Chuckle 1097

Chuckle 1097
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Jayne C of Florence OR!)


~Window Replacement~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive double-pane energy-efficient kinds.

Yesterday, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He was complaining that the windows had been installed a whole year ago and I hadn't paid for them yet.

Now just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So I told him just exactly what his fast-talking sales guy had told ME last year... namely, that in just ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves! "Helllooooo?" (I told him). "It's been a year!"

There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up.... He hasn't called back, probably too embarrassed about forgetting the guarantee they made me. Bet he won't underestimate a blonde anymore. ***
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(Click Today in History and learn.)

• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Sunday July 9, 2006

quisling \KWIZ-ling\, noun:Someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying his or her country; a traitor.

In the clutches of Herod, a quisling whom even his Roman paymasters despise, John is an all-too-perfect personification of Israel under Roman rule abetted by Jewish collaboration.-- Jack Miles, Christ : A Crisis in the Life of God

This circle had already closed ranks around Tito in the prewar period of illegal struggle, and our ensuing sacrifices, our suffering, the exploits of both Party and people as they made war against the Nazi and Fascist occupiers and their quislings and supporters, had only further toughened and hardened the leaders.-- Milovan Djilas, Fall of the New Class
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(Find the 6 differences, answers below)