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Posted by Mr. Railman on Friday, February 1, 2013 6:41 PM

Humorus, but true.

As me and my two friends were sitting down to grab something to eat, we noticed that the pedestrian crossing at Lake Cook Road depot (Metra) was malfunctioning. It was going on and off for short intervals. So I decided to call in the Item two. Word of advice: Calling 1800 fix-gate will lead you to an ED pill...

"Hello. is this the number for grade crossing problems?"

"Yes"

"I'd like to report an item two at Lake Cook Road,"

"A what?"

"An Item two. The signals going off, but there's no train!"

"And where is this?"

"Lake Cook road"

"And...?

"The depot. It's a pedestrian crossing!"

"Thanks for calling,"

"You're welcome"

Makes you wonder...

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, February 1, 2013 5:16 PM

vsmith
Dang, as I feared..all the good band names are already taken:

There's a thing that floats around Facebook for creating your "rock band name."

Something like the color of your mother's favorite housecoat, the street you lived on as a child, and the name of your first dog.

You could end up with the "Green Highland Friskies..."

The more obscure the possible selections, the stranger things could get...

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, February 1, 2013 10:41 AM
Dang, as I feared..all the good band names are already taken:

\Here is a collection of Funny Band Names you might encounter.
Imagine driving by a nightclub and seeing a sign with the words... 
"TONIGHT, LIVE ONSTAGE"
      band name    .
A

A Band Named Bob
A Box of Fish with Tartar Sauce 
A Boy Named Gomer 
A Cat Born In An Oven Isn't A Cake 
Above Average Weight Band 
Abracadaver
Abstract *** Brigade
Actual Size
Adickdid 
Adios Pantalones
Admiral Poopy Pants and His Dancing Teeth
Adult Children of Heterosexuals 
Adventures in Shrubbery
The Advil Monkey
Aerosol Methods
Afghanistan Banana Stand
Afraid Of Figs
Afrodiziac
Agnes Morehead
Aha, the Attack of the Green Slime Beast 
The Al Roker Death Cult Wind Ensemble
Al's Heimers
Albino Toilet Boys 
Alcoholics Unanimous
Alcoholocaust
Alien Ant Farm
Alien Nymphos from Uranus
The Alien Puppets
Alien Sex Fiend 
All You Can Eat
Almighty Lumberjacks of Death
The Amazing Embarrasonic Human Karaoke Machine
Amish Meth Lab
Amputatoe
Amputease
The Anally Devoted Husbands
Anal Speech Therapy
An Emotional Fish
The Andriod Sisters
Angry Amputees
Angry Salad
Angry Samoans 
Anus the Menace
Apocolypse Hoboken 
Are These My Pants?
Armani Death Machine
Armed and Hammered
Armpit
Army of Prawns
The Arrogant Worms
Arthur Loves Plastic 
Ashtray Boy
The Atomic Bitchwax
Automatic Daffodils
Attila The Stockbroker
Attractive Eighties Women
Avenging Lawnmowers of Justice
Ayatollah Mama Please

B

Badical Turbo Radness
The Bad Livers 
Bad Mutha Goose
Bad Tequila Experience
Baldilocks
Ball Point Banana
Baloney Ponys
The Bambi Molesters
Bananafishbones
The Band Formerly Known As Sausage
Band Over
Band That Shot Liberty Valence
Barbie Bones
Barefoot Hockey Goalie
Barenaked Ladies
Barf
Barnyard ***
Barry White Boys 
Barstool Prophets
Bassholes 
BBQ Platypus
Bearded Itchy Lover 
Beats the Hell Out of Me 
Beatnik Termites
Beef Masters 
Beerbellied Scum From Central Bucks County
The Bendy Monsters 
Ben Dover and the Screamers
Ben Wa and the Blue Balls
Bernie the Trailer Park Queen and the Deadbeat Dads
Bertha's Mule 
Betty Ford
Betty's Not a Vitamin
Beverley Beer Bellies
Biff Hitler and the Violent Mood Swings
Big Ass Truck
Big Balls and the Great White Idiot 
Big Dead Fish
Big Fat Pet Clams From Outer Space
Big Fish Ensemble
Big Head Cat
Big White Undies
The Biggest Freak in New Jersey
Bimbo Toolshed
Bionic Roomate
The Bisquit ***
Bitter Enemies/Butter Enemas 
Bizzare Czars
Bjorn Again
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Bleeding Rectum 
Bloated ***
Bloated Tick
Blood Sledge Electric Death Chickens
Bloody Death From Outer Space
Bloody Stools
Blueballs Deluxe 
Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits
Body Falling Down Stairs
Boiled Angel
Bondage A Go Go
Bonerama
Bongo Sherbet and the Electrified Yeti Wobblers
Bongzilla 
Bordering On Retarded 
Boris the Sprinkler
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
BowWowWowHaus 
Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre
Brad Pitt Live and Nude
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Britney Spearchuckers
Broadzilla
Brutal Juice
Brutal Noodle
Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys
Bullwinkel Gandhi
Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters
Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellas
Bulimia Banquet 
The Bumpin' Uglies
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
Burger Pimp
Bus Station Loonies
Busted Rubbers
Buster Hymen & the Penetrators
Butt Trumpett
Butthole Surfers

