ChuckCobleigh BaltACD So Gracie was a trailblazer for future candidates like Pat Paulson. Whoda thunk?
BaltACD
So Gracie was a trailblazer for future candidates like Pat Paulson. Whoda thunk?
The joke of the era was that a woman would become involved in politics - at any level. be it Gracie or any other woman.
Subsequently we have had our Pat Paulson's, Dan Gurney and other faux campaigns. A faux campaign for George Bruns would have been similar.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
If I remember correctly, Gracie was a candidate for the Surprise Party.Pat Paulsen was the candidate for the Straight Talk in American Government (S.T.A.G.) Party.
Carl
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From 1940. I like the UP ad above - "go via the famous Road of the Streamliners and the Challengers" !
You might not want to read the list in the Dr. I. Q. ad too closely . . .
- PDN.
One afternoon little Alex was in the church, looking at a large marble plaque on the wall that had a list of names with a small flag beside each one.
The pastor, upon entering the church and seeing Alex, walked over to the lad and gently placed his hand on his shoulder. "Good morning, Alex." "Good morning, pastor. I was just looking at this. What is it?" The pastor replied, "Why, Alex, that's a memorial honoring all the people of the parish who died in the service."
Suddenly trembling with fear, Alex asked, " Oh, my gosh! Which one? The 8:30 or the 11:00?"
CShaveRRPat Paulsen was the candidate for the Straight Talk in American Government (S.T.A.G.) Party.
And who can forget his exhortation at the end of one of his campaign speeches: "I've upped my standards, America; now up yours!"
Over on the Race to Promontory thread, I mentioned Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, which now brings to mind a story I once heard.
Apparently Roy left his new boots out on the porch of the ranch house overnight and came out to find that they had been chewed to pieces. It was clear that a puma had done the damage by the size and pattern of the tooth marks on the remains. He was beside himself with fury and seeing this, Dale said not to worry, she would take care of it and he should just wait on the porch.
She set out on Buttermilk and was gone for a while. Roy was still sitting on the porch a while later when he heard singing and saw Dale riding up on Buttermilk with the offending puma draped across her saddle, dead, while she was holding a guitar and singing, "Pardon me Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?"
There was a man who enjoyed playing his piano at home until he realized that it badly needed to be tuned. He looked for a tuner's advertisement--and found one that had been placed by a man named Oppornockity. He called Mr. Oppornockity--and was told that his piano could be tuned that very day. When the tuner arrived, he proceeded to sit down at the piano--and began playing various songs. When he stopped playing, the piano was in perfect tune, and the man was delighted to know that no notes would be sour.
Some time later, his piano again needed tuning, and he called Mr. Opporknockity again--and was told, "I am sorry, but Oppornockity tunes but once."
Johnny
DeggestyHe looked for a tuner's advertisement--and found one that had been placed by a man named Oppornockity.
You could have stopped right there -- the punchline is already on the telegram.
Like when you tell the joke about the intoxicating beer slipped to the opposing baseball team's pitcher, and you get to his name, Milfamey. The groaning starts there, not waiting for 'the rest of the story'...
Miningman Finally!, A funny joke.
OK, here's another one: A horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, "Hey, why the long face?"
In honor of Mother's Day:
Texting acronyms can stump even the best parents:
Mom: Your great-aunt just passed away. LOL.
Son: Why is that funny?
Mom: It’s not funny, David! What do you mean?
Son: Mom, LOL means Laughing Out Loud.
Mom: I thought it meant Lots of Love. Now I have to call everyone back.
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Mom: What do IDK, LY & TTYL mean?
Son: I don’t know, love you, talk to you later.
Mom: OK, I'll ask your sister.
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“Why doesn’t your mother like me?” a woman asks her boyfriend.
“Don’t take it personally,” he assures her. “She’s never liked anyone I’ve dated. I once dated someone exactly like her, and that didn’t work out at all.”
“What happened?”
“My father couldn’t stand her.”
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My wife, a real estate agent, wrote an ad for a house she was listing. The house had a second-floor suite that could be accessed using a lift chair that slid along the staircase. Quickly describing this feature, she inadvertently made it sound even more attractive: "Mother-in-law suite comes with an electric chair."
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Fresh out of gift ideas, a man buys his mother-in-law a large plot in an expensive cemetery. On her next birthday, he buys her nothing, so she lets him have it. "What are you complaining about?" he fires back.
"You still haven’t used the present I gave you last year."
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I was nine months pregnant and browsing at a garage sale when the homeowner asked me if I knew whether I was having a boy or a girl. I told her I didn’t. As I left a few minutes later, she yelled after me, “I hope you get the sex you want!” ------------------------------------------------------
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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We had just finished tucking our five kids into bed when three-year-old Billy began to wail. Turns out, he had accidentally swallowed a penny and was sure he was going to die. Desperate to calm him, my husband palmed a penny that he had in his pocket and pretended to pull it from Billy’s ear. Billy was delighted. In a flash, he snatched it from my husband’s hand, swallowed it, and demanded, “Do it again!”
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Two babies are sitting in their cribs, when one baby asks the other, “Are you a little girl or a little boy?”
The other baby shrugs. “I don’t know how to tell the difference.”
“I do,” says the first baby. He carefully climbs out of his crib and into the other crib, then disappears beneath the blankets. After a few seconds, he resurfaces.
“You’re a little girl, and I’m a little boy,” he says.
“How can you tell?”
“Easy. You’ve got pink booties, and I’ve got blue ones.”
