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Salty Senior Silliness THE INTELLECTUALS Two retired professors were vacationing with their wives at a hotel in the Catskills. They were sitting on the veranda one summer evening, watching the sun set. The history professor asked the psychology professor, "Have you read Marx?" To which the professor of psychology replied, "Yes and I think it's these damned wicker chairs." STINGY OLD LAWYER A stingy old lawyer who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness was determined to prove wrong the old saying, "You can't take it with you." After much thought and consideration, the old ambulance chaser finally figured out how to take at least some of his money with him when he died. He instructed his wife to go to the bank and withdraw enough money to fill two pillowcases. He then directed her to take the bags of money to the attic and leave them directly above his bed. His plan: When he passed away, he would reach out and grab the bags on his way to heaven. Several weeks after the funeral, the deceased lawyer's wife, up in the attic cleaning came upon the two forgotten pillowcases stuffed with cash. "Oh, that old fool," she exclaimed. "I knew he should
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have had me put the money in the basement." BUMPER SNICKERS My grandmother has a bumper sticker on her car that says, 'Sexy Senior Citizen.' It's hard to think of my dear old granny in that way. What is she doing? Out entering wet shawl contests? Wheelchair racing? Teeth swapping? Makes me wonder where she got that ten dollar bill she gave me for my birthday. EXERCISES FOR SENIORS You know how important exercise is, as we grow older. Here are a few suggestions. I start by standing outside behind the house and, with a five pound potato sack in each hand, extend my arms straight out to my sides and hold them there as long as I can. After a few weeks I moved up to 10 pound potato sacks, then 50 pound potato sacks and finally I got to where I could lift a 100 pound potato sack in each hand and hold my arms straight out for more than a full minute! Next, I started putting a few potatoes IN the sacks, but I would caution you not to overdo it at this level. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast to her brunette hair.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?" Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white." The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?" A DAY ON THE LINKS Four men were out golfing. "These hills are getting steeper as the years go by," one complained. "These fairways seem to be getting longer too," said one of the others. "The sand traps seem to be bigger than I remember them too," said the third senior. After hearing enough from his senior buddies, the oldest and the wisest of the four of them at 87 years old, piped up and said, "Just be thankful we're still on the right side of the grass!" YOU GOTTA KISS A LOT OF FROGS (before you meet the handsome prince) A senior citizen was walking across a damp meadow when he heard a female voice say, "Sir, I would like to ask a great favor of you "He looked around and saw only a frog sitting on a grass pod. "I must be going nuts," he thought, "There's no one here." The voice then said, "Please, sir. Please help me." Again all he saw was the frog, looking straight at him.
"Who said that?" he asked rather loudly. "I did, sir. I'm the frog. I was a beautiful 19-year-old princess but a witch put a spell on me. Please help me." The old man picked up the frog and held it in his hand. "How can I help you?" he asked. "The only thing that will break the spell is to have a man kiss me in the mouth. Please do it for me, and then I will again turn into a beautiful, sexy, princess and I will really make you feel young again. I will make great love to you." The man closed his hand about the frog and stuffed it into his pocket. "At my age," he said, "I'd rather have a talking frog." HAIR-DON’T The older a man gets, the more ways he learns to part his hair. Some men pull what little bit of hair they have around on their head to cover their baldness. However, as a man gets even older, he realizes there are basically only three ways to wear his hair--parted, unparted, and departed. WAKE-UP An elderly woman was telling her daughter about a date with a 90-year-old man. "Believe it or not, I had to slap his face three times!" said the woman. "Do you mean that old man got fresh with you?" the daughter asked in disgust. "Oh, no!" her mother explained, "I had to keep slapping his face to keep him awake!"
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The Plan of the Day BY TOM BURNS I found Rex in the hammock on the back porch, taking his third nap that morning. “R ex. Wak e up. R ex what do y o u w a n t t o d o t o d a y ? I t ’s a beautiful Saturday morning. The birds are singing. The skies are blue. I’ve got the six months of laundry in t h e d r y e r, a n d C a l t r a n s i s bringing in a skip loader to clean out the living room. Ye p . P e r f e c t d a y.” Rex wagged his tail once, either as signal that he agreed, or a signal to shut me up. “So what shall we do? How about me hiding you in my parka and I sneak you into to Costco and we eat all the free snacks. Maybe they will have that Herring Hummus Jalapeño Bean dip that you l i k e s o m u c h .” R e x ’s t a i l w a g g e d w i t h gusto. He really does like that dip, but since he
has an extremely limited v o c a b u l a r y, he probably wagged for the fun of it, not understanding a word I said. “ W a n n a h i t t h e R e c Tr a i l and scope the scene for chicks? Girls in yoga pants! Whoa baby!” Rex did not share my enthusiasm for girls in yoga pants. “Come on, man. We gotta get out of the house and do something fun!” N o w a g . “ H e y, t h e r e ’s t h e hubcap convention at the fairgrounds. Remember? Last year they had that for ty
“ We could trim the Christmas tree!” Rex looked a w a y. P e r h a p s h e i s J e w i s h . Per haps because Chr istmas h a d c o m e a n d g o n e a l r e a d y. “How about I get out the record player and play the dogs barking Jingle Bells. Yo u a l w a y s l i k e t h a t .” I t l o o k e d a s t h o u g h R e x d i d n’ t like that anymore. “ We can mak e a gar land out of sausages and you can trim Millie. Give you a g o o d e x c u s e t o l i c k h e r.” H i s English sheepdog girlfriend
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sat on her side of the next year collection of those little d oFROGS or fence, watching the EDUCATED green Christmas tree shaped two of us go through the car deodorizers that hang m i n dwhen - n u m bthree i n g chickens exercise. f r o m tAh elibrarian r e a r vwas i e w quietly m i r r o r.working S h e y a w n e d a n d w e nt back W o w,walked t h a t win a sand a m ajumped z i n g .” Ron e x to the counter eyed her and i n s i d e h e r d o g h o u s e . I d i d n’ t yawned. said "BUK BUK BUK" Not sure she was blam e hsane e r. she gave the
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WRONG WAY A policeman pulled a blonde over after she'd been driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Cop: Do you know where you were going? Blonde: No, but wherever it is, it must be bad because all the cars were leaving. DUMMY A young ventriloquist was touring the clubs and one night he was doing a show in a small town in Arkansas. With his dummy on his knee, he started going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde in the fourth row stood on her chair and started shouting: "I've heard enough of your stupid
blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person's hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It's guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person. Because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes, but women in general, and all in the name of humor!" The embarrassed ventriloquist began to apologize, and the blonde yelled, "You stay out of this, mister! I'm talking to that little shit on your knee."
MILKY WAY Gloria the blonde once heard that milk baths would make you beautiful. She left a note for her milkman Alan to leave 15 gallons of milk. When Alan read the note, he felt there must be a mistake. He thought she probably meant 1.5 gallons, so he knocked on the door to clarify the order. Gloria came to the door, and Alan said, "I found your note to leave 15 gallons of milk. Did you mean 15 gallons or 1.5 gallons?" Gloria said, "I want 15 gallons. I'm going to fill my bathtub up with milk and take a milk bath." Alan asked, "Oh, alright, would you
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NO MORE TEARS A husband and wife stepped up to view the body of his mother-inlaw. As he began to cry, his wife punched him and said: Why are you crying, you never liked my mother anyway. I know he replied, I thought I saw her move! POTATO, POTOTO An old man lived alone in Ireland. He wanted to dig his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison for bank robbery. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his predicament. Shortly, he received this reply, "For heaven’s sake Dad, don't dig up that garden, that's where I buried the money!" At 4 am the next morning, a dozen policemen showed up and dug up the entire garden, without finding any money. Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and asking him what to do next. His son's reply was: "Now plant your potatoes, Dad. It's the best I could do from here." A TICKET TO RIDE Three engineers and three accountants are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each buy tickets and watch as the three engineers buy only a single ticket. "How are three people going
to travel on only one ticket?" asks an accountant. "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer. They all board the train. The accountants take their respective seats but all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The accountants saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all). When they get to the station they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the engineers don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed accountant. "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer. When they board the train the three accountants cram into a restroom and the three engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the accountants are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please."