C

The Callous Taoboys
Caltransvestites 
Candy Striper Death Orgy 
Cap'n Crunch and the Cereal Killers 
Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries
Captain Drinking Binge 
Cardiac Zach and the Defibulators
Carter the Unstoppable Sexmachine 
Caucasian Invasion
Chain Smokin' Alter Boys
The Charging Tyrannosaurus of Despair
Cheap Mike & the Feedbacks
Cherry Coke Enema
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Chia Pet
The Chicken Charmers 
Chickens On Smack
Chief Brody & the Bigger Boat
Children of the Vending Machine
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell
Chocolate Watchband
Choosy Mom's Funky Dance Carnival
Clive Pig and the Hopeful Chinamen 
Cobaine's Brains
Colon On The Cob
Colostomy Grab-Bag 
Compulsive Gamblers
Concrete Octopus
Cookie Mould and the Smegmettes 
The Couch Slugs
The Crab Cometh Forth
Crappy the Clown and the Punch Drunk Monkies
Crazy Taco Cafeteria
Crazy Uncle Larry and his Troupe of Molotov Cocktail Jugglers
Crispy Ambulance
Crocheted Doughnut Ring
Crosseyed Chicken
Cultivated Bimbo
The Cunning Runts
Curious George and the Homophobes
Curl Up And Die
Cycle Sluts From Hell

D

Dairy Queen Empire
The Dairy Queens
Dali's Car
*** the Bad Luck 
Dancing Cigarettes
The Dancing French Liberals of 1848
Danger Wank
David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Dead Alcoholics with Boners
Dead Fish Prophecy 
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
The Dead Pants (Die Toten Hosen)
Debbie Harry's Armpit Crew
Deepthroat Shotgun
Demolition String Band
Dick Cheese and the Crackers 
Dick Davis and the Dicktones
Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles
Dick Donkeys Dawn 
Dick Duck and the Dorks
Dick Nibbler's All-star Weenie Roast
The Dick Nixons 
Dicky Retardo 
Dicks on Fire
Did Lee Squat? 
Diesel Dick and the Dipsticks
Dirt Clod Fight 
Disgruntled Postal Workers 
Dog Food Five 
Dogs With Jobs 
Domino's Delivery Boyz
Don Knotts Overdrive 
Doris Daze
Doug and the Slugs
Dow Jones and the Industrials
Downy Mildew 
Dracula Milk Toast 
Drag King
Dragmules 
Draw Your Own Cow
Dreaded Apparatus 
Drew Barrymore's Dealer
Drive By Crucifixion 
Drive-In Funeral 
Drunks With Guns 
Drunken Ugly Basement Brothers
Duckbutter
Dukes of Hazardous Material
Dumpster Juice 

E

e. coli
Earthpig and Fire
Ear Wacks
Edith Head 
Ed Gein's Car 
Ed's Redeeming Qualities
Elastic Sausage 
Electric Al and the Poison Dart Frog McNuggets
Electric Blue Peggy Sue and the Revolutionions from Mars
Elegant Doormats
Elizabeth Taylor's Husbands
The Elvis Diet 
Endangered ***
Epileptic Disco
Ethyl Merman
Everpresent Fullness
Eve's Plumb
Evel Gazebow
Evil Beaver
The Evil Elvii
Evil Weiner 
Experimental BBQ 
Exploding Boy 
Exploding Head Trick
Exploding White Mice

F

Fabulous Amputators
Fabulous Pimps
Fangboy and the Ghouls
The Farting Ghosts
The Fartz
The Fat Chick from Wilson Phillips
Fat Luv
Fat Welfare Moms On Dust
The F.C.C(The Flying Cunts of Chaos)
Fearless Iranians From Hell
The Fierce Nipples 
The Fifty Foot Hose
50 Naked Midgets
Fire on Your Sleeve
Five Fat Guys Who Rock
Fix My Head
The Flaming Donuts of Jesus
Flaming Box of Ants 
Flaming Lips
Flamin' Schnanuses
Flavor of Uranus
Flogging Molly
Flopping Bodybags
Fly Spinach Fly
Flying Dustbunnies
Flying Elmo's
Four Honkies In a Big Black Car
Four Nurses of the Apocalypse
Four Out of Five Doctors
The Fred Mertz Experience
Freda Fuselage And The Wingwalkers
Free Beer
Free Beer and Chicken
Free Range Chicken
The French are from Hell
Freud Chicken
Frogs Don't Cry
Fromage d'Amour
Frosted Suede
Frumious Bandersnatch
Full Throttle Aristotle
Full Metal Chicken
Funky Green Dogs From Outer Space
Furious George

G

GangGreen
Gangway Fathead 
Garbage
Gaye Bikers on Acid 
The Gaza Strippers
Gee That's A Large Beetle I Wonder If It's Poisonous
Gefilte Joe and the Fish
Gelvis Pressly
Genitorturers
Get Reality Over With. Take Hallucinogens (G.R.O.W.T.H)
Ghandi's Lunchbox
Girl Scout Handgrenade
Girls Can't Catch
The Glands of External Secretion
Global Disrobal
God's Girlfriend
Goldfish Don't Bounce
The Go Kill Yourselves
Go Nad Go
Gonoreagan
Gonnorhea Pizzaria
Grand Master Ass-Blaster and the Pimp-Slap Crew
Gravity Ass
Grim Skunk
Gregg Turner and the Blood Drained Cows
Gringo Star
The Grilled Cheeze Fiasco
Guess My Perversion
Guitarantula 
Guns N' Wankers
Gut Full of Cheese
Guyana Koolaid

