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| I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. Jack Handey |
| Up until seven years ago (Feb. 14 to be exact) I used to smoke like a chimney so I have some consideration for how smokers must feel about the slowly eroding right to smoke. But I have to say I have become a real hypocrite about it because I LOVE not having to smell that smoke when I’m in a restaurant. I really had no idea how awful it smelled when I was a smoker. Now I can’t stand it and I feel bad about how much my family and friends must have hated to have me around when I was smoking. It is also very nice not to have to choose between smoking, non-smoking and no-preference. It seemed like we ended up sitting within a few feet of the smoking section anyway. I was going to put this in the Pet Peeve section but that wouldn’t be right because, for once, this is something I am happy about. I won’t start a new happy section though because it doesn’t happen all that often. I am a curmudgeon at heart. |
Rocket propelled grenade launchers and mortar rockets, believed by the U.S. military to be Iranian-made, are seen on display during a news conference at a U.S. military base in Baghdad, February 26, 2007. The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iranian general from the elite Qods force as well as three Iraqis living in exile in Syria and Iran for fomenting violence in Iraq. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim) |
The Doghouse
A man is sitting on his front step staring morosely at the ground when his neighbor strolls over. The neighbor tries to start a conversation several times, but the older man barely responds. Finally, the neighbor asks what the problem is.
“Well,” the man says, “I ran afoul of one of those questions women ask. Now I’m in the doghouse.”
“What kind of question?” the neighbor asks.
“My wife asked me if I would still love her when she was old, fat and ugly.”
“That’s easy,” says the neighbor. “You just say, ‘Of course I will’”.
“Yeah,” says the other man, “that’s what I meant to say. But what came out was, ‘Of course I do.’” |
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