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Today's Quotations – Laughter

 

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

—  Samuel Butler
 

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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

— Anthony Burgess

 
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh..

—  W. H. Auden

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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

—  Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712

 

 
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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?

— Kelvin Throop, III

 

Today's One Liner Wisdom



He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Mark Twain

 

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  Today's Word – PAROCHIAL
   

 


pa·ro·chi·al
adjective 1. Of, relating to, supported by, or located in a parish. 2. Narrowly restricted in scope or outlook; provincial: parochial attitudes.

The bishop wrote to Theobald most warmly, and assured him that he valued him as among the most hard-working and devoted of his parochial clergy.

WAY OF ALL FLESH
Samuel Butler

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 


Coca-Cola

 

  

 

Coca-Cola  – March 29

On March 29 in 1886 a new bubbly drink went on sale in a drugstore in Atlanta, Georgia. This new beverage was Coca - Cola. It was an "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage." It was purported to cure anything from hysteria to the common cold. The inventor, Dr. John Pemberton, claimed the tonic was the perfect cure-all.

The nonalcoholic drink was made from a secret recipe. It included syrup, caffeine from the cola nut and a tincture of coca leaves. The mixture was said to relieve exhaustion. It would quickly ease the tired brain - soothe the rattled nerves - and restore wasted energy to the mind and body. It was said to enable the entire system to cope with any heavy demands made upon it. All of this due largely to the cocaine content.

The new brew of Dr. Pemberton was facing stiff competition from other elixirs. Imperial Inca Cola was a big competitor. Coca-Cola was available at the fountain of your local drugstore for only 5 cents.

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Today's SMILE

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

 
   

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

A FEW SMILES   


Doctor's Advice

The doctor recommended a running schedule of ten miles a week for a patient. After a week, the patient called, "Doc, I'm seventy miles away now. What should I do now?' 


True Story

From: bsellers@cneti.com (Billy & Sharon Sellers)

A true story as told by mom- Sharon Sellers:

  My son Derek came home from school one day and told me that this girl and boy in his class was going to french kiss.  He said do you know what french kissing is?   I said "yes, do you?" 

He said "Yeah, it's kissing in tongues?"


Signs Seen in the USA

In a funeral parlor: Ask about our layaway plan.

In a clothing store: Wonderful bargains for men with 16 and 17 necks.

In a Tacoma, Washington men's clothing store: 15 men's wool suits, $10.
They won't last an hour!  


Suspicious Spouse

Sometimes partners are overly suspicious of their spouses. When Adam stayed out very late for a few nights, Eve became upset. "You're running around with other women," she charged.

"You're being unreasonable," Adam responded. "You're the only woman on earth."

The quarrel continued until Adam fell asleep, only to be awakened by someone poking him in the chest.

It was Eve.

"What do you think you're doing?" Adam demanded.

"Counting your ribs," said Eve. 


A Thoughtful Gift

After she woke up, a woman told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Easter.  What   do you think it means?"
         
"You'll know tonight," he said.
         
That evening, the man came home with a small package and  gave it to his wife.   Delighted, she eager opened it – to find a book titled "The Meaning of Dreams."



Milk Bath

A woman went into the grocery and asked for fifty gallons of milk. The clerk, amazed, asked her what she was going to do with that much milk. "I have a skin problem and the doctor prescribed a milk bath." The clerk asked, "Pasteurized?" She replied, . . . "No just up to my chin."

(By Katrina Farmer in The Punster)


I'd Like to Order

 The manager of a large city zoo was drafting a letter to order a pair of animals. He sat at his computer and typed the following sentence: "I would like to place an order for two mongooses, to be delivered at your earliest convenience."

He stared at the screen, focusing on that odd word mongooses. Then he deleted the word and added another, so that the sentence now read: "I would like to place an order for two mongeese, to be delivered at your earliest convenience."

 Again he stared at the screen, this time focusing on the new word, which seemed just as odd as the original one. Finally, he deleted the whole sentence and started all over. "Everyone knows no full-stocked zoo should be without a mongoose," he typed. "Please send us two of them." 


Great Value

Two elderly neighbors were talking the other day and one said to the other.

"Hey I just bought a new hearing aid the other day, best hearing aid I've ever had, thing cost over 4,000 dollars."

"Great! What kind is it?"

"About 12:30"


Saved by Logic?

A man was captured by an indigenous group and was told that, because he was an intruder, he would have to be punished. If the next thing the man said was a true statement, he would be thrown off a cliff. If he said a statement that was false, he would be eaten by lions. What can the man say that would make the group let him go?

A: "I will be eaten by lions." It would force the captors to be illogical either way --

* If they threw the man off a cliff, the statement would be false so they should have thrown him to the lions

* If they fed him to the lions, the statement would be true, so they should have thrown him off a cliff. So they let him go




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