Chuckle 1074

Chuckle 1074
(Rick R of Surrey BC gets today's chuckle thanks!)


~Tarot Cards~
(Plus: Today in History and Word for the Day)

In the dark and gloomy room, gazing at the Tarot cards laid out before her, the Tarot reader delivered the bad news; "There is no easy way to tell you this so I'll just be blunt. Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a quick, violent and horrible death this year." Visibly shaken, the woman stared at the Tarot cards, the psychic's lined face, then at the single flickering candle, then down at her trembling hands. She took a few deep breaths to try to compose herself. She simply had to know. She met the Tarot reader's gaze, steadied her voice, and asked:

"Will I get away with it? ***

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~Maintaining A Distance Of 5 Paces Behind!!!~ (2nd time around)
Barbara Walters of 20/20 (USA-ABC Television) did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands. She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walkbehind their husbands. From Ms. Walters’s vantage point, despite theoverthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom. Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?" The woman looked Ms. Walters’s straight in the eyes and without hesitation, said "Land mines." ***

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Friday June 16, 2006
salad days \salad days\, noun:A time of youthful inexperience, innocence, or indiscretion.

Those were his salad days, and he thought they might last forever.-- David Gergen, "They Love You. Watch Out", New York Times, February 2, 1997

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