2520

The man was in no shape to drive, so he wisely left his car parked
and walked home. As he was walking unsteadily along, he was stopped by a policeman.

"What are you doing out here at 2 A.M.?" asked the officer.

"I'm going to a lecture." The man said.

"And who is going to give a lecture at this hour?" the cop asked.

"My wife," said the man.

2521

We all know that it isn't polite to use the F-word.

There are ten times in history where the "F" word has been acceptable for use:

10. "What the f___ was that?" - Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945

9. "Look at all them f___ing Indians!" - Custer, 1877

8. "Any f___ing idiot could understand that." - Einstein,1938

7. "It does so f___ing look like her!" - Picasso, 1926

6. "How the f___ did you work that out?" - Pythagoras, 126BC

5. "You want WHAT on the f___ing ceiling?" - Michelangelo,1566

4. "Where the f___ are we?" - Amelia Earhart, 1937

3. "Scattered f___ing showers....My ass!" - Noah, 4314 BC

2. "Aw c'mon. Who the f___'s going to find out?"- Bill Clinton,1999

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2522

A man comes into the ER and yells, "My wife's going to have her baby in the cab!" I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs, and I was in the wrong one.

Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Antonio, TX

2523

At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. Big breaths," I instructed. Yes, they used to be," remorsefully replied the patient.

Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA

2524

One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a "massive internal fart."

Dr. Susan Steinberg, Manitoba, Canada

2525

I was performing a complete physical, including the visual acuity test. I placed the patient twenty feet from the chart and began, "Cover your right eye with your hand." He read the 20/20 line perfectly. Now your left." Again, a flawless read. Now both," I requested. There was silence. He couldn't even read the large E on the top line. I turned and discovered that he had done exactly what I had asked; he was standing there with both his eyes covered. I was laughing too hard to finish the exam.

Dr. Matthew Theodropolous, Worcester, MA

2526

During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications. Which one?" I asked. The patch. The nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it!" I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see. Yes,
the man had over fifty patches on his body! Now the instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one.

Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA

2527

While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, "How long have you been bedridden?" After a look of complete confusion she answered ... Why, not for about twenty years -- when my husband was alive."

Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR

2528

I was caring for a woman from Kentucky and asked, So, how's your breakfast this morning?" It's very good, except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste," the patient replied. I then asked to see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labeled "KY Jelly."

Dr. Leonard Kransdorf, Detroit, MI

2529

And Finally . . . . .

A new, young MD doing his residency in OB was quite embarrassed performing female pelvic exams. To cover his embarrassment he had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly.

The middle aged lady upon whom he was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and further embarrassed him.

He looked up from his work and sheepishly said, "I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?"

She replied, "No doctor, but the song you were whistling was 'I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener'."

2530

A friend of mine is an officer in the Marine Corps. A few weeks ago,He was attending a conference that included admirals in both the US and the French navies. At a cocktail reception, my friend found himself in a small group that included an admiral from each of the two navies. The French admiral started complaining that whereas Europeans learned many languages. Americans only learned English. He then asked. "Why is it that we have to speak English during these conferences rather than you have to speak French?" Without even hesitating, the American admiral replied, "Maybe it is because we arranged it so that you did not have to learn to speak German."

The group became silent.

2531

Man walks up to a woman in his office each day, stands very
close to her, draws in a large breath of air and tells her that her hair smells nice.

After a week of this, she can't stand it any longer, and goes
to HR (Human Relations Dept.). Without identifying the guy, she tells them what the co-worker does, and that she wants to file a sexual harassment suit against him.

The HR supervisor is puzzled by this approach, and asks, "What's
sexually threatening about a co-worker telling you your hair smells nice?

The woman replies, "It's Chester, the midget"

2532

The boss of a big company needed to call one of his employees about an urgent problem with one of the main computers, dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper, "Hello."

"Is your daddy home?" he asked.

"Yes," whispered the small voice.

"May I talk with him?"

The child whispered, "No."

Surprised, and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, "Is Your mommy there?"

"Yes."

"May I talk with her?"

Again the small voice whispered, "No."

Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, "Is anybody else there?"

"Yes," whispered the child, "a policeman."

Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss asked, "May I speak with the policeman?"

"No, he's busy", whispered the child.

"Busy doing what?"

"Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the Fireman", came the whispered answer.

Growing concerned and even worried as he heard what sounded like a helicopter through the earpiece on the phone the boss asked, "What is that noise?"

"A hello-copper" answered the whispering voice.

"What is going on there?" asked the boss, now alarmed.

