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Funny Fridays 11/12/10: Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!

Linda Abbit — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:33:05 +0000

Here’s an ad for the next Carnival Splendor cruise. Don’t miss out — book your cabin now!

To everyone in the wonderful TLeC community — have a great weekend!

Guest Post at Silver and Grace

Linda Abbit — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:00:25 +0000

I have a guest post up at Silver and Grace for everyone to read. The article is titled “Graceful Women: You are an Empty Nester when . . . .” Stop over and check it out! It’s a reflection about a part of my life I don’t share with my readers here.

Silver and Grace is a site dedicated to guiding women ages forty and older towards graceful and beautiful aging. Eliza, creator and author of Silver and Grace, describes her goals as three-fold: sharing knowledge, telling her personal stories, and building a community of like minded women. I think she’s doing a wonderful job on all three!

Please stop by and read my article along with all the other fine writings Eliza has posted there. Also keep up with the latest at Silver and Grace by subscribing to it here.

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Funny Fridays 9-11-09: Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!

Linda Abbit — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:00:30 +0000

A couple of laughs from the male perspective this week. Enjoy!

If you have trouble viewing this video, click here.

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Two old guys were chatting.

One said to the other, “My 85th birthday was yesterday. The wife gave me an SUV.”

Other guy says, “Wow, that’s amazing!! Imagine . . . an SUV!”

“Yup! Socks, Underwear and Viagra.”

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A sheriff in a small town in Texas walks out in the street and sees a blonde-haired cowboy coming toward him with nothing on but his cowboy hat, his gun and his boots. He arrests him for indecent exposure.

As he is locking him up, he asks, “Why in the world are you walking around like this?”

The cowboy says, “Well it’s like this Sheriff . . . I was in this bar down the road and this pretty little redhead asks me to go out to her motor home with her. So I did.

We go inside and she pulls off her top and asks me to pull off my shirt . . . so I did.

Then she pulls off her skirt and asks me to pull off my pants . . . so I did.

Then she pulls off her panties and asks me to pull off my shorts . . . so I did.

Then she gets on the bed and looks at me kind of sexy and says, “Now go to town cowboy . . . .

And here I am.”

Son of a Gun. Blonde men do exist!

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To everyone in the TLeC community, have a great weekend!

Funny Fridays 7/31/09 — Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!

Linda Abbit — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:25:23 +0000

These have got to be two of the funniest videos I’ve seen in 2009.

This one has had over 13 million views as of today!

If you have trouble viewing the video above, click here.

I have to admit when I watched this processional I had to wonder what any senior citizens (aka Golden Oldies) in attendance at this wedding were thinking.

Now another group of creative people have gone one step further by creating a video that takes place six months later . . . .

Simply hilarious!!

If you have trouble viewing the video above, click here.

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To everyone in the TLeC community, have a great weekend!

Feel Good Fridays — 7/10/09

Linda Abbit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:59:23 +0000

No matter what caregiving challenges you face today, take a few minutes to put your feet up and watch this joyful YouTube video. The romantic in me gives it an A++!

If you have trouble viewing this video, please click here.

Hat Tips to Ed Dale for Twittering about this and Armand Morin for posting it on his blog!

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To everyone in the TLeC community, have a great weekend!

Funny Fridays 4/24/09: Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!

Linda Abbit — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:00:54 +0000

Here are two videos from YouTube that I came across this week and just loved!

The first one is funny and stars an animal friend who is musically-inclined.

If you have trouble viewing the video above, click here.

This second one is creative and has a wonderful message!

If you have trouble viewing the video above, click here.

To everyone in the TLeC community, have a great weekend!

Funny Fridays 4/17/09 — Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!

Linda Abbit — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:00:41 +0000

“I am the Tax Man . . .”

Under the Freedom of Information Act, a man with a small business sent a request to the IRS asking if they had a file on him. The IRS wrote back, “There is now.”

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After reading a nursery rhyme to his child, an accountant says, “No, son. It wouldn’t be tax deductible when Little Bo Peep loses her sheep. But I like your thinking.”

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Ever wonder why the IRS calls it Form 1040?

Because for every $50 that you earn, you get $10 and they get $40.

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The stockbroker received notice from the IRS that he was being audited. He showed up at the appointed time and place with all his financial records, then sat for what seemed like hours as the accountant poured over them.

Finally the IRS agent looked up and commented, “You must have been a tremendous fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”

“Why would you say that?” wondered the broker.

“Because you’ve made more brilliant deductions on your last three returns than Sherlock Holmes made in his entire career.”

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“The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.” ~ Anonymous

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” ~ Albert Einstein

“I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is – I could be just as proud for half the money.” ~ Arthur Godfrey

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To Everyone in the TLeC community, have a fabulous weekend!

Photo Credit: Tracy O’s photostream

Funny Fridays 3/27/09 — Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!

Linda Abbit — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:00:58 +0000

Antidotes for Spring Fever

Four high school boys afflicted with spring fever skipped morning classes. After lunch they reported to the teacher that they had a flat tire.

Much to their relief she smiled and said, “Well, you missed a test today so take seats apart from one another and take out a piece of paper.”

