Chuckle 1125

Chuckle 1125
(George H of Florence OR gets today's chuckle thanks!)

~Reasons it’s great to be A Guy~
(Plus: Today in History and Word for the Day)

- Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
- Movie nudity is virtually always female.
- You know stuff about tanks.
- A five day vacation requires only one suitcase.
- Monday Night Football.
- You don't have to monitor your friends' sex lives.
- Your bathroom lines are 80% shorter.
- You can open all your own jars.
- Old friends don't give you guff if you've lost or gained weight.
- Dry cleaners and haircutter's don't rob you blind.
- When clicking through the channel, you don't have to stall on every shot of someone crying.
- Your butt is never a factor in a job interview.
- All your orgasms are real.
- A beer gut does not make you invisible to the opposite sex.
- Guys in hockey masks don't attack you. - You don't have to lug a bag of useless stuff around everywhere you go.
- You understand why Stripes is funny.
- You can go to the bathroom without a support group.
- Your last name stays put.
- You can leave a hotel bed unmade.
- When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone secretly hates you.
- You can kill your own food.
- The garage is all yours.
- You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
- You see the humor in Terms of Endearment. ***

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Sunday August 6, 2006

avuncular \uh-VUHNG-kyuh-luhr\, adjective:1. Of or pertaining to an uncle.2. Resembling an uncle, especially in kindness or indulgence.

Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations.-- David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life

Thornton's reputation was that of a soft-hearted and avuncular veterinarian known for getting teary-eyed while listening to even slightly sentimental stories-- Vicki Croke, "New leader of the MSPCA moves to tame budget woes", Boston Globe, September 20, 2003

A man with such a nice, avuncular personality would not blow up the world.-- William Schneider, "The New Shape of American Politics", The Atlantic, January 1987
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