H

Habitual Sex Offenders 
The Hair & Skin Trading Co. 
Haircuts That Kill
Hakan Sleeps Naked
Half Man, Half Biscuit 
Halibutt Sharon
Halo of Flies 
Hamster Sandwich 
Han Solo and the Chewbaccas
The Happiest Guys In the World
Hard-drinkin' Housewives
Harry Palms and the Gym Towels 
Headlice of Doom
Head Like a Hole?
Heavy Pink Insulator
Heavy Vegetable
Hefty Pink Labia Lips
Helen Keller Plaid
Helicopter Barfs
Hell Toupee
Hellacopter Meat
Hello I'm A Truck
Henry Kissinger's ***
Here, Eat This!
Her Majesty the Baby
Herpes Cineplex
He's Dead Jim
Heterophobia
Hey! That's My Bike!
Heywood Trout Festival
Hindu Garage Sale
Hitler Stole My Potato
Hitler's Missing Testicle
Hockey Teeth
Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of Death
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Holy Mary, Mother of Bert
Holy Sisters of the Gaga Dada
Homer and the Sexuals
Hornets Attack Victor Mature
The Hostile Amish
Hot Buttered Aspirin
Hot Rod Shopping Cart
House of Large Sizes 
The Hurling Tandooris 

I

I Buried Paul 
I Got Shot By Dick Cheney
I Love My Shih-Tzu
Ice Cream Headache
Icky Boyfriends
Identity Crisis
If Cows Had Wings 
If Pigs Could Talk Would You Still Eat Them
If You Don't Order Food You Have To Leave
Immaculate Infection
Impotent Seasnakes 
Individual Fruit Pie
Infected Mushroom
The Inflatable Boy Clams 
Inflatable Dates
Inflatable Party Sheep
"insert cool name here"
The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac 
Interspecies Love Child 
The Introspective Playboy 
Invisible Flintstones
Iowa Beef Experience 
Iron Liver 
Iron Prostate
Italians Obsessed with Cheese
I've Got a Wedgie
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE

J

Jabbering Trout
Jason's Cat Died
Jason's Gay Haircut
Jazz Iguanas
The Jean Paul Sartre Experience
Jehovah's Waitresses
Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program
Jerry's Kids 
Jesus Christ and the Nailknockers
Jesus Christ Super Fly 
Jesus Chrysler Supercar
Jiggle the Handle
Jif and the Choosy Mothers
Jim Jones and the Kool Aid Kids
Joan of Arkansas 
Jodie Foster's Army
Joe Buck Yourself
Joe Puke and the Chunky Bits
John Cougar Concentration Camp
John Denver's Co-Pilot
John Holmes: Cucumber Smuggler
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Johnny Uterus and the Fallopian Tubes
Jolly Naked Fishermen
Jonestown Punch
Juggling Death Squad
Junior High Burnout
Just Plain Cheese

K

Kamakazi Sex Pilots
Karl Maldens Nose
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
Ken Dodd's Dad's Dogs Dead
Kenfunky Fried 
Kerrigan's Knees
The Kids Who Never Learned How to Colour Inside of the Lines
The Killer Hayseeds
Killer Kiwis
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys
Kinky Slinky
Kiss My Poodles Donkey
The Kitshickers
Knee Deep Shag
Kung Foo Dykes
Kung Fu Action Clergy Persons
K.Y. and the Backsliders

L

Lance Armstrong and the One Ballers
Lavay Smith and The Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Lawnsmell
Leonard Skinhead
The Leave It To Beaver Conehead Immolation
Led Lobster
Lee Harvey Keitel 
Lee Press-On and the Nails
*** Dopeheads on Mopeds
Lick, the Dog
Limp Wrist
Lip Smacking Kitten Lunch 
Lord Panic and the Exploders
Lorne Greene's Wet Nipple
The Lord Is My Shotgun
Lost Underpants of Doom
Lothar and the Hand People
Loud American Tourists
Lubricated Goat
The Luminous Toilet Bowls 
Lung Mustard
The Lust Penguins
Luxury Christ
Lyin' female dog and the Restraining Orders

M

Maggot Sandwich 
Man...or Astro-Man? 
Manson-Nixon Line 
Mao Tse Helen
Mary Carves the Chicken
Mary Kay and the Cosmetics
Mary Kay's Pink Cadillac ***
Mary Tyler Morphine
Mayhem Lettuce 
McAlbert Fish Sandwich
Me and Sir Octagon
Meat Puppets
Mechanical Tampon Fish
Mega Smegma
Melissa's House of Crabs
Men Among Poodles
Men With Issuses
Mermaids In the Basement
Microwavable Tree Frogs 
Mill Valley Taters 
Minnie Pearl Necklace 
Minnie Pearl's Jam
The Minstrel Cramps
Mr. Holland's Anus
Mr. Quintron and the Flossy Unicorn Puppet Show
Mr. Tasty and the Bread Healers
Mr. T Experience
Moe, Larry and Shirley Jones
Mogen David and the Grapes of Wrath
Moist Fist 
The Morbid Tavern Apple Choir
More Drunk Cowboys 
The Morning Shakes
The Most Sordid Pies
Mother Theresa's Children [Moder Theresas Barn]
Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck
Mouse and the Traps
The Muscular Lesbians
Mussolini Headkick 
Mustard Plug
My Dog Has Hitler's Brain
My Friend the Chocolate Cake
My Other Car is Even Crappier
My Three Scum
My White Bread Mom
Myth America

N

Naked Potato 
Naked David Hasselhoff
The Napolean Blownaparts
Nascar Fanatics
Natural Fonzie
Naugahyde Chihuahuas
Navigators Of Carrots
Nearly Died Laughing While Shaving My Butt
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
New Riders of the Minimum Wage
New Squids on the Dock
Nip Drivers
The Nipple Erectors
No Pants Bandits
No Way Sis (Oasis tribute band)
Nocturnal Emissions
Nomad Nipples 
Noodle Muffin and the Pig Squints
Norman Bates and the Shower Heads
Not Drowning, Waving
Not Now I'm Naked
Not With My Camel
Nurse With Wound
Nuts Can Surf

O

Oedipussy
Ohio Howie and his Temple of Boom
Old Bathtub Hag
Old Lady Driver
Once I Killed a Gopher With a Stick
The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities
Operation Cliff Claven
The Orange Jews
Orange Juice After Toothpaste
Organic Condom Mazda Drugs 

Our Manager Told Us That Our Band Name Was Too Long and Difficult to Remember and That We Had to Change it So After a Long Brainstorming Session We Came Up With This One Because All the Other Ones Sucked

Outer Body Llama
Out of Godzilla's Butt
Out Vile Jelly
Ovarian Trolley 
Ozzy Beard Spaghetti 

P

Pabst Smear 
Painful Rectal Itch 
Paisley Brain Cells
Paul Minor's Great Big Ego 
Paul Will Eat Himself
Peace Love and Pitbulls 
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions 
People With Chairs Up Their Noses 
Pepto Dismal
Peter and the Test Tube Babies
Phenobarbidols 
Phil McAvity and his Gerbils
Philemon Arthur and the Dung
Phlegm Fatale 
Phone Bill from Hell
Picadilly Circus People 
Pieces of Lisa
Pimps of Venus
Pink Slip Daddy 
*** Off Postmen
Planet of Pants
Plastic Nude Martini 
Playdough Fish 
Plump Harriet
Poo On A Stick
Poop Shovel
Popemobile 
Pontius CoPilot
Pork Queen 
Porn on the Cob 
Porn Flakes
Pornhuskers 
Possum Juice
Post Nasal Drip 
Poultry in Motion 
Pregnant Men 
Pretentious Flamedogs 
Printed At Bismarck's Death 
Professor Morrison's Lollipop 
Psychic Buddist Gorillas 
Psycho Sluts from Hell 
Public Enema
Pullout Method
Pure *** Extract
Purple Earthquake

Q

Quasimodo and the Eunuchs 
*** Wookie
Question Mark & the Mysterians 

R

Rainbow Butt Monkeys
Rage Against Filo Dough
The Rampant Hedgehogs
Rats of Unusual Size
Rebel Without Applause
Rectal Exam
Red Neck Girlfriend
Reluctant Stereotypes 
REO Speed Dealer
The Revolting Cocks
Rhythm Method
Road Kill
Rodney King and the Nightsticks
Rolling Blackouts
Rolling Donut
Ronnie James Deoderant
Root Boy Slim and the Sex-Change Band with The Rootettes
Royal Flush and the Jacks of All Trades
Rubber Nipple Salesmen
Rudimentary Peni
Rugburns
Rumplforskin
The Runz
Rusty Pickup and the Crappytones
Ryan Retardondo and the Get Down Syndrome

S

Sadista Sisters
Sandy Duncan's Eye
Satan’s Cheerleaders
Saturated Fat
Saturday's Garbage
Saturn's Flea Collar
Science Diet
Scary Chicken
Screaming Brocolli
The Screaming Hormones
Screaming Moist Accountants
*** Pole
Semi Digested Curtain Rail
Sensitive New Age Cowpersons
74 Megs of Ryan
Severe Tire Damage
Sex Clark Five 
Skankin' Pickle
Sharon Stoned 
She Stole My Beer
Shirley Temple of Doom
Shirley Temple Pilots
Shoot the Mime 
Shorty and the Disappointments
Shorty Johnson & The Trojans
The Shower Scene from Psycho
Sinus Envy 
Sissy Boy Slap Party 
Sister Run Naked 
Six Organs of Admittance
Skadelic Smegma 
Skanorrhea and the Burning Sensations
Skinny Chicken & The Chokers
Skunk Death
Sloppy Seconds
The Slutty Nunz
Sluts for Hire
Sly and the Family Jewels
Smegma & the Nuns 
Smelly Tongues 
Smorgasborgnine
Snotty Scotty and the Hankies
Sodom & Gomorrah Liberation Front
Sofa Kingdom
Some Random Band
Son Of Sam Walton
Soothing Sounds For Baby
Sorry About Your Daughter
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Soup Dragons
Sour Puppet
Space Hog
Spaceman Bill and the Groovy Gravy
Sparky the Lizard Hermaphrodite
Spastic Colon
The Spastic Rats
Special Ed and the Short Bus
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Stark Naked and the Car Thieves
Stiff Dead Cat
Stiff Richards 
Stinky Binky
Stinky Fire Engine
String Cheese Incident
St. Mucous
Stockhausen and Walkman
Stop Calling Me Frank
Stop Lookin' and Buy It
Straight Jacket Lucy
Stud McCoy and the Creemy Twinkies
Stukas Over Bedrock
Stupid White People
Suicide Ninjitsu Penguin Assassin Squad
Suicide Shrimp Fiasco
Super Sonic Soul Pimps
The Surf Maggots
Susanne and the Guys With Ties
Swearing at Motorists
Sweaty Bum Chunks
Sweaty Nipples
Swingin' Udders 

