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Smile today - 12/18

Annie Deighnaugh

5 years ago

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jim_1 (Zone 5B)
5 years ago
Children were called upon a classroom to make sentences with words chosen by the teacher. The teacher smiled when Jack, a slow learner, raised his hand to participate during the challenge of making a sentence with the words "Defeat," "Defense," "Deduct," and "Detail."

Jack stood thinking for a while, all eyes focused on him while his classmates awaited his reply. Smiling, he then proudly shouted out, "Defeat of deduct went over defense before detail."
Jeb zone5
5 years ago
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When I leave for work every morning, it's a long goodbye. I kiss each of my seven cats and tell them to be a good boy or girl until I get home. DH works from home, so they're not really alone very often. And every evening when I come home, at least four of them are at the windows, their little bodies quivering and their tails waving. I feel so loved.
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"2 1/2 holer", huh? Are you sure that's the hole truth? Just what is a half of a hole - does one cut only half way through the board? Perhaps we should sit down to contemplate this. Yes, I've used 'em - away from home, though my first experience of a bathrooom with running water was when at 18 I went to the University of Saskatchewan - in 1947. Not that I (and the whole fam damily) had saved up through those years! In summer we'd go from kitchen/dining room through summer kitchen, into a narrow porch/lean-to with a door at the far end leading to 2-holer, over 2 large buckets that Dad or hired man hauled occasionally to add the the pile of manure by the 5 - 6 horse barn. Would one call that "half way to an 'outhouse' "? In winter there was a metal can with a holey seat and lid in one of the six bedrooms upstairs, with a vent to one of the five chimnies, most of which unused after furnace installed a number of years earlier, 4 of which chimnies Dad had removed a few years later, before bricks fell off to break some slates on the roof. Cistern in basement with pump on sink in pantry offered soft water for washing and well in back yard offered water in a bucket via a hand-operated pump for drinking and cooking. The well needed cleaning, but Dad feared to go down to clean lest rocks and bricks in the wall fall on his head. In the midst of the Dirty Thirties, Depression, Dad had a well drilled by the house and a cold water tap installed on the other end of the sink. Also water lines to three barns to serve the horses, cows (and bull), pigs and chickens. Sorry, I lied. Soon after the end of World War II we moved from our farm in Ontario to a rented one in Saskatchewan and we used an outhouse there. In summer - but it gets down to 40 below (same in both Fahrenheit and Centigrade) in winter - so there was an alternative in the basement (only two bedrooms in second storey). At 17 when we moved, I spent only a couple years on that farm. After only a few years, Dad bought one. ole joyful
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Jasdip, that one took me several minutes. Loved it!!!
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Looks like sometimes it's helpful not to have a wife. Mine left 50 years ago (would that merit marking as an anniversary?) ... and died upwards of 20 years ago. ole ... joyful ... though sometimes less so
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Elizabeth
5 years ago
According to this, I live in Upper Wisconsin.
aok27502
5 years ago
Angela Id
5 years ago
dedtired
5 years ago
buccos4vr
5 years ago
Jasdip
5 years ago
liira55
5 years ago
juneroses Z9a Cntrl Fl
5 years ago
Rusty
5 years ago
katlan
5 years ago
eld6161
5 years ago
eld6161
5 years ago
Buccos, can you or someone explain yours?
Elmer J Fudd
5 years ago
Bullfrogs.
Uptown Gal
5 years ago
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"Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he was good friend of mine I never understood a single word he said But I helped him drink his wine He always had some mighty fine wine, sing it Joy to the world, all the boys and girls now Joy to the fishiest in the deep blue sea And joy to you and me And if I were the king of the world I tell you what I would do"... (by Three Dog Night).

A favorite song. :)
Angela Id
5 years ago
Fun2BHere
5 years ago
I guess understanding about Jeremiah the Bullfrog tells others something about our age, doesn't it? If someone posted a joke using most any rap song, I wouldn't get it, but Jerry the Frog I understand. Just call me Boomer. :-)
joyfulguy
5 years ago
@Jassydip 1. Move cat to other room.

2. Close door on return.

3. Close ears to anticipated complaint.

@June rosebush ... newly minted commentary related to hope for change in lifestyle?

@dedretired ... some folks experienced in speaking in public claim that paying attention to enunciation can avoid complications, even/(especially?) for people visiting banks while masked (and including tellers).

ole joyful
Annie Deighnaugh
Original Author
5 years ago
Rusty
5 years ago
Thanks for posting that, Annie! I haven't heard that in ages, and thoroughly enjoyed it! It turned a dull gray morning into a happy bouncy morning!

Rusty
kathyg_in_mi
5 years ago
Ditto Rusty!
joyfulguy
5 years ago
Pass the joy around, folks.

Think of some humourous stories: put a smile on people's faces.

You've heard of mine about the good thing about masks which nobody talks about being that nobody can see the wrinkles.

Or when your mask is hanging from one ear ... people may claim that you're hung over.

Sorry - haven't figured another covid-related one yet.

ole joyfuelled

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