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**** OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD **** Aug. 9, 2007

Posted on 08/09/2007 5:05:59 AM PDT by StarCMC


Welcome to the

O.F.S.T.

(Official Friday Silliness Thread)

Good morning and welcome to the Silliness!  Lucky9Teen had to be away today and so I'm posting the OFST for her today.  She will be back next week!

Today is the anniversary of the death of Robert Goddard, father of American rocketry, who died in 1945.  Time Magazine proclaimed him a fool for believing that travel in outer space was possible.  I guess some things never change huh?  Goddard proved them wrong on March 16, 1926, when he finished building a spindly, 10-ft. rocket he dubbed Nell, loaded it into an open car and trundled it out to his aunt Effie's nearby farm.  It flew a mere 41 ft. high and the flight lasted only about 2.5 seconds, but with it came the reality of modern space flight.  So Goddard had the last word.

We've all probably known someone who was really smart - I mean book smart.  There was this guy in my Physics class in my senior year.  His name was Sam.  He had perfect grades - 5.0 in all his honors science and math classes.  He was a REAL brainiac.  But one day during Physics class we were all listening to Mrs. Michaels talk about some experiment we were getting ready to do, and Sam went flying off his stool.  It seems that he decided to stick a wire in an electrical outlet and the resulting shock knocked him backwards a few feet and arc welded the circuit.  So here's the question of the day... what's the dumbest thing you've ever seen a really smart person do?

Let the silliness commence!

 


TOPICS: Humor
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To: StarCMC; AZamericonnie; Old Sarge; 2LT Radix jr; Radix; Kathy in Alaska; kjfine; HiJinx; ...

461 posted on 08/10/2007 7:54:22 AM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)
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To: StarCMC

I think that’s from one of the modifications to HL2.
Dunno which one though.


462 posted on 08/10/2007 7:54:28 AM PDT by Darksheare (Woodchuck: a Dire Lemming rampager +9!)
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To: girlscout

I own this ashtray... and this chair... and this paddleball game...

...and that's all I need...

463 posted on 08/10/2007 7:55:15 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Jack Bauer would just whack him!)
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To: tomkow6

Thanks for the pic.


464 posted on 08/10/2007 7:59:07 AM PDT by honolulugal (TGIF . . . again)
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To: honolulugal; AZamericonnie; Old Sarge; 2LT Radix jr; Radix; Kathy in Alaska; kjfine; HiJinx; ...

465 posted on 08/10/2007 8:12:16 AM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)
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To: Maximus of Texas

Idiot Sightings - They Walk Among(st) Us

IDIOT SIGHTING: My husband and I had to have the garage door repaired.
The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a “large” enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower. He shook his head and said, “Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.” I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4. He said, “NO, it’s not. Four is larger than two.” We haven’t used Sears repair since.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: “Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don’t think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.” From Kingman , KS
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IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE: My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for “minimal lettuce.” He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg. He was a Chef?
Yep...From Kansas City !
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IDIOT SIGHTING: I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, “Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?” To which I replied, “If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?” He smiled knowingly and nodded, “That’s why we ask.”
Happened in Birmingham, Ala.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it’s safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine. She asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, “What on earth are blind people doing driving?!”
She was a probation officer in Wichita , KS __________________________________________________
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IDIOT SIGHTING: At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker:
She was leaving the company due to “downsizing.” Our manager commented cheerfully, “This is fun. We should do this more often.” Not another word was spoken. We all just looked at each other with that deer-in-the-headlights stare. This was a bunch at Texas Instruments.

IDIOT SIGHTING: I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself, and for the sake of her own life, couldn’t understand why her system would not turn on. A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriff’s office, no less.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealer- ship to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. “Hey,” I announced to the technician, “Its open!” His reply, “I know - I already got that side.”
This was at the Ford dealership in Canton , Mississippi !
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STAY ALERT!
They walk among us, some post here. They REPRODUCE!


466 posted on 08/10/2007 8:18:24 AM PDT by Sonora
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To: honolulugal

GREAT one from this blog... http://www.brutallyhonest.org/

467 posted on 08/10/2007 8:21:48 AM PDT by StarCMC (This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
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To: StarCMC

ISN’T THIS THE TRUTH ?????? You may need to stop at the women’s restroom . . . be prepared!

When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it’s your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied.

Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall. You get in to find the door won’t latch. It doesn’t matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants! The dispenser for the modern “seat covers” (invented by someone’s Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn’t - so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume “ The Stance.”

In this position your aging, toneless thigh muscles begin to shake. You’d love to sit down, but you certainly hadn’t taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold “The Stance.”

To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother’s voice saying, “Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!” Your thighs shake more.

You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that’s still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now, you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It’s still smaller than your thumbnail .

Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn’t work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet. “Occupied!” you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT. It is wet of course. You bolt up, knowing all too well that it’s too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you’re certain her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, “You just don’t KNOW what kind of diseases you could get.”

By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of the bowl that sprays a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes. The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too.

At this point, you give up. You’re soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You’re exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.

You can’t figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women still waiting.

You are no longer able to smile politely to them. A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman’s hand and tell her warmly, “Here, you just might need this.”

As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and left the men’s restroom. Annoyed, he asks, “What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?”

This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms (rest??? you’ve GOT to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked questions about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It’s so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse and hand you Kleenex under the door!

This HAD to be written by a woman! No one else could describe it so accurately!


468 posted on 08/10/2007 8:23:50 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: StarCMC

I’ve always said it must have been a man that invented the mammo machine. If he had to put his “thingy” in something like that, there would be another way to get the pictures.


469 posted on 08/10/2007 8:28:34 AM PDT by spotbust1 (Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
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To: absolootezer0

470 posted on 08/10/2007 8:40:43 AM PDT by StarCMC (This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
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To: spotbust1

This morning on I- 94 ,

I looked over to my left and there was a woman in a brand new Cadillac

doing 65 mph with her face up next to her rear view mirror putting on her eyeliner.

I looked away for a couple seconds and when I looked back she was
halfway over in my lane, still working on that makeup.

As a man, I don’t scare easily.

But she scared me so much;

I dropped my electric shaver, which knocked the donut out of my other hand.

In all the confusion of trying to straighten out the car using my knees against the steering wheel, it knocked my cell phone away from my ear which fell into the coffee between my legs, splashed, and burned Big Jim and the Twins, ruined the damn phone, soaked my trousers, and disconnected an important call.

Damn women drivers !


471 posted on 08/10/2007 8:43:25 AM PDT by Sonora
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To: Sonora

472 posted on 08/10/2007 8:48:44 AM PDT by StarCMC (This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
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To: StarCMC

"I see two America's... One with good hair... One with bad hair

473 posted on 08/10/2007 8:49:17 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Jack Bauer would just whack him!)
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To: tomkow6

474 posted on 08/10/2007 8:52:01 AM PDT by StarCMC (This country is not free by the pen but by the back,brains and bullets of a soldier. ~advertsng guy)
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To: r-q-tek86
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
475 posted on 08/10/2007 8:54:29 AM PDT by girlscout
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To: tomkow6

cute Tom! LOL


476 posted on 08/10/2007 8:54:32 AM PDT by MeekMom (Present your bodies a living sacrifice unto God.)
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To: Sonora

That one’s good. Can I steal it?


477 posted on 08/10/2007 9:01:16 AM PDT by spotbust1 (Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
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To: girlscout

478 posted on 08/10/2007 9:02:12 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Jack Bauer would just whack him!)
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To: StarCMC

Ending It All

An 83-year old woman decided that she’d seen and done everything, and the time had come to depart from this world.

After considering various methods of doing away with herself, she came to the conclusion that the quickest and surest method would be to shoot herself through the heart.

The trouble was, she wasn’t certain about exactly where her heart was, so she phoned her doctor and asked him. He told her that her heart was located two inches below her left nipple.

So she shot herself in the left kneecap.


479 posted on 08/10/2007 9:02:55 AM PDT by Sonora
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To: spotbust1

I did, so go for it!

Bubba’s sister is pregnant and is in a bad car accident, which caused her to fall into a deep coma. After nearly 6 months, she awakens and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor
about her baby.

The doctor replies, “Ma’am, you had twins - a boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them.”

The woman thinks to herself, “Oh, no! not Bubba; he’s an idiot!” Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, “Well, what the girl’s name?”

“Denise,” the doctor answers.

The new mother says, “Denise! Wow! That’s a beautiful name! guess I was wrong about my brother. I really like the name Denise.”

Then she asks the doctor, “What’s the boy’s name?”

The doctor replies, “Denephew.”


480 posted on 08/10/2007 9:06:11 AM PDT by Sonora
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