{"id":3387,"date":"2012-07-08T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2012-07-06T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:48:12","slug":"8-july-2012-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2012\/07\/08\/8-july-2012-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"8 July 2012 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary and Sue hadn&#8217;t seen each other for years. When they finally sat down to lunch, Mary was stunned at how trim and healthy Sue looked. Mary asked &#8220;What do you do to stay so fit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; answered Sue, &#8220;I&#8217;ve found that nothing keeps me trimmer than having affairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really!&#8221; exclaimed Mary, looking her friend up and down. &#8220;You simply must tell me who does your catering!&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A grandmother was pushing her grandchild around the grocery store in a buggy. Placing two loaves of bread in the basket she said &#8220;And here&#8217;s something for you, Diploma.&#8221; Next she added a dozen eggs to the basket saying, &#8220;This will make a cute little outfit for you, Diploma&#8221; and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually a bewildered shopper who had heard all this finally asked, &#8220;Why do you keep calling your grandchild Diploma?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The grandmother replied, &#8220;I sent my daughter to college and this is what she came home with!&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>After a very busy day, Peggy settled down in her seat and closed her eyes as the train departed Manhattan for the &#8216;burbs.<\/p>\n<p>As the train rolled out of the station, one last passenger jumped on the train and got the last seat \u2014 right next to Peggy.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, he pulled out his cell phone and started talking in a loud voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi sweetheart, it&#8217;s Eric! &#8230; I&#8217;m on the train \u2014 yes, I know it&#8217;s the six thirty and not the four thirty, but I had a long meeting &#8230; No, honey, not with that floozy from the accounts office, with the boss. No sweetheart, you&#8217;re the only one in my life \u2014 yes, I&#8217;m sure, cross my heart,&#8221; etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>It was nauseating. And no matter how much Peggy glared at him, cleared her throat, or otherwise tried to express her disapproval over his rudeness, he completely ignored her.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen minutes later, she got an idea. She leaned in close to him and said in her most sensual, pouty voice aimed right at his phone:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, Eric, sweetie! Turn off that stupid phone and come back to bed!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eric doesn&#8217;t use his cell phone in public any longer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary and Sue hadn&#8217;t seen each other for years. When they finally sat down to lunch, Mary was stunned at how trim and healthy Sue looked. Mary asked &#8220;What do you do to stay so fit?&#8221; &#8220;Well,&#8221; answered Sue, &#8220;I&#8217;ve found that nothing keeps me trimmer than having affairs.&#8221; &#8220;Really!&#8221; exclaimed Mary, looking her friend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2012\/07\/08\/8-july-2012-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;8 July 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-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-SD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","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=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}