The Myth of Big Riches

Saw a new Isle of Capri Casino billboard on the way into work this morning. Next to the nice looking people that looked like they were having the time of their lives, it read: “Jackpots Found Here”.

Not 10 minutes earlier I read the headline of this article in the Kansas City Star:

Players on a losing streak
In March, they lost a record $66.8 million at Kansas City’s four riverboat casinos.

Makes perfect sense doesn’t it?

Spriglet #4: Windshield Wiper Rotation

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If you’ve ever seen my car, you’d know that it’s not something that I obsess over at all.   In fact quite the contrary — I don’t care about it that much.   It gets me from here to there.   It’s not pretty but it’s functional.

I try to invest in it as little as possible.   There’s more important things to spend money on, IMO.

So, anyway…I found a way to make my windshield wipers last longer than recommended (every 6 months).   When they start skidding across the windshield, I stop (usually at the gas station) and take them off and 1) switch the right and the left and 2) flip them over so that the end that’s on the top is now on the bottom.

Turning off your car when the wiper blades are upright makes them a little easier to change.

Worked like a champ in the torrential downpour on the way to work this morning.   Voila!   No skidding.

I’m a such a sucker for good puns

Here are the ten first place winners in the International Pun Contest (supposedly):

  1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The flight attendant looks at him and says, “I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.”
  2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The 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 has twins and gives 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” them 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 a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

Some other funny ones:

  1. How about the midget psychic bank robber? The newspaper headline read: Small medium at large.
  2. Did you hear about the firefly that flew through the fan? He delighted himself to no end.
  3. How about the fly that flew through the screen door? He strained himself.
  4. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.
  5. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, “I’ll serve you, but don’t start anything.”
  6. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
  7. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says: “A beer please, and one for the road.”
  8. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.
  9. I went to a seafood disco last week…and pulled a mussel.
  10. Two termites walk into a bar. One asks, “Is the bar tender here?”
  11. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: “Does this taste funny to you?”

Spriglet #3: Pocket Key Pat

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Spriglet #3: OK, this is borderline O.C.D., but it’s something I’ve gotten into the habit of doing. Whenever I get out of my car, I always immediately put my keys in my pocket and then pat my pocket just to here the keys jingle. Guess I started doing it after I locked my keys in my car. Haven’t locked them inside it since.