Chuckle 1032

Chuckle 1032
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Phyllis H of Carpinteria CA!)



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

A cowboy from Texas gets pulled over by an Arizona DPS Trooper for speeding. The trooper starts to lecture the cowboy about his speeding and, in general, begins to throw his weight around to try to make the cowboy feel uncomfortable. Finally, the trooper gets around to writing out the ticket. As he is doing that, he keeps swatting at some flies that are buzzing around his head.

The cowboys says, "Y'all havin' some problem with 'circle flies'?"

The trooper stops writing the ticket and says, "Well, yeah, if that's what they're called. But I've never heard of 'circle flies'."

"Well, sir," the cowboy replies, "'circle flies' hang around ranches. They're called 'circle flies' because they're almost always found circling around the back end of a horse."

The trooper says, "Oh," and goes back to writing the ticket. But, a moment later, he stops and says, "Are you calling me a horse's ___?"

"No, sir," the cowboy replies, "I have too much respect for law enforcement to call y'all a horse's ___."

"That's a good thing," the trooper says and goes back to writing the ticket.

After a long pause, the cowboy, in his best Texas drawl says, "Hard to fool them flies though." ***
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Word of the Day for Thursday May 4, 2006

wag \WAG\, noun:A humorous person; a wit; a joker.

The master of ceremonies was one Boston, a noted wag, and the occasion seemed to promise the greatest facetiousness.-- Francis Bret Harte, The Luck of Roaring Camp

Yet the fate of all three reformers was more or less the same. Washington remained much as it had been before. ("Only more so," a wag might add.)-- Jonathan Rauch, Government's End

Some wag has summed up the three laws of thermodynamics in everyday terms: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't even break even. 3. You can't get out of the game.-- John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin, Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
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