Chuckle 1101

Chuckle 1101
(Dean O of Florence OR gets today's chuckle thanks!)


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

When Dan found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with. So one night he went to a singles bar where he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away.

“I may look like just an ordinary man," he said as he walked up to her, “but in just a week or two my father will die and I'll inherit 200 million dollars."

Impressed, the woman went home with him that evening and, three days later, she became his stepmother.

Women are so much smarter than men... ***

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Thursday July 13, 2006

florid \FLOR-id\, adjective:1. Flushed with red; of a lively reddish color.2. Excessively ornate; flowery; as, "a florid style; florid eloquence."

The Reverend Mr Kidney is a short round bowlegged man with black muttonchop whiskers and a florid face, like a pomegranate, into which he has poured a great quantity of brandy and lesser amounts of whisky and claret.-- Tom Gilling, The Sooterkin

Even though avant-garde attacks on the Victorian bourgeoisie were florid in rhetoric, deficient in evidence, and malicious in intent, it does not follow that they had no objective grounds.-- Peter Gay, Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience

Many were florid and overweight, too bulkily dressed and perspiring freely.-- Robert Stone, Damascus Gate

The journalist Frank Crane would later glorify the . . . factory in florid prose as "a sermon in steel and glass," a "Temple of Work" in which machinery rather than an organ provided the music and the choir "was the glad laughter of happy workers."-- RolandMarchand, Creating the Corporate Soul
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(Find the 6 differences, answers below)