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From the Sandlot GOOD SPORTMANSHIP At one point during a game, the coach said to one of his young players, "Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?" The little boy nodded in the affirmative. "Do you understand that what matters is whether we win together as a team?" The little boy nodded yes. "So, " the coach continued, "when a strike is called, or you're out at first, you don't argue or curse or attack the umpire. Do you understand all that?" Again the little boy nodded. "Good, " said the coach, "now go over there and explain it to your mother."
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BY HUNTER KOSMALA My stomach growled as I pulled into the driveway. I knew I had the rest of my cold-cut from yesterday stowed away in the refrigerator and that’s all I could think about. Plopping my backpack in my room I made way to the kitchen. An aroma meandered toward me from the direction of the fridge. “Guys, we really need to clean this fridge out,” I said to the congregation of guys on the couch. A mumbled agreement came from the group. I peeled open the fridge and was almost knocked over by the smell. “Holy… Guys, what in the world,” I struggled to get out past the stench. My eyes could not believe what they saw. To-go boxes from all of the local hotspots packed the first two rows of available space. Moving down, a drawer designated as the cheese drawer was full of different cheeses but what it should have been designated as was the Drawer of Science with the amount of mold and bacteria that had grown on the cheeses. “When was the last time any of y’all used this cheese?” No response. “Cool, I’m throwing your science projects in the garbage.” I was so transfixed on the science projects that I completely failed to notice the milky brown goo that was dripping from the bottom of the door on to the tops and sides of my shoe. I followed the black trail from my shoe to the door and up to a shelf about even with my shoulder. When my eyes surveyed the scene of the shelf I couldn’t help but notice all the things wrong. An open bottle of whiskey lay on
its side; the contents inside of it sloshing with every opening and closing of the door, spilling a little bit at a time. A stick of butter sat there half melted and a jar of ringed pepperoncini’s stood there with its top teetering on the edge of falling. I thought to myself, “Wow, this is pretty disgusting.” “Hey, guys, come here,” I yelled to the living room. Slowly, I heard the guys peel themselves off the couch and start into the kitchen. As soon as I knew they were coming I grabbed the half melted whiskey soaked stick of butter, and as it oozed out the cracks in my fingers I made sure they couldn’t see it. Kyle was the first one in followed by Bobby and Dutch. “So, uh, whose whiskey is this?” I asked the flock. No answer. “So this isn’t any of yours?” Bobby chimed in and said that he thought it was from the party last week, but Dutch finally fessed up and claimed the whiskey. “Now that we have that out of the way, look at this goo on my foot, this is from a mix of butter and whiskey, whose stick of butter was on the shelf?” Dutch immediately said that he bought it and never used it. “So both of these items were yours, Dutch?” I asked for clarification. “Yep.” Without hesitation I cupped the oozing stick of butter in my hand and swung it from where I was holding it. I swiped my hand across Dutch’s cheek leaving a trail of brownish-yellow goo dripping from his chin. “You’re cleaning the fridge.”
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For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, 'If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.' In response to Bill's comments, Ford issued a press release stating: If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):
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1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash ‌ twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single 'This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation' warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying. 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off. PS - Let’s add that when all else fails, you could call 'customer service' in some foreign country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!!!!
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The World Did Not End!
By Bini Aries: March 21 - April 19: The Ram
Libra: Sept. 23 - October 22: The Scales
Two heads are better than one, so adjust your big fat head! Part of the body ruled by Aries is the Head. This is a necessary pivot in perspective if you still want to run the show. The key is simply begun by “taking orders” from others. This is just a glimpse of the many changes ahead in the New Year for you. Bottoms up!
Is your soiree leaving you an outsider? How dare....Sound the alarm! You master of charm. Your subterfuge in the grand arena of fools is not to be taken lightly. It makes the Queen’s stockings look like old fish nets. There is no doubt that your preference is for harmony rather than friction. This is best described: “It’s as broad as it is long.” Happy New Year!
