Digest for Sunday, May 04, 1997
There are 9 messages totalling 482 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
- Religion
- The marine core... (offensive to Irishmen)
- Newtronium
- Top 10 (innuendo), Children (clean), Confucious (innuendo)
- PBS Schedule...If...
- Electronic Engineers girlfriend
- Lesson in Economics
- HUMOR Digest - 2 May 1997 to 3 May 1997
- Top5 - 5/5/97 - Items in the "Republic of Texas" Constitution (fwd)
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 02:54:07 -0400
From: Jim Moore Jr <jimjr@PIPELINE.COM>
Subject: Religion <some adult humor>
* At one point in my life I had considered joining the Baptist
Church. For those of you who don't know, the Baptists practice
total body immersion to baptize a person. Luckily I even knew
a minister in that faith, having dated his daughter, and I asked
him if he would consider performing the service.
He paused a minute or two, gave me a long thoughtful look and
said, "Jimmy, if you're serious about this, a dipping just won't
do it for you. We'll have to find a place to anchor you overnite.
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* The Guru proposed marriage to one of his attractive followers. He
had reached a point in his life where he wanted to contemplate
someone else's navel.
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* There's a new sect just the New Agers. It's called "Jehovah's
Bystanders". That's a Witness who doesn't want to get involved.
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* A visitor to the nunnery asked a sharp, modern young Nun, "Do you
think the Pope will ever allow Nuns to marry ?"
The Nun answered, "Someday she might."
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* A Bishop was approached one morning by a Priest. "Your Eminence,"
the Priest said, "there's a young lad here who claims to be seeing
a vision of our Savior in the chapel. What should I do ?"
The Bishop jumped up saying, "Well, I don't know about you, but
I'm gonna look real busy !"
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* A Priest and a Rabbi are sitting on a park bench. The Priest asks,
"Rabbi, have you ever had ham ?"
The Rabbi says, "Yes Father, I have to confess and be totally honest
with you. I did indeed try ham. But tell me, have you ever had sex ?"
The Priest said, "Well since you were honest with me, yes, I'm afraid
in a moment of weakness, I did indeed have sex."
The Rabbi says, "Beats the hell outta ham, don't it ?"
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 15:04:20 +0400
From: Chemo Shaks <shaks@EMIRATES.NET.AE>
Subject: The marine core... (offensive to Irishmen)
This Englishman, Scottsman, and Irishman were trying to pass the test to
qualify for the Brittish Marines.
"For the last test" yelled the commander, "You take this gun and enter that
room... your wife is in there. You are required to shoot her!"
The Englishman enters with the gun, and comes out 5 minutes later. "I
couldn't do it, commander. We've been marrried three years, and we love each
other."
"FAILED!" yells the commander.
The Scottsman enters with the gun, and comes out 10 minutes later. "I
couldn't do it, commander. We also love each other!"
"FAILED!" yells the commander.
The Irishman enters. They hear 3 shots and screaming for 10 minutes. Then he
comes out.
"How did you do?" asks the commander.
"Well, sir, some idiot loaded the gun with blanks, so I had to strangle the
bitch!"
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SEEYA!
Chemo
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 09:17:20 -0400
From: George Hughes <hughie@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: Newtronium <Am political humor>
Scientists have reported a remarkable discovery ... a dense gas that's
highly volatile for a couple of years, then turns completely inert and
evaporates. It's called Newt-ronium.
Thanks to Frank and Ernest cartoons, 4-28-97, www.frankandernest.com
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 17:34:34 +0200
From: Brian Myers <bmyers@IAFRICA.COM>
Subject: Top 10 (innuendo), Children (clean), Confucious (innuendo)
-= 4/28/97 DAVID LETTERMAN'S TOP10 FROM WEBSLINGERZ.NET =-
-= Top Ten Things overheard During Celebrity Jeopardy =-
10. "I'll take 'questions so easy even a celebrity has a chance' for $1000,
Alex"
9. "Nobody's buzzing in -- Robert Downey Jr. just fell asleep on the button"
8. "Pamela Anderson sure knows her 18th Century European Statesman"
7. "I'm sorry, Mr. Brando, But your answer must be in the form of the
English Language"
6. "That's incorrect -- but we'll give you the points anyway, O.J"
5. "For the last time, Mr. Sajak, you cannot buy a vowel"
4. "It doesn't seem fair to have an 'overweight drunks' category the same
night Ted Kennedy is on"
3. "Ms. Parton, you give new meaning to the phrase 'Daily Double'"
2. "Somebody ought to tell Charlie Sheen to stop hitting on Ellen Degeneres"
1. "Oh my Gosh -- It's the ghost of Paul Lynde, and he's demanding to be
the center square!"
