{"id":306,"date":"2011-03-20T07:15:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T07:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/wordpress\/?p=306"},"modified":"2011-03-20T07:15:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T07:15:51","slug":"20-march-2011-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2011\/03\/20\/20-march-2011-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"20 March 2011 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young man entered the local Tasty Freeze and asked, &#8220;What kind of ice cream do you have?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry,&#8221; the girl replied, wheezing as she spoke and patting her chest and seemingly unable to say much more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you have asthma or laryngitis?&#8221; the young man asked sympathetically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope,&#8221; she whispered, &#8220;just vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>A man wrote a letter to the IRS: \u201cI have been unable to sleep knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I understated my taxable income and have enclosed a check for $200.00. If I still can\u2019t sleep, I will send the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I was on vacation in Florida on Christmas vacation.\u00a0 I was walking down the beach and I see one of my colleagues approaching me.\u00a0 He is a psychologist.\u00a0 &#8220;You had breakfast yet,&#8221; I ask?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s find a place.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Good,&#8221; he says.\u00a0 &#8220;My car is right over there.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI get in his car, a brand-new Lincoln, and right away I notice that it&#8217;s a stick-shift.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI say, &#8220;You bought a new Lincoln with a stick shift?\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know that they made a Lincoln like that.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;They don&#8217;t,&#8221; he says.\u00a0 &#8220;I ordered it special.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ll bet that cost a fortune,&#8221; I reply.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh, ya.\u00a0 You got that right.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Why would you buy a new Lincoln with a stick shift,&#8221; I ask?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHe says, &#8220;My wife can&#8217;t drive a stick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And, in honour of St Patrick&#8217;s Day:<\/p>\n<p>An Irish Man is sitting in the pub with his wife when he says, &#8220;I love you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She asks, &#8220;Is that you or the beer talking?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He replies, &#8220;It&#8217;s me, talking to the beer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man entered the local Tasty Freeze and asked, &#8220;What kind of ice cream do you have?&#8221; &#8220;Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry,&#8221; the girl replied, wheezing as she spoke and patting her chest and seemingly unable to say much more. &#8220;Do you have asthma or laryngitis?&#8221; the young man asked sympathetically. &#8220;Nope,&#8221; she whispered, &#8220;just vanilla, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2011\/03\/20\/20-march-2011-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20 March 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-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-4W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}