{"id":1705,"date":"2011-08-28T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2011-08-26T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T12:00:23","slug":"28-august-2011-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2011\/08\/28\/28-august-2011-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"28 August 2011 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother and father were chatting with their eight-year-old son about his future. The youngster said he&#8217;d like to attend Cornell, as his parents and other members of the family had. Pleased with his response, they pressed on. &#8220;What would you like to take when you attend college?&#8221; they asked the little boy.<\/p>\n<p>After giving it some thought and glancing around the kitchen, he replied, &#8220;The refrigerator, if you can get along without it.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A Swiss man, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus stop where two Americans are waiting. <em>\u201cEntschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?\u201d<\/em> he asks.<\/p>\n<p>The two Americans just stare at him.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cExcusez-moi, parlez vous Francais?\u201d<\/em> he tries.<\/p>\n<p>The two continue to stare.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cParlare Italiano?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No response.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHablan ustedes Espa\u00f1ol?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss guy drives off, extremely disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>The first American turns to the second and says, \u201cY\u2019know, maybe we should learn a foreign language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d says the other. \u201cThat guy knew four languages, and it didn\u2019t do him any good.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A man died and his wife phoned the newspaper to place an obituary. She called the obituary department and said, &#8220;This is what I want to print: \u2018Bernie is dead.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man at the newspaper said, &#8220;But for $25 you are allowed to print six words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The woman answered, &#8220;OK. Then print: \u2018Bernie is dead. Toyota for sale.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother and father were chatting with their eight-year-old son about his future. The youngster said he&#8217;d like to attend Cornell, as his parents and other members of the family had. Pleased with his response, they pressed on. &#8220;What would you like to take when you attend college?&#8221; they asked the little boy. After giving &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2011\/08\/28\/28-august-2011-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;28 August 2011 &#8211; Amusements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-rv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}