Jokes, archive 2
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THE GOLFING PREACHER
There was this preacher who was an avid golfer. Every chance he could get, he could be
found on the golf course swinging away. It was an obsession.
One Sunday was a picture perfect day for golfing. The sun was out, no clouds in the
sky, and the temperature was just right. The preacher was in a quandary as to what to do,
and shortly, the urge to play golf overcame him. He called an assistant to tell him that
he was sick and could not do church, packed the car up, and drove three hours to a golf
course where no one would recognize him.happily, he began to play the course.
An angel up above was watching the preacher and was quite perturbed. He went to the
Lord and said, "Look at the preacher. He should be punished for what he is
doing." The Lord nodded in agreement.
The preacher teed up on the first hole. He swung at the ball, and it sailed
effortlessly through the air and landed right in the cup three hundred and fifty yards
(meters) away. A picture perfect hole-in-one. He was amazed and excited.
The angel was a little shocked. He turned to The Lord and said, "Begging Your
pardon, but I thought you were going to punish him."
The Lord smiled. "Think about it -- who can he tell?"
You know you are from the Bay Area when...
- You make $100,000 a year, yet still can't find a place to live.
- Your commute time is 45 minutes and you live 8 miles away from work.
- Stop asking how much things cost but, ask "How long will it take?"
- Two-thirds of the people you know are from Boston or New York, but you are living in
PST.
- Know vast differences difference between Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Cantonese,
and Korean food.
- Your home computer contains mostly hardware/software that is not on the consumer market
yet.
- Go to "The City" on weekends but don't live there because you like your car.
- Think that "I'm going to Fry's" is an acceptable excuse to leave the office
for a while, and your boss does too.
- Lost your alarm clock. You'll get to work when you get there.
- Go to an industrial-heavy-metal bar and see two guys get into a fight over what flavor
of Unix is better.
- Own more than 10 articles of clothing that have hardware/software companies printed on
them. Bonus for embroidered stuff.
- You know where Woz Way, Resistor Ave, and Floppy Dr are located.
- You know where Woz is.
- You know 280North runs west, and 680N runs East.
- You see a billboard that says "FGPA2ASIC" and aren't fazed
- When you need the updated Diamond Monster 3D drivers, you just walk across the street.
- You have more bandwidth in your apartment or condo than most major universities.
- Your workplace vending machines dispense "100% natural twig-bars" right next
to Jolt cola and Instant Espresso mix.
Engineer Island
A rather inhibited engineer finally splurged on a luxury cruise to the Caribbean. It
was the "craziest" thing he had ever done in his life. Just as he was beginning
to enjoy himself, a hurricane roared upon the huge ship, capsizing it like a child's toy.
Somehow the engineer, desperately hanging on to a life preserver, managed to wash ashore
on a secluded island. Outside of beautiful scenery, a spring-fed pool, bananas and
coconuts, there was little else. He lost all hope and for hours on end, sat under the same
palm tree. One day, after several months had passed, a gorgeous woman in a small rowboat
appeared. "I'm from the other side of the island," she said. "Were you on
the cruise ship, too?"
"Yes, I was, " he answered. "But where did you get that rowboat?"
"Well, I whittled the oars from gum tree branches, wove the reinforced gunnel from
palm branches, and made the keel and stern from a Eucalyptus tree."
"But, what did you use for tools?" asked the man.
"There was a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed on the south side of the
island. I discovered that if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted
into forgeable ductile iron. Anyhow, that's how I got the tools. But, enough of
that," she said. "Where have you been living all this time? I don't see any
shelter."
"To be honest, I've just been sleeping on the beach," he said.
"Would you like to come to my place?" the woman asked. The engineer nodded
dumbly.
She expertly rowed them around to her side of the island, and tied up the boat with a
handsome strand of hand-woven hemp topped with a neat back splice. They walked up a
winding stone walk she had laid and around a palm tree. There stood an exquisite bungalow
painted in blue and white. "It's not much, but I call it home." Inside, she
said, "Sit down please. Would you like to have a drink?"
"No, thanks," said the man. "One more coconut juice and I'll throw
up!"
"It won't be coconut juice," the woman replied. "I have a crude still
out back, so we can have authentic Pina Coladas."
Trying to hide his amazement, the man accepted the drink, and they sat down on her
couch to talk. After they had exchanged stories, the woman asked, "Tell me, have you
always had a beard?"
"No," the man replied, "I was clean shaven all of my life until I ended
up on this island."
"Well if you'd like to shave, there's a razor upstairs in the bathroom
cabinet."
