{"id":2562,"date":"2012-01-22T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T10:47:31","slug":"22-january-2012-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2012\/01\/22\/22-january-2012-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"22 January 2012 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, we&#8217;ve had it before but it&#8217;s still cute:<\/p>\n<p>A man and an ostrich walk into a restaurant. The waitress asks, &#8220;What will it be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man replied &#8220;I\u2019ll have a burger and a coke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll have the same,&#8221; the ostrich replies.<\/p>\n<p>They finish their meal and pay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That will be $4.50,\u201d the waitress says.<\/p>\n<p>The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out the exact amount. They do this every day until Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The usual?&#8221; she asks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, today is Friday. I&#8217;ll have steak and a coke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me too.&#8221; says the ostrich. They finish and pay. &#8220;That will be $10.95&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man reaches in and pulls out the exact amount again just like all week.<\/p>\n<p>The waitress is dumb-founded. &#8220;How is it that you always have the exact amount?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; says the man. &#8220;I was cleaning my attic one day and I found a dusty lamp. I rubbed it and a genie appeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow!&#8221; said the waitress. &#8220;What did you wish for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked that when I needed to pay for something, the exact amount would appear in my pocket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazing! Most people would ask for a million dollars. But what&#8217;s with the ostrich?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; said the man. &#8220;I also asked for a chick with long legs.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A man mentioned to his landlord about the tenants in the apartment over his. \u201cMany a night they stamp on the floor and shout till midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the landlord asked if it bothered him, he replied, \u201cNot really, for I usually stay up and practice my trumpet till about that time most every night anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A young woman visits her parents and brings her fianc\u00e9 to meet them. After an elaborate dinner, the mother tells her husband to find out about the young man.<\/p>\n<p>The father invites the fianc\u00e9e to his library for a drink. \u201cSo what are your plans?\u201d the father asks the young man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a Torah scholar.\u201d He says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Torah scholar, Hmmm,\u201d the father says. \u201cAdmirable, but what will you do to provide a nice house for my daughter to live in, as she is accustomed to?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will study,\u201d the young man said, and God will provide for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd how will you buy her a beautiful engagement ring, such as she deserves?\u201d asks the father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will concentrate on my studies,\u201d the young man replies, \u201cGod will provide for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd children?\u201d asks the father. \u201cHow will you support children?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry, sir, God will provide,\u201d replies the fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation continues like this, and each time the father questions, the young idealist insist that God will provide.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the mother asks, \u201cHow did it go, Honey?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The father answers, \u201cHe has no job and no plans, but the good news is he thinks I\u2019m God.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, we&#8217;ve had it before but it&#8217;s still cute: A man and an ostrich walk into a restaurant. The waitress asks, &#8220;What will it be?&#8221; The man replied &#8220;I\u2019ll have a burger and a coke.&#8221; &#8220;And you?&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ll have the same,&#8221; the ostrich replies. They finish their meal and pay. &#8220;That will be $4.50,\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2012\/01\/22\/22-january-2012-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;22 January 2012 &#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-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-Fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","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=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}