Chuckle 1107

Chuckle 1107
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Carrie M of Sacramento CA!)

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

A woman stopped by unannounced at her married son's house. She rang the doorbell and walked in. She was shocked to see her daughter-in-law lying on the couch, totally naked. Soft music was playing, and the aroma of perfume filled the room.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"I'm waiting for my husband to come home from work," the daughter-in-law answered.

"But you're naked!" the mother-in-law exclaimed. This is my love dress," the daughter-in-law explained.

"Love dress? But you're naked!"

"My husband loves me to wear this dress," she explained. "It excites him to no end. Every time he sees me in this dress, he instantly becomes romantic and ravages me for hours on end. He can't get enough of me."

The mother-in-law left. When she got home, she undressed, showered, put on her best perfume, dimmed t he lights, put on a romantic CD, and lay on the couch waiting for her husband to arrive. Finally, her husband came home. He walked in and saw her lying there so provocatively.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"This is my love dress," she whispered sensually.

"Needs ironing," he said. "What's for dinner?" ***
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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Wednesday July 19, 2006

bon ton \bahn-TAHN\, noun:1. Fashionable or elegant manner or style.2. The proper or fashionable thing to do.3. Fashionable society; a fashionable social set.

Here, braving the bon ton of New York in the early 1900s, he seemed uncomfortable throughout, as if he had been invited to an Edith Wharton party for which he was not suitably dressed.-- Stanley Kauffmann, "Women in Danger", New Republic, January 15, 2001

Though he was a college junior, his father, Bruno, was an owner of . . . a restaurant in Manhattan popular with the bon ton, so he knows what he was talking about.-- Anthony Haden-Guest, The Last Party

The bon ton here is to be grave and learned.-- Horace Walpole
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(Find the 6 differences, answers below)