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I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer. The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking. My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing, and I said, “Nothing.” The reason I said “nothing” instead of saying “just thinking” […]
Continue Reading1 – I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 – Borrow money from pessimists — they don’t expect it back. 3 – Half the people you know are below average. 4 – 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 5 – 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. 6 […]
Continue ReadingThere was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share […]
Continue Reading[Found on Facebook] The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that […]
Continue ReadingCopied from a Facebook post. “I asked a friend who has crossed 70 & is heading towards 80 what sort of changes he is feeling in himself. He sent me the following: 1. After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have now started loving myself. 2. I have […]
Continue ReadingThere was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was […]
Continue ReadingBeing a little older, I am very fortunate to have someone call andcheck on me every day. He is from India and is very concerned aboutmy car warranty I choked on a carrot this morning, and all I could think of was, “I’llbet a doughnut wouldn’t have done this to me.” Nothing spoils a good […]
Continue Reading1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road. 2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South. 3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one’s seen before. 4. If it […]
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