Month: July 2013

  • Bottle or Can?



     Do you like your drinks better in a bottle?

    Or a can?

    I am not sure which I like better!


    Dead Turkey Joke of the Day

    The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 12:50am, flashed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.


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    Wishbone Ash - Persephone


    Bottle or can?

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  • The Sunday Donkey Times - Rerun

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    Cat of Doom

    sm_Oscar Thursday, July 26, 2007

    When Oscar the Cat visits residents of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, the staff jumps into action - because Oscar has an uncanny habit of foretelling the death of patients.

    In his two years living in Steere's end-stage dementia unit, Oscar has been at the bedside of more than 25 residents shortly before they died, according to Dr. David Dosa of Brown University in Providence.

    He wrote about the cat of doom in the extremely prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

    'It's not that the cat is consistently there first,' Dr. Joan Teno, a professor of community health at Brown University, who sees patients in the unit. 'But the cat always does manage to make an appearance, and it always seems to be in the last two hours.'

    Raised at the nursing home since he was a kitten, Oscar often checks in on residents, but when he curls up for a visit, physicians and nursing home staff know it's time to call the family.

    For the rest of the story, go here!


    Editorial Comment: There is much more to most animals than we ever realize! Oh! And there is another cat of doom: Spazzzz! If you take Spazzz's chocolate, you are doomed!


    sm_pole-cat Rogue Cat Blacks Out Homes

     Friday, May 18, 2007

    Power to a dozen homes had to be cut off – so engineers could rescue a cat stuck at the top of a 10m (30ft) pylon.

    Flash the cat climbed to the top of the pylon in Lydd, near Folkestone, Kent, but was unable to get down.

    When he was spotted by a worried neighbour, engineers from EDF Energy were called out to help.

    The power supply was cut off to homes in the area to make the pylon safe to climb.


    Editorial Comment: What are they even talking about! Flash is not a cat! But if that cat touches the wire they can call it flash!

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    The Lesson for the Day

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    MissSmartyPants Dear Miss Smarty Pants,

    I think a lot should be one word: alot

    Lindaintennessee says "That would save space"

    So, Ms Smarty Pants, WHY is it a lot and not ALOT

    ~Spazzzzzzzzzzmom

    Dear Spazzzzz again......

    A lot is something you build a house on. ALOT is something that is in generous amounts. But there are some picky grammarians out there that insist it be two words. I say, if you need to save space and have lots of extra vowels sitting around, then make it one word. :)

    Miss Smarty Pants


    MissSmartyPants Dear Miss Smarty Pants,

    If you have a wedgy and no where to fix it, is it OK to just yank on it where you are?

    Signed "Woman With the Wedgy that Won't Quit"

    Dear Wedgy Woman,

    I know a young lady that calls a certain variety of undergarments "wedgy panties". I think that is quite funny don't you? Those things called thongs. I much prefer flip flops actually. Well if you get right down to it, I prefer good old tennis shoes. So maybe if you wear tennis shoes you won't have a problem.

    Miss Smarty Pants


    MissSmartyPants Dear Miss Smarty Pants,

    What is the meaning of life?

    Seedsower

    Dear Seedsower,

    Well the meaning of life is pretty simple. It is a breakfast cereal. It means to fill you up so you don't go around sounding like a hungry lion until lunch.

    Miss Smarty Pants


    If you have a question for Miss Smarty Pants, please send a message to the newspaper editor.

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    Thankee

    Thankee is this week's winner!




    DonkeyNewsProfile Well, that's the way it was!

    Your Donkey on the Beat, signing off until next week!


    cooked_turkey_walking_md_wht Dead Turkey Jokes of the Day

    This is why women should not take men shopping against their will.

    After Mr. and Mrs. Fenton retired, Mrs. Fenton insisted her husband accompany her on her trips to Wal-Mart.

    Unfortunately, Mr. Fenton was like most men--he found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out.

    Equally unfortunately, Mrs. Fenton was like most women--she loved to browse. One day Mrs. Fenton received the following letter from her local Wal-Mart.

    Dear Mrs. Fenton,

    Over the past six months, your husband has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and may be forced to ban both of you from the s tore. Our complaints against Mr. Fenton are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras.

    1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they weren't looking.

    2 July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.

    3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom.

    4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, "Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away."

    5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&M's on layaway.

    6. September 14: Moved a "CAUTION - WET FLOOR" sign to a carpeted area.

    7. September 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told other shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department.

    8. September 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, "Why can't you people just leave me alone?"

    9. October 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose.

    10. November 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were.

    11. December 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme.

    12. December 6: In the auto department, he practiced his "Madonna look" by using different sizes of funnels.

    13. December 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled "PICK ME! PICK ME!"

    14. December 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed "OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!"

    And last, but not least...

    15. December 23: Went i nto a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, "Hey! There's no toilet paper in here!"

