{"id":8016,"date":"2015-05-17T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=8016"},"modified":"2015-05-16T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T09:02:36","slug":"17-may-2015-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2015\/05\/17\/17-may-2015-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"17 May 2015 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was standing in the kitchen, preparing our usual soft-boiled eggs and toast for breakfast, wearing only the t-shirt that she normally sleeps in.<\/p>\n<p>As I walked in, almost awake, she turned to me and said softly, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to make love to me this very moment!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My eyes lit up and I thought, &#8220;I am either still dreaming or this is going to be my lucky day!&#8221; Not wanting to lose the moment, I embraced her and then made passionate love to her, right there on the kitchen table.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards she said, &#8220;Thanks,&#8221; and returned to the stove, pulling her T-shirt back down around her waist.<\/p>\n<p>Happy, but a little puzzled, I asked, \u201cWhat was that all about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She explained, &#8220;The egg timer&#8217;s broken.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>There was a guy named John, who was the most positive guy in the whole world. Every time anyone said something negative, John would always say, &#8220;It could have been worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One day, John&#8217;s co-workers all got together and decided to come up with a scenario so bad that John couldn&#8217;t possibly say that it could have been worse.<\/p>\n<p>When John arrived at work that day, one of his coworkers asked him, &#8220;John did you hear what happened to Sam last night?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John replied, &#8220;No, what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The co-worker replied, &#8220;When Sam got home last night, he found his wife in bed with another man. Sam shot the man, his wife, and then turned the gun on himself!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John replied, &#8220;Well, it could have been worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In disgust the co-worker replied, &#8220;Now how could that have been any worse?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John replied, &#8220;Because if it had been the night before, he would have shot me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It\u2019s been a while since we had this one . . .<\/p>\n<p>An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, &#8220;Ah, you&#8217;re an engineer \u2014 you&#8217;re in the wrong place.&#8221; So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they&#8217;ve got air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is becoming a pretty popular guy.<\/p>\n<p>One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and asks with a sneer, &#8220;So, how&#8217;s it going down there in hell?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Satan replies, &#8220;Hey, things are going great. We&#8217;ve got air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators, and there&#8217;s no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God replies, &#8220;What??? You&#8217;ve got an engineer? That&#8217;s a mistake \u2014 he should never have gotten down there; send him up here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Satan says, &#8220;No way! I like having an engineer on the staff, and I&#8217;m keeping him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God says, &#8220;Send him back up here or I&#8217;ll sue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Satan laughs uproariously and answers, &#8220;Yeah right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was standing in the kitchen, preparing our usual soft-boiled eggs and toast for breakfast, wearing only the t-shirt that she normally sleeps in. As I walked in, almost awake, she turned to me and said softly, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to make love to me this very moment!&#8221; My eyes lit up and I thought, &#8220;I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2015\/05\/17\/17-may-2015-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;17 May 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-25i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016","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=8016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}