Another week, another seven days of wet and windy weather. And so it goes on. The forecaster’s job has certainly been pretty easy these past weeks. On Friday and Saturday it seems we had a months’ worth of rain in two days – considering that we’ve already had several months’ worth of rain we are coming to the conclusion that this is just getting silly. Continue reading “16 February 2014”
16 February 2014 – Amusements
I know we’ve had this before (22 January 2012, apparently, and that wasn’t the first time) but I still love it.
A man and an ostrich walk into a restaurant. The waitress asks, “What will it be?”
The man replied, “A burger and a coke.”
“And you?”
“I’ll have the same,” the ostrich replies.
They finish their meal and ask for the bill.
“That will be $4.50,” the waitress says.
The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out the exact amount. They do this every day until Friday.
“The usual?” the waitress asks.
“No, today is Friday. I’ll have steak and a coke.”
“Me too.” says the ostrich.
They finish and ask for the bill.
“That will be $10.95”
The man reaches in and pulls out the exact amount again just every other day that week.
The waitress was dumb-founded. “How is it that you always are able to pull out the exact amount fo money each time?”
“Well,” says the man. “I was cleaning my attic one day and I found a dusty lamp. I rubbed it and a genie appeared.
” Wow!” said the waitress. “What did you wish for?”
“I asked that whenever I needed to pay for something, the exact amount of money would appear in my pocket.”
“What a great wish! Most people would ask for a million dollars. But what’s with the ostrich?”
“Well,” said the man. “I also asked for a chick with long legs.” Continue reading “16 February 2014 – Amusements”