Sunday, June 26, 2011

Super Calloused Fragile Mystic

Stolen from my friend Bob...

1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger."

2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says, "Dam!"

3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, "I've lost my electron." The other says, "Are you sure?" The first replies "Yes, I'm positive."

5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?", they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer."

7. A woman delivers a set of identical twins and decides to give them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain ; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."

8. A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" the friars to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him (Oh, dude, this is so bad, it's good ...) a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

10. And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Quote of the Day

"Let me concentrate while I slather this awesome goodness onto my bread."

--Spoken by Tess as she applied normally prohibited Jiff Peanut butter to her sandwich.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Re-entry progress

1. I have work (mostly)
2. We have 1 car (mostly)
3. We have cell phones (actually an unopened box that purports to contain phones)
4. We have power (totally)

Still to come. Painters, flooring guy, internet and another car. I think we'll just keep spending the money until it runs out. That will make the kids' college planning that much easier.

IR Photos



Friday, June 3, 2011

QOTD

"Mom, I have a slight problem. All of my clean shirts keep disappearing and winding up crumpled on the floor."

-MM

Hmmmm. I suspect laundry fairies. It's the only plausible explanation.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Last Ever Germany Photos

Frau Ford and the Fordlets leave in 3 days so my desire to blog is limited. I'm making an exception to post the last round of medium format film that came back from the developer today.

Some of these look good. Some don't. Unfortunately, I'm hampered in my ability to edit them on the hotel laptop since the display is too poor to tell the difference. I'll try to clean them up in a week or two when I can get onto a better computer.

Click here for slideshow.

Words fail so I'll end our adventure here. Thank you for virtually joining this wonderful part of our lives here in Deutschland..