Taurus: April 20 - May 20: The Bull “Day Dreaming and I am thinking of you, Day Dreaming".......Former times hold rich memories—yet your ponderous nature can create excessive lengths of in-action. Taurus rules the neck-swivel it so that you get an overview of the New Year spherically while you’re still on your ass. Wheeeeee! Answers on Page 20
Gemini: May 21 - June 20: The Twins
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Celebrations elapsed?!?......Never for the enthusiastic you! Argh......................and yet we the people are too pooped to pop! With your continual need to communicate, finding you in a corner talking to yourself will be of no surprise—it may seem as if you are on a trip to the moon-you may as well be since you prefer the ride and not the arrival. New Year, new vistas! Gemini rules the lungs so breathe in the celestial air. Cancer: June 21 - July 22: The Crab
Scorpio: Oct. 23 - Nov. 21: The Scorpion Choices. Look behind and than ahead at this New Year’s Edge.....now down at your feet... See those weird sandals? You bought them. That is the Gladiator-ess waiting to be reborn. You have the power to change your scrutiny into a twinkle and play the water organ too, la, la, la. Put away the trident and you will find that long desired after party opponent. They will have the stamina you crave. Yes, yes, lot’s of excess. Scorpio rules the genitals; easy does itdon’t get rash. Sagittarius: Nov. 22 - Dec. 21: The Archer Sometimes all that optimism is nauseating to some of us more cynical types; since you insist on a swarm of friends to surround you, at least bring some Bromo-seltzer! New Year’s lesson: learn about self-love while in the dumps, it builds character. SAG rules the liver so don’t let all this inner reflection piss you off in 2013.
Erstwhile, you gaze into the never ending war of your internal complexities you finally discover how much stupid your bubbling ego, made of glass, has caused you to sabotage your magically good intentions!(Damn that was a mouth full!)—oh, careful what goes in your mouth. Cancer rules the stomach so in your last full moons phase of 2012 seriously consider a simple coup d’oeil to dismiss those insensitive types away! Or just throw up on one.
Capricorn: Dec. 22 - Jan. 19: The Goat
Leo: July 23 - August 22: The Lion
Aquarius : Jan. 23 - Feb. 18: The WaterCarrier
Look to the future Sunshine! Leo rules the heart and your quivers and waits for you to actually use it......okay! Use it “MORE.” The New Year sheds a different light on your power surges; will most likely frizz up those shiny locks of yours. Have some extra powerful hair products around to untangle this mystification. Change is in the air. Coraggio!
January symbolizes the two faces, one looking in the past and one in the future. Which one is your best side? Looking straight on at yourself and delving into those emotional gray areas that you so skillfully dodge. Gray is the color of wisdom. The Tin Man already had a heart; he just needed to lubricate the squeaky joints. Happy Birthday and Happy New Year!
This ain’t no spaghetti western Bubb! No needed dubbing. You may have even flubbed a bit this year. A life of a fantast insists on walking your talk that’s all, so stand tall! Quit stalling and fetch that poor horse some water so you can still trot into the sunset of your New Year! You need the circulation.
Virgo: August 23 - Sept. 22: The Virgin
Pisces: February 19 - March 20: The Fishes
Wipe off that supercilious grin! Be practical and use some sand paper. Just because you’re a superb organizational genius doesn’t mean you have to rearrange the molecular structure of the bubbles in the champagne. Virgo rules the nervous system. Be aware of that type of dazzling display-could bring irreversible stress factors. Welcome the New Year with a Big Chillout.
You sublime ichthyoidal wizard! It’s upstream for you this New Year. Shrug off those barracudas snapping at your colorful tail. A lot of bark and no bite there dude. You are up, up, and away. You are the ocean Ferrari. Throw out the rear view mirrors and unhook from the past. It’s your turn, no two turn ways about it. Get a wheel alignment after all these aquatics.
