Category: Humor
Vanity plates
Virginia has one in ten of the vanity plates in the U.S. Here’s a couple I saw today for people I’m not sure I want to meet.
TTUGIRL
DZ GIRL
That could be DZ for dizzy I guess, but I’m thinking DZ for disease.
It’s beginning to look like a recession
Warning: Rant Alert!
Checking the ID of 60-year-old individuals before selling them beer seems to be back in vogue around Albuquerque. It’s happened to me twice in the past few days — at a restaurant and at Costco.
Here’s what I had to say about it two years ago:
NewMexiKen had to show ID last night at the Isotopes baseball game to purchase beer. Now I am 61 years old, have four children in their thirties and six granchildren. I was of legal age 40 f***ing years ago. There is no way, much as I might feel young on the inside, that I look like I could be under 21.
What kind of foolishness requires servers and vendors to check the age of every customer? Doesn’t that obvious overkill actually undermine the legitimacy of the liquor laws? (Sort of like “drug free zones” near schools — drugs are illegal but they’re really, really illegal around schools.)
When I was 17 or 19 I would have had no problem getting alcoholic beverages. I’m fairly certain today’s 17 or 19 year olds have little trouble if they really want it. What mis-guided moron thought up the policy of checking the IDs of grandparents?
And it’s just sad when the waitress or cashier says, “You don’t want me to get fired, do you?” Well, of course I don’t want them to get fired. I want them to quit and look for a job where they are enabled to use some common sense.
And you know what galls me the most? I was buying Michelob Ultra in both instances. (Don’t ask.) I mean that stuff is like making love in a canoe.
You know — f**king close to water.
Bitter is as bitter does
“Losing your job doesn’t make you vote. It makes you drink.”
Plans for the George W. Bush Presidential Library have been released
The library will include:
- The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction and looks like a disaster.
- The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can’t remember anything you see or hear.
- The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don’t have to even show up.
- The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don’t let you in.
- The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don’t let you out.
- The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room (which no one has been able to find).
- The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you go back for a second, third, fourth, & sometimes fifth tour.
- The Dick Cheney Room, in an undisclosed location, complete with shooting gallery.
- The K-Street Project Gift Shop, where you can buy (or just steal) an election.
- The Airport Men’s Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.
- An entire floor devoted to a 1/64 scale model of the President’s ego.
Thanks to Debby for the scoop.
The jokes on me
A dog walks into Western Union and asks the clerk to send a telegram. He fills out a form on which he writes down the telegram he wishes to send: “Bow wow wow, bow wow wow.”
The clerk says, “You can add another ‘Bow wow’ for the same price.”
The dog responded, “Now wouldn’t that sound a little silly?”
Early one morning a mother went to her sleeping son and woke him up.
“Wake up, son. It’s time to go to school.”
“But why, Mama? I don’t want to go to school.”
“Give me two reasons why you don’t want to go to school.”
“One, all the children hate me. Two, all the teachers hate me.”
“Oh, that’s no reason. Come on, you have to go to school.”
“Give me two good reasons why I should go to school.”
“One, you are fifty-two years old. Two, you are the principal of the school.”
Two rednecks were seated at the end of a bar when a young lady seated a few stools up began to choke on a piece of hamburger. She was turning blue and obviously in serious respiratory distress. One said to the other, “That gal there is having a bad time!” The other agreed and said, “Think we should go help?” “You bet,” said the first, and with that, he ran over and said, “Can you breathe?” She shook her head no. He said, “Can you speak?” She again shook her head no. With that, he pulled up her skirt and licked her on the butt.
She was so shocked, she coughed up the obstruction and began to breathe–with great relief.
The redneck walked back to his friend and said, “Funny how that hind lick maneuver always works.”
Mickey Mouse is having a nasty divorce with Minnie Mouse. Mickey spoke to the judge about the separation.
“I’m sorry Mickey, but I can’t legally separate you two on the grounds that Minnie is mentally insane…”
Mickey replied, “I didn’t say she was mentally insane, I said that she’s fucking Goofy!”
Living will
“While I was watching the sweet sixteen college basketball games, my wife and I got into a conversation about life and death, and the need for living wills. During the course of the conversation I told her that I never wanted to exist in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and taking fluids from a bottle.
“She got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all my beer.”
First posted here two years ago. Originally in an email sent to Debby.
Raising the quality of insults
Taking a lesson from Saint Francis Xavier, born on this date in 1506 (see here), NewMexiKen has decided to raise the level of the insults I hurl, for example, at other drivers. From now on, instead of “Hey, a**hole,” or “m*****f*****,” or some other Deadwood appropriate language, I am simply going to yell:
“It upsets me to know that at the hour of your death you may be ordered out of paradise.”
Rhetorical mooning
NewMexiKen first posted this four years ago after Debby had posted it elsewhere:
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training. One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks.
The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people: “What are these guys in the big suits doing?” One of the astronauts said that they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a message to deliver to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official accompanying the astronauts said, “Why certainly!” and told an underling to get a tape recorder. The Navajo elder’s comments into the microphone were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously. But he refused to translate.
So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo village and played it for other members of the tribe. They too laughed long and loudly but also refused to translate the elder’s message to the moon.
Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After she finally stopped laughing, the translator relayed the message: “Watch out for these assholes. They have come to steal your land.”
