Some of these are new & some I posted earlier. What's the difference--you probably won't remember the old ones, anyway!!
When my son-in-law first moved to the United States he spoke no
English. It was imperative that he learn
some important words & phrases quickly.
These, of course, included “please” & “thank you” & “where’s the
bathroom?” He feels that the most
important phrase he learned was, “It’s not my fault. It’s Nameless’ fault!!”
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Students in an advanced
Biology class were taking their mid-term exam.
The last question was, “Name seven advantages of Mother's Milk.” One student was hard put to think of seven
advantages. However, he started off with:
1) It is the perfect formula for the child.
2) It provides immunity against several diseases.
3) It is always the right temperature.
4) It is inexpensive.
5) It bonds the child to mother, and vice versa.
6) It is always available as needed.
And then the student was stuck. Finally, in desperation, just before the bell rang indicating the end of the test, he wrote:
7) It comes in two attractive containers and it's high enough off the ground where the cat can't get at it.
He got an A.
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Sometime around 1970, Bud & I
were driving down Pacific Coast Highway.
We passed a very expensive, very exclusive restaurant &, on a whim,
decided to have a late lunch there. The tuxedoed maître d’ greeted us & asked if we had a reservation. We told him we didn’t & he said he’d see
what he could do. He turned &
studied the nearly empty dining area for several moments. He then turned back to us & asked, with a straight face, “Would you prefer
a round table or a square one?”
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Do you ever get tired
of telemarketers calling & yet you’re too polite to just hang up? Me, too.
I think I got even some time ago when I was very busy & someone called me with an offer for pre-need
funerals. “I told him, “I’m so sorry—I
wish you had called last week. I died
yesterday!!”
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When
Matt was about 8, a friend of ours had to have part of his colon removed. Matt (our comedian in training) asked if that
meant he would be left with a semicolon.
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I
was Christmas shopping one year & found the perfect T-shirt for Blake. It had a picture of a TV remote control on
the front & said, “It’s a man thing!”
I told the saleswoman I’d like one in an extra-large. She
didn’t have any under the counter so she called across the busy store to a
stock boy, “I need a ‘man thing’ in an extra-large!!” The woman behind me in line said, “Don’t we
all?” Cracked up the whole store!!
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Blake
was 52 this year. I am 36. The best way to explain this anomaly is to tell
you about something that I read in one of Kirk Douglas’ books. A “senior” movie actress was being
interviewed. The reporter said, “Forgive
me, Madame, but I have to ask. Your son
(who was also a star) admits to being 56.
You claim to be 63. How can this
be?” Her answer (& mine): “He has
his life—I have mine!”
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In
the olden days, when parents felt safe in letting their very young children
walk to school & back alone, my parents were babysitting our 7 or 8 year
old daughter while we were on a trip. They
became quite worried when one day she was over a half hour late in getting home
from school. When she finally got home,
they asked her why she was so late. Our
daughter, who wishes to be nameless, always had a very logical brain. She told them she had taken a “long” cut.
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No
subject was ever off limits at our dinner table. Once Nameless asked what a homosexual
was. We weren’t sure how to explain this
to an 8 year old. We told her that while
most men love women, there were some men who loved other men. We said this was the way God made them &
it was fine. We asked her if she
understood & she said, “Yeah, you mean like a lesbian, only a man!!”
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My granddaughter, Nameless III, looked
exactly like me when we were both babies was absolutely beautiful when she
was little--& she still is! One
night, her father was in the kitchen visiting with me while I was cooking
dinner. (I TOLD you I used to cook
dinner!) He said that he knew all
parents thought their children were beautiful, but that Nameless III was
special. He said he knew Nameless II,
his 3 year old, was beautiful, but 1 year old Nameless III was even more
so. He asked me my opinion. I told him I agreed with him, but as her
grandmother, it was possible I was just a little bit prejudiced. He said, “No, I’m right, & I’m not the
only one who thinks so. MY MOTHER thinks
so, too!”
This is 1 year old Nameless III:
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When our sons were in the Cub Scouts, Bud was
the troop leader & I was the head den mother. We were talking to some of the other parents
about our upcoming trip (our first) to Paris.
We said we were booked into a hotel room that was at one time occupied
by Mistinguett, who had been a famous actress, singer & courtesan (hooker?
mistress?) & that the furniture was mirrored & that there was a fur
bedspread. Bud & I were on the bed,
doing what married couples do on a bed besides sleeping, when I told him to
move his hand. He asked why & I told
him “I can’t see!!”
One of the fathers, Abe, was a furrier. He asked for a nude photo on that
bedspread. We told him OK. When we returned, we hosted a dinner for all
the adult leaders & their spouses.
After dinner we told them that since we had a captive audience, we knew
they’d love to see slides of our trip.
We showed them a few pictures of the Eiffel Tower, the Champs d’Elysee,
etc. & then this one, below. I don’t
think it was exactly what Abe expected, but IT GOT A STANDING OVATION!!
You might enjoy these from ArcaMax:
"Close the
curtains," requested our 2 year old granddaughter, sitting in a pool of
bright light. "The sun's looking at me too hard."
My friend asked our grandson when he would turn 6. He replied, "When I'm
tired of being 5."
Seeing her first hailstorm, Mary Sue, age 3, exclaimed, "Mommy, it's
raining dumplings!"
As I frantically waved away a pesky fly with a white dishtowel, my
granddaughter observed, "Maybe he thinks you're surrendering."
Announcing to daughter Lori that her aunt just had a baby and it looked like
her uncle, she said, "You mean he has a mustache?"
When I asked our grandson if he could name the capital of Florida, he fired
right back, "capital F!"
While shampooing our son, 4, I noted his hair was growing so fast he'd soon
need it cut. He replied, "Maybe we shouldn't water it so much."
My daughter told her 5-year-old that their van was going to be fixed.
Instantly, the small fry assumed, "Oh, it's going to the
tire-o-practor?"
Impressed by her 5-year-old's vocabulary, my friend complimented the young
scholar, who nonchalantly responded, “I have words in my head I haven't even
used yet."
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Our supervisor recently made a casual comment about an
employee’s shaggy mane of hair. He then went on to extol the virtues of a good
haircut, which, he insisted, makes an elderly man look younger and a younger
man seem more mature.
"How
would a haircut make a middle-aged man like me appear?" the employee
asked.
"Still
employed," he answered.
I just got lost in
thought--it was unfamiliar territory----fishducky
