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Bloopers From School Essays
Queen Victoria was the longest Queen. Madame Curie discovered radio and Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers. The 19th century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he […]
New Car
Oscar drove his brand new Mercedes to his favourite sporting goods store. He parked it outside and went in to do a little perusing with Jan, his regular sales woman. Jan was a pretty blonde, and as Oscar walked into the store, she happily greeted him. But he requested to look around alone today before […]
Kids
* A kindergarten teacher asked, “What is the shape of the earth ?” One lil’ girl spoke up: “According to my Daddy — terrible!” * Trying to come to the aid of his Father, who was stopped by an officer for speeding, the lil’ tyke piped up, “Yeah? Well, if we were speeding, so were […]
Sayings (Haven’t I Seen This Before?)
He who laughs last, thinks slowest A day without sunshine is like, well, night Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse? I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory Seen it all, done it all. Can’t remember most of it […]
The Deck Of Cards
This is a story about a soldier in the North Africa Campaign in World War II. After heavy fighting the men returned to camp. The next day being Sunday, the Chaplain had set up church service. The men were asked to take out their Bibles or prayer book. The Chaplain noticed one soldier looking at […]
Food For Thought
In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband’s lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired. (Ah! Justice!) In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time […]
One Day At The Market
A boy and his father were shopping in the market one day. The little boy was bored, and playing a game flipping a coin into the air and then catching it with his teeth. Suddenly, the boy caught the coin at the wrong moment and the coin dropped into his mouth and lodged in his […]
Jury Service
Murphy, a dishonest lawyer, bribed a man on his client’s jury to hold out for a charge of manslaughter, as opposed to the charge of murder which was brought by the state. The jury was out for several days before they returned with the manslaughter verdict. When Murphy paid the corrupt juror, he asked him […]
Wise Words
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong. It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them You can’t have everything. Where would you […]
Wise Words (Another One)
Many years ago I heard a Trade Union delegate talking about possible strike action and complaining “Half our members earn less than the national average”. I waited for verification but it was before the days of action replay.
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