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    Susie: My husband is a great handyman. He can repair almost anything.

    Jane: My mother always taught me to beware of the man that can fix everything. You'll never get anything new.
     
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    5 Riddles


    1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

    2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

    3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

    4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday?

    5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

    THE ANSWERS TO ALL FIVE THE RIDDLES ARE BELOW:





    Answers:

    1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead. That one was easy, right?

    2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; and hung).

    3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.

    4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and tomorrow!

    5. The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.

    How did you do?
     
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    Here's a long one for your reading pleasure.....


    I read that 4,153,237 people got married last year. Not to cause any trouble but shouldn’t that be an even number?

    Today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation towards the local swimming pool. I gave him a glass of water.

    I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

    I find it ironic that the colors red, white, and blue stand for freedom until they are flashing behind you.

    When wearing a bikini, women reveal 90% of their body… men are so polite they only look at the covered parts.

    A recent study has found that woman who carry a little extra weight, live longer than the men who mention it.

    Relationships are a lot like algebra. Have you ever looked at your X and wondered Y?

    America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won’t cross the street to vote.

    You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.

    Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?

    My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We’ll see about that.

    I think my neighbor is stalking me as she’s been googling my name on her computer. I saw it through my telescope last night.

    Money talks …but all mine ever says is good-bye.

    You’re not fat, you’re just… easier to see.

    If you think nobody cares whether you’re alive, try missing a couple of payments.

    I always wondered what the job application is like at Hooters. Do they just give you a bra and say, “Here, fill this out?”

    I can’t understand why women are okay that JC Penny has an older women’s clothing line named, “Sag Harbor.”

    My therapist said that my narcissism causes me to misread social situations. I’m pretty sure she was hitting on me.

    My 60 year kindergarten reunion is coming up soon and I’m worried about the 175 pounds I’ve gained since then.

    Denny’s has a slogan, “If it’s your birthday, the meal is on us.” If you’re in Denny’s and it’s your birthday, your life sucks!

    The pharmacist asked me my birth date again today. I’m pretty sure she’s going to get me something.

    The location of your mailbox shows you how far away from your house you can be in a robe before you start looking like a mental patient.

    I think it’s pretty cool how Chinese people made a language entirely out of tattoos.

    Money can’t buy happiness, but it keeps the kids in touch!

    The reason Mayberry was so peaceful and quiet was because nobody was married. Andy, Aunt Bea, Barney, Floyd, Howard, Goober, Gomer, Sam, Earnest T Bass, Helen, Thelma Lou, Clara and, of course, Opie were all single. The only married person was Otis, and he stayed drunk.
     
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    Tom to his mom: "Mom, please tell me a story?"

    Mom: "Sorry, honey, I don't have any new stories to tell. But you should ask your dad why he was late coming home today. He will then tell you some amazing stories."
     
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    OK Guys and Gals. It is National Tell a Joke Day today. Everyone, step it up!
     
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    Larry was a photographer for the N.Y. Times, and was scheduled to meet a plane on the runway to take him on a job. “Hit it,” said Larry climbing into the first plane he saw on the runway. The pilot took off, and was soon in the air. “OK,” said Larry, “fly low over the trees over there, I want to take a few pictures.” “What do you mean?” asked the pilot. Larry looked at the pilot and answered a little annoyed, “I need to take some pictures for the N.Y. Times, so please…..” There was a long pause, before the pilot asked in a shaky voice, “you mean you’re not my pilot instructor?”
     
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    What?? Nobody??? :confused:
     
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    .[​IMG]

    Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
     
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    On my neighbor next door dot com.....there are several posts ISO solar glasses, will pay $20 ..... So I replied I will have several available Wednesday August 22nd $20 each
     
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    A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.

    (Actual letter):

    "Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."

    Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows (actual letter):

    "Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased, by the U.S. , from France in 1803, the year of origin identified in our application.

    For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France , which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain

    The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Isabella. The good queen, Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus' expedition. Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana . God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back, to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have our damn loan?"

    The loan was approved.
     
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    Ordering Pizza in 2017

    – Hello! Gordon’s Pizza?

    – No sir, it is Google Pizza.

    – So, I have the wrong number?

    – No sir, Google bought Gordon’s Pizza.

    – OK. Take my order please …

    – Well sir, you want the usual?

    – The usual? How do you know me?

    – According to your caller ID, the last 12 times, you ordered pizza with cheese, sausage, thick crust …

    – OK! OK! That’s it.

    – Sir, may I suggest to you this time ricotta cheese, arugula with sun-dried tomatoes?

    – No, I hate vegetables!

    – But your cholesterol is high!

    – How do you know?

    – Through the Lab subscriber’s guide. We have the results of your blood tests for the last 7 years.

    – Okay, but I want my regular pizza, I already take medicine.

    – But sir, you have not taken your medicine regularly. Four months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 tablets at Drugsale Network.

    – I bought more from another drugstore.

    – It is not showing on your credit card.

    – I paid in cash.

    – But you did not withdraw that much cash according to your bank statement.

    – I have other sources of cash.