Do you like these? Then visit: http://www.webslingerz.net/ (posted with
permission)
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Child Dictionary (clean)
DUMBWAITER: one who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.
FEEDBACK: the inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the
strained carrots.
FULL NAME: what you call your child when you're mad at him.
GRANDPARENTS: the people who think your children are wonderful even though
they're sure you're not raising them right.
HEARSAY: what toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.
INDEPENDENT: how we want our children to be as long as they do everything we
say.
OW: the first word spoken by children with older siblings
PUDDLE: a small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry
shoes into it.
SHOW OFF: a child who is more talented than yours.
STERILIZE: what you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to
your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it.
TOP BUNK: where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies.
TWO-MINUTE WARNING: when the baby's face turns red and she begins to make
those familiar grunting noises.
VERBAL: able to whine in words
WHODUNIT: none of the kids that live in your house
(from Roshan's humor list)
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Confucious say (we've seen similar here, but not these, I believe):
Man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day.
Man who stand on toilet high on pot.
It is good for girl to meet boy in park, but better for boy to park meat in
girl.
Man who jizz in cash register come into money.
Man who drop watch in toilet have shitty time.
Man who fart in church must sit in own pew.
Man who finger girl having period get caught red handed.
Man trapped in pantry have ass in jam.
Baseball wrong--man with four balls cannot walk.
Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.
Man who go to bed with itchy butt wake up with smelly finger.
Learn to masturbate--come in handy.
Woman who pounce on dead rooster go down on limp cock.
Man who buy drowned cat must pay for wet pussy.
Virgin like balloon--one prick, all gone.
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 17:37:07 -0400
From: Lee_Bradley <lbradley@GRITS.VALDOSTA.PEACHNET.EDU>
Subject: PBS Schedule...If...
Forwarded to me via a string of people:
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A TYPICAL DAILY PBS SCHEDULE IF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING
LEADERS CAVE IN TO REPUBLICAN PRESSURE
8:00 am Morning Stretch: Arnold Schwarzenegger does squats while
reciting passages of "Atlas Shrugged."
9:00 am Mr. Rogers' Segregated Neighborhood: King Friday sings "Elitism
is neat." The House Un-American Activities investigation of Mr. McFeely
continues. Mr. Rogers explains why certain kids can't be his neighbor.
10:00 am Sesame Street: Jerry Falwell teaches Big Bird to be more
judgemental. Oscar the Grouch plays substitute for Rush Limbaugh. Bert and
Ernie are kicked out of the military. Jesse Helms bleaches all the
Muppets white.
11:00 am Square One: A MathNet episode "Ernest Does Trickle-Down." Jim
Varney explains how cutting taxes for the rich and spending more on
defense will balance the budget.
12 Noon Washington Week in Review: Special guest Senator Bob Dole,
explaining why the current pension crisis, budget deficit, bank
closings, farm foreclosures, S & L bailouts, inflation, recession, job
loss, and trade deficit can all be blamed on someone else.
1:00 pm Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? Guest detective Pat
Buchanan helps kids build a wall around the U.S.
2:00 pm William F. Buckley's Firing Line: Guests George Will, Rush
Limbaugh, John Sununu, Pat Buchanan, James Kilpatrick, Mona Charen, G.
Gordon Liddy, Robert Novak, Bay Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Joseph Sobran,
Paul Harvey, Phyllis Schafly, Maureen Reagan, and John McLaughlin
bemoan the need for more conservative media voices.
3:00 pm Nature: Join James Watt and Charlton Heston as they use
machine guns to bag endangered species.
4:00 pm NOVA: "Creationism: Discredited, but what the hell?"
5:00 pm Newt Gingrich News Hour: Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood
present in-depth personal reports on sexual harassment. Pat Buchanan
says he is being shut out from national exposure.
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6:00 pm Mystery Theater: Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, and Sherlock
Holmes team up to investigate Whitewater.
7:00 pm Great Performances: Pat Buchanan is a guest conductor of
Wagner's "Prelude to a Cultural War."
8:00 pm Masterpiece Theater: Ibsen's "A Doll's House." Phyllis
Schafly contributes to this classic with an added scene in which Nora
gladly gives up her independence while her husband chains her to the
stove.
9:30 pm Washington Week in Review: Guests George Will, Rush Limbaugh,
John Sununu, Pat Buchanan, James Kilpatrick, Mona Charen, G. Gordon
Liddy, Robert Novak, Bay Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Joseph Sobran, Paul
Harvey, Phyllis Schafly, Maureen Reagan, and John McLaughlin discuss
liberal media bias.
10:00 pm Adam Smith's Money World: How to Profit from Ozone Depletion
10:30 pm Nightly Business Report: Wall Street celebrates the end of
all laws regarding antitrust, consumer protection, work-place safety,
environmental protection, minimum wage and child labor.
11:00 pm Insights of Dan Quayle
11:01 pm Sign-Off
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 19:54:01 -0400
From: Gwendolyn E Eckman <geckman@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU>
Subject: Electronic Engineer's girlfriend
Yesterday afternoon my girlfriend and I had lunch together. Afterward,
she accompanied me back to work. I thought this slightly unusual, since
she had never before expressed an interest in my work (electronic
engineering), but it didn't occur to me that she had something planned.
We arrived at my workbench, where I currently trying to figure why the
board on which I am working is not performing the way it is designed. "Is
this where you work?" she asked.
"At the moment," I replied.
I reached over to turn on the scope, thereby completely failing to notice
the huge black studded collar she had produced from her purse. Before I
could blink (it's amazing the speed at which she can do this), she had
locked the collar snugly around my neck, and locked the end of the 6 foot
jack chain to the center of the bench ( where there just happened to be a
mounting hole). I turned to her in utter disbelief, mouth agape.
"I'll be back for you at five," she said.
"HAVE YOU GONE COMPLETELY WACKO!??!?!", I yelled in a hushed voice. "How
am I going to explain this!?!?!"
"You'll think of something", she said, "you always do".
"But suppose I have to go to the bathroom", I countered.
"Don't give me that", she hissed, "I've seen you go a whole day without
visiting the bathroom"
"But....," I tried to say.
"SHHH! The subject is closed. I'll be back at five. Bye"
She turned around and left, against my hushed protests. I sat in panic and
tried to think out my situation. I tried to think of who might visit.
Most of my co-workers were friends who knew that my girlfriend and I were
a bit odd, so this shouldn't surprise them. But I had *no* idea what I was
going to do if one of my bosses came in. I checked my watch to see how
long I would have to endure this ignominy. 13:30 (I'm a military time
weenie). "Three and a half hours," I thought. I heaved a heavy sigh, and
got to work, such as I could. As it happened, three of my co-workers
visited for what-not. All of them immediately noticed the collar (it would
be hard not to) and asked if it was my girlfriend's idea. I said yes. They
asked what I would do if my supervisor saw it. I told them I hadn't the
faintest idea.
One of the aforementioned colleagues took the bench next to me, and after
a few remarks (and a question as to where he could get such a collar),
settled down to work in silence.
After some time, I checked my watch. 16:40. "Gee, I just might make it
through this after all," I thought. I was even beginning to get a handle
on the problem with the board on which I was working. Murphy must have
been standing right behind me, reading my thoughts, for not two minutes
later one of my bosses entered the room. And not just any boss.
Noooooooo. This was Mr. Narrowminded himself. This was the guy who took
Lifespring *and* became a born-again fundamentalist. How he came to have
the power of hire-and-fire over us is one of the Great Mysteries of The
Universe. We avoided this guy at all costs.