T

Tastes Like Chicken
The Technochocolates
Technosquid Eats Parliament
Ted Bundy's Volkswagen
Ted Ed Fred
Temporary Darkening of the Stool
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs
Test Icicles
Testostertones
Thank God We're Immortal
The Baby Won't Eat His Corn Dog
The Quilted-Quicker-Picker-Upper, Bounty!
They Might Be Giants
They Tried To Frame OJ
They Were Expendable
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
This Is Serious, Mum
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
Three Day Stubble
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
350,000 Crazed and Fully Africanized "Welcome to Disneyworld" Bees
Tickle Me Pink
Titty Bingo
To Live and Shave in LA
Toiling Midgets
Tonto's Expanding Headband
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
Too Fat to Skate 
Tooth Fuzz
Toxic Shock and the Tampons 
Toys That Kill
Tracy & the Hindenburg Ground Crew
Trailer Park Casanovas
Trampled by Turtles
Transatlantic Chicken Wicken No. 5
Traveling Dingleberries
Trench Coat Yuppies
Trotsky Icepick
Trout Fishing In America
Tupperware Death
Turkey Makes Me Sleepy
22 Toxic Chemicals
20,000 Leaks Under The Sink
Two Cow Garage
Two For Flinching
Two Minute Sinatra 
2000 Flushes

U

UFOFU
Ugly Head
Ultimate Spinach
UltraBabyFat
Umbrella Full of Semen
Unidentified Rocking Objects
Uncle Bob Touched Me
Underpants Machine
The Urinals
Urine Specimen
Usless ID

V

Van Gogh's Ear 
The Vast Void of Empty Nothingness 
Vegetarian Meat
Venus and the Razor Blades 
Vermin from Venus
The Veronica Cartwrights
Vic Morrow's Head 
Vic Vaccume and the Attachments 
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
Vomit Launch

W

Waffles Against AIDS
Was I Naked 
We Go To 11
We The Peephole
The Well Hungarians
Well Strung 
Wendy and Her Menstrual Cycles
What Made Milwaukee Famous
When People Were Shorter and Lived By the Water
Where's The Pope? 
The Whip-M-Out Girl's
White People Lie
White Trash Debutantes
Whorehouse of Representatives
Who The Hell Are You?
Willie Nelson Mandela
The Wizards of Twiddly
Woke Up Falling
Wonderbred, the Refined White Flour Children
Wrecked ‘Em
The Wrench Twisting Streetlickers 
Wynona Ryders

Y

The Yams from Outer Space 
The Yeasty Girls
Yellow Snow
The Young and the Uselsess
You Need A Spanking
Your *** Neighbors 
Your Naked Mother

Z

Zombies Under Stress
Zombina & The Skeletones
Zorro and the Blue Footballs
Zsa Zsa
Zulu Leprechauns

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by zardoz on Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:36 PM

A visiting minister waxed eloquent during the offertory prayer. He began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face,"Without you we are but dust... "

He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter (who was listening!) leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice, "Mom, what is butt dust?"

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Posted by CShaveRR on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:19 PM

 Christmas At Rock-Away Rest


'Twas the night before Christmas at Rock-Away Rest,

and all of us seniors were looking our best.

Our glasses, how sparkly, our wrinkles, how merry;

Our punchbowl held prune juice plus three drops of sherry.


A bedsock was taped to each walker, in hope

That Santa would bring us soft candy and soap.

We surely were lucky to be there with friends,

Secure in this residence and in our Depends.


Our grandkids had sent us some Christmasy crafts,

Like angels in snowsuits and penguins on rafts.

The dental assistant had borrowed our teeth,

And from them she'd crafted a holiday wreath.


The bed pans, so shiny, all stood in a row,

Reflecting our candle's magnificent glow.

Our supper so festive -- the joy wouldn't stop --

Was creamy warm oatmeal with sprinkles on top.


Old Grandfather Looper was feeling his oats,
Proclaiming that reindeer were nothing but goats.
Our resident wand'rer was tied to her chair,
In hopes that at bedtime she still would be there.

Security lights on the new fallen snow
Made outdoors seem noon to the old folks below.
Then out on the porch there arose quite a clatter
(But we are so deaf that it just didn't matter).

A strange little fellow flew in through the door,
Then tripped on the sill and fell flat on the floor.
'Twas just our director, all togged out in red.
He jiggled and chuckled and patted each head.

We knew from the way that he strutted and jived
Our social- security checks had arrived.
We sang--how we sang!--in our monotone croak,
Till the clock tinkled out its soft eight-p.m. stroke.

And soon we were snuggling deep in our beds.
While nurses distributed nocturnal meds.
And so ends our Christmas at Rock-Away Rest.
'fore long you'll be with us, We wish you the best!

Author Unknown
 

Carl

Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)

CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 8:45 PM
Public transportation notice:
 
"When you exit this vehicle, please be sure to lower your head and watch your step.
 
If you fail to do so, please lower your voice and watch your language. Thank you.”
 
— Unknown

From: http://www.blcompanies.com/services/transportation.php 

- Paul North. 

"This Fascinating Railroad Business" (title of 1943 book by Robert Selph Henry of the AAR)
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Posted by dmoore74 on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 8:48 AM

Semper Vaporo

Friend of mine says the joke is not complete...

The wife replied, :"Tthat's ok, I already bought that necklace anyway...so just go ahead and have another drink, dear".

Sounds like the woman who always wants to get in the last word.

