Archive for the ‘Humor’ Tag

08/31/2023 ⚾⚾MORE BASEBALL⚾⚾   Leave a comment

Being a lover of baseball, I enjoy every facet of the game. That includes some of the craziest and outrageous quotes when these superstars and broadcasters step up to the microphone. Yogi Berra was made famous by his confusing and hilarious quips, but he isn’t alone. Here are a few quotes that will make you smile a little and hopefully laugh out loud a lot.

“Well, I see in the game in Minnesota thar Terry Felton has relieved himself on the mound in the second inning.” Fred White, sportscaster for the Kansas City Royals

Folks, this is perfect weather for today’s game. Not a breath of fresh air. Curt Gowdy, sportscaster

All I said was that the trades were stupid and dumb, and they took that and blew it all out of proportion. Ron Davis, Minnesota Twins pitcher

If Jesus were on the field, he’d be pitching inside and breaking up double plays. He’d be high fiving the other guys. Tim Burke, Montral Expo pitcher

I am throwing twice as hard as I ever did. It’s just not getting there as fast. Lefty Gomez, NY Yankee pitcher

I prefer fast food. Rocky Bridges, infielder, when asked why he wouldn’t eat snails

Always root for the winner. That way you won’t be disappointed. Tug McGraw

Raise the urinals. Darrel Chaney, Braves infielder, on how to keep the team on it’s toes

I lost it in the sun. Billy Loes, Brooklyn pitcher, after fumbling a grounder

Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean. Pedro Guerrero, NL infielder and outfielder

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I NEVER SAID MOST OF THE THINGS I SAID

(Yogi Berra)

08/22/2023 “Smile Dammit II”   Leave a comment

Since we’re well into the middle of August already, I feel like I’m on another planet. These changes in the weather patterns are just too weird to try and explain. I’ve lived in Maine almost 24 years and I’ve never seen or experienced summer weather that would require using an electric blanket in July. It’s hard at times to celebrate a summer that we haven’t had yet but I’m sure next year will be just as effing great. With that depressing thought in mind, I feel the need to inject a little humor back into our lives. You’re welcome to come along for the ride if you like.

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There was a man who had insomnia so bad he couldn’t even fall asleep when it was time to wake up.

It was an enormous funeral that was winding its way through the streets of the town, and, in every way, no signs of sorrow had been seen. A bystander, who had been away from the neighborhood for a while, nudged a neighbor. “Who died?” he whispered. “Big Angelo’s girlfriend, said the other.” Big Angelo’s girlfriend? But she was so young! What did she die of?” “Gonorrhea!” “Gonorrhea! But that’s impossible. No one dies of gonorrhea.” “You do when you give it to Big Angelo.”

I sat next to the Duchess at Tea.

It was just as I feared it would be.

Her rumblings abdominal

Were truly phenomenal,

And everyone thought it was me.

A man and a woman met on the beach, they fell in love with each other at first glance, and after three days, were married. The wedding night was just as successful as it could be, but when the woman awoke the following morning, she found her husband dressing. She asked, “Where are you going?” “Darling, we married so quickly I didn’t have a chance to tell you I’m addicted to golf. I’m afraid you’ll rarely see me. She nodded and said, “That’s all right, we married so quickly I forgot to tell you I’m a hooker.” The man smiled and said, “That’s nothing darling. Don’t worry about that because it’s easily corrected. You just need to hold the club like this . . . . “

Chemists are known for synthesizing some marvelous chemicals. There is the story that one synthesized an aphrodisiac for men that was so powerful it had to be swallowed very quickly to avoid getting a stiff neck.

And last but not least a short but interesting story about a visitor to the home of Pablo Picasso. The visitor remarked there were no Picasso’s on the walls. “Don’t you like Picasso paintings?” asked the visitor roguishly.” “Of course, I do,” said Picasso. “I just can’t afford them.”

WHY AREN’T YOU SMILING???

