Chuckle 1073

Chuckle 1073
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~Hillbilly Mirror~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

After living in the remote wilderness of Tennessee all his life, an old hillbilly decided it was time to visit the big city of Knoxville. In one of the stores he picks up a mirror and looks in it. Not ever having seen one before, he remarked at the image staring back at him,” How about that! Here's a picture of my daddy."

He bought the 'picture', but on the way home he remembered his wife, Lizzy, didn't like his father. So he hung it in the barn, and every moorning before leaving for the fields, he would go there and look at it. Lizzy began to get suspicious of these many trips to the barn.

One day after her husband left, she searched the barn and found the mirror. As she looked into the glass, she fumed, "So that's the ugly witch he’s runnin' around with." ***

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• Today in history

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Word of the Day for Thursday June 15, 2006

juxtaposition \juhk-stuh-puh-ZISH-uhn\, noun:The act or an instance of placing in nearness or side by side.

I had sent from Egypt two Coptic sculptures from the fifth and sixth centuries and placed them in juxtaposition with a contemporary stone mask from Zimbabwe, with striking effect.-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga

This aesthetically pleasing juxtaposition of contradictions is one of the hallmarks of poetry.-- Ann Marlowe, "Hyphenated Life", New York Times, October 15, 2000

One of the things that made the diary so poignant . . . is the awful juxtaposition of the ordinary and the horrific, the mundane and the unimaginable.-- Michiko Kakutani, "When a Spirited Teen-Ager Faced the Unimaginable", New York Times, September 29, 1998

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