{"id":8351,"date":"2015-08-09T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2015-08-08T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T08:48:29","slug":"9-august-2015-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2015\/08\/09\/9-august-2015-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"9 August 2015 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man goes to the doctors and asks why he&#8217;s been feeling ill. The doctor examines him and replies &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to tell you, you&#8217;ve got the disease known as Yellow 24.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; the man asks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means your internal organs have started turning yellow &#8211; you&#8217;ve got 24 hours to live&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The man goes home and tells his wife the bad news. His wife says &#8220;Well, will you come to bingo with me tonight then? Otherwise you&#8217;ll never be able to.&#8221; The man agrees so he and his wife go to the bingo. He finds that he&#8217;s won the one-line and \u00a310. He begins to think this isn&#8217;t such a bad day after all. Twenty minutes later, he&#8217;s won the full house and \u00a3150. He enters the lucky draw, worth \u00a3500, and wins that too. The bingo caller calls him up on stage.<\/p>\n<p>He says &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe it, mate. You&#8217;ve won three competitions and a total of \u00a3660 in one night. You must be the luckiest man on the earth!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man says &#8220;Well, no, I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;ve got Yellow 24.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bingo caller looks down at the piece of paper he&#8217;s holding and starts clapping. &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe it; he&#8217;s won the raffle as well!&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>From Dad, Random Thoughts as we Age<\/p>\n<p>The biggest lie I tell myself is &#8230; &#8220;I don&#8217;t need to write that down, I&#8217;ll remember it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if we could put ourselves in the dryer for ten minutes; come out wrinkle-free and three sizes smaller!<\/p>\n<p>Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven&#8217;t met yet!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t trip over things, I do random gravity checks!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need anger management. I need people to stop pissing me off!<\/p>\n<p>Old age is coming at a really bad time!<\/p>\n<p>Lord grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can &amp; the friends to post my bail when I finally snap!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have gray hair. I have &#8220;wisdom highlights&#8221;. I&#8217;m just very wise.<\/p>\n<p>My people skills are just fine. It&#8217;s my tolerance to idiots that needs work.<\/p>\n<p>Teach your daughter how to shoot, because a restraining order is just a piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p>If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would&#8217;ve put them on my knees.<\/p>\n<p>The kids text me &#8220;plz&#8221; which is shorter than please. I text back &#8220;no&#8221; which is shorter than &#8220;yes&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to retire and live off of my savings. Not sure what I&#8217;ll do that second week.<\/p>\n<p>When did it change from &#8220;We the people&#8221; to &#8220;screw the people&#8221; ?<\/p>\n<p>Even duct tape can&#8217;t fix stupid &#8230; but it can muffle the sound!<\/p>\n<p>Why do I have to press one for English when you&#8217;re just gonna transfer me to someone I can&#8217;t understand anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Of course I talk to myself, sometimes I need expert advice.<\/p>\n<p>Oops! Did I roll my eyes out loud?<\/p>\n<p>At my age &#8220;Getting lucky&#8221; means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for.<\/p>\n<p>Chocolate comes from cocoa which is a tree &#8230; that makes it a plant which means &#8230; chocolate is Salad !!!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Three little ducks waddle into a bar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good afternoon!&#8221; the bartender says to the first duck. &#8220;What&#8217;s your name?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huey,&#8221; the duck says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How&#8217;s your day been, Huey?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great. Lovely day. Been in and out of puddles all day. What else could a duck want?&#8221; said Huey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s nice,&#8221; said the bartender. He turned to the second duck, &#8220;And what&#8217;s your name?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dewey,&#8221; came the answer from duck number two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So how&#8217;s your day been, Dewey?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great. Lovely day. Been in and out of puddles all day myself. What else could a duck want?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bartender turned to the third duck and said, &#8220;So, you must be Louie?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; she said, batting her eyelashes. &#8220;My name is Puddles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man goes to the doctors and asks why he&#8217;s been feeling ill. The doctor examines him and replies &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to tell you, you&#8217;ve got the disease known as Yellow 24.&#8221; &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; the man asks. &#8220;It means your internal organs have started turning yellow &#8211; you&#8217;ve got 24 hours to live&#8221;. 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