The man, no longer questioning anything, went upstairs to the bathroom and shaved with
an intricate bone-and-shell device honed razor sharp. Next he showered -- not even
attempting to fathom a guess as to how she managed to get warm water into the bathroom --
and went back downstairs. He couldn't help but admire the masterfully carved banister as
he walked.
"You look great," said the woman. "I think I'll go up and slip into
something more comfortable."
As she did, the man continued to sip his Pina Colada. After a short time, the woman,
smelling faintly of gardenias, returned wearing a revealing gown fashioned out of pounded
palm fronds.
"Tell me," she asked, "we've both been out here for a very long time
with no companionship. You know what I mean. Have you been lonely ... is there anything
that you really, really miss? Something that all men and women need? Something that would
be really nice to have right now!"
"Yes there is!" the man replied, shucking off his shyness. "There is
something I've wanted to do for so long. But on this island all alone, it was just ...
well, it was impossible."
"Well, it's not impossible, any more," the woman said.
The man, practically panting in excitement, said breathlessly: "You have an
internet connection here?"
ACTUAL BUMPER STICKERS (so they say...):
- Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
- Happiness is a belt-fed weapon
- Sometimes I wake up grumpy; Other times I let her sleep
- I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather...Not screaming and yelling like the
passengers in his car...
- Your kid may be an honor student but you're still an IDIOT!
- When you do a good deed, get a receipt, in case heaven is like the IRS.
- Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?
- If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
- It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.
- Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
- Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
- We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.
- He/She who laughs last thinks slowest
- Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
- Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
- We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.
- Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
- Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'...till you can find a rock.
- 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
- I like you, but I wouldn't want to see you working with subatomic particles.
REJECTED DR. SEUSS BOOKS:
- The Cat in the Blender
- Herbert the Pervert Likes Sherbet
- Fox in Detox
- Who Shat in the Hat?
- The Flesh-Eating Lorax
- How the Grinch Stole Columbus Day
- Your Colon Can Moo---Can You?
- Zippy the Rabid Gerbil
- One Bitch, Two Bitch, Dead Bitch, Blue Bitch
- My Pocket Rocket Needs A Socket
- Aunts in My Pants
- Horton Fakes an Orgasm
A random shot at Microsoft
One of Microsoft's finest techs was drafted and sent to boot camp. At the rifle range,
he was given some instruction, a rifle and bullets. He fired several shots at the target.
The report came from the target area that all attempts had completely missed the target.
The tech looked at his rifle, and then at the target. He looked at the rifle again, and
then at the target again. He put his finger over the end of the rifle barrel and squeezed
the trigger with his other hand. The end of his finger was blown off, whereupon he yelled
toward the target area: "It's leaving here just fine, the trouble must be at your
end!"
Barney is Satan
Given: Barney is a cute purple dinosaur
Prove: Barney is Satan
1) Start with the given:
CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR
2) Change all U's to V's (which is the proper Latin anyway):
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR
3) Extract all Roman Numerals:
C V V L D I V
4) Convert into Arabic values:
100 5 5 50 500 1 5
5) Add all the numbers:
666
Thus, Barney is Satan.
In the 4/11/97 Merc. News
David Letterman brings us the following signs you're in a bad cult:
8. Name of the cult: the "Larry Krishnas"
7. Meetings always end with, "Now let's go out and sell some Amway Products!"
6. Cult Web site is called "www.nutcase.com."
5. Entire membership consists of three 12-year-olds and a schnauzer.
4. You hear the words "next level" and "castration" in the same
sentence.
3. They think an alien spaceship is hiding behind Chris Farley
2. Instead of guns, your cult is stockpiling bacon
1. On death shroud, you can clearly read words "Holiday Inn"
A selection of quotes from "I miss Dan Quayle".
- "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I
didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
-- J. Danforth Quayle
- "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
-- J. Danforth Quayle
- "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from
the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we
believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means
we can breathe."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
- "What a waste it is to lose one's mind.Or not to have a mind is being very
wasteful.How true that is."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this
century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88
- "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but
that could change."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
- "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one
word is 'to be prepared'."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89
- "May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world."
-- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card.
[Not a beacon of literacy, though.]
- "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
- "We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the
Future."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "The future will be better tomorrow."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88
- "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a
tremendous impact on history."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
- "We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm
commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "Public speaking is very easy."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88
- "I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the
killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The
rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "Murphy Brown is doing better than I am.At least she knows she still has a job next
year."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/18/92
- "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/22/90
- "For NASA, space is still a high priority."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/90
- "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
- "The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or
may not make."
--Vice President Dan Quayle
- "We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes
we may or may not have made."
--Vice President Dan Quayle
- "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment.It's the impurities in our air
and water that are doing it."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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