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This is one of my drivers told me Friday. He get's pulled into the scalehouse for an inspection. He had a headache prior to getting pulled into the scale so after stopping he reached above his head and pulled out his bottle of tylonel and took one. DOT inspector saw it comes running up and goes did I just see you take some dope in front of me. My driver without missing a beat and with a straight face goes NOPE I just took a Birth Control Pill since I knew I was screwed when I got in here anyway might as well make sure I don't get pregant in the process.
DOT officer starts laughing and told him to get out of there.
Not to get serious about Pat Paulsen, but he was asked during his joke campaign, "What would you do about Viet Nam?" He said, 'I would take it to the U.N. and say, if you can't solve this, you have no right to exist." Makes sense.
Can't believe I'm on this thread but here it goes:
So..Sherlock Holmes and the every trusty Watson are on a case that requires them to camp overnight outside.
They have their campfire and meal, enjoy a pipe smoke and soon retire off to bed.
In the middle of the night Sherlock wakes up Watson and says...."Watson, look up and tell me what you see"
Watson replies " Ahhh...I see many many stars, billions I'm told, and that's just what we can see. I surmise that there are many many planets around these stars and if just one of them has life on it then we are not alone in the universe"
To which Sherlock replies " No you idiot, someone stole our tent"
This a repeat ?
Invisible man married invisible woman. Turned out their children not anything to look at .
"Let me see," said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
'Looks to me that if the driver quickly threw his weight left or right he'd be on the side of the tracks in the wink of an eye. Of course, there would be that other little issue needing some immediate attention: "Help- I've fallen and I can't get up!".
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Where on earth is that? It looks like an Isetta on narrow gauge track.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
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I hope that bug is ready to jump off the track when a train appears.
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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year outsideof New York City, New York archaeologists found tracesof copper cable dating back 150 years and came to theconclusion that their ancestors already had a telephonenetwork more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks thatfollowed, a Los Angeles archaeologist dug to a depth of20 feet just outside Oceanside, California. Shortlythereafter, a story appeared in the LA Times that read: California archaeologists report the finding of a 200year old copper cable and have concluded that theirancestors had an advanced high-tech communication network50 years earlier than the New Yorkers.
One week later, a newspaper in Louisiana reported thefollowing: After digging down about 30 feet in hispasture outside Thibodaux, Louisiana, Boudreaux, a selftaught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutelynothing. Boudreaux therefore concluded that 300 yearsago, Louisiana had already gone wireless.
Paul of Covington After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year outsideof New York City, New York archaeologists found tracesof copper cable dating back 150 years and came to theconclusion that their ancestors already had a telephonenetwork more than 150 years ago. Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks thatfollowed, a Los Angeles archaeologist dug to a depth of20 feet just outside Oceanside, California. Shortlythereafter, a story appeared in the LA Times that read: California archaeologists report the finding of a 200year old copper cable and have concluded that theirancestors had an advanced high-tech communication network50 years earlier than the New Yorkers. One week later, a newspaper in Louisiana reported thefollowing: After digging down about 30 feet in hispasture outside Thibodaux, Louisiana, Boudreaux, a selftaught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutelynothing. Boudreaux therefore concluded that 300 yearsago, Louisiana had already gone wireless.
Paul, you certainly took me unaware.
As an act of kindness, you could have told us how to pronounce the name of M. Boudreaux's home. I learned that in 1951 when my oldest brother, who lived in Baton Rouge, was taking me and and youngest brother down to Houma to visit our great uncle (retired) who had overseen the growing of the cane on a plantation there.
Tibbuhdoe
When it comes to pronouncing Louisiana french names, there is just one basic rule--it's not how it looks.
And when it comes to Boudreaux's conclusion, he was right. We were wireless back then. Kinda like cordless screwdrivers.
Paul of CovingtonWhen it comes to pronouncing Louisiana french names, there is just one basic rule--it's not how it looks.
One advantage of living in an area with a fair French presence is being able to pronounce the words...
Not far from here is a town named after James Leray de Chaumont. Some would be tempted to say "CHOW mont." It's sha MOH.
Of course, we have a lot of Native American names as well, which are sometimes a challenge.
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tree68Not far from here is a town named after James LeRay de Chaumont. Some would be tempted to say "CHOW mont." It's sha MOH.
Which is even stranger when you consider the French pronunciation ought to be much closer to "show-mon(g)." Still more interesting, of course, is why it's "James" and not "Jacques".
The problem may come in when, whether or not there was a fair French presence at one time, it may have gone native, or to Louisiana, and we wind up with things like "Ver-SALES" Kentucky or the inimitable "CAL-lus" Maine.
(I remember my parents trying to find the ferry from St. Stephen (which you can only easily get to via Calais) to Newfoundland, in 1968, by asking locals, none of whom seemed to know where 'Cal-lay' might be. Maine being Maine, perhaps, they had to ask several before one volunteered "Oh, ya want Callus, back that way.")
For MUCH more fun, examine names with more than one actual French word in them, like "Havre de Grace"...
RME Still more interesting, of course, is why it's "James" and not "Jacques".
Still more interesting, of course, is why it's "James" and not "Jacques".
It seems his father Jacques was famous so he called himself James.
https://books.google.com/books?id=5tTLaOyI7ywC&pg=PA18&dq=%22+james+leray+de+chaumont%22+%22jacques+leray+de+chaumont%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcipqqyKnUAhVjzIMKHUmiD-MQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=%22%20james%20leray%20de%20chaumont%22%20%22jacques%20leray%20de%20chaumont%22&f=true
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Donatien_Le_Ray_de_Chaumont
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