Today was so beautiful and clear as most first days after rain. Much as I enjoyed the rain, I'm glad for the respite.
There was an old married couple who had lived happily together
for nearly forty years. The only friction in their marriage was
caused by the husband's habit of breaking wind nearly every
morning as he awoke.
The noise would always wake up his wife and the smell would cause
her eyes to water as she would choke and gasp for air.
Nearly every morning she would plead with him to stop ripping
such nasty farts. He told her that he couldn't help it. She
begged him to see a doctor to see if anything could be done, but
the husband wouldn't hear of it. He told her that it was just a
natural bodily function and then he would laugh in her face as
she tried to wave the fumes away with her hands.
She told him that there was nothing natural about it and if he
didn't stop, he was one day going to "fart his guts out."
The years went by and the wife continued to suffer and the
husband continued to ignore her warnings about "farting his guts
out" until one Thanksgiving morning.
Before dawn, the wife went downstairs to prepare the turkey.
While she was taking out the turkey's innards, a thought occurred
to her as to how she might solve her husband's problem. With a
devilish grin on her face, she placed the turkey guts into a bowl
and quietly walked upstairs before her flatulent husband awoke.
While he was still soundly asleep, she pulled back the covers and
then gently pulled back her husband's jockey shorts. She then
placed all of the turkey guts into her husband's underwear,
pulled them up, replaced the covers and tiptoed back downstairs
to finish preparing the family meal.
Several hours later she heard her husband awake with his normal
loud ass-trumpeting. This was soon followed by a blood curdling
scream and the sound of frantic footsteps as her husband ran to
the upstairs bathroom.
The wife could not control herself and her eyes began to tear up
as she rolled on the floor laughing. After years of putting up
with him, she had finally gotten even!
About twenty minutes later, her husband came downstairs in his
blood stained underpants with a look of horror in his eyes. She
bit her lip to keep from laughing and she asked him what was
wrong.
He said, "Honey, you were right - all those years you warned me
and I didn't listen to you"
"What do you mean?" asked his wife.
"Well you always told me that I would end up farting my guts out
one of these days and today it finally happened. But by the grace
of God and these two fingers... I think I got' em all back in!!!"
AS PROMISED: "The lighter side..." and free erudite opinions (and whines and gripes, that may not be politically correct), hyperboles and advice (on current events as well as topics for the digerati), and even some temporary(?) insanities too (daily risibility exercises)!... And the Picture-Of-The-Week:
Picoftheweek
My Statement
"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman
Quote of Note
“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields
"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld
"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid
"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein
"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown
"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman