Chuckle 1039

Chuckle 1039
(Someone sent this to me in 2001; so today's chuckle thanks go to an anonymous source!)

~Barn Yard Humor!! ~
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A farmer brings a brand new stud rooster home for his chicken coop ... The new rooster struts over to the old rooster and says, "OK old timer, it's time for you to retire." The old rooster replies, "Come on, surely you cannot handle ALL of these chickens. Look what it has done to me. Can't you just let me have the two old hens over in the comer?" The young rooster says, "Beat it! You are washed up and I am taking over." The old rooster says, "I tell you what, young stud. I will race you around the farmhouse. Whoever wins gets the exclusive domain over the entire chicken coop." The young rooster laughs, "You know you don’t stand a chance old man, so just to be fair I will give you a head start." The old rooster takes off running. About 15 seconds later the young rooster takes off running after him. They round the front porch of the farmhouse and the young rooster has closed the gap. He is already about 5 inches behind the old rooster and gaining fast. The farmer, meanwhile, is sitting in his usual spot on the front porch when he sees the roosters running by. He grabs up his shotgun and BOOM! He blows the young rooster to bits. The farmer sadly shakes his head and says, "Damn it...third gay rooster I bought this month! ***

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Word of the Day for Thursday May 11, 2006

derogate \DER-uh-gayt\, intransitive verb:1. To deviate from what is expected.2. To take away; to detract; -- usually with 'from'.
transitive verb:1. To disparage or belittle; to denigrate.

If someone wants to derogate from that and make a choice, then they are free to do it.-- Ciaran Fitzgerald, "Food champion'srecipe for success", Irish Times, November 13, 1998

Evidently, in Robbins's moral calculus, prostituting one's art in the name of the foremost mass murderer of modern times does not in the least derogate from one's idealism and courage.-- Terry Teachout, "Cradle of Lies", Commentary Magazine, February 2000

Likewise, there has been a blatant attempt to distort the impact of Ronald Reagan's leadership during this period and to derogate or deny his accomplishments.-- Edwin Meese, With Reagan

And if the other is other than us, then that otherness is either something we would like to have, so we choose to romanticize the other; or it is something we would like to leave behind, so we choose to derogate the other; or it is something we would like to keep available, so we choose to celebrate the other.-- Richard A. Shweder, "Storytelling Among the Anthropologists", New York Times, September 21, 1986
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