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Billy In Love BY ROSIE SORENSON Billy has a girlfriend, fuzzy like him, someone he can turn to for Mom Cat love. Billy, our formerly homeless rescue kitty, now luxuriates in all things indoors: Fancy Feast on demand, soft carpeting and television, especially Dancing With The Stars. Last Christmas, my BFF Carolyn, gave me a plush, off-white robe. When I’m not wearing it, I often leave it lying on the bed. Well. It didn’t take Billy long to discover the robe and to fall in love. The first time I came upon him with his “girlfriend,” I couldn’t quite believe it. There he was kneading rhythmically on her soft body, gurgling, his eyes narrowed to slits. I swear I saw a tug of a smile as my boy floated off somewhere to kitten paradise. I crept back out of the bedroom and rushed down the hall to Steve’s office; Steve, my sweetheart of many years, Steve, the man who won my heart with his love for cats. “Psst,” I whispered. “You have to come see this.” He pushed back his chair, and together we tiptoed back into the bedroom where Billy was still working it, seemingly oblivious to the fragrance of the flowering lemon tree wafting in from the deck. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” Steve said, bringing a hand to his mouth. “Nope – our boy’s in love.” We struggled to keep from laughing. Enchanted with Billy and his new passion, Steve added another routine to their morning cuddlefest. He now totes Billy in his arms to the bedroom and places him on the mattress with the robe lying nearby. Having his Daddy sit next to him on the bed reading the morning paper brings Billy inordinate joy. He purrs,
he gurgles, he kneads. I’m not sure how his girlfriend feels, but our boy is propelled each time toward kitty heaven. One evening last week, I strolled into the bedroom after my shower, still wearing my robe. I stopped near the bed where Billy was sleeping. He woke up, walked over to the edge of the bed, a furrow forming at his brow. Yes, cats can furrow their brows; at least this one can. “What?” I said to him. A little chirp gurgled up from his throat. “What?”
“Meow,” he said. A few beats later: For Pete’s sake, this six-pound furball is jealous of me wearing his girlfriend? As I saw it, I had two choices. I could tell him, “Tough nooggies, little one.” Or . . . . Well, of course I took off the robe and gently set it down next to him. Three seconds later he climbed aboard, and launched into his blissful kneading and purring. The next time it happened, however, I was determined not to be such a pushover. See here, Billy, this is my robe, and you’re not getting it tonight! I lowered myself to the bed and turned on the TV. Billy crept over and climbed in my lap. Normally I love it when he does that. But this time, he started kneading and kneading, his little sharp claws poking through the robe and pricking my skin. “Steve?” I cried.
“What?” he answered from the dining room. “Billy wants my robe and he’s hurting me.” Pause. “You want me to bring you your sweats?” Pause. “Fine,” I said through clenched teeth. Cat: 1. Mom: 0. Never get between a cat and his true love. Rosie Sorenson is a recovering psychotherapist and an award-wining writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and other publications. They Had Me at Meow is a collection of stories and color photos of Rosie’s fifteen-year relationship with a colony of homeless cats who have helped her recover from a long bout with chronic fatigue. Meow won the 2009 Muse Medallion Award from the Cat Writers Association and the 2010 Best Pets Book award from BAIPA. For more information and to order her book, please visit her website: www.TheyHadMeAtMeow.com.
Knock, Knock. Who's there? Police. Police who? Police stop telling these awful knock, knock jokes! Knock, knock. Who's there? Woo. Woo, who? Don't get so excited, it's just a joke. Knock, knock Who's there? Mary lee Mary lee who? Mary lee we roll along.
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We scour the internet to bring you the most hilarious police blotter reports from across the country. THE THINGS WE SAY TO POLICE OFFICERS!! “The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him.”
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“I told the police I was not injured, but upon removing my hair, I found that I had a fractured skull.” “Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have.” “The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intention.” “I was taking my canary to the hospital. It got loose in the car and flew out the window. The next thing I saw was his rear end, and there was a crash.” “I had been learning to drive with power steering. I turned the wheel to what I thought was enough and found myself in a different direction going the opposite way.”