Still smiling, she waited for them to sit down. Then she said: “First Question: Which tire was flat?”

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Q. Can February March?
A. No, but April May!

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again. ~ Henry Beard

If, instead of talking to your plants, you yelled at them, would they still grow, only to be troubled and insecure?

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If I could only grow green stuff in my garden like I can in my refrigerator.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Gardening requires a lot of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.

The best way to garden is to put on a wide brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

New gardeners learn by by trowel and error.

Credit: David Hobson’s Garden Humour

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Botany I Final Exam – Some Wrong Answers

Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.

Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas.

The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.

Germinate: To become a naturalized German.

Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot.

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I have no plants in my house. They won’t live for me.
Some of them don’t even wait to die, they commit suicide. ~ Jerry Seinfeld

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To everyone in the TLeC community, have a wonderful weekend!

Funny Fridays for March Madness: Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!

Linda Abbit — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:00:04 +0000

Our son is home from college for Spring break and there has been continuous talk (aka agonizing) over March Madness around here.

“March Madness” refers to the U.S. men’s collegiate basketball tournament that began this week. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of it — I hadn’t either until our son started thinking about what college he wanted to attend.

So in honor of March Madness, and with great hope the University of Arizona team will go far in the tournament, here is a collection of basketball humor, along with a fun article about how vasectomies and March Madness go together. Enjoy!

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“The sport of basketball is 113 years old today,” Jay Leno reported on December 1st, 2004. “Did you know James Naismith came up with the game as a way to keep young men away from women and out of trouble? . . . . Well, that sure worked well!”

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Q: Why do basketball players love cookies? A: Because they can dunk them!

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“He’s great on the court,” a sportswriter said of a college basketball player in an interview with his coach. “But’s how’s his scholastic work?”

“Why, he makes straight A’s,” replied the coach.

“Wonderful!” said the sportswriter.

“Yes,” agreed the coach, “but his B’s are a little crooked.”

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I play in the over-50 basketball league. We don’t have jump balls. The ref just puts the ball on the floor and whoever can bend over and pick it up gets possession.

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Here is a commentary by John Kelso in the Austin American-Statesman about a promotion a urology group is having during March Madness:

Big Dance Meets the Big Snip: Men, Stop Squirming

Vasectomy? Ouch. So pull up a couch – and watch some hoops.

By John Kelso

Friday, March 06, 2009

The winning team at a basketball tournament snips down the nets. Then there’s the snipping that goes on when a guy gets a vasectomy.

So it was a natural fit when an Austin urology business decided to use the NCAA men’s basketball tournament – otherwise known as March Madness – to promote the procedure.

This is cutting-edge material. Talk about a bracket-buster.

“You know, the thing that really spurred this whole thing is that so many men aren’t interested in sitting still very long,” said Vikki Smith, community liaison for The Urology Team, a practice with eight surgeons. “So we thought what could be a more natural combination than sitting in front of a TV set for three days and getting a vasectomy? It’s the perfect excuse to look at the wife and say, ‘Honey, I’ve got to stay on the couch for three days. Doctor’s orders.’ ”

The name of the hoops/whoops promotion is Vas Madness. As opposed to March Madness. Vikki pointed out that one of the Urology Team members is Dr. Richard Chopp. But she said that Dr. Chopp will not be performing vasectomies during Vas Madness.

This is a marketing blunder. If you’ve got a vasectomy expert named Chopp on your team, and you’re running a basketball special, why bench the guy? “His patients all go home with a camo T-shirt that proudly proclaims ‘I got chopped at the Urology Team,’ ” Vikki wrote in an e-mail.

What better time for a guy to get himself done than during the NCAA Tournament? After all, back in the old days, the refs referred to the infraction of traveling as “double dribble.”

“I think there’s probably all sorts of familiar words we could use,” Vikki said. “They just won’t be traveling. At least for a few days.” She pointed out that doctors recommend vasectomy patients “take it easy for about three or four days.”

Vikki said that men getting vasectomies at the business’s clinic on Jollyville Road will be able to watch the NCAA tournament games on TV in the waiting area, although she didn’t seem to know which days the actual tournament games are on.

“Then we’re going to have a little popcorn and snacks out for everybody,” she said. “We try to create sort of a sports bar atmosphere without the alcohol and smoking.”Anyway, it sounds like one heckuva party. “All of our doctors, everybody who is working in the clinic after hours, will be wearing their favorite team’s T-shirt,” Vikki said.

And, adding to the fun, each patient will get a bag of frozen peas as part of the recovery kit.

“It’s sort of like using Silly Putty as opposed to a brick,” Vikki explained. You know, brick. Like when the point guard clanks the ball off the rim.

John Kelso’s column appears on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Contact him at 445-3606 or jkelso@statesman.com.

For the link to the original article click here.

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GO WILDCATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To everyone in the TLeC community, have a great weekend! And get off the couch once in awhile between games.

Just Abbit O’Blarney!

Linda Abbit — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:09:15 +0000

May your kilt be short enough to dance a jig

and long enough to hide your lucky charms!

Happy St. Patty’s Day!