Devil"s Dictionary and Shopping and Nursing Home
Devil's Dictionary and Shopping and Nursing Home ...
The Devil's Dictionary...
1. BACKBITE, v.t.
To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
2. BEAUTY, n.
The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
3. BELLADONNA, n.
In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
4. BORE, n.
A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
5. BRIDE, n.
A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
6. DIPLOMACY, n.
The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
7. FEMALE, n.
One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
8. GHOST, n.
The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
9. GRAVE, n.
A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
10. GUILLOTINE, n.
A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
11. HEARSE, n.
Death's baby-carriage.
12. IMPUNITY, n.
Wealth.
13. KILL, v.t.
To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.
14. MISFORTUNE, n.
The kind of fortune that never misses.
15. OUTDO, v.t.
To make an enemy.
16. PEACE, n.
In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
17. RIOT, n.
A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
18. RUMOR, n.
A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
19. SAINT, n.
A dead sinner revised and edited.
20. SELFISH, adj.
Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
================================================== ===========
Shopping
A husband and wife are shopping in their local Wal-Mart's and the husband picks up a case of Budweiser and put it in their shopping cart.
”What do you think you're doing?” asks the wife.
“They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans,” he replies.
“Put them back, we can't afford them,” demands the wife. So he does and they carry on shopping.
A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and put it in the shopping cart.
“What do you think you're doing?” asks the husband.
“Its my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,” replies the wife.
Her husband retorts: “So does 24 cans of Budweiser and its half the price.”
================================================== ==
Nursing Home
One evening a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home and leaves her, hoping she will be well cared for.
The next morning, the nurses bathe her, feed her a tasty breakfast, and set her in a chair at a window overlooking a lovely flower garden. She seems OK, but after a while she slowly starts to fall over sideways in her chair.
Two attentive nurses immediately rush up to catch her and straighten her up. Again she seems OK, but after a while she starts to tilt to the other side. The nurses rush back and once more bring her back upright. This goes on all morning.
Later, the family arrives to see how the old woman is adjusting to her new home.
They ask,"So Ma, how is it here? Are they treating you all right?"
"It's pretty nice," she replies. "Except they won't let you fart.
|
