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Today's Quotations – LAUGHTER

 

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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

—  Groucho Marx
 

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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

— The Talmud

 
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

—  Mark Twain

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

— Jean de La Bruyere

 

Today's One Liner Wisdom



"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people." 

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

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  Today's Word – ACERBIC
   

 


   a·cer·bic also a·cerb -adjective. Sour or bitter, as in taste, character, or tone: Synonym bitter.

At times, the playwright allows an acerbic tone to pierce through otherwise arid or flowery prose.

Alvin Klein

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 


Highest
&
Lowest

 
 

Mount McKinley in Alaska is the highest point in the United States. At 20,320 feet it is also the highest point in North America. Mount Whitney, California, is the highest point in the continental United States. Mt. Whitney is 14,494 feet high. Death Valley, California is the lowest point in the United States. At 282 feet below sea level it is also the lowest point in the entire western Hemisphere..

SOURCE:  The Handy Science Answer Book - Visible Press

 

 

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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   

Mary's Little Lamb from the Lab


Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was slightly gray,
It didn't have a father, just some borrowed DNA.
It sort of had a mother, though the ovum was on loan,
It was not so much a lambkin, as a little lamby clone.
And soon it had a fellow clone, and soon it had some more.
They followed her to school one day, all cramming through the door.

It made the children laugh and sing, the teachers found it droll,
There were too many lamby clones, for Mary to control.
No other could control the sheep, since their programs didn't vary,

So the scientists resolved it all, by simply cloning Mary.
But now they feel quite sheepish, those scientists unwary,
One problem solved, but what to do, with Mary, Mary, Mary...


PRETZEL SALES

A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young lawyer would leave his office building at lunch time and, as he passed her pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but would never take a pretzel.


This went on for more than five years. The two of them never spoke. One day as the lawyer passed the old ladies pretzel stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel woman spoke to him, " Sir, I appreciate your business. You are a good customer, but I have to tell you that the pretzel price has increased to 35 cents."


Reading Stats

"The Department of Education says 40 million Americans cannot read or count. It's astounding. And if you don't believe it, just take a look at the person directly in front of you in the express checkout line."

(Argus Hamilton)


Sick of Blonde Jokes

This blonde decides one day that she is sick and tired of all these blonde jokes and how all blondes are perceived as stupid, so she decides to show her husband that blondes really are smart. While her husband is off at work, she decides that she is going to paint a couple of rooms in the house.

The next day, right after her husband leaves for work, she gets down to the task at hand.

Her husband arrives home at 5:30 and smells the distinctive smell of paint.  He walks into the living room and finds his wife lying on the floor in a pool of sweat. He notices that she is wearing a ski jacket and a fur coat at the same time. He goes over and asks her if she is OK.

She replies yes.

He asks what she is doing.

She replies that she wanted to prove to him that not all blonde women are dumb and she wanted to do it by painting the house.

He then asks her why she has a ski jacket and a fur coat on.

She replies that she was reading the directions the paint can and they said, for best results, put on two coats.

From Best of Humor


Riddles

 

What won't break if you throw off the highest building in the world, but will break if you place it in the ocean?

A tissue.


What's better than the best thing and worse than the worst thing?

Nothing.


What is the biggest ant?

An elephant.


What is three feet long?

A yard.


What do fish play on the piano?

Scales.


What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work?

A stick.


What do you call three rabbits in a row, hopping backwards simultaneously?

A receding hareline.


What do you get from a pampered cow?

Spoiled milk.


What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?

An anchor.


What has more lives than a cat?

A frog. It croaks every night. 


Geometry teacher to class: "A six-sided polygon is called a hexagon, a five-sided ones are called pentagons."

"What about two sided ones?" asked a student.

"They don't exist." said the teacher.

"I beg to differ! I think we should just let bi-gons be bi-gons."


A little boy was in a relative's wedding. As he was coming down the aisle he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd (alternating between bride's side and groom's side). While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar loudly.

So it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR all the way down the aisle.

As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from laughing so hard by the time he reached the front. The little boy, however, was getting more and more distressed from all the laughing, and was near tears by the time he reached the pulpit. When asked what he was doing, the child sniffed and said, "I was being the Ring Bear."




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  everything else has already gone wrong, and the day's ruined anyway.

 


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