Sunday, March 31, 2019

Busy, Busy, Busy.

I’ve always been more of a solitary person who enjoys his personal space, but people keep tapping me on my shoulder every 5 minutes, and I feel like I’m gonna scream! Why do they always come to me? Why can’t they bother the other group leaders?

Things at work have been a little crazy, and this coming week is expected to go from crazy to bonkers when I’ll be the only group leader on my side of the factory. Thankfully, I’ll be taking a 4 day weekend after this, so maybe I’ll be able to regain some of my composure.

Even though all this work is driving me insane, I’m going to take all the overtime I can get right now, because I need to toss in a little extra to my savings for a rainy day fund. It’s nice paying cash for everything while watching your bank balance grow. I almost feel like an adult.

Of course I’m not stupid. It’s always easy come, easy go. The universe can sense when you’ve got your head above water and that’s when things tend to break down and need repairs, or you have to pay extra fees, or the the world decides it’s a nice time for the apocalypse. The rain never stops in my neighborhood.


Forgotten Kudos

Last week I forgot to put the kudos in at the end of my rant. Didn’t even notice it until Friday. It was darkmare and George who contributed the jokes. Thanks guys.


Kudos

I’m not going to forget to give thanks this week. Thanks goes out to George, darkmare, and even “The Oldest Rater” who also contributed to this week’s daily jokes. With me being so busy of late, it’s a godsend to have so much help. Just a reminder, our submission page, is always accepting contributions, and if you’d prefer to send me jokes the old fashioned way, my e-mail address is flush2x@gmail.com. Thank you all so much!

Pax,

-f2x


Addendum

So you may have noticed the stars slowly fading away… Well now they’re gone. Good riddance. Bye bye. I was sick of looking at them.

Instead, you may now “like” or “dislike” to your heart’s content. Go ahead. You won’t hurt my feelings if you dislike a joke. You probably won’t hurt George’s feelings either, since he’s never actually seen this site.

Honestly, I’m not even really sure why anyone should bother liking or disliking things. It’s not like it will affect the quality of future jokes. It won’t tell you which jokes are the funniest either. As far as I can tell, it’s just something to play with when you get bored… reading jokes. (Oh god, that sounds depressing… Would you care for some Paxil?)

So there you go. I finally got around to hatching my evil scheme. It’s a simpler up/down vote system, just like you see on every other platform out there.

Enjoy.

The New Pizza Delivery Boy

A new pizza delivery boy knocked on the door of his first customer’s home. After receiving the pizza, the customer asked, “So what’s the usual tip?”

“Well,” replied the youth, “this is my night on the job, but the other guys said if I get a quarter out of you, I’ll be doing great.”

“Is that so?” snorted the customer. “Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here’s five dollars.”

“Thanks,” replied the delivery boy, “I’ll put this in my school fund.”

“What are you studying in school?” asked the customer.

The lad smiled and said, “Applied psychology.”

The Lord Will Provide

A young woman brought her fiancée home to have dinner with her parents. After the meal, the mother told her husband to find out more about the young man.

The father invited the fiancée into the library for a drink. “So what are your plans?” the father asked the young man.

“I am attending Bible university to get a degree in Bible studies,” he explained.

“A Bible scholar?” remarked the father. “That’s admirable, but what will you do to provide for my daughter in the manner in which she is accustomed?”

“I will study,” the young man said, “and the Lord will provide for us.”

“And how will you buy her a beautiful engagement ring, such as she deserves?” asked the father.

“I will concentrate on my studies,” the young man replied. “The Lord will provide for us.”

“And children?” asked the father. “How will you support children?”

“Don’t worry, sir, the Lord will provide,” replied the fiancée.

The conversation continued like this, and each time the father questioned, the young idealist insisted that the Lord would provide.

Later, the mother asked, “How did it go, Honey?”

“He has no job and no plans,” the father answered, “but the good news is he thinks I’m God.”

School Boy Squawk

Little Jeffy hated school. As his mother drove him to school one Monday morning, he tried every excuse to get out of going.

The crying and whining built to a crescendo. At her wits’ end, the mother stopped the car and explained, “Honey, it’s a law. If you don’t go to school, they’ll put Mommy in jail.”

With a sad pout, little Jeffy looked at his mother and thought a moment before asking, “How long would you have to stay?”

Arriving at a Verdict

In a courtroom in Oklahoma, a man was on trial for murder. While there was strong evidence indicating guilt, the prosecution had no corpse.