08/19/2023 MISH MOSH in the Rain   Leave a comment

Just another gray, cloudy, rainy, miserable, depressing day. I never thought I would wish for snow, but I’m THIS close.

  • Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it’s known as Tennessee.
  • In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
  • The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972.
  • Approximately 40% of guests arriving at a party admit to snooping in the hosts medicine cabinet.
  • Catnip is ten times more effective repelling mosquitoes than some of the commercial products containing DEET.

  • Hawaii’s state flag is the only US state flag to feature the Union Jack.
  • The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache on the deck of standard playing cards.
  • In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
  • Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, dishwashers, and windshield wipers were all invented by women.
  • Water is the thing most often choked upon by Americans.

  • The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley’s gum.
  • The chance that a dollar bill contains remnants of cocaine is approximately 80%.
  • The average life span of a major league baseball is 5 to 7 pitches.
  • From groundbreaking to opening day, the original Disneyland was built in just 365 days.
  • The word Gorilla comes from a Greek word that means a “tribe of hairy women.”

EVERYUSELESSTHING YOU NEEDED TO KNOW

08/17/2023 Retro 80’s Humor   Leave a comment

I’m not quite sure how to act today, there’s a huge yellow orb in the sky and I’m not exactly certain what it is. I suspect it has something to do with global warming but unfortunately, I have very few liberal friends to help explain it to me. Let’s move along to today’s post. I recently acquired a small paperback book titled Raunchy Riddles, published in 1984, (Sarcasm On) an era of true sophistication and good humor. (Sarcasm Off) Here’s a small sampling of the fine work of that era.

What would a country girl do for birth control? If she can, she crosses her legs . . . If she can’t, she crosses her fingers!

Why are anchovies like telephones? They’re the next best thing to being there!

What should a girl do if she’s looking for a passionate husband? Try a few on for sighs!

What’s brown and smells like a bell? Dung!

How can you tell the novice at a nudist colony? He sticks out like a sore thumb!

What’s a “vagrancy brassiere”? No visible means of support!

What happens when people tease you too much about masturbating? You grow callous!

What’s the greatest thing about masturbation? It’s sex with someone you love!

What does a cautious gynecologist do? Tries not to stirrup any trouble!

Why should you guard your rear when you’re in a hospital? You’re in enema territory!

WHO DOESN’T LOVE THE EIGHTIES??

08/15/2023 “Smile Dammit”   2 comments

Well, as I said in the past so many times it’s a gray and rainy and crappy day here in Maine. The state is overrun with tourists from Canada and from Massachusetts zero making any kind of trip even to just shop is a pain. Least touristy summer days totally destroy what sense of humor I normally have, and I need something to make me smile at least. So, with that in mind about some jokes.

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The terrible tempered Mr. Anderson, having missed an easy putt, shouted, “Oh Fuck!” A young lady in the party said, “You needn’t use such vile language. “Anderson stared at her angrily and said, “Oh, come on. I’m sure you’ve heard that word many times before. “I have, said the young lady, but never in anger.”

A woman who was having a one-night stand with the man she had casually picked up said rather contemptuously, “You have a very small organ.” To which the man immediately replied, “It merely seems small because it has been asked to play in a cathedral.”

A visitor to a certain college paused to admire the new Hemingway Hall that had been built on campus. “It’s a pleasure to see a building named for Ernest Hemingway”, he said. “Actually,” said his guide, it’s named for Joshua Hemingway. No relation.” The visitor was astonished. “Was Joshua Hemingway a writer, also?” “Yes, indeed,” said his guide. “He wrote a check.”

“Worry is the first time you find you can’t do it the second time; panic is the second time you find you can’t do it the first time.”

There was a young woman named Sally

Who loved an occasional dally.

She sat on the lap

of a well-endowed chap,

And said, “Ooh, you’re right up my alley.”