This story has been around the Internet since at least 1995. According to the Urban Legends Reference Pages —
Although it might possibly have earlier antecedents as yet unknown to us, the origin of this tale appears to be a joke Johnny Carson included in his Tonight Show monologue on the evening of 22 July 1969, two days after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to set foot on the surface of the moon.
Still one of my favorite signs
First posted here three years ago today:
Taken behind Costco in Manassas, Virginia.
And this item was posted here two years ago today:
The Smoking Gun reports on a 34-year-old female teacher in Delaware having sex with a 13-year-old boy 28 times in one week.
At least that explains the attraction.
Leno
“Well, in a stunning announcement, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey Jr., who had said he would remain neutral, has endorsed Barack Obama. He said he did it because his four young daughters told him they wanted Barack for president, which also explains his choice for vice president, Hannah Montana.”
“Hey, did you hear about this? The Pentagon ordered a full inventory of our nuclear arsenal to see what’s missing. Wait, now we can’t even find our own weapons of mass destruction.”
More Leno (and Letterman, too)
‘Cause it’s good to have the writers back.
There’s some hope, though. According to the San Gabriel Tribune, because of the high price of crude, drilling for oil in LA is profitable. Once again, Los Angeles could see oil wells popping up all over the place. A lot of people say the oil wells would be an eyesore. But, they say not to worry because they’re going to disguise them as cell phone towers.
No, they say Los Angeles could become a major oil-producing region, just like the Middle East. Only, of course, more violent.
And the Department of Homeland Security deported 280,000 illegal immigrants last year. And listen to this. They’re getting tough. They’re threatening to deport them again this year.
Hey, I’ve been watching that John Adams miniseries on HBO. Boy, it’s really good. You know, it’s fun to see all the Founding Fathers. They’re all in it. John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John McCain.
— Jay Leno
There’s a quiz that you can take to tell if your spouse is cheating. Question No. 1: Is your spouse a governor?
Vice President Dick Cheney. You know where he is right now? He’s in Baghdad. He visited there. While he was in Iraq, he said it’s a “successful endeavor.” At least I think that’s what he said. It was hard to hear over the explosions.
How about the economy? George Bush earlier today reassured the country about the economy. He said, “I’m on top of it,” and I said to myself, well, that’s good enough for me.
— David Letterman
Spring forward
Really!?!
Bear down
Eliot was excited about his new rifle and decided to try bear hunting.
He traveled up to Alaska, spotted a small brown bear and shot it.
Soon after there was a tap on his shoulder, and he turned around to see a big black bear.
The black bear said, “That was a very bad mistake. That was my cousin. I’m going to give you two choices. Either I maul you to death or we have sex.”
After considering briefly, Eliot decided to accept the latter alternative. So the black bear had his way with Eliot.
Even though he felt sore for two weeks, Eliot soon recovered and vowed revenge. He headed out on another trip to Alaska where he found the black bear and shot it dead. Right after, there was another tap on his shoulder.
This time a huge grizzly bear stood right next to him. The grizzly said, “That was a big mistake, Eliot. That was my cousin and you’ve got two choices: Either I maul you to death or we have ‘rough sex’.”
Again, Eliot thought it was better to cooperate with the grizzly bear than be mauled to death. So the grizzly had his way with Eliot and tore him a new one. Although he survived, it took several months before Eliot fully recovered.
Now Eliot was completely outraged, so he headed back to Alaska and managed to track down the grizzly bear and shot it. He felt sweet revenge, but then, moments later, there was a tap on is shoulder. He turned around to find a giant polar bear standing there.
The polar bear looked at him and said, “Admit it Eliot, you don’t come here for the hunting, do you?”
We’re screwed
Q: How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Ten
- One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed.
- One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed.
- One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb.
- One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs.
- One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb.
- One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light Bulb Change Accomplished.
- One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark.
- One to viciously smear #7.
- One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along.
- And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.
First posted here two years ago.
Best line of the night, so far
“For the first time ever, one out of every 100 adults in the United States is in prison. What do you think?
Kevin Slota, Optometrist: “My goodness, that means that two out of every 100 adults are failures as parents.”
He makes me want to Ralph
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of 2008 Election Early
The embedded video wasn’t working, so just follow the link to The Onion.
Tina Fey on Weekend Update
Weekend Update
Best codgerisms of the day
“I like that John McCain. He looks like a guy who gets ticketed for mowing under the influence. McCain looks like a guy with a collection of movies he bought at the car wash. McCain looks like a guy on the beach with a metal detector. McCain looks like the guy who is still confused by the phone answering machine. McCain looks like the guy who calls his grandson when he screws up the remote.”
— David Letterman
More codgerisms
How about that John McCain, though? What do you think of John McCain? I knew he could count on you. He looks like the guy in front of you at the movies whose wife has to repeat everything, doesn’t he a little bit? He looks like the guy who has to always be told something is on his chin. He looks like the guy who still has a rotary phone. He looks like the guy who backed over his own mailbox. He looks like the guy whose sweater is always misbuttoned – you know that guy? He looks like the guy that always tells you he’s 72 years young. He looks like the guy who’s bragged that oatmeal has lowered his cholesterol. He looks like the guy who should be co-hosting with Kelly Ripa.
— David Letterman
A hypothetical situation
Just take three minutes out of your busy life and go read what Jesus’ General has written and watch the video.
And always let FUBAR be your expectation when experts act.