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Jeff,

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1. It is from these creatures that the “Mother-in-Law” is thought to have developed.
2. I wonder how many of these people are left-handed?
3. Wondering where your daughter is at 11pm will give you a lot of problems!
4. ”But honey, pizza and beer is good for me, see?”
5. Great. Now my wife will be fat and sober instead of drunk and thin. Whose side are you on?
6. A pessimist is mad that he graduated with an A-, an optimist is glad he got a D+. Who does better there?
7. So we are smelling a bacteria. Great. So what does the real sea smell like? Does anyone know?
8. If they got up, moved around, and worked, they would not be low income, or have sore legs.
9. Not many fruits and veggies at Starbucks or McDonald’s.
10. Waitresses in a restaurant named for owls try to look for feminine by raising their hooters.
11. I worry that what food and bombs have in common are runny noses.
12. It’s morse code. They are asking what to do about the 800 pound elephant in the room.
13. Sounds like traces of Jimmy Hoffa.
14. To get away, go some 1.8 miles below sea level in a region called Monterey Canyon.
15. Tim Allen, Andy Griffith...Bob the Builder, Bob Newhart… sounds like association to me.
16. Sounds the same regarding two statements I make to my wife which are almost exactly identacle.
17. Good think Oklahoma is landlocked or you’d really here some interesting dolphn accents.
18. I hope that’s not a mad cow. name them Robert, so they are rounder....
19. Not to mention damage when you hold a soda can, cell phone, map, and ipod!
20. I did this in 1980 with C-rats.  Old news! What is news is that the leftovers go on Ebay.
21. So canb we give mommy all of baby’s needed shots instead?
22. Yes, if your Dad beat you up I can understand why you would not want to see his face in the middle of the night!
23. If you find ‘remains’ it is safe to assume they did not evolve.
24. So global warming is a good thing now?
25. We need to try that in human schools and let the teachers be in charge for once.
26. And it freed up a hand for the remote control!
27. Well maybe i will not print this article out then.
28. I know folks whose ears are indeed wind tunnels.
29. But if you eat that many onions no one will sit near you to know you know it all.
30. It’s a stick up! “Your honey or your life!”
31. In humans, the violence waits for the divorce court.
32. It is indeed all about packaging and showing off. We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.
33. That works for the first kid. By the time the 5th kid goes off to school his parents have probably been in party mode for six months.
34. What’s a Christmas scent? Egg nog?  Myrhh? Wet hay?
35. And we thought Australia was just a bunch of criminals.
36. Maybe we need to lock them in icebergs.
37. Well since 62 percent said they do not eat any fruit on a typical day, we limit the bug’s daily menu.
38. Women are 16 times more likely to care about their weight than a typical man.
39. When fish have to live in trees it makes me wonder abuot all that bacteria that makes the sea smell like the sea.
40. Two-thirds of women older than 40 need to smash the remote control and hide the beer.
41. Better put that on the left side of your body 20% of the time.
42. The first prehistoric fish that made its way onto land didn’t have smog blocking its view.
43. It takes us four times as long to argue with the spell checker that Ebay is eBay, and Iphone is iPhone. And yes we can enter it faster, we just want to stand there with our iPhone out until everyone notices and goes “Oooh he has an iPhone” then we will put it away.
44. Women spend less so they can save for that $50 haircut. A guy’s haircut is $5 so he has another $45 to spend on wheels.
45. Is milk that bad? Can we pour it on that extremophile bacteria and see what happens?
46. I bet only one-quarter has just now realized that there IS an opposite sex.
47. Does breast milk not have a therapeutic, relaxing effect? What if mom drank tea? This can get complicated.
48. That’s why we got rid of fins on cars. They gulped too much gas.
49. That sounds like what happens to parents when we agree to let our 26-year old son move back in with us “just for a week.”
50. I am impressed! How did you manage to spin Mercury on a countertop?

Loved your article! Thanks for making me think!

Robert McLaughlin
Tampa, FL