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Deep Thoughts

Deep Thoughts (by Jack Handey)

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let’em go,
because, man, they’re gone.

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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them
down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

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To me, it’s a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when
you walk around. That way, if anybody says, “Hey, can you give me a
hand?” You can say, “Sorry, got these sacks.”

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One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going
to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old
burned-out warehouse. “Oh no,” I said, “Disneyland burned down.”

He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a
pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but
decided to go home instead.

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The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

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Posted in humor, lists 10:32 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Animal medication guide

How To Give A Cat A Pill

1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right fore-finger and thumb on either side of cat’s mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill In right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.

2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.

3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.

4. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.

5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse from garden.

6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat’s throat vigorously.

7. Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.

8. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw.

9. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, Drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse’s forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.

10. Retrieve cat from neighbor’s shed. Get another pill.Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door on to neck, to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band.

11. Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw tee shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.

12. Call fire department to retrieve the damn cat from tree across the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.

13. Tie the little bastard’s front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy-duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of filet steak. Be rough about it. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.

14. Consume remainder of scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the Emergency room. Sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table.

15. Arrange for SPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.


How To Give A Dog A Pill

1. Wrap it in bacon.

2. Toss it in the air.

via bp

Posted in Friday Funny, lists 7:49 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Hard to Find 800 Numbers



Frustrated with Amazon, but mysteriously, you can’t find a phone number to yell at someone? Need help with your Hotmail account, but don’t know where to turn?

I have a solution:

hardtofind800numbers.com

Posted in hacks, lists 8:32 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Thoughts for 2007

Written by Dorothy Cole

#10 Life is sexually transmitted.
#9 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
#8 Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an
erection, make him a sandwich.
#7 Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use
the Internet, and he won’t bother you for weeks.
#6 Some people are like a Slinky ….. not really good for anything, but
you still can’t help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
#5 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying
of nothing.
#4 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to
criticism.
#3 Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a
substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
#2 In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is
weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

AND THE #1 THOUGHT FOR 2007:

We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among the
millions and millions of cows in America , but we haven’t got a clue as
to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located.
Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of
immigration.

via Dean

Posted in Friday Funny, lists 2:10 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

The Devil’s Dictionary 2.0

Flash, proper noun

     A technology that almost — not quite, but almost — allows advertisements to punch you in the face.

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Posted in Friday Funny, lists, website 9:50 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

How much data is that?


  • 50 Gigabytes: Library floor of books on shelves
  • 5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings.
  • 10 Kilobytes: Page out of an encyclopedia

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Posted in computers, lists, tech, website 3:23 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

50 Things we know in 2006, we didn’t know in 2005



The common pigeon can memorize 1,200 pictures.

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50 things

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Posted in Science, lists 9:14 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

  1. AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
  2. ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.
  3. CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
  4. COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
  5. DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
  6. FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.
  7. FERRULE - The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
  8. HARP - The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
  9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER - A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
  10. JARNS,
  11. NITTLES,
  12. GRAWLIX,
  13. and QUIMP - Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
  14. KEEPER - The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
  15. KICK or PUNT - The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
  16. LIRIPIPE - The long tail on a graduate’s academic hood.
  17. MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.
  18. NEF - An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
  19. OBDORMITION - The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep’.
  20. OCTOTHORPE - The symbol `#’ on a telephone handset. Bell Labs’ engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
  21. OPHRYON - The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
  22. PEEN - The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
  23. PHOSPHENES - The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
  24. PURLICUE - The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
  25. RASCETA - Creases on the inside of the wrist.
  26. ROWEL - The revolving star on the back of a cowboy’s spurs.
  27. SADDLE - The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
  28. SCROOP - The rustle of silk.
  29. SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
  30. SPRAINTS - Otter dung.
  31. TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
  32. WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling.
  33. ZARF - A holder for a handleless coffee cup.

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Posted in lists 11:49 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Drunk

 THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK:

 - Indubitably
 - Innovative
 - Preliminary
 - Proliferation
 - Cinnamon

 THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK:

 - Specificity
 - British Constitution
 - Passive-aggressive disorder
 - Loquacious Transubstantiate

 THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK:

 - Thanks, but I don’t want to have sex.
 - Nope, no more beer for me.
 - Sorry, but you’re not really my type.
 - Good evening officer, isn’t it lovely out tonight.
 - Oh, I just couldn’t. No one wants to hear me sing.

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Posted in Friday Funny, lists 11:52 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Writing Tips

  • Like the virgin prairie for the explorer, metaphors are pregnant with possibility, but don’t mix them.

  • It behooves the writer to avoid archaic expressions.
  • One should not shift from the third person to the second person when you write.
  • I once read that splitting modifiers was wrong in the library.
  • It is generally recommended that the use of the passive be minimized.
  • Write assertively, I think.

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  • Posted in Friday Funny, lists 11:03 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS