Category: Blatherings
Learned behaviour
Start with a cage containing five apes. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, an ape…
Sunday school teacher
On their first date, a man asked his companion if she’d like a drink with dinner. “Oh, no, what would I tell my Sunday school…
Making up
“My boyfriend and I had hardly finished one argument when I screwed up and started another one,” said Jill. “How’d you do that?” asked Margaret….
Biscuits
When the mother returned from the grocery store, her small son pulled out the box of animal crackers he had begged for, then he spread…
The Purina Diet
I have a Labrador Retriever. I was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart and was in line to check out, when the woman…
A Generous Scot
The Laird and his Good wife walked past a swanky new restaurant last night. “Did you smell that food?” she asked. “Incredible!” Being the good…
The Good Samaritan
A wife arrived home from a shopping trip and was shocked to find her husband in bed with a lovely young woman. Just as she…
Golf Club Membership Application
An elderly Scottish Jew decided to retire and take up golf. So he applied for membership at a local golf club. About a week later…
Homework
The 6th grade science teacher, Mrs. Parks, asked her class, “Which human body part increases to ten times its size when stimulated?” No one answered…
Silent Parrot
A man buys a parrot, but after several weeks of trying, is unable to get it to speak a single word. In desperation he takes…