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The Rx-Files BY TED GARGIULO Another installment in the incredible saga of Dr. Garjekyll and Teddy Hyde
Suffering from post electionyear hangover? Campaign hype and overkill got you down? Tired of the posturing, the evasions, the half-truths and the political doublespeak that pass for news night after night? Wish you had some hard scientific data—a clinical scoresheet, if you will— with which to evaluate the elusive, biological entities running our nation? You're not alone. Never has transparency in government been as hot an issue as it is right now. The clamor for truth has gone viral. Already, our collective obsession with knowing everything about everybody has all but dominated the media. Pretty soon, if trends continue, nothing will be hidden from public scrutiny. Eventually, the medical records of every elected official, candidate and political wannabe
will be posted on the internet and discussed on all the major news programs and social networks. Schools of self-styled "psycho-political physiologists" will analyze these disclosures to better understand the forces that make these creatures tick. How might such factors as blood sugar, heart rate or serotonin levels affect one’s leadership? Should a prediabetic, three-pack-a-day smoker with adrenal insufficiency, a bodymass index above 410 and a family history of stroke, run for President? One day, the biological cycles and mood swings of every Washington bigwig will be documented in The Snoop’s Almanac, along with a list of "best guess" days on which certain persons should (or should NOT ) be approached. Boob-Tubers will be regaled with increasingly invasive news specials, as competing networks dig deeper to deliver the dirt. For starters: an up-close, in-your-face account of one congressman’s colonoscopy, replete with graphic
testimonies from attending physicians and radiologists! What did the surgeons find? What did they remove? What secrets did the congressman mutter under anesthesia? Who visited him during his recovery? An exclusive interview with the orderly who emptied the dude’s bed pan. With the 300 pound nurse who held him down when he became violent. Next, meet the brave Missouri housewife who shared Sen. Babs Fullerbunk’s hospital room. Marvel as she reveals their intimate conversations. How does the senator really feel about the major issues? Her political rivals? The President? Find out what the senator’s nervous breakdown cost the taxpayers. Hear chilling eyewitness accounts of the night Babs Fullerbunk attacked her roommate with a tongue depressor, then threatened to pull out her IV if she didn’t vote for her in November. Don’t be surprised if, between now and the next major election, there’s talk of placing medications
on the general ballot, as a way of giving voters greater power over the people they put in power. Sound like a winner? Why not add magic potions to the list! Specifically: • Mind altering preparations that would render key decision makers more sensitive to the people they represent, more compassionate, easier to persuade; • Sedatives to reign them in when they crack; • Serums that force them to tell the truth; • Elixirs to induce guilt when all else fails. Given our penchant for contention, I expect the above proposal (albeit ludicrous) will spark furious national debate. Every pundit, crank and buttinsky in the land will be weighing in on, "What’s best for the people?...for the nation?...for our CHILDREN?" And, "Who has the right to decide such things?" The poop is out there. Join the discussion and spread it around.
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Well, the “season of giving” is over but we blabbermouths agree it’s never out of season to give advice. Being a know-itall is a lonely road, yet it’s my true calling. And what better way to dress up this obnoxious behavior than with an advice column? Here’s a sampling of questions submitted by my thousands of fans.
I’m so angry reading about General Petraeus and his biographer/mistress, Paula Poundstone. He should give back his medals and she should stick to comedy. What do you think? Honey, I think you’re overdue for a new eyeglass prescription. The woman’s name is Broadwell, not Poundstone. But, hey, I’m angry too! It really fries my kumquats that she makes the rest of us writers look so flabby! My arms get a daily workout by constantly pushing my cats off the keyboard. But
Holy Hummers and Flailing Fornicators! Have you seen her biceps?!? Twenty bucks says she hoists a weighted pen and cross-trains with an inclined mouse. The Medicare hotline representative sounded like a young girl, way too inexperienced to be credible. What’s going on? Just because information is given by a highpitched voice in a rapid and singsong manner doesn’t mean the person is a young female. You are not only prejudiced, you
are a rabid voicist! It’s a fact: 98 percent of all customer ser vice reps are former rodeo cowboys with crushed genitalia. Sadly, they do sound like seventh graders, except the cowboys giggle all the time. But I must ask, was the person you spoke with named Brandy? That little snot really is 12 years old so always insist she put her grandmother on the line. I’m a people pleaser and worr y a lot about what others think of continued on page 22
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Quirky Quotations THE QUOTATION QUIZ OF QUESTIONABLE QUALITY BY QUARLEN QUROSSMAN
Can you guess who said the following? 1. "Start every day off with a smile, and get it over with." A. Ronald McDonald B. W. C. Fields 2. “I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.” A. Janeane Garofalo B. Pope Benedict XVI 3. 'It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna to depend on the weather.” A. Harry S. Truman B. Fred Steudler 4. " I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical." A. Arthur C. Clarke B. Copernicus 5. "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think." A. Luther Burbank B. Dorothy Parker 6. " I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." A. John Adams B. Ogden Nash 7. "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are." A. Chester A. Arthur B. Matt Lauer 8. “Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?” A. Roseanne Barr B. Michelle Obama Answers (all true): 1-B, 2-A, 3-A, 4-A, 5-B, 6-B, 7-B, 8-A Scoring: (number correct) 7-8: Quirky, 5-6: Cute, 3-4: Hallucinogenic 1-2: Shy, 0: Berserk Quarlen Qurossman writes a slightly less quirky quotation quiz under the pseudonym Arlen Grossman in the Monterey County Herald and at quotationquotient.com.
