Chuckle 1123

Chuckle 1123
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Dean O of Florence OR!)

~Blonde Story~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History and Word for the Day)

Two blonde girls were working for the city public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind her and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one girl digging a hole, the other girl filling it in again.

An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn't understand what they were doing. So he asked the hole digger, "I'm impressed by the effort you two are putting into your work, but I don't get it -- why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?"

The hole digger wiped her brow and sighed, "Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-person team. But today the girl who plants the trees called in sick."



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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Friday August 4, 2006

inveigh \in-VAY\, intransitive verb:To rail (against some person or thing); to protest strongly or attack with harsh and bitter language -- usually with "against"; as, "to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse."

It is my intention to inveigh against what seems to be the gradual (continuing?) publishing practice of making books that are so fat and windy that they sit, with some exceptions, like hefty neglected lumps on the shelves waiting for the first clever marketer to include a backpack with their purchase.-- Martin Arnold, "They're Bigger. But Better?", New York Times, October 28, 1999

He saved it for his preaching, when he inveighed against sin and the devil.-- Rubem Fonseca, Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts (translated by Clifford E. Landers)

I inveighed against the landlord, who, I thought, was trying to save electricity with those weak lightbulbs, but I suspected that I might need new glasses.-- Henry A. Grunwald, Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight

Reuther never hesitated to inveigh against "poverty, hunger, and disease."-- Stanley Aronowitz, From the Ashes of the Old
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