His eyes fell upon me immediately. A few picoseconds later, he saw the
collar around my neck in all it's splendor. "My life is over," I thought.
I still hadn't thought of a plausible explanation for this. Mr Solderbrain
(the name we called him behind his back; a corruption of his real name)
started to walk slowly and deliberately over to me, his eyes fixed on the
collar. Fifteen agonizing seconds later, he was standing next to me. I
thought the guy sitting next to me was going to have seizures stifling all
his giggles. I continued to work, acting as though there were nothing the
least bit unusual about my predicament.
Finally, he spoke.
"What. the. HELL! is. THAT!?!?!" he said.
I don't know how I thought of what I said. In fact, I'm pretty sure I
didn't know what I was going to say until I was saying it. I'm even more
amazed that Solderbrain actually bought it and didn't fire me on the spot.
I turned to face him calmly, with total nonchalance, exuding complete
confidence in what I was about to say, even though I didn't know what it
was yet. I didn't even miss a beat.
"Grounding strap," I said, and returned to work.
The guy next to me fell off his chair and nearly died laughing.
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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 00:33:00 GMT
From: Aditya, the Hindu Skeptic <aditya@SMART1.NET>
Subject: Lesson in Economics
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts
them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all
the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and
puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by
ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government
took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and
as many eggs as the regulations say you should need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take
care of them, and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of
them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but
the government takes all the milk.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots
you.
SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for
keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.
MILITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts
you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the
milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone
to tell you who gets the milk.
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you
vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for
speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate".
BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheep' brains and
they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what
you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to
milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and
pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms
accounting for the missing cows.
ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or
your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows.
CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your
publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your
brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt / equity swap with
associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax
deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are
transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company
secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all
seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that
the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you
kill the two cows because the fung shui is bad.
ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you from
milking or killing them.
FEMINISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.
TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies
they ever existed. Milk is banned.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: You are associated with (the concept of
"ownership" is a symbol of the phallo - centric, war - mongering,
intolerant past) two differently aged (but no less valuable to society)
bovines of non specified gender.
COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. You got
to have some of this milk.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take
harmonica lessons.
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:41:46 -0400
From: Barbara Anderson <BSA0429@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: HUMOR Digest - 2 May 1997 to 3 May 1997
Could someone tell me how to post to this list? When I had a computer glitch
a few weeks ago, I lost all of my information regarding this. Thanks.
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:47:12 -0400
From: John Vogel <jvogel@DGS.DGSYS.COM>
Subject: Top5 - 5/5/97 - Items in the "Republic of Texas" Constitution (fwd)
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T H E T O P F I V E L I S T
Chiseled from Pure Italian Marble
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May 5, 1997
The Top 16 Items in the "Republic of Texas" Constitution
16> Tax code allows deduction for one hostage takeover/standoff per
family, per year.
15> Every Thursday: 2-for-1 drinks at Hooters!
14> Nobuddy shuld be descrimnated aginst, less'n he's from New York
(or is otherwise Jewish or Muslim or somethin'), or is just
kinda dark or differnt in some way.
13> Barbecued ribs are legal tender for all debts.
12> Congress shall make no law restricting the size of hats or belt
buckles.
11> Citizens to receive one vote per gun owned.
10> Constitutional amendment requires 2/3 majority of both houses
of legislature. Either that, or Tom Landry's say-so.
9> The right to bare breasts, but only on cable, dammit -- not in
real life.
8> Vegetarians count as 3/5 of a person.
7> Freedom of religion: you can worship the Cowboys *or* Willie
Nelson.
6> Civil disputes that cannot be resolved in court shall be
settled by a chili cook-off.
5> Freedom of Delusion.
4> No citizen will be charged extra for gravy on French fries.
3> Cold beer cans can be used as "testicular temperature
regulators" when operating a motor vehicle.
2> State bird: Raised middle finger.
and the Number 1 Item in the "Republic of Texas" Constitution...
1> You have the right to be on the cover of Trailer Park Trash
Magazine.
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