The doctor thinks for a minute and says, "Oh yeah, some idiot put his head in a plastic bag and he suffocated." (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) Attacked by the Priest (Note: I usually do not ~ webmaster ~ put jokes dealing with Alcohol on the website ~ but this one gives a good example of what Alcohol can do.) Father Delany was walking home after his sermon late one night when he came upon an intoxicated tramp on the sidewalk. Wanting to help, he asked the man, "Do you live here?" "Yesh," the man slowly replied. "Would you like me to help you upstairs?" the father asked. "Yesh," the man slowly sputtered. When they got up to the second floor, the father asked, "Is this your floor?" "Yesh," again the man replied. Then Father Delany got to thinking that maybe he didn't want to face the man's irate wife because she may think he was the one who got the man drunk. So he opened the first door he came to and shoved him through it, then went back downstairs. Lo and behold, when the father went back outside, there was another tramp lying on the sidewalk. So he asked that man "Do you live here?" "Yesh." "Would you like me to help you upstairs?" "Yesh." So he did and pushed him in the same door with the first tramp. Then the father went back downstairs, where, to his surprise, there was another tramp. Before the priest got to him, the tramp staggered over to a policeman and cried out, "For God's sake, offisher, protect me from thish man. He'sh been takin' me upstairsh and throwing me down the fire escape all night!" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) When the U.S. Mint reissued two-dollar bills, I thought they might someday become collectors' items. I went to the bank and picked up a hundred, serially numbered and still in their original band. On my next trip to my parents' house, I gave the $200 to my mother, and said, "Take good care of these. They might be worth something someday." Several months later, I asked Mom if she was keeping the two-dollar bills safe. "Oh, yes!" she replied. "I deposited them in the bank the day after you left." (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) As part of their "ranch" holiday, a guy takes his wife hunting. When they reach their deer blinds, the guy says, "If you shoot a deer, be sure you don't let anybody else say he's the one who shot it. Otherwise, he'll take the deer from you. The deer belongs to whoever shoots it." The guy goes to his own blind. Ten minutes later, he hears his wife shooting from her blind nearby. He rushes over and finds her pointing her rifle at a cowboy who's shouting, "OK, lady, OK! You can have the deer! Just lemme get my saddle off it!" (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) One day at kindergarten, the teacher says to the class of five-year-olds, "I'll give $2 to the child who can tell me who was the most famous man who ever lived." An Irish boy put his hand up and said, "Please miss, it was St. Patrick." The teacher said, "Sorry Sean, that's not correct." Then a Scottish boy put his hand up and said, "Please miss, it was St. Andrew." The teacher replied, "I'm sorry Hamish, that's not right either." Finally, a Jewish boy raised his hand and said, "Please miss, it was Jesus Christ." The teacher said, "That's absolutely right Hymie, come up here and I'll give you your $2." As the teacher was giving Hymie his money, she said "You know Hymie, you being Jewish, I was very surprised you said Jesus Christ," to which Hymie replied, "I know miss, in my heart I knew it was Moses, but business is business." (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) Collards is green, My dog's name is Blue And ain't I so lucky To have a sweet thang like you.
Yore hair is like cornsilk Flappin' in the breeze. Softer than Blue's And without all them fleas.
You move like the bass, Which excite me in May. You ain't got no scales But I luv you anyway.
Yo're as hot as okra A-fryin' in the pan. Yo're as fragrant as snuff Right outa the can.
You have some'a yore teeth, For which I am proud; I hold my head high When we're in a crowd.
On special occasions, When you shave under yore arms, Well, I'm in hawg heaven, And awed by yore charms.
All the fellers at work, They all wanna know, What I did to deserve Such a purdy young doe.
Like a good roll of duct tape Yo're there fer yore man, To patch up life's troubles And fix what you can.
Yo're as cute as a june bug A-buzzin' overhead, You ain't mean like them far ants I found in my bed.
Cut from the best cloth Like a good flannel shirt, You spark up my life More'n a fresh load of dirt.
When you hold me real tight Like a padded gun rack, My life is complete, There ain't nothin' I lack.
Yore complexion's perfection, Like the best vinyl sidin'. Despite all the years, Yore age it keeps hidin'.
Me 'n' you's like a Moon Pie With a RC cold drank, We go together Like a skunk goes with stank.
Some men, they buy chocolate For Valentine's Day, They git it at Wal-Mart, It's romantic that way.
Some men git roses On this special day From the cooler at Kroger. Well that's nice, I say.
Some men buy fine diamonds From a flea market booth. "Diamonds is forever," They explain, suave and couth.
But for this man, honey, That stuff jes won't do. Cause yo're too special, You sweet thang you.
I got you a gift, Without no taste or odor, More useful than diamonds... IT'S A NEW TROLLIN' MOTOR! (TOP) (Back to Humor Index) |