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Posted on 06/02/2005 7:06:50 PM PDT by tomkow6
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Today's FEEBLE
YOKE :
There was a man who computed his taxes for 2005 & found that he owed $3407. He packaged up his payment and included this letter:
Dear IRS:
Enclosed is my 2005 Tax Return & payment. Please take note of the attached article from the USA Today newspaper. In the article, you will see that the Pentagon is paying $171.50 for hammers and NASA has paid $600.00 for a toilet seat.
Please find enclosed four toilet seats (value $2400) and six hammers (value $1029).
This brings my total payment to $3429.00. Please note the overpayment of $22.00 and apply it to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. Might I suggest you the send the above mentioned fund a "1.5 inch screw." (See attached article...HUD paid $22.00 for a 1.5 inch Phillips Head Screw.)
It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. I just saw an article about the Pentagon and "screwdrivers."
Hey! That guy looks like that Chirac dude from France. Surely my eyes are playing a trick, right?
me
Can't be. That Chiriac dude wouldn't be caught dead in a uniform, would he?
fIRST??
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said. The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him. "It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP. "After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added. 
"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. 
Thanks for today's thread Bro!
Your very welcome, Tonk!
Another MIXED BAG of MUSIC!
Dizzie Gillespie - I'm In A Mess
Da Brat & Tyrese - What'Chu Like
Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
Debelah Morgan - Dance With Me
Dizzie Gillespie - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Lil Bow Wow & Xscape - Bounce With Me
Dixie Chicks - Cowboy Take Me Away
Dizzie Gillespie - They Can't Take That Away From Me
Destiny's Child - Independent Women
Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You
Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight
Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You)
Enya - Gladiator Theme - Now We Are Free
Dizzie Gillespie - Oh! Lady Be Good
Thanks Tom.
Awwwwwwww! What a sweet little story!
Re: #12
That was cool. Thanks for your service and the post. Very interesting.
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