Chuckle 948

Chuckle 948
(Dean O of Florence OR gets today's chuckle thanks!)


~Golden Years~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

An 80-year-old man goes for a physical. All of his tests come back with normal results. The doctor says, "Steve, everything looks great. How are you doing mentally and emotionally? Are you at peace with God?"

Steve replies, "God and I are tight. He knows I have poor eyesight so he’s fixed it so when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, poof the light goes on. When I'm done, poof the light goes off

"Wow, that's incredible," the doctor says.

A little later in the day, the doctor calls Steve's wife.

Ethel," he says, "Steve is doing fine. I had to call you because I'm in awe of his relationship with God. Is it true that he gets up during the night and poof the light goes on in the bathroom, and when he's done, poof the light goes off?"

"Oh my gosh!" Ethel exclaims. "He's peeing in the refrigerator again!
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Word of the Day for Thursday February 9, 2006

deus ex machina \DAY-uhs-eks-MAH-kuh-nuh; -nah; -MAK-uh-nuh\, noun:1. In ancient Greek and Roman drama, a god introduced by means of a crane to unravel and resolve the plot.2. Any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently insoluble difficulty.

In times of affluence and peace, with technology that always seems to arrive like a deus ex machina to solve any problem, it becomes easy to believe that life is perfectible.-- Stephanie Gutmann, The Kinder, Gentler Military

But we also need the possibility of cataclysm, so that, when situations seem hopeless, and beyond the power of any natural force to amend, we may still anticipate salvation from a messiah, a conquering hero, a deus ex machina, or some other agent with power to fracture the unsupportable and institute the unobtainable.-- Stephen Jay Gould, Questioning the Millennium
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