Well, with the economy going down the shit can, loss of life continuing in a military engagement that maybe even more shameful than Vietnam, an election that is coming up that will give us an opportunity to show how mean spirited we can be… perhaps a little joke will help numb the pain.\u00a0 The joke was passed to me by Monsieur Cadan, The Elder. <\/p>\n
I laughed so hard that I had to change my boxer shorts… twice<\/em>.<\/p>\n If you’ve heard it before, or seen it in the email circuit… laugh anyway<\/em>, because it is<\/em> funny!\u00a0 And if you don’t laugh you can join the great Albert Einstein who said\u00a0on hearing a joke, and I quote, “I don’t understand it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n **********<\/p>\n At dawn the telephone rang,\u00a0“Hello, Senor Rod? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house.”<\/p>\n “Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?”<\/p>\n “Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor Rod, that your parrot, he is dead”<\/p>\n “My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International\u00a0Parrot Competition? The Parrot I paid $750,00 for?” <\/p>\n “Si, Senor, that’s the one.”<\/p>\n “Damn it!\u00a0What did he die from?” <\/p>\n “From eating the rotten meat, Senor Rod.” <\/p>\n “Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?”<\/p>\n “Nobody, Senor. He ate the meat of the dead horse.” <\/p>\n “Dead horse? What dead horse?” <\/p>\n “Your thoroughbred, Senor Rod.” <\/p>\n “My prize thoroughbred is dead?\u00a0You must be kidding!\u00a0\u00a0How the fuck did he die?”\u00a0<\/p>\n “Si,\u00a0Senor Rod, he died from all that work pulling the water cart.”<\/p>\n “Are you insane?? What water cart?” <\/p>\n “The one we\u00a0had to hook him up\u00a0to put out the fire, Senor.”<\/p>\n “Good Lord!! What fire?!”<\/p>\n “The one at your house, Senor! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire.” <\/p>\n “What?!! Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a\u00a0Goddamn candle? Is that what you are telling me?”<\/p>\n “Si, Senor Rod.”<\/p>\n “But there’s electricity at the house!! What the\u00a0hell was the candle for?”<\/p>\n “For the funeral, Senor Rod.”<\/p>\n “Holy shit, WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL??!!”<\/p>\n “Your wife’s, Senor Rod, she showed up very late one night and I thought she was a thief, so I hit her\u00a0on the head with your new Taylor Made SuperQuad 460 golf club.” <\/p>\n {LONG SILENCE}<\/em> <\/p>\n “Ernesto, if you broke that driver, you’re in deep shit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, with the economy going down the shit can, loss of life continuing in a military engagement that maybe even more shameful than Vietnam, an election that is coming up that will give us an opportunity to show how mean … Continue reading