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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
KEYWORDS: 01heymrengineer; 02itsthursday; ofst
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To: r-q-tek86

That is just bad and funny as hell.


481 posted on 08/10/2007 9:11:21 AM PDT by Shyla
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To: Sonora

Those are funny, but I have one that I actually did. I don’t usually admit to being this itiotic, but it is too funny not to pass on.

I was working at a doctors office that had two locations, one in two different cities. The other office called me and said that one of our patient’s showed up at their office and that they needed me to fax information over to them. So I proceeded to the copy machine to make a copy of the page in the chart they needed (first idiot thing), then I made two copies of the page so that I could fax one and keep one. Only after I walked back to my desk with both copies in hand did I realized what I had done. I asked for a vacation the next day.


482 posted on 08/10/2007 9:12:42 AM PDT by spotbust1 (Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
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To: StarCMC
Re-pinging everyone because it really IS Friday now. *sigh*

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ROTFLMAO! It's ok, really. It's never too early for Friday!

483 posted on 08/10/2007 9:19:01 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time! (http://www.byj.co.kr))
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To: spotbust1

I’m thinking that we all have done those sort of things, but if we were lucky they were privately done, laughed about and we move on. It simply makes us feel more human.

The very first ever Blonde GUY joke..... And well worth the wait !!!!

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An Irishman, a Mexican and a Blonde Guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20 th floor of a building.

They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, ‘Corned beef and cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I’m going to jump off this building.’

The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, ‘Burritos again! If I get Burritos one more time I’m going to jump off, too.’

The blond e opened his lunch and said, ‘ Bologna again! If I get a bologna sandwich one more time, I’m jumping too.’

The next day, the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef and cabbage, and jumped to his death.

The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a Burritos, and jumped, too

The blonde guy opened his lunch, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well.

At the funeral, the Irishman’s wife was weeping.She said, ‘If I’d known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would have given it to him again!’

The Mexican’s wife also wept and said, ‘I could have given him tacos or enchiladas! I didn’t realize he hated Burritos so much.’

Everyone turned and stared at the blonde’s wife. The blonde’s wife said,

‘Don’t look at me. He makes his own lunch’


484 posted on 08/10/2007 9:19:24 AM PDT by Sonora
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To: spotbust1
My mother and sister have birthdays 4 days apart, so I get their cards at the same time, address them, and put them in the mail a couple of days apart. I'm not sure how I managed this, but on both cards I put a street address that isn't anywhere close to correct and doesn't even exist. They've only lived at that address since 1986! So, now I have both their cards (with "return to sender" stickers on them) in a big envelope with the correct address on it, along with a note trying to explain the inexplicable.

Note to self: never address envelopes at 1 am when you're dead tired.

485 posted on 08/10/2007 9:22:42 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand
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To: lilylangtree

The good thing about being a mother of a child still in diapes is that I always have baby wipes handy for just such an occasion. They can fix many of the problems in that story.


486 posted on 08/10/2007 9:25:22 AM PDT by spotbust1 (Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
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To: StarCMC

LOL. & thanks for the link.


487 posted on 08/10/2007 9:27:36 AM PDT by honolulugal (TGIF . . . again)
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To: r-q-tek86
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488 posted on 08/10/2007 9:30:54 AM PDT by girlscout
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To: r-q-tek86
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489 posted on 08/10/2007 9:32:34 AM PDT by girlscout
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To: MeekMom; StarCMC

Hey! It’s MM! Hiya, MM! Happy Second Friday of the week!


490 posted on 08/10/2007 9:35:24 AM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)
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To: StarCMC

It’s my understanding that today is:

The Offical Slap Your Irritating Co-workers Holiday

Do you have a co-worker who talks nonstop about nothing, working your last nerve with tedious and boring details that you don’t give a damn about? Do you have a co-worker who ALWAYS screws up stuff creating MORE work for you? Do you have a co-worker who kisses so much booty, you can look in their mouth and see what your boss had for lunch? Do you have a co-worker who is SOOO obnoxious, when he/she enters a room, everyone else clears it? Well, on behalf of Ike Turner, I am so very very glad to officially announce tomorrow as SLAP YOUR IRRITATING CO-WORKER DAY! There are the rules you must follow:

* You can only slap one person per hour - no more.
* You can slap the same person again if they irritate you again in the same day.
* You are allowed to hold someone down as other co-workers take their turns slapping the irritant.
* No weapons are allowed...other than going upside somebody’s head with a stapler or a hole-puncher.
* CURSING IS MANDATORY! After you have slapped the recipient, your “assault” must be followed with something like “cause I’m sick of your stupid-a$$ always messing up stuff!”

* If questioned by a supervisor [or police, if the supervisor is the irritant], you are allowed to LIE, LIE, LIE! Now, study the rules, break out your list of folks that you want to slap the living day lights out of and get to slapping.....and have a great day


491 posted on 08/10/2007 9:39:05 AM PDT by Sonora
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To: StarCMC

Dude, it’s Saturday. Go home.


492 posted on 08/10/2007 9:40:23 AM PDT by BJClinton (And then it occured to me: a real rocket scientist posted the Friday silliness thread on Thursday.)
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To: BJClinton

LOL!!! I AM home. Where’s my Mai-Tai?


493 posted on 08/10/2007 9:45:08 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: BJClinton

LOL!!! I just noticed your tagline. ROFL!


494 posted on 08/10/2007 9:50:54 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: Shyla

Maude and Claude

Maude and Claude, both 91, lived in The Villages, in Florida .
They met at the singles club meeting and discovered over time that they enjoyed each other’s company.
After several weeks of meeting for coffee, Claude asked Maude out for dinner and, much to his delight, she accepted. They had a lovely evening. They dined at the most romantic restaurant in town.
Despite his age, they ended up at his place for an after-dinner drink. Things continued along a natural course, and age being no inhibitor, Maude soon joined Claude for a most enjoyable roll in the hay.
As they were basking in the glow of the magic moments they’d shared, each was lost for a time in their own thoughts... Claude was thinking:

‘If I’d known she was a virgin, I’d have been gentler.’

Maude was thinking: ‘If I’d known he could still do it, I’d have taken off my pantyhose.


495 posted on 08/10/2007 9:52:11 AM PDT by Apple Blossom (...around here, city hall is something of a between meals snack.)
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496 posted on 08/10/2007 9:53:20 AM PDT by Lady Jag (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: spotbust1

I am ashamed to say I did even worse ~ I had to fax a flyer to five different people and the first thing I did was go to the copier and make five copies of the flyer.

WHY? D’Oh!


497 posted on 08/10/2007 10:02:14 AM PDT by shbox
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To: Apple Blossom

ROFL - what a riot.


498 posted on 08/10/2007 10:15:28 AM PDT by Shyla
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499 posted on 08/10/2007 10:17:38 AM PDT by Lady Jag (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: Lady Jag; StarCMC

MINE!!!!


500 posted on 08/10/2007 10:20:06 AM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)
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