Sometimes two assumptions can get two people in trouble!

His request approved, the CNN News photographer quickly used a cell phone to call the local airport to charter a flight.

He was told a twin-engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport.

Arriving at the airfield, he spotted a plane warming up outside a hanger.

He jumped in with his bag, slammed the door shut, and shouted, ‘Let’s go’.

The pilot taxied out, swung the plane into the wind and took off.

Once in the air, the photographer instructed the pilot, ‘Fly over the valley and make low passes so I can take pictures of the fires on the hillsides.’

‘Why?’ asked the pilot.

‘Because I’m a photographer for CNN’ he responded, ‘and I need to get some close up shots.’

The pilot was strangely silent for a moment, finally he stammered, ‘So, what you’re telling me, is . . . You’re NOT my flight instructor?’

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Dog on Safari! Tasty Leopard Story!


Pissed of Pug

A wealthy man and his dog were on Safari when one day the dog starts chasing butterflies and gets lost. Wandering about, the dog notices a leopard sprinting towards him, with the intention of having him for lunch.


The dog thinks, “Boyo, I’m in deep doo doo now.” But out of the corner of his eye he notices some bones on the ground and immediately turns his back towards the cat and starts chewing them

As the leopard is about to leap on him, the dog exclaims loudly, “Man, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here?”

The leopard halts his attack in mid stride, as a look of terror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees. “Whew, that was a close call. The dog nearly had me!” says the leopard.

Meanwhile, on a nearby tree a monkey had watched this scene and figured he could put his knowledge to use in exchange for protection from the leopard. As he heads off, the dog notices the monkey running after the leopard at great speed and figures something is up.

Catching up with the leopard, the monkey tells all and strikes a deal. The cat is furious at being made a fool of and say, “Here monkey, hop on my back and see what will happen to that canine!”

The dog sees monkey and leopard approaching and thinks, “What will I do now?” But, instead of running, the dog sits down with his back facing the attackers and pretends he hasn’t seen them. Just when they get close enough to hear, the dog says, “Now where is that monkey! I just can never trust him. I sent him off half an hour ago to bring me another leopard, and he’s still not back!”

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Is the Doberman or the Chihuahua a better Seeing Eye Dog?

Two women were out for a Saturday stroll. One had a Doberman and the other, a Chihuahua . As they walked down the street, the one with the Doberman Said to her friend, “Let’s go over to that bar for a drink.”

The lady with the Chihuahua said, “We can’t go in there. We’ve got dogs with us.”

The one with the Doberman said, “Just watch, and do as I do.”

They walked over to the bar and the one with the Doberman put on a pair of dark glasses and started to walk in.

The bouncer at the door said, “Sorry, lady, no pets allowed.”

The woman with the Doberman said, “You don’t understand.

This is my seeing-eye dog.”

The bouncer said, “A Doberman?”

The woman said, “Yes, they’re using them now. They’re very good.”

The bouncer said, “OK, come on in.”

The lady with the Chihuahua thought that convincing him that a Chihuahua was a seeing-eye dog may be a bit more difficult, butthought,”What the heck,” so she put on her dark glasses and started to walk in.

Once again the bouncer said, “Sorry, lady, no pets allowed.”

The woman said, “You don’t understand. This is my seeing-eye dog”

The bouncer said, “A Chihuahua?”

The woman with the Chihuahua said,

“A Chihuahua? They gave me a fucking Chihuahua ?!”

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I wish you Enough!


I can never get enough Tomato Soup

This was sent to me by a friend.


I wish you Enough !

Recently I overheard a Father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.

Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the Father said, ‘I love you, and I wish you enough.

The daughter replied, Dad, our life together has been more than? enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Dad.

They kissed and the daughter left.? The Father walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, ‘Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever ?

‘Yes, I have,’ I replied. ‘Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?

‘I am old, and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is – the next trip back will be for my funeral,’ he said.

‘When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough. May I ask what that means?’

He began to smile. That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone. He paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more. ‘When we said, I wish you enough, we were wanting the other person to have a life? filled with just enough good things to sustain them. Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.

  • I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how grey the day may appear.
  • I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
  • I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
  • I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
  • I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
  • I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
  • I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

He then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them; but then an entire life to forget them.

Take Time To Live..

To all my friends and loved ones, I wish you Enough !



This was sent to me by a friend and I did some google searching and learned that it was written by a man named Bob Perks. See www.bobperks.com, I hope he does not mind that I was touched by this and re-posted.

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Chris Cane – Banned from the West Chester Kroger Store

I’m not sure that I liked the Kroger Store in West Chester anyway, but I’m kind of angry that I have been banned from the store. Yesterday I was at my local Kroger  some Purina ‘Moist and Meaty’ dog food for Diesel and our three pugs.

I have no idea why but the woman behind me in the check-out line asked if I had a dog.

What did she think I had an elephant? So, since I’m a bit of a smart-ass, on impulse I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I ended up in hospital last time, but I’d lost 30 pounds before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Moist and Meaty chunks is a plastic bag and simply eat one or two chunks every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in checkout line was now enthralled with my story.)

Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me I told her no, I stepped off the sidewalk to sniff an Irish Setter’s butt and a car hit me.

I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard – I’m now banned from the Kroger Store in West Chester.

It would be wise to be careful of asking questions of some of the older folk because some of us have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say.

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Cars behaving squirrely or R.I.P. Rocky

There were a dozen Z3′s and Z4′s en-route to ZFEST 2011 in Spartanburg SC. This particular convoy had folks from Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. ZFEST (www.zfest.com)  is an annual event for owners of BMW Z Series cars.

