{"id":6525,"date":"2014-06-08T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2014-06-07T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T12:39:35","slug":"8-june-2014-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2014\/06\/08\/8-june-2014-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"8 June 2014 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two elderly ladies meet at the launderette after not seeing one another for some time. After enquiring about each other&#8217;s health, one asked how the other&#8217;s husband was doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh! Ted died last month. He went out to the garden to cut a cabbage for dinner, had a heart attack and dropped down dead right there in the middle of the vegetable patch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh dear! I&#8217;m very sorry,&#8221; replied her friend, &#8220;What did you do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Called and had a pizza delivered instead.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The bartender asks the guy sitting at the bar, &#8220;What&#8217;ll you have?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guy answers, &#8220;A Scotch, please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bartender hands him the drink and says, &#8220;That&#8217;ll be five dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To which the guy replies, &#8220;What are you talking about? I don&#8217;t owe you anything for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer, sitting nearby and overhearing the conversation, then says to the bartender, &#8220;You know, he&#8217;s got you there. In the original offer, which constitutes a binding contract upon acceptance, there was no stipulation of remuneration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bartender was not impressed, but says to the guy, &#8220;Okay, you beat me for a drink. But don&#8217;t ever let me catch you in here again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next day same guy walks into the bar. Bartender says, &#8220;What the heck are you doing in here? I can&#8217;t believe you&#8217;ve got the audacity to come back!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guy says, &#8220;What are you talking about? I&#8217;ve never been in this place in my life!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bartender replies, &#8220;I&#8217;m very sorry, but this is uncanny. You must have a double.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To which the guy replies, &#8220;Why, thank you. Make it a Scotch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure we\u2019ve had this before . . .<\/p>\n<p>A guy is reading his paper when his wife walks up behind him and smacks him on the back of the head with a frying pan.<\/p>\n<p>He asks, &#8220;What was that for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She says, &#8220;I found a piece of paper in your pocket with &#8216;Betty Sue&#8217; written on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;Jeez, honey, remember last week when I went to the track? &#8216;Betty Sue&#8217; was the name of the horse I went there to bet on.&#8221; She shrugs and walks away.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later he&#8217;s reading his paper when she walks up behind him and smacks him on the back of the head again with the frying pan.<\/p>\n<p>He asks, &#8220;What was that for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She answers, &#8220;Your horse called.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two elderly ladies meet at the launderette after not seeing one another for some time. After enquiring about each other&#8217;s health, one asked how the other&#8217;s husband was doing. &#8220;Oh! Ted died last month. He went out to the garden to cut a cabbage for dinner, had a heart attack and dropped down dead right &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2014\/06\/08\/8-june-2014-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;8 June 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-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-1Hf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525","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=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}