Chuckle 983

Chuckle 983
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Pat E and Judy J of Florence OR!)
This can only be read before one gets deep into Happy Hour.
---Pat---


~Petey~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History and Word for the Day)

Petey was a snake, and very young. Petey lived in a pit with his mother. One day Petey was hissing in the pit when his mother said, “Petey, don't hiss in the pit, go outside the pit to hiss." So Petey went outside of the pit to hiss. Petey was hissing all around when he finally leaned over and hissed in the pit. Petey's mother heard Petey hissing in the pit and said, "Petey, if you must hiss in a pit, go over to Mrs. Pott's pit and hiss in her pit." Petey went over to Mrs Pott’s pit to hiss in her pit, but Mrs. Pott was not at home so he hissed in her pit anyway. While Petey was hissing in Mrs. Pott's pit, Mrs. Pott came home and found Petey hissing in her pit. She said, “Petey, if you must hiss in a pit, don't hiss in my pit; go to your own pit and hiss." This made Petey very sad, and he cried all the way home. When Petey got home, his mother saw him crying and said, "Petey, what’s the matter?" Petey said, "I went over to Mrs. Pott's to hiss in her pit but Mrs. Pott was not at home, so I hissed in her pit anyway. Mrs. Pott came home and found me hissing in her pit and said, 'Petey, if you must hiss in a pit go to your own pit and hiss, don't hiss in my pit.'" This made Petey’s mother very angry and she said, "Why that old battle ax, I knew her when she didn't have a pit to hiss in." ***

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Word of the Day for Thursday March 16, 2006

megalomania \meg-uh-lo-MAY-nee-ah; -nyuh\, noun:1. A mania for grandiose or extravagant things or actions.2. A mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur.

Eighteen months generally elapse nowadays between the time a publisher accepts a manuscript and its appearance in book form -- the gestation period of an elephant. During that year and a half of waiting, a writer is visited by every emotion in the fun house, from rosy anticipation to exultation, megalomania, brooding, dread, cringing humility, avarice, guilt and, finally, stolid acceptance.-- Phillip Lopate, "Waiting for the Book: Storms Before the Calm," New York Times, May 24, 1987

He too often allows us to laugh off notions that science might occasionally be the handmaiden of megalomania, greed, and sadism.-- David J. Skal, Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture

Mao was a man of considerable charisma and megalomania.-- Seth Faison, "Deng Xiaoping, Architect of Modern China, Dies at 92," New York Times, February 20, 1997

Megalomania is an occupational hazard for judges, said Prof. Paul Carrington of the Duke University Law School, noting that a trial judge inevitably has a great deal of power over everyone in the courtroom. "Judges can get awfully full of themselves," he said.-- Neil A. Lewis, "You're Out of Order, Your Honor," New York Times, July 12, 1998
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