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Monday, December 3, 2012 2:23 PM

Friend of mine says the joke is not complete...

The wife replied, :"Tthat's ok, I already bought that necklace anyway...so just go ahead and have another drink, dear".

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Posted by dmoore74 on Monday, December 3, 2012 8:47 AM

A Christmas Love Story

A couple was Christmas shopping at the mall on Christmas Eve and the
mall was packed.
As the wife walked through the mall she was surprised to look up and
see her husband was nowhere around.
She was quite upset because they had a lot to do.
Because she was so worried, she called him on her cell phone to ask
him where he was.
In a calm voice, the husband  said, "Honey, you remember the jewelry
store we went into about 5 years ago where you fell in love with that
diamond necklace that we  could not afford and I told you that I would
get it for you one  day?"
The wife choked up and started to cry and said, "Yes, I remember that
jewelry store."
He said, "Well, I'm in the bar right next to it."

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Posted by CShaveRR on Friday, November 30, 2012 9:48 AM

Good laugh, but be careful...I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before, and it might be copyrighted.

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Posted by dmoore74 on Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:30 PM

A Christmas Tale

As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of pantyhose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them.

What they say about Santa checking the list twice must be true because every Christmas morning, although Jay's kids' stockings were overflowed, his poor pantyhose hung sadly empty and grew increasingly threadbare.

One year I decided to make his dream come true. I put on sunglasses and a fake beard and went in search of an inflatable love doll. Of course, they don't sell those things at Wal-mart. I had to go to an adult bookstore downtown. If you've never been in an X-rated store, don't go. You'll only confuse yourself.

I was there almost three hours saying things like, "What does this do?"

"You're kidding me!"

"Who owns that?"

"Do you have their phone number?"

Finally, I made it to the inflatable doll section. I wanted to buy a standard, uncomplicated doll suitable for a night of romance that could also substitute as a passenger in my car so I could use the car pool lane during rush hour.

I'm not sure what a complicated doll is. Perhaps one that is subject to wild mood shifts and using a French accent for no reason at all. (That also describes a few ex-boyfriends.) Finding what I wanted was difficult. Love dolls come in many different models. The top of the line, according to the side of the box, could do things I'd only seen in a book on animal husbandry. I figured the "vibro-motion" was a feature Jay could live without, so I settled for Lovable Louise. She was at the bottom of the price scale.

To call Louise a "doll" took a huge leap of imagination. On Christmas Eve, with the help of an old bicycle pump, Louise came to life.

My sister-in-law was in on the plan and cleverly left the front door key hidden under the mat. In the wee morning hours, long after Santa had come and gone, I sneaked into
the house and filled the dangling pantyhose with Louise's pliant legs and bottom. I also ate some cookies and drank what remained of a glass of milk on a nearby tray. Then I let myself out, went home, and giggled for a couple of hours.

The next morning my brother called to say that Santa had been to his house and left a present that had made him VERY happy but had left the dog confused. He would bark, start to walk away, then come back and bark some more. I suggested he purchase an inflatable Lassie to set Rover straight.

We also agreed that Louise should remain in her pantyhose so the rest of the family could admire her when they came over for the traditional Christmas dinner. It seemed like a great idea, except that we forgot that Grandma and Grandpa would be there.

My grandmother noticed Louise the moment she walked in the door.

"What the hell is that?" she asked.

My brother quickly explained. "It's a doll."

"Who would play with something like that?" Granny snapped.

I had several candidates in mind, but kept my mouth shut.

"Where are her clothes?" Granny continued.

I hadn't seen any in the box, but I kept this information to myself.

"Boy, that turkey sure smells nice, Gran," Jay said, trying to steer her into the dining room. But Granny was relentless.

"Why doesn't she have any teeth?"

Again, I could have answered, but why would I? It was Christmas and no one wanted to ride in the back of the ambulance saying, "Hang on Granny, Hang on!"

My grandfather, a delightful old man with poor eyesight, sidled up to me and said," Hey, who's the naked gal by the fireplace?"

I told him she was Jay's friend.

A few minutes later I noticed Grandpa by the mantel, talking to Louise. Not just talking, but actually flirting. It was then that we realized this might be Grandpa's last Christmas at home.

The dinner went well. We made the usual small talk about who had died, who was dying, and who should be killed, when suddenly Louise made a noise that sounded a lot like my father in the bathroom in the morning. Then she lurched from the pantyhose, flew around the room twice, and fell in
a heap in front of the sofa.

The cat screamed, I passed cranberry sauce through my nose, and Grandpa ran across the room, fell to his knees, and began administering mouth to mouth resuscitation. My brother wet his pants and Granny threw down her napkin, stomped out of the room, and sat in the car.

It was indeed a Christmas to treasure and remember.

Later in my brother's garage, we conducted a thorough examination to decide the cause of Louise's collapse. We discovered that Louise had suffered from a hot ember to the back of her right thigh.

Fortunately, thanks to a wonder drug called duct tape, we restored her to perfect health. Louise went on to star in several bachelor party movies.

I think Grandpa still calls her whenever he can get out of the house

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Friday, November 9, 2012 12:13 PM

I have to repost these...

Investment Advice

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have $0.00 today.

But…

If you had purchased $1,000 worth of been in aluminum cans one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned the aluminum cans in for recycling – you would have $214.00!

Based on the above, the best investment plan is to drink heavily & then recycle.  It’s called the 401-Keg.

