Chuckle 1138

Chuckle 1138
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Rich C in Yuma AZ!)

~How to Call the Police~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.

George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?" and he said "no". Then they said that all patrols were busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be along when available.

George said, "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and phoned the police again, "Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people in my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now cause I've just shot them all." Then he hung up.

Within five minutes three police cars, an Armed Response unit, and an ambulance showed up at the Phillips residence and caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the Policemen said to George: "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"

George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"

(True Story) I LOVE IT... ***

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Saturday August 19, 2006

supposititious \suh-poz-uh-TISH-uhs\, adjective:1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what it purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit.2. Hypothetical; supposed.

He has threatened to write a small treatise exposing my stones as supposititious -- I should say, his stones, fashioned and fraudulently made by his hand.-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The lying stones of Wurzburg and Marrakech", Natural History, April, 1998

The major shortcoming of the woman's approach, however, is the treatment of Rose Trollope, who becomes in this version of her husband's life not the substantial figure that she must have been, but a supposititious creation, the result of unremitting conjecture and speculation.-- Janice Carlisle, "Trollope", Victorian Studies, March 1, 1995
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