{"id":2960,"date":"2012-04-29T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2012-04-27T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T21:08:06","slug":"29-april-2012-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2012\/04\/29\/29-april-2012-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"29 April 2012 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we\u2019ve had a variation of this one before but what the heck:<\/p>\n<p>Our teacher asked what my favourite animal was, and I said, &#8220;Fried chicken.&#8221; She said I wasn&#8217;t funny, but she couldn&#8217;t have been right, because everyone else laughed.<\/p>\n<p>My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favourite animal. I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much. I do, too. Especially chicken, pork and beef. Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal&#8217;s office. I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favourite live animal was. I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken.<\/p>\n<p>She sent me back to the principal&#8217;s office. He laughed, and told me not to do it again. I don&#8217;t understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn&#8217;t like it when I am.<\/p>\n<p>Today, my teacher asked us to tell her what famous person we admire most. I told her, &#8220;Colonel Sanders.&#8221; Guess where I am now&#8230;?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site.<\/p>\n<p>She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pardon me, sir, I&#8217;m Rebecca Smith from CNN. What&#8217;s your name?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Morris Feinberg,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For about 60 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;60 years! That&#8217;s amazing! What do you pray for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop. I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults and to love their fellow man. I pray that politicians tell us the truth and put the interests of the people ahead of their own interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like I&#8217;m talking to a f***ing wall!&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, the policeman was interrupted by a 6 year-old looking up and down his uniform. She asked. \u201cAre you a policeman?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d he answered and continued writing the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, that\u2019s right, the policeman told her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, then,\u201d the little girl said as she extended her foot toward him, \u201cwould you please tie my shoe?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we\u2019ve had a variation of this one before but what the heck: Our teacher asked what my favourite animal was, and I said, &#8220;Fried chicken.&#8221; She said I wasn&#8217;t funny, but she couldn&#8217;t have been right, because everyone else laughed. My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2012\/04\/29\/29-april-2012-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;29 April 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-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-LK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}