 

Good Mileage

A recent study found that the average American walks around 900 miles per year.  Another study found that on average Americans drink around 22 gallons of alcohol per year. 

This means that the average American gets around 41 miles per gallon!

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:34 PM

Reputedly true tech support calls:

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Gung-ho lieutenant calls tech support to complain about his computer shutting off unexpectedly.

It happened every time he put the computer in "official" mode.

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Bank employee called the downtown main office to ask if they were having a fire.  Seems there was smoke coming out of the back of their computer...

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Computer user called tech support to report that their computer wasn't working.  No display, nothing.

Tech support asked them to check to ensure all of the cables were connected.

"I'll have to get a flashlight."

"Dark behind the computer?"

"No, the lights are out."

Tech support asks the user if they still have the boxes the computer came in.  The user replies in the affirmative, whereupon tech support tells the user to put the computer back in the boxes and return it to the vendor.

When asked what reason the user should give for returning the machine, tech support replied, "because you're too dumb to use a computer."

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Then there was the fellow who was stymied because he couldn't find the "Any" key...

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Posted by zardoz on Thursday, November 8, 2012 2:41 PM

A young couple was invited to a swanky masked Halloween party. The wife came down with a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party and have a good time.

Being the devoted husband, he protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some

aspirin and go to bed. She told him there was no need for him to miss the fun. So he took his costume and away he went.

 The wife, after sleeping soundly for one hour, awakened without pain, and as it was still early, she decided to go to the party. Because hubby did not know what her costume was, she thought she would have some kicks watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not around.

 She joined the party and soon spotted her husband cavorting around on the dance floor. He was dancing with every nice woman he could, and taking a little kiss here and there. His wife sidled up to him and being a rather seductive woman herself, he left his partner high and dry and devoted his time to the new "action."

 She let him go as far as he wished; naturally, since he was her husband. Finally he whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and they took care of business.

Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped out, went home and put the costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would have for his notorious behavior.

 She was sitting up reading when he came in, and she asked him what he had done. He said, "Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're not there." Then she asked, "Did you dance much?"

He replied, "I'll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got to the party, I met Pete, Bill and some other guys, so we went into the den and played poker all evening. But I'll tell you...the guy that I loaned my costume to sure had one heckuva time!"

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Posted by zardoz on Thursday, November 8, 2012 2:36 PM

A FIRST GRADE TEACHER collected old, well known proverbs.

>>

>>She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest.

>>

>>As you shall make your bed so shall you...............mess it up.

>>Better to be safe than.......................punch a 5th grader.

>>Strike while the ...................................bug is close.

>>It's always darkest before.................daylight savings time.

>>You can lead a horse to water but............................how?

>>Don't bite the hand that.............................looks dirty.

>>A miss is as good as a........................................Mr.

>>You can't teach an old dog new..............................math.

>>If you lie down with the dogs, you'll.......stink in the morning.

>>The pen is mightier than the................................pigs.

>>An idle mind is............................the best way to relax.

>>Where there's smoke, there's...........................pollution.

>>Happy the bride who........................gets all the presents.

>>A penny saved is........................................not much.

>>Two's company, three's............................the musketeers.

>>Laugh and the whole world laughs with you,

>>cry and...............................you have to blow your nose.

>>Children should be seen and not..............spanked or grounded.

>>When the blind leadeth the blind..............get out of the way. 

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Posted by zardoz on Thursday, November 8, 2012 2:34 PM

REDNECK COMPUTER TERMS

>

>>        BACKUP - What you do when you run across a skunk in the woods

>>        BAR CODE - Them's the fight'n rules down at the local tavern

>>        BUG - The reason you give for calling in sick

>>        BYTE - What your pit bull dun to cusin Jethro

>>        CACHE - Needed when you run out of food stamps

>>        CHIP - Pasture muffins that you try not to step in

>>        TERMINAL - Time to call the undertaker

>>        CRASH - When you go to Junior's party uninvited

>>        DIGITAL - The art of counting on your fingers

>>        DISKETTE - Female Disco dancer

>>        FAX - What you lie about to the IRS

>>        HACKER - Uncle Leroy after 32 years of smoking

>>        HARDCOPY - Picture looked at when selecting tattoos

>>        INTERNET - Where cafeteria workers put their hair

>>        KEYBOARD - Where you hang the keys to the John Deere

>>        MAC - Big Bubba's favorite fast food

>>        MEGAHERTZ - How your head feels after 17 beers

>>        MODEM - What ya did when the grass and weeds got too tall

>>        MOUSE PAD - Where Mickey and Minnie live

>>        NETWORK - Scoop'n up a big fish before it breaks the line

>>        ONLINE - Where to stay when taking the sobriety test

>>        ROM - Where the pope lives

>>        SCREEN - Helps keep the skeeters off the porch

>>        SERIAL PORT - A red wine you drink with breakfast

>>        SUPERCONDUCTOR - Amtrak's Employee of the year

>>        SCSI - What you call your week-old underwear

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Posted by zardoz on Sunday, September 30, 2012 4:47 PM

Time to revive this old thread....

On their 50th wedding anniversary and during the banquet celebrating it, Tom was asked to give his friends a brief account of the benefits of a marriage of such long duration.

"Tell us Tom, just what is it you have learned from all those wonderful years with your wife?"

Tom responds, "Well, I've learned that marriage is the best teacher of all. It teaches you loyalty, meekness, forbearance, self-restraint, forgiveness -- and a great many other qualities you wouldn't have needed if you'd stayed single."

