Chuckle 1085

Chuckle 1085
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Sheila M of Rough and Ready CA
and Joyce K in Queen Creek AZ!)
(Note to Joyce K and Sheila M: Let us all know where Queen Creek is and I’m sure that a lot of our chuckle circle would like to know the location of Rough and Ready!)

~Wireless Security System~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

How to install a wireless security system:

Go to a second-hand store, buy a pair of men's used work boots ... a really big pair. Put them outside your front door on top of a copy of Guns and Ammo magazine. Put a dog dish beside it ... a really big dish. Leave a note on your front door that says something like this: "Bubba, Big Mike and I have gone to get more ammunition - back in 30 minutes. Don't disturb the pit bulls, they've just been wormed." ***

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Tuesday June 27, 2006

copious \KOH-pee-uhs\, adjective:1. Affording an abundant supply; plentifully furnished; lavish.2. Large in quantity; plentiful, profuse; abundant.3. Full of information or matter.

Here once again was evidence that, as Pope wrote of Homer, Armstrong's art "is like a copious nursery which contains the seeds and first productions of every kind, out of which those who followed him have but selected some particular plants."-- Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz

She thought about the planets all day and wrote copious odes to them.-- Paul West, Life With Swan

When the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) exfiltrated the defector and his family from Russia in 1992, it also brought out six cases containing the copious notes he had taken almost daily for twelve years, before his retirement in 1984, on top secret KGB files going as far back as 1918.-- Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield

A sign of his ambivalence towards his mother is evident in his almost complete failure to mention her in his copious journals.-- Peter Martin, A Life of James Boswell
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(Find the 6 differences, answers below)