{"id":6644,"date":"2014-06-22T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=6644"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T09:27:02","slug":"22-june-2014-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2014\/06\/22\/22-june-2014-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"22 June 2014 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty sure we\u2019ve had this before:<\/p>\n<p>Two immigrants have just arrived in the United States and one says to the other, &#8220;I hear that the people of this country actually eat dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Odd,&#8221; her companion replies, &#8220;but if we are going live in America, we might as well do as the Americans do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nodding emphatically, one of the immigrants points to a hot dog vendor and they both walk toward the cart. &#8220;Two dogs, please,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>The vendor is only too pleased to oblige, wraps both hot dogs in foil and hands them over the counter. Excited, the companions hurry to a bench and begin to unwrap their &#8220;dogs.&#8221; One of them opens the foil and begins to blush. Staring at it for a moment, she turns to her friend and whispers cautiously, &#8220;What part did you get?&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>One day during cooking class, the teacher, Mrs. Jones, was extolling her secrets for preparing perfect sauces. When she ordered us to the stoves to prepare our assignments, she said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t forget to use wooden spoons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I stirred my sauce, I contemplated the physics behind the mystery of the wooden spoon, and decided it must have something to do with heat conduction. I approached Mrs. Jones to test my theory. &#8220;Why wooden spoons?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;if I have to sit here listening to twenty three metal spoons banging against metal pots, I&#8217;ll go nuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A golfer is cupping his hand to scoop water from a burn on the St Andrews course.<\/p>\n<p>A groundskeeper shouts: &#8216;Dinnae drink tha waater! Et&#8217;s foo ae coo&#8217;s shite an pish!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The golfer replies: &#8216;My Good fellow, I&#8217;m from England. Could you repeat that for me, in English!?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The keeper replies: &#8216;I said, use two hands &#8211; you&#8217;ll spill less that way!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty sure we\u2019ve had this before: Two immigrants have just arrived in the United States and one says to the other, &#8220;I hear that the people of this country actually eat dogs.&#8221; &#8220;Odd,&#8221; her companion replies, &#8220;but if we are going live in America, we might as well do as the Americans do.&#8221; Nodding emphatically, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2014\/06\/22\/22-june-2014-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;22 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-6644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-1Ja","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644","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=6644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}