Chuckle 1042

To all of you wonderful mothers, have a great day!!

Chuckle 1042
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Lai S of Rancho Cordova CA!)

~The Seamstress~
(Plus: Today in History and Word for the Day)

One day, when a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river, her thimble fell into the river. When she cried out, the lord appeared and asked, "My dear child, why are you crying?"

The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the water and that she needed it to help her husband in making a living for their family.

The lord dipped his hand into the water and pulled up a golden thimble set with pearls. "Is this your thimble?" the lord asked.

The seamstress replied, "No."

The lord again dipped into the river. He held out a silver thimble ringed with sapphires. "Is this your thimble?" the lord asked. Again, the seamstress replied, "no."

The lord reached down again and came up with a leather thimble.” is this thimble?" the lord asked.

The seamstress replied, "Yes."

The lord was pleased with the woman's honesty and gave her all three thimbles to keep and the seamstress went home happy.

Some years later, the seamstress was walking with her husband along the riverbank, and her husband fell into the river and disappeared under the water. When she cried out, the lord again appeared and asked her, "Why are you crying?" "Oh lord, my husband has fallen into the river!" the lord went down into the water and came up with Mel Gibson.

"Is this your husband?" the lord asked.

"Yes," cried the seamstress.

The lord was furious. "You lied! That is an untruth!"

The seamstress replied, "Oh, forgive me, my lord. It is a misunderstanding. You see, if i had said 'no' to Mel Gibson, you would have come up with tom cruise. Then if I said 'no' to him, you would have come up with my husband. Had i then said 'yes,' you would have given me all three. Lord, I’m not in the best of health and would not be able to take care of all three husbands, so that's why I said 'yes' to Mel Gibson."

The moral of this story is: - whenever a woman lies, it's for a good and honorable reason, and in the best interest of others.

That's our story, and we're sticking to it! ***

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Word of the Day for Sunday May 14, 2006

cupidity \kyoo-PID-uh-tee\, noun:Eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth; greed; avarice.

Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.-- John Crowley, "Of Marvels And Monsters", Washington Post, October 18, 1998

At the end, all but rubbing his hands with cupidity, Rockefeller declares he will now promote abstract art--it's better for business.-- Stuart Klawans, "Rock in a Hard Place", The Nation, December 27, 1999

This strain of cupidity sprang from the mean circumstances of his youth in the Finger Lakes district of upstate New York.-- Jack Beatty, "A Capital Life", New York Times, May 17, 1998

For such is human cupidity that we Thoroughbreds have but one chance to survive it -- to run so fast and to win so much money that we are retired in comfort in our declining days.-- William Murray, "From the Horse's Mouth", New York Times, August 8, 1993

Myself, I have always believed that BMWs achieve their presence (and their grip on the collective imagination and cupidity of the middle classes) because they combine an athletic, masculine bulk and stance with feminine details and lines.-- Stephen Bayley, "The evolution of the curve", Independent, October 22, 1998
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