Not Really a Joke But....

[hillbillysmoker]

How many of you can remember shooting carbide in a paint can??

[Habanero Smoker]

How many of you can remember shooting carbide in a paint can??

I've never done that. I do remember back in the early 60's shooting old car batteries to watch them explode. Wow! That must have been real good for the environment. :-[

[WhiteSmoke]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

How did we all survive when we were younger?   :o :o :o

Personally, most people avoided my pimply a..ss.. like the plauge...lol

Guess that was my wakeup call that I was not the shallow end of the gene pool...

Do I hear a whistle..?  Nope, that's my ribs tellin' me they are done...

[Caneyscud]

In a similar vein as the original post of this thread

THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANT

CLASSIC VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies alone, out in the cold.

THE END


THE UNITED STATES VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. So far, so good, eh?

Then, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like him, are cold and starving.

The CNN shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.

Americans are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.

The Citizens for the Rights of the Poor demonstrate in front of the ant's house.

In response to polls, the President drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant's taxes are reassessed, and he is also fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as helpers.

Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. The ant moves to India and starts a successful agri-biz company.

The CNN later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the ant's food, though Spring is still months away, while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain it.

Inadequate government funding is blamed, Barney Frank is appointed to head a commission of inquiry that will cost $10,000,000.

The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose; the New York Time blames it on the obvious failure of the former Republican Government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity.

The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for enriching the U.S.'s multicultural diversity. They promptly set up a marijuana grow-op and terrorize the community.

THE END

[iceman]

Good one Caney!!!  :D ;)

[West Coast Sausage Maker]

Lawn darts was good fun - and so handy - anytime you needed more ventilation in the roof of your house or the roof of your parent's car, or even if you wanted a lobotomy.....



Shakespeare
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I drink to keep sane,
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
than have a frontle lobotomy   :P