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NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS BY JOHN SAMMON This New Year, do yourself a favor and skip those resolutions you intend to fulfill, and try to carry out for three weeks, only to abandon. Instead, make non-resolutions you have no intention of keeping. In other words, operate like Congress. Over-promise and don’t deliver. It’s easy. What’s more, you don’t have to suffer regret that you failed to carry out your promise. Instead, you cynically made a pledge that you knew to be a falsehood. You achieved a lasting achievement. Lying to yourself can be pleasurable. Most resolutions have to do with boring stuff anyway, like losing weight. It’s always about personal bad habits and usually about losing weight. For the past 10 years you have made the pledge to lose weight, and for exactly 36-and-a-half days each new year you make a feeble, aggravating effort to carry it out. Then, you plunk back on the sofa and resume gorging on chocolate ding dongs. If you never made that weight loss gig stick, what makes you think you will now? We both know you’re weak just like everybody else, unable to see anything through to completion. Instead, make that lack of resolve count in your favor. The trick is this. Instead of making a resolution that requires some kind of dramatic achievement (i.e. take 20 pounds off and keep it off ). Instead, do that which not only reinforces something you find pleasurably wrong, but is also something that can be achieved easily for the very reason that it is one of your naughty delights.
Anything that’s bad for you or is temptingly wrong……..you’re likely to be very good at. Okay. Here’s an example. I pledge to engage in selfish behavior only 65 percent of the time over the next two months instead of 73 percent of the time over only the next two months. Or, I pledge that, instead of frequenting the 55 bars that I now frequent. I promise to narrow that down to 13 bars as my favorites. Get the picture? These are doable. You can make these. You haven’t given up your wicked pleasures, only reconfigured them. This is how our government operates. They take a statistic like 12 percent unemployment and say instead, we’ve built employment to almost one hundred percent. Portray weakness as strength. It’s called spin. I’m not big on New Year’s Eve as a general rule. Historically, mostly middle-aged people in suits and ties who looked like they were about ready to suffer heart attacks from their profligate high consumptive ways and high stress jobs went out to noisy parties where they wore stupid paper hats and made noise with crankable noise makers, little cheap gizmos made in Japan. Today’s younger celebrants are more hip. They sit home with friends, sip wine, eat cheese, and watch a giant ball on the side of a building in New York slide down a poll. Is 2013 a lucky number? We’ll see.
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continued from page 6 - Rex “Hey! I’ve got it! We can go to Outdoor Wor ld, sit in the c a n o e s a n d p r e t e n d w e ’r e Lewis and Clark!” Now even I looked away it was such a bad idea. “How about Scissors, Rock, P a p e r, i f y o u d o n’ t c h e a t ? ” W e b o t h l o o k e d a w a y. “ O k a y, o k a y, o k a y. I ’ v e g o t it. I think I know something w e ’ l l b o t h l i k e t o d o .” R e x sat up and wagged his tail, sensing a big breakthrough i n t h e p l a n f o r t h e d a y. “ D o n’ t m o v e , I ’ l l b e r i g h t b a c k .” Rex wagged his tail
f u r i o u s l y. I g o t u p a n d went inside for a moment. I returned with my latest c o p y o f G i r l s i n Yo g a P a n t s m a g a z i n e a n d a b e e r. “Scoot o v e r, pal, I ’m coming in for a landing. This i s n’ t y o u r h a m m o c k , i t ’s o u r hammock. Move your little k e i s t e r. H a p p y N e w Ye a r, bucko.
