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 09/18/05


TRIVIA:
QUOTES:
CHUCKLES/BELLY LAUGHS & GROANERS
TRIVIA:   Presidential Trivia. (This week, John Adams & George Herbert Walker Bush)
John Adams
* Adams was the first President to live in the White House.
* Adams was one of two Presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence.
* John Adams was a second cousin to Samuel Adams, and a third cousin to his own wife,
      Abigail Smith Adams.
* Adams was one of three presidents not to attend the inauguration of his successor.
      Not only was Adams disappointed in losing to Jefferson, he was also grieving the death
      of his son Charles.
* Adams was the great-great-grandson of John and Priscilla Alden, Pilgrims who landed at
      Plymouth Rock in 1620.
* The Adams' were the first residents of the White House. They moved in in November
      1800 while the paint was still wet.
* When Adams and his family moved to Washington to live in the White House, they got
      lost in the woods north of the city for several hours.
* Mrs. Adams would hang her laundry in the East Room to dry.
* He was named after his father.
* His granddaughter Susanna Adams lived in the White House during the last four months of his term.
 
George Herbert Walker Bush
* Bush was the only President to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
* He was the first President to have been chairman of his political party.
* He was the first President to be Ambassador to the United Nations.
* Bush was the first president to publicly refuse to eat broccoli. Broccoli farmers got
      mad and began sending truckloads of broccoli to the White House. His wife,
      Barbara, accepted the broccoli, but Bush said, "I am President of the
      United States and I don't have to eat it."
* After telling the press he was an expert in hand gestures, George Bush gave the
      "V-for-Victory" sign as he drove in his armored limousine past demonstrators
       in Canberra, Australia's capital in January 1992. In Australia, holding up
       two fingers to form a "V" has the same vulgar meaning as the middle-finger
       gesture in the United States. The Aussie demonstrators were very mad, and
       they signaled in the same manner back at the U.S. President. Bush later apologized.
* Bush played first base for the Yale baseball team.
* Bush, distantly related to Benedict Arnold and Marilyn Monroe, is also related to
       Presidents Pierce, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ford, and to Winston Churchill.
* When he received his commission in 1943, he became, at 19, the youngest pilot
       then in the Navy, flying 58 combat missions during World War II.
* With Bush, the first president born in June, presidents have been born in every month.
* He was named after his grandfather, George Herbert Walker, an investment banker.
* Bush was the first and only president to publicly refuse to eat broccoli.
QUOTES:

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
~Socrates

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."
~Groucho Marx

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."
~Jimmy Durante

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things."
~Jilly Cooper

"I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."
~Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat."
~Alex Levine

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
~Mark Twain

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying."
~Ed Furgol

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
~Spike Milligan

"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money."
~Henny Youngman
 
 

CHUCKLES & BELLY LAUGHS:

      Jim Rockwell sent this cutie.

A young Nun who worked for a local home health care agency was out making her rounds when she ran out of gas.   As luck would have it, there was a gas station just one block away. She walked to the station to borrow a can with enough gas to start the car and drive to the station for a fill up.
The attendant regretfully told her that the only gas can he owned had just been loaned out, but if she would care to wait he was sure it would be back shortly.  Since the Nun was on the way to see a patient, she decided not to wait and walked back to her car.  After looking through her car for something to
carry to the station to fill with gas, she spotted a bedpan she was taking to the patient.  Always resourceful, she carried it to the station, filled it with gasoline, and carried it back to her car.
As she was pouring the gas into the tank of her car, two men watched her from across the street. 
One of them turned to the other and said:  "I know that it is said that Jesus turned water into wine, but if that car starts, I'll go to church every Sunday for the rest of my life." 

                              Gary Clark sent this one.  I like it.

Farming
A man owned a small farm in Iowa.
The Iowa Wage and Hour Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him.
"I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them," demanded the agent.
"Well, there are my hired hands.
One has been with me for four years; the other for three.
I pay them each $600 a week, plus free room and board.
The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $500 a month plus free room and board.
Then there's the half-wit that works here about 18 hours a day.
He takes home $10 a week and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every week," replied the farmer. "
That's the guy I want to talk to; the half-wit," said the agent."
The farmer said, "That would be me."

