{"id":5218,"date":"2013-09-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2013-09-25T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T08:30:52","slug":"29-september-2013-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2013\/09\/29\/29-september-2013-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"29 September 2013 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The career Naval Chief Petty Officer had one more task to complete before he could finally retire after being in the service since he was 17: his discharge medical exam.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor gave him a thorough going over and was impressed. &#8220;You&#8217;re in excellent health,&#8221; he told the over-the-hill seaman. &#8220;Except one thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; the CPO asked, looking a little nervous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You seem extraordinarily tense. We ruled out medical problems in the exam,&#8221; the doctor said, cautiously trying to probe the man&#8217;s psyche, &#8220;but I have a guess: when was the last time you had sexual relations?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1945,&#8221; came the reply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well that just has to be it, then!&#8221; the astounded medic exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;d think so, doc,&#8221; the E8 said, glancing at his watch. &#8220;It&#8217;s only 0845 now&#8230;.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>We\u2019ve had this several times in the past in many different guises but I still chuckle every time I run across it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A farmer picks up an Native American Indian hitch hiking. The Indian is a man of few words but eventually looks at the brown paper bag on the seat between them and asks, &#8220;Mmm, what\u2019s in the bag?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a bottle of wine that I got for my wife,\u201d the farmer replied.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian thinks for a moment or two and say, &#8220;Mmm. Good trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Another Repeat:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The guys are all at a hunting camp. No one wants to room with Ralph because he snores so badly. They decide it isn&#8217;t fair to make one of them stay with him the whole time, so they vote to take turns.<\/p>\n<p>The first guy sleeps in the room with Ralph and comes to breakfast the next morning with his hair a mess and his eyes all bloodshot. They said, &#8220;Man, what happened to you?&#8221; He said, &#8220;Ralph snored so loudly I just sat up and watched him all night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next night it&#8217;s a different guy&#8217;s turn. In the morning, same thing, hair all standing up, eyes all bloodshot. They said, &#8220;Man, you look awful!&#8221; He said, &#8220;That Ralph shakes the roof with his snoring. I watched him all night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The third night was Fred&#8217;s turn. Fred was an older cowboy sort, a man&#8217;s man.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning he comes to breakfast bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. &#8220;Good morning!&#8221; he said. They couldn&#8217;t believe it. They said, &#8220;Man, what happened?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fred says, &#8220;Well, we got ready for bed. I went over and tucked Ralph into bed, patted him on the ass, and kissed him good night. Ralph sat up and he watched me all night. I slept like a baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The career Naval Chief Petty Officer had one more task to complete before he could finally retire after being in the service since he was 17: his discharge medical exam. The doctor gave him a thorough going over and was impressed. &#8220;You&#8217;re in excellent health,&#8221; he told the over-the-hill seaman. &#8220;Except one thing.&#8221; &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2013\/09\/29\/29-september-2013-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;29 September 2013 &#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-1ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","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=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}