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This is an article submitted to a 1999 Louisville Sentinel contest to find out who had the wildest Christmas dinners.. It won first prize.
As a joke, my brother Jay used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them.
What they say about Santa checking the list twice must be true because every Christmas morning, although Jay’s kids’ stockings overflowed, his poor pantyhose hung sadly empty.
One year I decided to make his dream come true. I put on sunglasses and went in search of a doll to fill those pantyhose. They don’t sell those things at Wal-Mart. I had to go to one of the more mature bookstores downtown.
If you’ve never been in a specialty store of this sort, don’t go, you’ll only confuse yourself. I was there an hour saying things like, ‘What does this do?’ ‘You’re kidding me!’ ‘Who would buy that?’ Finally, I made it to ‘doll’ section.
When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace
expensive….
So, I took her to a gas station…..
And then the fight started….
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My wife and I are watching “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” while we were in
bed. I turned to her and said,
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Little Zachary was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything…tutors, mentors, flash cards, special learning centers. In short, everything they could think of to help his math.
Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took Zachary down and enrolled him in the local Catholic school. After the first day, little Zachary came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn’t even kiss his mother hello.
Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Zachary was hard at work. His mother was amazed. She called him down to dinner. To her shock, the minute he was done, he marched back to his room without a word, and in no time, he was back hitting the books as hard as before.
This went on for some time, day after day, while the mother tried to understand what made all the difference. Finally, little Zachary brought home his report card. He quietly laid it on the table, went up to his room and hit the books. With great trepidation, His Mom looked at it and to her great surprise, Little Zachary got an ‘A’ in math.
You’ve seen them floating through your inbox for years. They’ve given you a chuckle and a smile to brighten your day. Now find them all together in one spot where you can pull them out and chuckle at will when a dose of humor is just what the doctor ordered.
According to R. Morgan Griffin in his article, “Give Your Body A Boost – With Laughter”, a good belly laugh has many health benefits for us all. I know it certainly gives me a good chuckle when a well-written joke arrives in my inbox and of course we all feel compelled to pass it on and share the humor with others.
Laughter can give us a mini workout and even burn off some of those unwanted calories, although, it would take a fair amount of it to make an impact so don’t haul out the chocolate just yet.
