Chuckle 1132

Chuckle 1132
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Phyllis H of Carpinteria CA!)

~Ain't it the Truth ~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

Elaine goes to Dr. Solomon for her yearly physical. The nurse starts with certain basic items. "How much do you weigh?" she asks. "140," she says. The nurse puts her on the scale. It turns out her weight is 175.

The nurse asks, "Your height?" "5 foot 8," she says. The nurse checks and sees that she only measures 5' 6".

She then takes her blood pressure and tells Elaine it is very high. "Of course it's high!" she screams, "When I came in here I was tall and slender! Now I'm short and fat!" ***

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Sunday August 13, 2006

corroborate \kuh-ROB-uh-rayt\, transitive verb:To strengthen or make more certain with other evidence.

Whenever I can, I interview family and friends extensively both to corroborate the history given me by the defendant and to gain insight into his behavior and personality.-- Barbara R. Kirwin, Ph.D., The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent: The Criminal Mind on Trial

He said that when the jurors confronted discrepancies in any of the prosecution witnesses' descriptions, they used the testimony of other prosecution witnesses to corroborate the chronology.-- "Most Jurors Thought Schwarz Aided Attack, Foreman Says", New York Times, August 2, 2002

As we have no public notoriety, no concurrent testimony, no records to support and corroborate what we deliver, it becomes us to keep within the limits not only of possibility, but of probability too.-- Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones
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