{"id":6259,"date":"2014-05-04T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=6259"},"modified":"2014-05-01T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T11:57:01","slug":"4-may-2014-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2014\/05\/04\/4-may-2014-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"4 May 2014 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after John bought a bull, he complained to his friend. &#8220;All that bull does is eat grass. Won&#8217;t even look at a cow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take him to the vet,&#8221; his friend suggested.<\/p>\n<p>The next week John is much happier. &#8220;The vet gave him some pills and the bull serviced all my cows,&#8221; he told his pal. &#8220;Then he broke through the fence and serviced all my neighbor&#8217;s cows. He&#8217;s a machine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What kind of pills were they?&#8221; asked the friend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, but they&#8217;ve got a peppermint taste.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We had this from our friend Erik Benson in France:<\/p>\n<p>An allegedly true story as related by an English man who was stopped and asked to give a breathaliser test. The Englishman lives near Le Bugue in the Dordogne and at the time he was stopped he was as pis*ed as a fart.<\/p>\n<p>The gendarme signals to him to wind down the window then asks him if he has been drinking. With a drunkenly slurred speech the Englishman replies, \u201cWhy yes, officer. This morning I was at my (hic). . . daughter&#8217;s wedding, and as I don&#8217;t like church much I went to the caf\u00e9 opposite and had several beers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Then, during the wedding banquet I seem to remember downing three great bottles of very nice wine; (hic)&#8230; a Corbi\u00e8res, a Minervois and (hic)&#8230;a Faug\u00e8res.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen to finish off during the celebrations &#8230;. and (hic) during the evening &#8230; a couple of friends and I downed two bottles of Johnny Walker&#8217;s Black Label Scotch whiskey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting impatient the gendarme warns him, \u201cDo you understand I&#8217;m a policeman and have stopped you for an alcohol test?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With an inebriated grin, the Englishman replies, \u201cYes. Do you understand that I&#8217;m English, as is my car, and that my wife is sitting in the other seat, at the wheel?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A concerned patron approached the manager of a diner and asked if he knew what to do if someone was choking.<\/p>\n<p>The manager replied, &#8220;Yes, change the special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after John bought a bull, he complained to his friend. &#8220;All that bull does is eat grass. Won&#8217;t even look at a cow.&#8221; &#8220;Take him to the vet,&#8221; his friend suggested. The next week John is much happier. &#8220;The vet gave him some pills and the bull serviced all my cows,&#8221; he told &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2014\/05\/04\/4-may-2014-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4 May 2014 &#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-6259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-1CX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259","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=6259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}