    – This is not showing on your last Income-Tax return, unless you got it from an undeclared source.

    – WHAT THE HELL? Enough! I’m sick of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp. I’m going to an Island without Wi-Fi or internet. Where there are no cell phones or satellites to spy on me.

    – I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport, as it has expired 5 weeks ago!


    ISN'T THAT SCARY???
     
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    Three explorers became lost in the jungle and wandered for days with no food and little water...

    One day, just as they were finally about to give up, they crawled into a clearing and there right in front of them stood a Cannibal's Restaurant.

    Out front near the entrance was a large menu board. With the little energy they had left, they dragged themselves across the clearing and looked up to see the following menu:

    "Par boiled Priest $12.00
    Roast Lion Hunter $14.00
    Steamed Politician $198.50"

    They struggled into the establishment, dragged themselves to a table, and a waiter came to take their order. Before they ordered, one of the explorers asked the waiter, "Can you help me understand your menu? The first two items are priced about the same, but the third item, the politician, is priced so much higher. Why is that?"

    "Are you kidding?" replied the waiter. "Did you ever try to CLEAN one of those suckers?"
     
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    The hit-and-run victim was just getting to his feet
    when a policeman ran up to help.

    "My mother-in-law just tried to run me over!" the
    shaken man told the cop.
    "The car hit you from behind," the officer said. "How
    could you tell it was your mother-in-law?"

    "I recognized her laugh!"
     
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    Merv was in a terrible accident at work. He fell through a floor tile and ripped off both of his ears. Since he was permanently disfigured, he settled with the company for a rather large sum of money and went on his way.

    One day, Merv decided to invest his money in a small, but growing telecom business called Plexus Communications. After weeks of negotiations, he bought the company outright. But, after signing on the doted line he realized that he knew nothing about running such a business and quickly set out to hire someone who could do that for him.

    The next day he had set up three interviews. The first guy was great. He knew everything he needed to and was very interesting. At the end of the interview, Merv asked him, "Do you notice anything different about me?" And the gentleman answered, "Why yes, I couldn't help but notice you have no ears."

    Merv got very angry and threw him out.

    The second interview was with a woman, and she was even better than the first guy. He asked her the same question, "Do you notice anything different about me?" and she replied: "Well, you have no ears."

    Merv again was upset and tossed her out.

    The third and last interview was the best of all three. It was with a very young man who was fresh out of college. He was smart. He was handsome and he seemed to be a better businessman than the first two put together. Merv was anxious, but went ahead and asked the young man the same question:

    "Do you notice anything different about me?" And to his surprise, the young man answered: "Yes. You wear contact lenses." Merv was shocked, and said, "What an incredibly observant young man. How in the world did you know that?"

    The young man fell off his chair laughing hysterically and replied, "Well, it's pretty damn hard to wear glasses with no ears!"
     
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    A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre. After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings, and made it safely to his van. However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied, “Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings. I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.”
     
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    A really huge muscular guy with a bad stutter goes to a counter in a department store and asks, "W-w-w-where's the m-m-m-men's dep-p-p-partment?"

    The clerk behind the counter just looks at him and says nothing.

    The man repeats himself: "W-w-w-where's the m-m-m-men's dep-p-p-partment?"

    Again, the clerk doesn't answer him.

    The guy asks several more times: "W-w-w-where's the m-m-m-men's dep-p-p-partment?"

    And the clerk just seems to ignore him.

    Finally, the guy storms off in anger.

    The customer who was waiting in line behind the guy asks the clerk, "Why wouldn't you answer that guy's question?"

    The clerk answers, "D-d-d-do you th-th-th-think I w-w-w-want to get b-b-b-beat up?!!"
     
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    I went to the liquor store Friday afternoon on my bicycle,
    bought a bottle of Scotch and put it in the bicycle basket.

    As I was about to leave, I thought to myself that if I fell off the bicycle,
    the bottle would break.

    So I drank all the Scotch before I cycled home.

    It turned out to be a very good decision,
    because I fell off my bicycle seven times on the way home.
     
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    When the wise company president learned that his employees were tanking up on no-trace vodka martinis during their lunch hours, he issued the following memo:

    To all employees; If you must drink during you lunch hours, please drink whiskey. It is better for our customers to know you're drunk than to think you're stupid.
     
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    New Senior's Exam, you only need 4 correct out of 10 questions to pass.

    1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last?

    2) Which country makes Panama hats?

    3) From which animal do we get cat gut?

    4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

    5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?

    6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?

    7) What was King George VI's first name?

    8) What color is a purple finch?

    9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

    10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?



    Remember, you need only 4 correct answers to pass. Check your answers below ....


    ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ

    1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years

    2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador

    3) From which animal do we get cat gut? Sheep and Horses

    4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?November

    5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur

    6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Dogs

    7) What was King George VI's first name? Albert

    8 ) What color is a purple finch? Crimson

    9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand

    10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane? Orange (of course) .



    What do you mean, you failed?



    Me, too! (And if you try to tell me you passed, you is fibbing.)
     

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