Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category

How Bad is the Economy?

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

How bad is the economy?

The economy is SO bad that ….

I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.

I ordered a burger at McDonald’s and the kid behind the counter asked, “Can you afford fries with that?”

CEO’s are now playing miniature golf.

If the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call them and ask if they meant you or them.

Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.

Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.

McDonald’s is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names.

A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.

Motel Six won’t leave the light on anymore.

The Mafia is laying off judges.

When Congress said that they were looking into that Bernie Madoff scandal I remember thinking, OH GREAT!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!

And, finally…

I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Lifeline. I got a call center in Pakistan , and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.

Conservative Humor

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
Leno


America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

Leno


Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s’ new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.

Conan O’Brien


Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.

Leno


Q: What’s the difference between Obama’s cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.

Letterman


Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America!

Fallon


Q: What’s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers.

Kimmel


Q: What was the most positive result of the “Cash for clunkers” program?
A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.

Letterman 

Support for Obamacare?

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Follow by Example?

Friday, June 12th, 2009

My husband and I have decided to follow the President’s example and sacrifice along with him.Biting the bullet on expenses, the President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget!

We’re so impressed by this sacrifice that my husband and I have decided to do the same thing with our personal budget.  We spend about $2000 a month on our house payment, groceries, clothing, bills, etc for our family. But now, it’s time to roll up our sleeves, get out the budget cutting ax and go line by line through our total expenses, and start chopping away.

We’re going to cut our monthly spending at exactly the same ratio (1/35,000) as that of our leaders in Washington. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2000 a month; we’re going to have to cut that number by six cents!  Yes, we’re going to have to somehow get by with only $1999.94, but let’s face it, that’s what sacrifice is all about. We’ll just have to learn to do more with less – We’ll have to simply learn to do without some things, that are, frankly, luxuries. 

What a country!

How would you fix the economy?

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

This is from an article in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on “How Would You Fix the Economy?”

I think this guy nailed it!

Dear Mr. President:

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America’s economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.

It can’t get any easier than that!

If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes…

APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION TO DATE MY DAUGHTER

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Application for Permission to Date My Daughter

NOTE: This application will be incomplete and rejected unless accompanied by a complete financial statement, job history, lineage, and current medical report from your doctor.  

NAME_____________________________

DATE OF BIRTH__________HEIGHT ___________ WEIGHT _________

IQ __________ GPA ______  SSN #__________________

DRIVERS LICENSE #____________________ BOY SCOUT RANK AND BADGES EARNED _________________________________  

HOME ADDRESS _____________________________ CITY/PROV______________________  ALL PHONE #’s INCLUDING NEXT OF KIN ____________________________________________

Do you have parents? ___Yes ___No
Is one male and the other female? ___Yes ___No
If No, explain: ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________

Number of years they have been married ____________

If less than your age, explain:
_________________________________________________ _________________________________________________

ACCESSORIES SECTION:

A. Do you own or have access to a van? __Yes __No

B. A truck with oversized tires? __Yes __No

C. A waterbed? __Yes __No

D. A pickup with a mattress in the back? __Yes __No

E. A tattoo? __Yes __No

F. Do you have an earring, nose ring, pierced
tongue, pierced cheek or a belly button ring? __Yes __No

(IF YOU ANSWERED ‘YES’ TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, DISCONTINUE APPLICATION AND LEAVE PREMISES IMMEDIATELY. I SUGGEST RUNNING.)

ESSAY SECTION:

In 50 words or less, what does ‘LATE’ mean to you?

____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

In 50 words or less, what does ‘DON’T TOUCH MY DAUGHTER’ mean to you?

____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

In 50 words or less, what does ‘ABSTINENCE’ mean to you?

____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

REFERENCES SECTION:

Church you attend _______________________________

How often you attend _____________________________________________________

When would be the best time to interview your:

Father? _____________

Mother? _____________

Pastor? _____________

SHORT-ANSWER SECTION:

Answer by filling in the blank. Please answer freely, all answers are confidential.

A: If I were shot, the last place I would want shot would be:

________________________________________________

B: If I were severely beaten, the last bone I would want broken in my body:

_________________________________________________

C: A woman’s place is in the:

_____________________________________________

D: The one thing I hope this application does not ask me about is:

_____________________________________________

E. What do you want to do IF you grow up? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

F. When I meet a girl, the thing I always notice about her first is:

____________________________________________

F. What is the current going rate of a hotel room? __________________

I SWEAR THAT ALL INFORMATION SUPPLIED ABOVE IS TRUE AND CORRECT TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH, DISMEMBERMENT, NATIVE AMERICAN ANT TORTURE, CRUCIFIXION, ELECTROCUTION, CHINESE WATER TORTURE, AND/OR RED HOT POKERS.

_________________________________________________________
Applicant’s Signature (that means sign your name, moron!)

_______________________________   _______________________________
Mother’s Signature                                              Father’s Signature

________________________________
Pastor/Priest/Rabbi Commissioner of Oaths

Thank you for your interest, and it had better be genuine and non-sexual.
Please allow four to six years for processing.

You will be contacted in writing if you are approved. Please do not try to call or write (since you probably can’t, and it would cause you injury). If your application is rejected, you will be notified by two gentleman wearing white ties carrying violin cases. (you might watch your back)

To prepare yourself, start studying Daddy’s Rules for Dating.

Daddy’s Rules for Dating

Rule One:

If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two:

You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck.. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them..

Rule Three:

I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don’t take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four:

I’m sure you’ve been told that in today’s world, sex without utilizing a ‘Barrier method’ of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five:

It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: ‘early.’

Rule Six:

I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven:

As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge . Instead of just standing there, why don’t you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight:

The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka – zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual themes are to be avoided; movies which feature chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine:

Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten:

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi . When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car – there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

How the new stimulus plan will work

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago , another is from Tennessee , and the third is from Minnesota. All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. “Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”

The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”

The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$2,700.”

The official, incredulous, says, “You didn’t even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?”

The Chicago contractor whispers back, “$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence.”

“Done!” replies the government official.

And that, my friends, is how the new stimulus plan will work.

Obama & Lincoln Are Very Much Alike

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

1. Lincoln placed his hand on the Bible for his inauguration. Obama used the same Bible.
 
2. Lincoln came from Illinois. Obama comes from Illinois.
 
3. Lincoln served in the Illinois Legislature. Obama served in the Illinois Legislature.
 
4. Lincoln had very little experience before becoming President. Obama had very little experience before becoming President.
 
5. Lincoln rode the train from Philadelphia to Washington for his inauguration. Obama rode the train from Philadelphia to Washington for his inauguration.
 
6. Lincoln was a skinny lawyer. Obama is a skinny lawyer.
 
7. Lincoln was a Republican. Obama is a skinny lawyer.
 
8. Lincoln was highly respected. Obama is a skinny lawyer.
 
9. Lincoln was born in the United States. Obama is a skinny lawyer.
 
10. Lincoln was called Honest Abe. Obama is a skinny lawyer.

Letter from Granddad

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Guess you heard that 68% of “the youth vote” went to Obama.  My granddaughter called this morning to tell me she was one of them.  I replied with this e-mail:

Sweetheart, The election of Obama comes down to this.  Your grandmother and I, your mother and other productive wage earning tax payers will have their taxes increased and that means less income.  Less income means we will have to cut back on basic purchases, gifts and handouts.  That includes firing the Hispanic lady who cleans our house twice a month.

She just lost her job.  We can’t afford her anymore.

What is the economic effect of Obama’s election on you personally?

Over the years, your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in food, housing, cash, clothing, gifts, etc., etc.  By your vote, you have chosen another family over ours for help.  So in the future, if you need assistance with your rent, money for gas, tires for your car, someone to bring you lunch, etc.  ..  call 202-456-1111.  That’s the telephone number for the Office of the President of the United States.  I’m sure Mr. Obama will be happy to send a check from his personal or business accounts or leave cash in an envelope taped to his front door.

It’s like this.  Those who vote for the president should consider what the impact of an election will be on the nation as a whole and not just be concerned with what they can get for themselves (welfare, etc.).  What Obama voters don’t seem to realize is that the government’s money comes from taxes collected from taxpaying families.  Raising taxes on productive people means they will have less money to spend on their families.

Congratulations on your choice.  For future reference, you might attempt to add up all you’ve received from us, your mom, Mike’s parents and others and compare it to what you expect to get over the next four years from Mr.  Obama.
To congratulate Mr.  Obama and to make sure you’re on the list for handouts, write to:

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington DC 20500

P.S.  Love you, but call the number listed above when you need help.

Granddad