Chuckle 1144

Chuckle 1144
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Phyllis S of Pasadena CA!)


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

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello".

"Mrs. Ward, please."

"Speaking."

"Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing Laboratory. When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is your husband's. Frankly the results are either bad or terrible."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Ward asks nervously.

"Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's."

"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Ward. "Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."

"Well, what am I supposed to do now?"

"The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him."

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Word of the Day Friday August 25, 2006

robustious \roh-BUHS-chuhs\, adjective:
1. Boisterous; vigorous. 2. Coarse; rough; crude.

. . .the robustious romantic figure comparable to John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility--he comes in with dash, then proves a temptation to the heroine but is an eventual disappointment. -- Stanley Kauffmann, "Emma", New Republic, August 19, 1996

When the meaning of the disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted: "Hey! Frank!" in such a robustious voice that the feeble clamor of the natives was drowned and silenced. -- O. Henry, Cabbages and Kings

Here he has seemingly swilled some of Falstaff's sack and has had robustious, fiery fun. -- Stanley Kauffmann, "Star-Crossed Lovers", New Republic, January 4, 1999
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