{"id":493,"date":"2011-04-17T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T08:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/wordpress\/?p=493"},"modified":"2011-04-17T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T08:55:59","slug":"17-april-2011-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2011\/04\/17\/17-april-2011-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"17 April 2011 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of today&#8217;s anniversary couple, the following are all vaguely related to marriage and\/or married life.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after their wedding, the newlyweds awoke early one morning. The couple had been up for quite a while before they met up in the kitchen. Marriage was agreeing with the husband, and he greeted his new wife with glee and excitation that morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;ll make the toast and pour the juice, sweetheart,&#8221; said the newlywed bride, &#8220;breakfast will be ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great! What are we having for breakfast?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toast and juice,&#8221; replied the bride.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A woman calls the town psychiatrist and cries, &#8220;Doctor, you&#8217;ve got to come as soon as possible. My husband is in really bad shape!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shrink rushes over. The worried wife says, &#8220;Thank goodness you&#8217;re here, doctor. Just go down the hall. He&#8217;s in the last room on the right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shrink goes in the room and sees the woman&#8217;s husband sitting on the edge of the bathtub, dangling a fishing line in the toilet. He goes back to the wife and says, &#8220;Yes, this is very serious. But why didn&#8217;t you call me sooner?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who had time?&#8221; the wife asks. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been cleaning fish all week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Fred and Ethel were neighbours at the Senior Apartments, and had known each other for years.<\/p>\n<p>One evening there was a community supper in a big activity centre. Fred and Ethel were seated across from each other and, as the meal went on, he made several advances and finally asked her, &#8220;Will you marry me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After brief consideration, she answered, &#8220;Yes, yes I will.&#8221; The meal ended with more pleasant exchanges and then they went to their respective homes.<\/p>\n<p>But the next morning, Fred was troubled. Did she say &#8220;Yes&#8221; or did she say &#8220;No&#8221;? He couldn&#8217;t remember.<\/p>\n<p>With trepidation, he went to the telephone and called Ethel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is Fred,&#8221; he began, feeling a bit embarrassed. He explained that he didn&#8217;t remember as well as he used to. Then he gained more courage and inquired, &#8220;When I asked you to marry me, did you say &#8216;yes&#8217; or did you say &#8216;no&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was delighted to hear her say, &#8220;Why I said yes, and I meant it with all my heart!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, she continued, &#8220;And I&#8217;m so glad you called, because I couldn&#8217;t remember who had asked me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of today&#8217;s anniversary couple, the following are all vaguely related to marriage and\/or married life. Not long after their wedding, the newlyweds awoke early one morning. The couple had been up for quite a while before they met up in the kitchen. Marriage was agreeing with the husband, and he greeted his new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2011\/04\/17\/17-april-2011-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;17 April 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-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-7X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}