In an awed whispering voice the child answered, "The search team just landed the hello-copper."

Alarmed, concerned, and even more then just a little frustrated the boss asked, "What are they searching for?"

Still whispering, the young voice replied along with a muffled
giggle: "ME !!

2533

"Lord, I have a problem."

"What's the problem, Eve?"

"I know that you created me and provided this beautiful garden and all of these wonderful animals, as well as that hilarious comedic snake, but I'm just not happy."

"And why is that Eve?"

"Lord, I am lonely, and I'm sick to death of apples."

"Well, Eve, in that case, I have a solution. I shall create a man for you."

"Man? What is that Lord?"

"A flawed creature, with many bad traits. He'll lie, cheat and be vain; all in all, he'll give you a hard time. But he'll be bigger, faster and will like to hunt and kill things. He will look silly when he is aroused, but since you've been complaining, I'll create him in such a way that he will satisfy your physical needs. He will be witless and will revel in childish things like fighting and kicking a ball about. He won't be too smart, so he will also need your advice to think properly."

"Sounds great," says Eve, with ironically raised eyebrows, "but what's the catch Lord?"

"Well.....you can have him on one condition."

"And what's that Lord?"

"As I said, he'll be proud, arrogant and self-admiring.....so you'll have to let him believe that I made him first. And it will have to be our little secret............... You know, woman to woman."

2534

One year Fred and Edna went to the fair and Fred said, "Edna, I'm 71 years old. If I don't ride that airplane this year I may never get another chance."

Edna replied, "Fred that there airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."

The pilot overheard them and said, "Folks, I'll make you a deal. I'll take you both up for a ride. If you can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say one word, I won't charge you, but if you say one word it's ten dollars."

Fred and Edna agreed and up they go. The pilot does all kinds
of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word is heard.
He does all his tricks over again, but still not a word.

They land and the pilot turns to Fred, "By golly, I did everything I could think of to get you to yell out, but you didn't."

Fred replied, "Well, I was going to say something when Edna
fell out, but ten dollars is ten dollars."

2535

Great jokes, jennaflower!

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2537

What's next for Canada?!? SARS, Mad Cow, West Nile!?!?! Man oh man!

2538

beer is good

2540

back to housework soon . . . waiting for my friend to call . . .

Actually, when you have jobs that do NOT allow you the TIME for lunchbreaks, it's hard to stop!

#2542

#2543

Any gamers?
Atari (formerly Infogrames), along with Firaxis and Breakaway games, is looking for CivIII beta testers for their new expansion pack. See the stories at the Civ site at www.apolyton.net for details, and links to sign up. They will NOT accept submissions after Tuesday, May 27 2003!

#2544

By the way, that wasn't a typo. Atari has been reborn. Hasbro bought all rights and properties with the Atari name from JTS in 1998 (JTS was a hard drive manufacturer run by the same family that had owned Atari since 1984, after buying it from Warner Communications, i.e. Warner Bros - their computer businesses had been folded, and the game console businesses (Lynx, Jaguar) were folded as well). Infogrames bought Hasbro Interactive (which not only included Atari, but the old Microprose as well) in 2001. On May 7, 2003, Infogrames, which had been around since 1983 renamed all operations except for the French parent firm into Atari.

So Atari is now 31 years old and going strong again!

#2545

#2546

2546

And then there's me . . . I'm hungry, there's lots of food in the house but I don't want anything!

#2548

2547

Good luck to Atari. I just saw an old Genesis station on someone's front lawn with the trash.

It looks like the new company (Atari) will continue the focus of the old (Infogrames), just under a very recognizable name. They just publish games for everybody else's platforms, including PC, PS/2, etc etc etc.
The first BIG hit of the re-named company is "Enter the Matrix."
If any parent had been able to ressurect the old console glory days, it probably would have been Hasbro, but they blew it.
Say what you want to about Microsoft, but X-Box does represent the only North American competition to Nintendo and Sony since the old Atari folded. A little ironic for a whole genre/style of play that was invented in North America in the first place.

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#2551

#2552

I just wanted the palindromic number :)

Next one will be 2662, 110 posts away from now ;)

#2553

Steph you can have west nile virues, we had the worst out break here in Illinois last year.

2554

Really, Scarecrow? Are your papers filled with talk of it now, too?

2555

yes and they are trying to find a cheap way to keep the mosquito population down, with no luck.

2556

FYI
Word Association now has 16580 posts.

2557 to add my post

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2558

Where is my friend?!?! GAH!!!!!