Chuckle 1020

Chuckle 1020
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Bev L of Florence OR!)


~English Woman’s Poodle~ (2nd time around)
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The train was quite crowded, so a U. S. Marine walked the entire length looking for a seat, but the only seat left was taken by a well dressed, middle-aged, English woman's poodle.

The war-weary Marine asked, “Ma'am, may I have that seat?" The woman just sniffed and said to no one in particular, Americans are so rude. My little Fifi is using that seat." The Marine walked the entire train again, but the only seat left was under that dog. "Please, ma'am. May I sit down? I'm very tired." She snorted, "Not only are you Americans rude, you are also arrogant!"

This time the Marine didn't say a word; he just picked up the little dog, tossed it out the train window, and sat down.

The woman shrieked, "Someone must defend my honor!!! And put this American in his place!!!"

An English gentleman sitting nearby lowered his newspaper and said... "Sir, you Americans seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing... You hold the fork in the wrong hand. You drive your autos on the wrong side of the road. And now, sir, you seem to have thrown the wrong bitch out the window." ***

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Word of the Day for Saturday April 22, 2006

itinerant \eye-TIN-uhr-uhnt\, adjective:1. Passing or traveling from place to place; wandering.
noun:1. One who travels from place to place.

Like many itinerant vendors in rural places, he was a smooth-talking purveyor of dreams along with tawdry trinkets, and Eliza responded to this romantic wanderer.-- Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller

Molds were therefore used only for small amounts of fat, shared with neighbors at cooperative candle dippings or supplied by itinerant candlemakers who went from house to house, helping with the task.-- Susan Strasser, Waste and Want

Even the itinerant street-vendors cease bustling about and stand still with their mobile stalls, their straps, their samples of merchandise, their mouths wide open and their heads in the air.-- Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess

Their characters are itinerants, voyagers between lands, languages and religions.-- Maya Jaggi, "A son of the road", The Guardian, November 16, 2002
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