Chuckle 1113

Chuckle 1113
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~Welfare Office~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

A woman walks into the downtown welfare office, trailed by 15 kids...

"WOW," the social worker exclaims,” are they ALL YOURS???

"Yep they are all mine," the flustered momma sighs, having heard that question a thousand times before. She says, "Sit down Leroy."

All the children rush to find seats.

"Well," says the social worker, "then you must be here to sign up. I'll need all your children's names."

"This one's my oldest - he is Leroy."

"OK, and who's next?"

"Well, this one he is Leroy, also."

The social worker raises an eyebrow but continues. One by one, through the oldest four, all boys, all named Leroy. Then she is introduced to the eldest girl, named Leighroy!

"All right," says the caseworker. "I'm! Seeing a pattern here. Are they ALL named Leroy?"

Their Momma replied, "Well, yes - it makes it easier. When it is time to get them out of bed and ready for school, I yell, 'Leroy!'

"An’ when it's time for dinner, I just yell 'Leroy!' an' they all comes arunnin'.

"An' if I need to stop the kid who's running into the street, I just yell 'Leroy' and all of 'em stop. It's the smartest idea I ever had, namin' 'em all Leroy."

The social worker thinks this over for a bit, then wrinkles her forehead and says tentatively, "But what if you just want ONE kid to come, and not the whole bunch?"

"I call them by their last names." ***

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Tuesday July 25, 2006
plebeian \plih-BEE-uhn\, adjective:1. Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.2. Of or pertaining to the common people.3. Vulgar; common; crude or coarse in nature or manner.
noun:1. One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome; opposed to patrician.2. One of the common people or lower classes.3. A coarse, crude, or vulgar person.

He was unashamed of his plebeian roots but keen to provide himself with aristocratic forebears.-- Graham Robb, Victor Hugo

During the Soviet era, anyone of any ethnic background who did the dirty deeds demanded of them to get ahead was rewarded with a crummy but better-than-average apartment, a steady supply of cheap sausage and low-grade vodka, and a host of other plebeian amenities too dull to talk about here.-- Jeffrey Tayler, "Russia's Other World, interview by Toby Lester", The Atlantic, March 10, 1999

For cultivated Germans, politics was associated with grasping, greedy, plebeian men, out for their own selfish interests instead of the larger good of the nation.-- Ian Buruma, "The Tin Ear", New Republic, January 31, 2000

Very generally, American public men before Lincoln had grown up in the environment of slave and free, master and servant, employer and employee, rich and poor, aristocrat and plebeian.-- Arthur E. Morgan, "New Light on Lincoln's Boyhood", The Atlantic, February 1920
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