    Regards,
    Walmart


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  • Root Beer

    Root Beer!

    There are lots of root beer pretenders - but there is only one real root beer: Hires!

    Hires was the original root beer - and some say the original soft drink. Here is the obligatory wikipedia article on Hires: Hires Root Beer on Wikipedia. Here is another link to information on Hires root beer from the company that sells it: Hires Root Beer.

    Hires was created in 1866 right after the Civil War. In 1893 it was first sold in bottles to the public.

    These days, it is often hard to find Hires root beer. The company that currently produces Hires also produces A&W root beer - and apparently A&W root beer is cheaper to produce. So quite often, you won't find one where you can find the other.

    I guess other root beers may be as good, but none of them can compete with my memories of Hires as a kid. There is nothing like a root beer float made with Hires. I remember the two soft drinks on my Grandfather's back porch were Hires and 7-Up - and 7-Up is what the gave us when we were sick and trying to get liquids down us - so we never wanted to drink that stuff when we were healthy. HA!

    HiresRootBeer

    Thinking of Hires brought back an old memory - when I was maybe 6 or 7, I collected old bottle caps with a friend. I have no idea what happened to that collection, but I ran into a few bottle cap collections when I was looking for root beer pictures. Here are a couple of the old bottle caps.

    Hirescap HiresCap2

    Here is an ad for Hires root beer from 1933. It looks like they used some of the same advertising techniques back in 1933, huh?

    hires_1933_ad

    Oh! And we have to have a picture of a root beer float - so here it is:

    RootBeerFloat

    Root beer floats on Wikipedia

    What was your favorite beverage when you were a kid?


    Two farmers were discussing their problems. Farmer Bill said, "I've got a couple of birds nesting in my horse's mane. I've tried to get rid of them. But they just won't go away."

    Farmer Joe thought for a minute and said, "Just sprinkle the horse's mane with yeast."

    "Yeast? Why yeast?" farmer Bill asked.

    Farmer Joe responded, "Yeast is yeast and nest is nest, and never the mane shall tweet." *

    * The Ballad of East and West


    Ha! My jokes are so old I have to footnote them!

  • Summer Camping

     It was a family tradition when I was a kid!
     

    Every summer in July, the extended family would gather at Granny's Farm for July 4th.

    The kids would camp out in tents!

    We would play on the old farm equipment!

    Go for hikes in the woods!

    Build bonfires to roast marshmallows on!

    Camp out in tents some more!

    Gather for group pictures!

    And more pictures!

    Pick wild blackberries!

    Build log cabins!

    Go down to the frog pond!

    Get poison ivy!

    Get chased out of the outhouse by wasps!

    It was a blast!


    Dead Turkey Joke of the Day

    A farmer was milking his cow. He was just starting to get a good rhythm going when a bug flew into the barn and started circling his head. Suddenly, the bug flew into the cow's ear. The farmer didn't think much about it, until the bug squirted out into his bucket. It went in one ear and out the udder.


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    The Playmates - Beep Beep


    What did you do in the summer for fun as a kid?

  • Circles Again

    Have you ever noticed how life goes in circles?

    From breathing in to breathing out and then in again...

    To the day and then night and then day again...

    To the changing of the seasons, from spring, to summer, to fall, to winter, to spring again...

    Life goes in circles...

    Again and again...


    Another Seedsower Picture

    When I was a kid, for 6 years I lived in a city across the river from St.Louis, in Illinois.

    It was a pretty town - one of the oldest in Illinois.

    Route 66 was still in use at the time.

    My walk to school often took me several blocks down route 66.

     

    The old Chain of Rocks Bridge was part of Route 66 - crossing the Mississippi River to St. Louis.

    I have been up in the arch and across the Chain of Rocks Bridge!

    Long ago...

    I wonder if I will ever get back there...


    Dead Turkey Joke of the Day

    Circle Flies

    After pulling a farmer over for speeding, a state trooper started to lecture him about his speed, pompously implying that the farmer didn't know any better and trying to make him feel as uncomfortable as possible. He finally started writing out the ticket, but had to keep swatting at some flies buzzing around his head.

    The farmer said, "Having some problems with circle flies there are ya?"

    The trooper paused to take another swat and said, "Well, yes, if that's what they are. I've never heard of circle flies."

    The farmer was pleased to enlighten the cop. "Circle flies are common on farms. They're called circle flies because you almost always find them circling the back end of a horse."

    The trooper continues writing for a moment, then says," Hey, are you trying to call me a horse's behind?"

    "Oh no, officer." The farmer replies. "I have too much respect for law enforcement and police officers for that."

    "That's a good thing," the officer says rudely, then goes back to writing the ticket.

    After a long pause, the farmer added, "Hard to fool them flies, though."


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    The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter


    What circles do you notice in life?

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