              This one from Good Clean Fun

Raise Request
Employee: I have been here 11 years doing three men's work for one man's pay.  Now I want a raise.
Boss: Well, I can't give you a raise, but if you'll tell me who the other two men are, I'll fire them. 
                     Another Good Clean Fun
Bank Name
Mother decided that 10-year-old Cathy should get something practical' for her birthday.
"Suppose we open a savings account for you?" mother suggested.  Cathy was delighted.
"It's your account, darling," mother said as they arrived at the bank, "so you fill out the application."
Cathy was doing fine until she came to the space for 'Name of your former bank.'
After a slight hesitation, she put down 'Piggy.' 

 A Quickie - From Bud's Joke Page

How did bulldogs get such flat noses?
          From chasing parked cars.

                   UH HUH!!  Might be a bit distasteful to some but I just couldn't help it. Mike

This one from C. Wayne Wert
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale has hit Mexico.  Two million Mexicans have died, and over a million are injured.  The country is totally ruined, and the government doesn't know where to start with asking for help to rebuild.
The rest of the world is in shock.
Canada is sending troopers to help the Mexican army control the riots.
Saudi Arabia is sending oil.
Other Latin American countries are sending supplies.
The European community (except France) is sending food and money.
The United States, not to be outdone, is sending two million replacement Mexicans.

               You Live In...   Linda Frye for this one.  Welcome back folks.

You live in Arizona when..
1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2. You can open and drive your car without touching the car door or the steering wheel.
3. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
4. You would give anything to be able to splash cold water on your face.
5. You can attend any function wearing shorts and a tank top.
6. "Dress Code" is meaningless at high schools and universities. Picture lingerie ads.
7. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
8. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
9. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!
10. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.

You Live in California when...
1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The high school quarterback calls a time-out to answer his cell phone.
3. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
4. You know how to eat an artichoke.
5. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
6. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.

You Live in New York City when...
1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
4. You think Central Park is "nature".
5. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
6. You've worn out a car horn.
7. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

You Live in Maine when...
1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.

You Live in the Deep South when...
1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2."ya'll" is singular and "all ya'll" is plural.
3. After five years you still hear, "You ain't from 'round here, are Ya?"
4. "He needed killin' " is a valid defense.
5. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.

You live in Colorado when...
1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

You live in the Midwest when...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"

You live in Florida when....
1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you are often driven by headless people

                                                      And Finally...A Maxine

GROANERS:
 

       Herb Larson sent this one.

Fishing Trip "BLUE PAJAMAS"
A man called home to his wife and says, "Honey I have been asked to go fishing up in Canada with my boss & several of his friends.
We'll be gone for a week.
This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I've been wanting so could you please pack enough clothes for a week and set out my rod and tackle box?
We're leaving from the office & I will swing by the house to pick my things up." "Oh!  Please pack my new blue silk pajamas."
The wife thinks this sounds a bit FISHY but being the good wife, she does exactly what her husband asked.
The following weekend he came home a little tired but otherwise looking good.  The wife welcomes him home and asks if he caught many fish?
He says, "Yes!  Lots of Walleye, some Blue gill, and a few Pike.  But why didn't you pack my new blue silk pajamas like I asked you to do?
The wife replied, "I did, they're in your tackle box."

                   C. Wayne Wert and Tom Livingston sent this blondie

Blonde was sitting on the train reading the newspaper.
The headline blared, "12 Brazilian Soldiers Killed."
She shook her head at the sad news, then turned to the stranger sitting next to her and asked, "How many is a Brazilian?" 

                               Sister Pat Hughes sent this Blondie.

Amy, a blond Texas girl from the city, marries a Texas rancher. One morning, on his way out to check on the cows, the rancher says to Amy, "The artificial insemination man is coming over to impregnate one of our cows today.   I drove a nail into the two-by-four just above the cow's stall in the barn.   You show him where the cow is when he gets here, okay?"
The rancher leaves for the fields.   After a while the artificial insemination man arrives and knocks on the front door.   Amy takes him down to the barn.  They walk along a long row of cows and when she sees the nail, she tells him, "This is the one . . . right here."
Terribly impressed by what he assumed was just another ditzy blond, the man asks, "How did you know this is the cow to be bred?" "That's simple -- by the nail over its stall," Amy explains.
Then the man asks, "What's the nail for?"
As she walks away, she turns her head back over her shoulder & says to the man . "I guess it's to hang your pants on."

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