Chuckle 1129

Chuckle 1129
(Rich and Flo C of Yuma AZ get today's chuckle thanks!)


~Drunken Lady~
(Plus: Today in History and Word for the Day)

A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the husband keeps staring at a drunken lady swigging her gin as she sits alone at a nearby table.

The wife asks, "Do you know her?"

"Yes," sighs the husband. "She's my ex-wife. She took to drinking right after we divorced seven years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since."

"My goodness!" says the wife. "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long!!!!! ***


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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Thursday August 10, 2006

animus \AN-uh-muhs\, noun:1. Basic attitude or animating spirit; disposition; intention.2. A feeling of ill will; animosity.3. In Jungian psychology, the inner masculine part of the female personality [cf. anima].

The seemingly anti-intellectual animus of the syllabus [the Syllabus of Errors, issued by Pope Pius IX in 1864] also disillusioned some converts, among them Thomas Arnold, who reverted to Anglicanism when he learned of it.-- Patrick Allitt, Catholic Converts

It is important to note also that part of Kipling's animus against the Christian missionaries in India arose from his indignation at their destructive puritanism.-- Christopher Hitchens, "A Man of Permanent Contradictions", The Atlantic, June 2002

To teach the poor chump a lesson, the media mogul steals the burglar's lucky ring, an act of scornful hauteur that brings out the animus in Dortmunder.-- Marilyn Stasio, review of M Is for Malice, by Sue Grafton, New York Times, November 10, 1996
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