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WAKEY, WAKEY Four years ago, I wrote a column piece about 2012 and I was the voice of Chicken Little. If you are reading this, then it’s January 2013 and we are all still here, or at least you are, as I am writing this in November 2012, still in human form at the moment. But one has to admit that a lot has happened since then. And do I believe that the world is going to end? Not really. WE might though. The sky hasn’t fallen, but a lot of the structures around us have. What I do hope is that we don’t need to get shaken awake by large earthquakes and hurricanes before the Eve of Distraction becomes our own self-imposed Day of Destruction. Our cultural obsession with autonomic overstimulation, unconscious consumerism, the need for constant noise and chatter is harshly illuminated, and the neurosis and panic that occurs when our cell phones go MIA in our purses or pockets is enough to
indicate that we might have a slight problem here with attachment, Houston. So I’ve been thinking a lot about what happens when we are not awake, not consciously speaking (yet), but when we are in the dream state. For me, Salvador Dali should get the award for Best Director. My dreams are in living (yet sleeping) color, filled with bits and pieces of memories, suppressed thoughts and feelings, fantasies and strange characters. The actors are often handsome male celebrities who can instantaneously morph into an ex-boyfriend. I am naked sometimes, either on the top of me or on the bottom, but never all at once. And I can never hide, run or scream, especially when I am naked. When we are asleep, a part of our mind seems to go dormant and all of those wild components from some cosmic dream factory arise without our conscious direction, stringing themselves together with little fragments of thoughts, emotions and details from the day before or years past, subconsciously running amok. In our semi-consciousness of the waking state, we seem to have
a little more control over what appears in front of us, or do we? Each thought (with images) leads to another in rapid fire succession, similar to the dream state. Sit back and observe… “Did I turn the oven off? The guy in the car next to me is hot. Why do I have to be driving in this sea of cars anyway? I would rather be left alone at the beach. Should I be turning left here? I know I left the oven on. I can’t forget my appointment with the doctor on Monday. Is Happy Wok open on Monday? Why are most Chinese restaurants closed on Monday? I think I’m hungry. That oven is still on, I just know it…or maybe I turned it off. You cut me off, you SOB!” And don’t tell me that YOUR mind doesn’t do this. Step in and take a peek. So now that YOU are watching you think, don’t you wonder which YOU you really are? (Here comes a condensed class in Consciousness 101.) So it appears that we don’t have control of our dream state (and not a heck of a lot of control of the waking state either.) There seems to be a trigger in each thought that creates the next one, but it makes
on your own hair—but unlike you, I’m a prestigious advice columnist. You’re nobody. Anyway, when worried about what others think, restore your inner peace by gently chanting the ancient Zen mantra known as DIGS: Do I Give a Shit?? My New Year ’s resolution is to buy less stuff. But it’s hard! Yes, store managers cleverly place sale items along a circular path through the store. Bastards. The
best way to fight this is to wear an eye patch. Furthermore, I’ve personally slashed my spending to almost nothing by wearing patches on both eyes. Not to worry, the parrot on my shoulder barks directions. The heels of my socks wear out so quickly. Any tips? When your favorite socks get holes in the heels, flip those babies around and wear the holes in front! Yeah, the wadded fabric
no sense when we observe the process from a distance. If there is a thread that connects them, it is indeed a loose one. What happens if YOU pull that thread? Where do the thoughts go? Perhaps soon, the shift everyone is talking about won’t manifest in Earth changes, but will arrive with the realization that we are both the passenger and pilot in this human vessel, each of us in our own respective docking stations on Mothership Earth, waiting to escape the dreamscape that we have created with our own busy and heavily distracted little minds. And maybe a new consciousness will indeed arise with the ceasefire of constant, unmanageable thoughts and finally bring peace to our minds and hearts…and to our world. Happy New Year! Robyn Justo is a freelance writer who shares the frustrations, triumphs and general hysteria of living life in the gray (or the new silver) area, the lighter side of later. She keeps a foot in both the visible and the invisible worlds, which prevents her from tipping over.
continued from page 18 - Clearance me. Do you think that’s bad? W TF!? Now you’re wondering what I think?! Okay. Humans are pretty self-absorbed, so chances are, others aren’t even thinking about you. Even as I write this, I’m thinking about crocheting a sweater from my dryer lint. But, honey, the real reason no one thinks about you is because you have a bad haircut. I’m also plagued with bad haircuts— that’s the downside of chopping
will resemble full frontal double chins, so remember: DIGS!! © 2012 by Mary Tompsett Mar y Tompsett is a humorist who tries to avoid living in a “gated community” because institutional straitjackets are notoriously unflattering. Her novel, Whinny From the Heart, is available through www.booklocker.com
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