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:35 PM

I am sure you have all heard about the old, old farmer that sent his grandson to university and how when the young-in came back on the 1st spring break, the old man asked him how things were going; what he was studying.

The kid said he was taking classes in mathematics and that one of the things he had learned was the formula for the area of a circle.

The old man, being very hard of hearing, really didn't understand much of what was said, so he asked  the young-in to speak up at about the time the kid got to where he was going to recite the formula.  The kid then shouted into the old man's 'ear  trumpet',

"Pi 'R' Squared!"

The old man went ballistic!  "No no no!" he cried!  I'll not pay fer such foolish larnin'!  Ye'll not be goin' back to diss you-nee-verse-city!  Ever'body knows, pie are ROUND, der cornbread are square!"

Well... did you know the old man also had a sweet granddaughter?  She really wanted to go to college and study early American history.  So she sweet talked and wheedled the old man into paying for her higher education, promising that the school she would be going to would not be teaching foolishness.

Again, on the 1st spring break, she came back to the old homestead to see the old man and to thank him for his generosity.  The old man greeted her happily, but said she needed to tell him what she had learned, as he didn't want another fiasco like her brother had been at the university.

She excitedly started explaining how they had covered so much history in such a short time that they were up to studying the early pioneer days.

His hearing had not improved at all and, like before, he really didn't understand much of what she was saying, so he said, "Speak up!... I'm nearly deef, ya know!  What are ye studying?"

She loudly repeated, "Pioneer".

The old man nearly exploded!  "I knew that thar higher ed-ju-ka-shun was no gooder!  Ye'll not be going back to that coll-ledge!  "Pioneer", indeed!  Ya puts pie in mouth; der ear trumpet in ear!"

 

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Posted by locomutt on Sunday, June 10, 2012 1:38 PM

It wasn't worth it to drive about 100 miles to Northern, Ky. just for pancakes.........now if bacon & eggs were served along with....another story!!Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by samfp1943 on Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:00 PM

I'd like to enter this NEWS STORY in the classification of

"YOU JUST CANNOT Make this stuff up, DEPARTMENT!"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/hungry-jack-syrup-truck-spills-onto-buttermilk-pike-174159531.html

"Hungry Jack syrup truck spills onto Buttermilk Pike"By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow

FTA:"...A highway truck accident never sounded so delicious. A semitrailer hauling Hungry Jack pancake syrup collided with a highway median at the Buttermilk Pike overpass in northern Kentucky, causing the truckload of syrup to spill all over the highway."Every lane of southbound I-75 was covered in pancake syrup," Fort Mitchell Police Officer Mark Spanyer told the Kentucky Enquirer. "It was a royal pain in the butt."The semitrailer dumped hundreds of boxes of Hungry Jack syrup bottles....Sadly, cleanup crews were forced to use sand, rather than giant pancakes, to clean up the mess..."

  Wonder if LOCOMUTT is going to have a pancake breakfast this morning?LaughLaugh

 

 


 

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Posted by dmoore74 on Sunday, June 3, 2012 5:21 PM
Senior Center Failure:

I was at the Senior Center today and failed a Health and Safety course that
was put on for us old fogies. ...

One of the questions was: "In the event of a fire, what steps would you
take?"

"F***in' big ones" was apparently the wrong answer.....
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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Monday, May 14, 2012 1:31 PM

And the judge say Next case.

and the bailiff say man charged with indecent exposure

and the judge say How you plead?

and the man say Not guilty. A man gotta relieve himself from time to time.

and the judge say Thats right son, and your case is dismissed. Bailiff who's next?

and the bailiff say The young lady who was relieving him....

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Posted by zardoz on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 3:44 PM

    A little boy was overheard talking to himself as he strutted through the backyard, wearing his baseball cap and toting a ball and bat:

    "I'm the greatest hitter in the world," he announced.

    Then, he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it, and missed.

    "Strike One!" he yelled. Undaunted, he picked up the ball and said again,

    "I'm the greatest hitter in the world!"

    He tossed the ball into the air. When it came down he swung again and missed.

    "Strike Two!" he cried.

    The boy then paused a moment to examine his bat and ball carefully.

    He spit on his hands and rubbed them together. He straightened his cap and said once more,

    "I'm the greatest hitter in the world!"

    Again he tossed the ball up in the air and swung at it. He missed.

    "Strike Three!"

    "Wow!" he exclaimed. "I'm the greatest pitcher in the world.

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Posted by WMNB4THRTL on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 2:46 PM

What's the difference between a well-dressed man and a tired dog?

 

A well-dressed man wears a 3-piece suit, but a tired dog just pants. WinkSmile, Wink & GrinLaugh

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 10:37 AM

A railroader from a mountain region once said that,

"The best snow removal equipment is the month of May !"  Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:21 AM

Chinooks are wonderful things.....Whistling

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Posted by edbenton on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:08 AM

Or Northern MN Or Wyoming as I have seen it be 80 in the Day and that night get SNOW from a Blizzard in 99. 

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, May 5, 2012 8:24 PM

zardoz

True Wisconsinites know…

It wouldn't take too many changes to make that apply to northern New York...

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Posted by zardoz on Saturday, May 5, 2012 7:51 PM

dmoore74

Just For Today

Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars ofthe condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still  observe to this day.The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.

Better keep Carl away from this thread for a while...

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Posted by dmoore74 on Saturday, May 5, 2012 4:24 PM

Just For Today

Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars ofthe condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still  observe to this day.The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.

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