{"id":7404,"date":"2015-01-18T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2015-01-16T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T14:18:48","slug":"18-january-2015-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2015\/01\/18\/18-january-2015-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"18 January 2015 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Dad<\/p>\n<p>An elderly man was walking through the French countryside, admiring the beautiful spring day, when over a hedgerow he spotted a young couple making love in a field.<\/p>\n<p>Getting over his initial shock he said to himself, &#8220;Ah, young love&#8230; ze spring time, ze air, ze flowers&#8230; C&#8217;est magnifique!&#8221;, and continued to watch, remembering the good old day&#8217;s that he&#8217;d once enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly he gasped and said, &#8220;Mais&#8230; Sacre bleu! Ze woman she is dead!&#8221; before heading off as fast as he could to the town to tell Jean, the police chief.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived at the Police Station, out of breath, and shouted, &#8220;Jean&#8230;Jean&#8230;zere is zis man, zis woman &#8230; naked in farmer Gaston&#8217;s field making love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police chief smiled and said, &#8220;Come, come, Henri you are not so old, remember ze young love, ze spring time, ze air, ze flowers? Ah, L&#8217;amour! Zis is OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mais non! You do not understand, ze woman, she is dead!&#8221; Upon hearing this, Jean, leapt up from his seat, rushed out of the station, jumped on his push\u00adbike, pedalled down to the field, confirmed Henri&#8217;s story, and pedalled all the way back to call the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>He picked up the telephone and screamed, &#8220;Pierre, Pierre! This is Jean, I was in Gaston&#8217;s field, zere is a young couple naked having sex!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To which Pierre replied, &#8220;Jean, I am a man of science. You must remember&#8230;it&#8217;s spring, ze air, ze flowers, Ah, L&#8217;amour! Zis is very natural.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean, still out of breath, grasped in reply, &#8220;NON, you do not understand, ze woman, she is dead!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hearing this, Pierre exclaimed, &#8220;Mon dieu!&#8221; grabbed his black medicine bag, stuffed in his thermometer, stethoscope, and other tools, jumped in his car, and drove like a madman down to Gaston&#8217;s field.<\/p>\n<p>After carefully examining the participants he drove calmly back to Henri and Jean, who were waiting at the station.<\/p>\n<p>When he got there, went inside, smiled patiently, and said, &#8220;Ah, mes amis, do not worry. Ze woman, she is not dead, she is British!&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A woman is walking along a road and she hears a voice shout out, &#8220;Don&#8217;t take a step further.&#8221; She stops and suddenly a ton of bricks fall on the place where she would have otherwise been.<\/p>\n<p>She thinks she imagined it and keeps walking until suddenly the voice calls out again. &#8220;Don&#8217;t take a step further.&#8221; She stops and a car skids past.<\/p>\n<p>Then suddenly she hears the voice saying &#8220;I am your guardian angel, and I will warn you before something bad happens to you. Now do you have any questions to ask me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes!\u201d shouts the woman, &#8220;where were you on my wedding day!&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve sure gotten old! I&#8217;ve had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees. Fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I&#8217;m half blind, can&#8217;t hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation; hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can&#8217;t remember if I&#8217;m 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends.<\/p>\n<p>But, thank God, I still have my driver&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dad An elderly man was walking through the French countryside, admiring the beautiful spring day, when over a hedgerow he spotted a young couple making love in a field. Getting over his initial shock he said to himself, &#8220;Ah, young love&#8230; ze spring time, ze air, ze flowers&#8230; C&#8217;est magnifique!&#8221;, and continued to watch, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2015\/01\/18\/18-january-2015-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;18 January 2015 &#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-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-1Vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","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=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7407,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}