Chuckle 1034

Chuckle 1034
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Carrie M and Debbie T of Sacramento CA!)

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

On a transatlantic flight, a plane passes through a severe storm. The turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is struck by lightning.

One woman in particular loses it. Screaming, she stands up in the front of the plane. "I'm too young to die," she wails.

Then she yells, "Well, if I'm going to die, I want my last minutes on earth to be memorable! Is there anyone on this plane who can make me feel like a WOMAN?"

For a moment there is silence. Everyone has forgotten their own peril. They all stare. Eyes riveted, at the desperate woman in the front of the plane.

Then a man from Texas stands up in the rear of the plane. He is handsome: tall, well built, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes.

He starts to walk slowly up the aisle, unbuttoning his shirt. One button at a time.

No one moves.

He removes his shirt.

Muscles ripple across his chest.

She gasps...

He whispers "Iron this -- and then get me a beer." ***
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Word of the Day for Saturday May 6, 2006

rapine \RAP-in\, noun:The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of another's property by force.

He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (translated by N.H. Thomson)
Extortion and rapine are poor providers.-- Olaudah Equiano, Unchained Voices: an anthology of Black authors in the English-Speaking World of the 18th Century

The war, proclaimed William Lloyd Garrison, was one "of aggression, of invasion, of conquest, and rapine - marked by ruffianism, perfidy, and every other feature of national depravity."-- Robert W. Johannsen, "America's Forgotten War (Mexican War, 1846-1848)", The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1996
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