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** HUMOR BREAK ** Hot Air !! If you Like it PING IT !
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Posted on 10/23/2008 8:48:28 AM PDT by davidosborne

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below.??

She shouts to him, 'Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am.'

The man consults his portable GPS and replies, 'You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

She rolls her eyes and says, 'You must be a Republican!'

'I am,' replies the man. 'How did you know?'

'Well,' answers the balloonist, 'everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me.'

The man smiles and responds, 'You must be a Democrat.'

'I am,' replies the balloonist. 'How did you know?'

'Well,' says the man, 'You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault.’


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
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1 posted on 10/23/2008 8:48:28 AM PDT by davidosborne
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To: politicallyincarrect; /\XABN584; 3D-JOY; 5Madman; <1/1,000,000th%; 11B3; 1Peter2:16; ...

If anyone knows who to credit for this please let me know so I can give credit where it is due.. I had not heard this one before..


2 posted on 10/23/2008 8:49:59 AM PDT by davidosborne (SARAH PALIN for VP ---- McCain is just the "baggage" that comes with that VOTE !!)
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To: davidosborne

Very good. Thanks for the laugh.


3 posted on 10/23/2008 8:50:39 AM PDT by mia
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To: davidosborne; MeekOneGOP

I love it!


4 posted on 10/23/2008 8:50:58 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
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To: IndianPrincessOK

humor ping


5 posted on 10/23/2008 8:52:20 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: davidosborne

That’s how a spin works. What insight!

Good laugh


6 posted on 10/23/2008 8:52:37 AM PDT by mckenzie7 ( ANNA the retiree!)
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To: sarasota

Ping!


7 posted on 10/23/2008 8:54:45 AM PDT by Edizzl79
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To: Lazamataz

This ping’s for you.


8 posted on 10/23/2008 8:55:19 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
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To: dighton

Funny-Hot-Air Ping-a-roo!!

9 posted on 10/23/2008 8:56:58 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: davidosborne

BTTT


10 posted on 10/23/2008 8:57:46 AM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: davidosborne

From my email, this morning........

Catching Wild Pigs

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter.

The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting Communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new Communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, ‘Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. ‘You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.’

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms — just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email,
but God help you when the gate slams shut!

In this ‘very important’ election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you!!

Just maybe you will be able to tell who is about to slam the gate on America.

‘A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.’ Thomas Jefferson


11 posted on 10/23/2008 9:02:24 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted)
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To: davidosborne

Here’s another one....

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read “Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed.

Once in the restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08” tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference — just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need — the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.


12 posted on 10/23/2008 9:02:33 AM PDT by graywaiter (Gotta love those gun tote'n mommas.......)
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To: davidosborne

My brother emailed this to me the other day. I don’t know who to credit it to either:

Father/Daughter Talk

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so
many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal
Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of
higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words
redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch
Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures
that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a
professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil,
selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his .

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher
taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The
self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the
truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how
she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA,
and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she
was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying,
which left her no time to go out and party like other people she
knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t
really have many college friends because
she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked , ‘How is your friend Audrey
doing?’

She replied, ‘ Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy
classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so
popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She’s always invited
to all the parties and lots of times she doesn’t even show up for
classes because she’s too hung over.’

Her wise father asked his daughter, ‘Why don’t you go to the Dean ‘s
office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your
friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and
certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.’

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily
fired back, ‘That’s a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I’ve worked
really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time, and a lot of
hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She
played while I worked my tail off!’

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, ‘Welcome to the
Republican party.’


13 posted on 10/23/2008 9:04:33 AM PDT by RightFighter (That Sarah Palin. She's so hot right now!)
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To: highimpact

funny ping


14 posted on 10/23/2008 9:13:00 AM PDT by JesusBmyGod (Baruch HaBa B'Shem Adonai)
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To: davidosborne
I heard a similar one years ago:

Christopher Columbus was the first democrat. He didn't know where he was going when he left, didn't know where he was when he got there, didn't know where he had been when he got back. And he did it all with someone else's money.

15 posted on 10/23/2008 9:14:05 AM PDT by wny
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To: davidosborne

BTTT


16 posted on 10/23/2008 9:16:25 AM PDT by E.G.C. (To read a freeper's FR postings, click on his or her screen name and then "In Forum".)
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To: RightFighter

I love this one, and was actually looking for it on my ‘puter to post. The dumocrats all think the plans of Obama are just fantastic until they find out they too will have to bleed for them.


17 posted on 10/23/2008 9:18:00 AM PDT by graywaiter (Gotta love those gun tote'n mommas.......)
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To: davidosborne

Thumbs up ping!


18 posted on 10/23/2008 9:22:36 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: wny

oh thats funny


19 posted on 10/23/2008 9:22:57 AM PDT by davidosborne (SARAH PALIN for VP ---- McCain is just the "baggage" that comes with that VOTE !!)
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To: MissyMack66; Yankee Limner

Humor ping


20 posted on 10/23/2008 9:26:11 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Land of the Fee, Home of the Shamed)
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