Linda and Jim from somewhere in the Great State of Michigan were driving their Z3 in our convoy and as they drove along, a strange thing happened. Somehow a poor little squirrel leapt up and landed on a shelf protruding from the lower grill of their Z3. The poor little roadent was pronounced dead on arrival at the gas station where we stopped for gas, perhaps a drink and a whiz.

Where's Bullwinkle

Some funny stuff started to happen. Jim got out of his car and looked at his grill and said “I thought the car was behaving squirelly for the last few miles!” This prompted me to say that “it’s only a small roadent.” and others flocked to the front of Jim and Linda’s car to see the little deceased critter. Sad in many ways but humorous in others! Someone else said, we can’t come back this way because Bullwinkle will be waiting for us!

Cameras were snapping photos from many angles.

The humor continued as folks that we did not know started coming out of the gas station to take a look and one attractive young woman came prepared with as camera, she squatted twixt me and the squirrel and snapped a photo. As she squatted I happened to see something that perhaps I should not have seen. As she stood up, the conversation went something like  this:

I said “Are you a plumber?”
She looked quizzical and then grinned and
She said “Did you see my butt-crack?”
I replied “I sure did.” She was ultra quick and
She said: “Cute! Ain’t it!”
All I could do was smile, I had no comeback for that quick retort. I just wonder how she is telling this story to her friends.







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Lincoln Navigator, Black Lab, Dynamite and Red Necks

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 with monthly payments of $560.00.

He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin. It’s mid-winter………….and of course all of the lakes are frozen.

These two guys go out on the ice with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR. They decide they want to make a natural looking open water area for the ducks to focus on, something for the decoys to float on.

Now, making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce. So out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short 40 second-fuse.

Our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along with the Navigator), decide on the following course of action:

- they light the 40 second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust,
- they throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible.

Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, and the DOG…?

Let’s talk about the dog:

A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING; especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it………………….The dog takes off across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40-second fuse……….. just as it hits the ice.

The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their necks swelling to resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at the dog to stop.

The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming. One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab.

The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, then continues on. Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane!!!!!!

The dog takes off to find cover, UNDER the brand new Navigator.

The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dog’s rear end……………….he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master.

Then KA BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots standing there with ‘I can’t believe this just happened’ looks on their faces.

The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments.

The dog is okay….doing fine.

And to think you thought all Rednecks lived in the South …

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The Bottle of Wine

For all of us who are married, were married, wish you were married, or wish you weren’t married, this is something to smile about the next time you see a bottle of wine:

Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road. As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman if she would like a ride. With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car.

Resuming the journey, Sally tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking intently at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed a brown bag on the seat next to Sally.

“What in bag?” asked the old woman.

Sally looked down at the brown bag and said, “It’s a bottle of wine. I got it for my husband.”

The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said:

“Good trade.”

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iPhone 4 – Battery Replacement – Really Easy NOT!

A friend of mine named Ken sent me an email with the story relating his experience saving $63.01.

Readers should know that I have been an iPhone user for short periods of time.

I keep coming back to Androids. My first iPhone three or four years ago was a disaster, my experience with it caused me to coin the phrase that “an iPhone was a digital representation of a dumb blond” , but I digress …


Ken said to me. Please feel free to pass along this information to any that might need it. I have a little story to tell below on replacing a battery in an iPhone for all that might have one. Continue reading

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The Heterosexual Questionnaire

This questionnaire is for self-avowed heterosexuals only. If you are not openly heterosexual, pass it on to a friend who is. Please try to answer the questions as candidly as possible. Your responses may be held in strict confidence and your anonymity fully protected.

  1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
  2. When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual?
  3. Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
  4. Could it be that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
  5. If you’ve never slept with a person of the same sex, how can you be sure you wouldn’t prefer that?
  6. To whom have you disclosed your heterosexual tendencies? How did they react?
  7. Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyle?
  8. Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can’t you just be what you are and keep it quiet?
  9. Would you want your children to be heterosexual, knowing the problems they’d face?
  10. A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual men. Do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual male teachers, pediatricians, priests, or scoutmasters?
  11. With all the societal support for marriage, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals?
  12. Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?
  13. Considering the menace of overpopulation, how could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual?
  14. Could you trust a heterosexual therapist to be objective? Don’t you fear s/he might be inclined to influence you in the direction of her/his own leanings?
  15. Heterosexuals are notorious for assigning themselves and one another rigid, stereotyped sex roles. Why must you cling to such unhealthy role-playing?
  16. With the sexually segregated living conditions of military life, isn’t heterosexuality incompatible with military service?
  17. How can you enjoy an emotionally fulfilling experience with a person of the other sex when there are such vast differences between you? How can a man know what pleases a woman sexually or vice-versa?
  18. Shouldn’t you ask your far-out straight cohorts, like skinheads and born-agains, to keep quiet? Wouldn’t that improve your image?
  19. Why are heterosexuals so promiscuous?
  20. Why do you attribute heterosexuality to so many famous lesbian and gay people? Is it to justify your own heterosexuality?
  21. How can you hope to actualize your God-given homosexual potential if you limit yourself to exclusive, compulsive heterosexuality?
  22. There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to. After all, you never deliberately chose to be a heterosexual, did you? Have you considered aversion therapy or Heterosexuals Anonymous?

(©1972, Martin Rochlin, Ph.D.)

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