A woman said proudly, “Before I married my husband, I told him quite frankly of the various different love affairs I had had. I did not want to marry under false pretenses. “What honesty,” said one of those who was listening to her. “And what courage,” said another. “And what a memory,” said a third.

(A TRUISM)

ORGANIC FARMING IS A LOT OF SHIT

08/08/2023 Retro Weirdness   Leave a comment

As you should be aware I have quite the collection of weird facts I’ve collected over many years and from many sources. As I was cleaning up my old desk top computer yesterday, I found this list of strange and odd facts that hasn’t seen the light of day since 2006. So, let’s take a walk down a very old memory lane.

  • A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
  • A group of larks is called an exaltation.
  • A kangaroo can’t jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
  • A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
  • A man had the hiccups for 69 years.

  • A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.
  • A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
  • A noisy restaurant is 100,000 times as loud as a watch ticking, a rock Concert is 1,000,000,000 times as loud. and a shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000 times as loud.
  • A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt light bulb.
  • A group of owls is called a parliament.

  • About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
  • A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  • A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
  • A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
  • A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

  • A group of ravens is called a murder.
  • A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week
  • A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
  • A group of toads is called a knot.
  • About 3,500 gallons if water is needed to produce one pound of beef.

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HAVING A DRINK ON THE BEACH OR ON THE DECK

YOU CHOOSE

08/05/2023 The Moral of the Story . . .   2 comments

I am a lover of all things strange and odd. Over the years I’ve collected oddities and facts as well as weird little stories. Here are a couple you might enjoy.

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#1

Once upon a time in a land far far away called Boston, Massachusetts some weirdness was afoot. There was a gentleman by the name of James Ball who had a weird and morbid fear of being buried alive. In his mausoleum constructed in Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery, he arranged for a telephone to be installed in his crypt.

In time, Mr. Ball died. His widow, accompanied by a great crowd of relatives, friends and business associates, followed Mr. Balls body to the grand limestone tomb.

Just after dark that same night his wife was passing through a sitting room and heard the telephone ring. A maid passing outside the room heard Mrs. Ball say, “Hello?” and then she heard a bloodcurdling scream. She rushed into the room to find Mrs. Ball with a look of horror on her face clutching the telephone. The line was dead, and so was Mrs. Ball. She died of a massive coronary, but the identity of the caller remains a mystery to this day. On the day of the funeral, when the crypt was unsealed, the crowd saw that the lid of Mr. Balls casket was open, and the telephone was off the hook.

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Once upon a time there was a dog lover, a husband who took his Labrador retriever on a 4 mile walk a couple of times a week after dinner. One day he came down with a bad case of the flu, so it fell to his wife to walk the dog.

After supper, she clicked on the dog’s leash, and they headed out the door. She wanted to go to large open lot at the end of the street, but the dog tugged at the leash and all but dragged her around the block to a house on the corner. The dog pulled the poor woman up the stairs and began scratching furiously at the door. The wife scolded the dog and was trying to pull away when she heard a sweet female voice inside the house call out, “You’re a little early tonight, darling! Wait just a minute.”

The next moment, the door swung wide open and there stood a pretty and buxom young woman in a sexy negligée holding a large bone in her hand.” This should keep the dog happy while we’re – Uh-oh!”

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Well, there you have it. Avoid crypts, telephones in crypts, and properly train your dog not to eat big bones from strangers.

ZEN IS HELL AT TIMES

08/01/2023 “Summer Musings”   Leave a comment

An airplane flying from Houston to Chicago had a very close call. For a while it seemed they were doomed to crash to fiery destruction, but at the last minute the pilot got it under control and landed safely. Out of the plane came 200 midgets. An onlooker said, “I never saw so many midgets in my life.” Said another, “Those aren’t midgets. Those are Texans with the shit scared out of them.

In Hollywood, it is not enough for you to succeed; your friends must fail.

As per Yogi, “You can observe a great deal just by watching.”