In the defense’s closing statement the lawyer resorted to a clever trick. “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you all,” the lawyer said as he looked at his watch. “In just one minute, the person presumed dead in this case will walk into this courtroom!”

The lawyer then looked towards the courtroom door, and the somewhat stunned jury followed suit. A minute passed, but nothing happened.

Finally, the lawyer said, “Actually, I made up the previous statement, but you all looked on with anticipation! Therefore, I put it to you that there is reasonable doubt in this case as to whether anyone was killed. I must insist that you return a verdict of not guilty.”

The jury, clearly confused, retired to deliberate. Only a few minutes later, the jury returned and the representative pronounced a verdict of guilty.

“But how?” inquired the defense. “You must have had some doubt! I saw all of you stare at the door.”

“Oh, we did look,” said the representative, “but your client didn’t.”

Feisty Fornicators

Two eighty year-old pensioners were taking a trip down memory lane by going back to the place where they first met.

Sitting at a cafe, the little old man said, “Remember the first time I met you over 50 years ago? We left this cafe, went round the corner behind the gas works, and I gave you the thrill of your life.”

“Why, yes, I remember it well, dear,” replied the little old lady with a grin.

“Well, for old time’s sake, let’s go there again, and I’ll do it again.”

The two pensioners paid their bill and left the cafe. A young man who was sitting next to them had overheard the conversation and thought it would be quite amusing to see two old timers going at it. He got up and followed them. Sure enough, he saw the two pensioners near the gas works. The little old lady pulled off her knickers and lifted up her dress.

The old man pulled down his pants and grabbed the lady’s hips, and the little old lady reached for the fence. Well, what followed was 10 minutes of the most athletic love making the man had ever seen. Limbs were flying everywhere, the movement was a blur, and they did not stop for a single second. Finally, they collapsed and did not move for several minutes.

The young man was stunned. Never in his life had he ever seen anything like this – not in the movies, not from his friends, not from his own experiences.

Reflecting on what he had just saw, he had to know this secret, not only to make love like that now, but in 50 years as well!

After the two old pensioners had recovered and dressed themselves, the young man approached them with his hat in his hand.

“Sir, in all my life I have never seen anybody make love like that, particularly at your age,” the young man remarked to the older gentleman. “What is your secret? How are you able to still make love like that after 50 years?”

“I don’t have a secret, son,” the pensioner replied, “and 50 years ago, that fence wasn’t electrified!”

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Visibly Ambiguous

So here lately, a YouTube channel has been promoting a new sponsor called, “Visible”. They are offering something that I thought seemed very compelling. Unlimited text, talk, and 5Mbps data including hotspot for $40 a month. Unlimited!

OK, so this sounds like a damn good solution to my problem. 5Mbps is actually good enough to stream YouTube or Netflix without any trouble. Sure, if you’re downloading the entire internet while trying to stream video, you’re going to have a bad time, but just by itself, 5Mbps will stream good quality video without buffering, and $40 a month is right in my comfort zone.

So it looks like I found my perfect wireless ISP. Problem solved. I guess I won’t have to bitch and complain about this anymo- oh no, no, no… They’re not quite the promised land I was looking for, and I wouldn’t be ranting about it, would that it were so simple.

First of all, it’s through Verizon’s network (not that that’s a bad thing), and none of my devices are compatible with their service. OK, so let’s get their cheapest device for $99 and oh… the hotspot is only available through their app and limits the connection to one device at a time. A proprietary hotspot? I got a bad feeling about this.

Also, they’re still in their early access phase… So they aren’t ready for primetime anyway. It’s a startup, funded by Verizon, manned by former Verizon employees, trying to pass themselves off as the hip new MVNO that’s actually just a front for Verizon.

Of course I guess it depends on how much streaming you do over your phone. I use Mint Mobile’s $20/month plan with 8GB of (much faster) LTE data and unlimited talk and text, and I’m just fine with that because I’m not constantly watching videos on my phone. On the other hand, if I were regularly streaming audio/video on my phone, I could see this unlimited 5Mbps service being a very attractive offer.

So while I’ll keep an eye on this one, it looks like they tainted their service enough to make using it as an ISP problematic at best. On the other hand, if they ever package their 5Mbps as a wireless home ISP for $40 a month, I’m in.

Pax,

-f2x

Dog Names

While visiting her blonde friend, the brunette noticed the blonde had two new dogs, and asked what their names were.

“Rolex and Timex,” the blonde said proudly.

“What peculiar names for your dogs,” remarked the brunette. “Why did you name them that?”

The blonde replied, “What else would you name watch dogs?”