Who doesn’t like stereotypes? A Texan had just had a baby son, and he was passing out enormous cigars. “Likeliest little varmint you ever saw,” he said proudly. “He weighs twenty-seven pounds.” Two weeks later, the friend met him and said, “How’s the kid?” “Fine,” said the Texan. “The little tyke weighs sixteen pounds.” The friend looked puzzled. “Why, when he was born you said he weighed twenty-seven pounds.” “I know.” said the Texan, “but we had him circumcised.”

There once was a young plumber from Leigh

Who was plumbing a girl by the sea.

Said the maid, “Cease your plumbing,

I think someone’s coming.”

Said the plumber, still plumbing, “It’s me!”

At the zoo, a curious woman said to one of those who tended the animals, “How do you tell a male hippopotamus from a female hippopotamus?” The keeper said, “We don’t really have to, ma’am. The hippopotamuses figure it out for themselves.”

There is a story that Mussolini was once stranded in a small town in Italy when his car broke down, To pass the time, he visited a local movie house. Came the newsreel, and, of course, his own face flashed on the screen.

Everyone in the movie house stood up, but Mussolini, feeling tired and feeling no compulsion to stand up in his own honor, remained seated. Whereupon the man next to him whispered, “I feel exactly as you do, but take my advice and stand up. It’s safer.”

THANKS ISAAC

07/27/2023 Want A Good Life?   2 comments

Everyone wants a good life. As I sat thinking about it recently, I felt a few commonsense rules were needed. I’ve been around a very long time and have collected ideas from many sources that assisted me in creating this list. I’m no genius but if you follow this list, I guarantee your life will improve dramatically.

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Talk slow, think fast.
Remember that great loves and great successes also hold great risks.
Call your mom.
Respect yourself, respect others and take responsibility for your actions.
When you’ve made a mistake, Correct it!

Eat plenty of whole rice.
Always give people more than they expect.
Be able to sing your favorite song.
Don’t believe anything you hear and half of what you see. When you say, “I love you”, mean it!

Pet your pets.
Spend some time alone.
Accept change but maintain your values.
At times, silence is the best answer.
Read more books!

Learn all the rules, and then break a few.
Trust everyone . . . but always lock your car.
Do not bring up the past.
Good fences sometimes make for good neighbors.
Don’t trust anyone who fails to close their eyes when they kiss you.

Only swear when absolutely necessary.
When you say, “I’m sorry”, say it with eye contact.
Believe in love at first sight.
Honor your body, treat it like a temple.
Fight fair.

ANY DISAGREEMENTS? DIAL 1-800-BITE-ME



07/22/2023 CRIMINAL JUSTICE??   Leave a comment

I’ve had the pleasure and misfortune to have spent nearly twenty years working in and with the criminal justice organizations in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Maine. I always thought the system had its flaws, how could it not? Your days are filled with an endless supply of criminals and an endless supply of criminal attorneys. Yikes!! I always laughed when I heard some of the older police and judges say Criminal Justice was the ultimate oxymoron. I’ve since discovered they weren’t kidding. The information in today’s post was taken from the annals of numerous courts and are true. You may find them hard to believe but they are. There are a million stories in the naked city and most of them are directly related to the Criminal Justice system. When in doubt plead total ignorance.

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Attorney: What did the tissue samples taken from the victim’s vagina show?

Witness: There were traces of semen.

Attorney: Male semen?

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Attorney: Did you ever sleep with him in New York?

Witness: I refuse to answer that question.

Attorney: Did you ever sleep with him in Chicago?

Witness: I refuse to answer that question.

Attorney: Did you ever sleep with him in Miami?

Witness: No.

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Attorney: What is your date of birth?

Witness: July fifteenth.

Attorney: What year?

Witness: Every year.

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Attorney: So, the date of your baby’s conception was August 8th?

Witness: Yes.

Attorney: And what were you doing at that time?

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