Sturgeon’s Law

Ninety per­cent of every­thing is crap.


Derived from a quote by sci­ence fic­tion author Theodore Stur­geon, who once said, “Sure, 90% of sci­ence fic­tion is crud. That’s because 90% of every­thing is crud.” Oddly, when Sturgeon’s Law is cited, the final word is almost invari­ably changed to ‘crap’.

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Simple As 1, 2, 4

At a local high school, a group of stu­dents decided to play a prank by let­ting three goats loose inside the school. But before turn­ing them loose, they painted the num­bers 1, 2, and 4 on the sides of the goats.

School admin­is­tra­tors spent the rest of the day look­ing for a goat with a 3 on its side.

Caching In Palm City

We got up early this morn­ing and took a long walk in my sister-in-law’s neigh­bor­hood. While on the loop we found a cou­ple of caches. Donna found both. The first one she walked right up to and made the find. On the sec­ond I looked and looked and didn’t see it. Donna stepped in right after I gave up on a spot and took one look. She imme­di­ately said, “I got it.”

As we were sign­ing the log a older cou­ple who were walk­ing their dogs passed by and asked what we were up to. We told them about caching and the man said I’ve got some­thing to tell you and he said:

A man is din­ing in a fancy restau­rant, and there is a gor­geous red­head sit­ting at the next table. Sud­denly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes fly­ing out of its socket towards the man. He reflex­ively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.

Oh my, I am sooo sorry,” the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. “Let me buy your din­ner to make it up to you,” she says.

They enjoy a won­der­ful din­ner together and after­wards the the­ater, fol­lowed by drinks. They talk, they laugh; she shares her deep­est dreams, and he shares his. She listens.

After pay­ing for every­thing, she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a night­cap… and stay for break­fast the next morn­ing. The next morn­ing, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings.

The guy is amazed. Every­thing had been incred­i­ble. “You know,” he said, “you are the per­fect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?”

No, she replies, “You just hap­pened to catch my eye.”

I sighed at the pun, but Donna had the last laugh, as she said to him, “I thought you were going to tell us that is how you meet your wife.”

Honey

I had this joke emailed to me and though it would be a cute lit­tle space filler:

Sev­eral days ago as I left work, I des­per­ately gave myself a per­sonal TSA pat down. I was look­ing for my keys. They were not in my pock­ets. A quick search of my cubi­cal revealed nothing.

Sud­denly I real­ized, I must have left them in the car. Fran­ti­cally, I headed for the park­ing lot. My wife has scolded me many times for leav­ing the keys in the igni­tion, but my the­ory is the igni­tion is the best place not to lose them. Her the­ory is that the car will be stolen. As I burst through the doors of the church, I came to a ter­ri­fy­ing con­clu­sion. Her the­ory was right. The park­ing lot was empty.

I imme­di­ately call the police. I gave them my loca­tion, con­fessed that I had left my keys in the car, and that it had been stolen. Then I made the most dif­fi­cult call of all, “Honey,” I stam­mered, I always call her “honey” in times like these, “I left my keys in the car, and it has been stolen.”

There was a period of silence. I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard my wife’s voice. “Honey,” she replied, she always calls me “honey” in times like these. “I dropped you off!” Now it was my time to be silent. Embar­rassed, I said, “Well, come and get me.”

Her reply, “I will, as soon as I con­vince this police­man I have not stolen your car!”

God’s Promise To Man

While cre­at­ing wives, God promised man that good and obe­di­ent wives would be found in all cor­ners of the world.

And then He made the earth round…

The Good Gramps

A woman in a gro­cery store hap­pens upon a grand­fa­ther and his poorly behaved 3-year-old grand­son. It’s obvi­ous to her that Gramps has his hands full with the child scream­ing for candy in the candy aisle, cook­ies in the cookie aisle; same for fruit, cereal and soda in their respec­tive aisles.

Mean­while, Gramps is work­ing his way around, say­ing in a con­trolled voice, “Easy, Albert, we won’t be long — easy, boy.” Another out­burst, and she hears Gramps calmly say, “It’s okay, Albert, just a cou­ple more min­utes and we’ll be out of here. Hang in there, boy.”

At the check­out, the lit­tle ter­ror is throw­ing items out of the cart, and Gramps again in a con­trolled voice is says, “Albert, Albert, relax buddy, don’t get upset. We’ll be home in five min­utes; stay cool, Albert.”

Very impressed, the woman goes out­side where Gramps is load­ing his gro­ceries and the boy into the car. “You know, sir, it’s none of my busi­ness, but you were amaz­ing in there. I don’t know how you did it. That whole time, you kept your com­po­sure, and no mat­ter how loud and dis­rup­tive he got, you just calmly kept say­ing things would be okay. Albert is very lucky to have you as his grandpa.”

Thanks, lady,” said Gramps, “But, I’m Albert — the lit­tle bastard’s name is Steve.”

An Irish Family Tradition

Paddy had long heard the sto­ries of an amaz­ing fam­ily tra­di­tion. It seems that his father, grand­fa­ther and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birth­day. On that spe­cial day, they’d each walked across the lake to the pub on the far side for their first legal drink.

So when Paddy’s, 18th birth­day came ’round, he and his pal Mick, took a boat out to the mid­dle of the lake, Paddy, stepped out of the boat …and nearly drowned! Mick just barely man­aged to pull him to safety. Furi­ous and con­fused, Paddy, went to see his grandmother.

Granny,” he asked, “It’s me 18th birth­day, so why can’t I walk ‘cross the lake like me fa, his fa, and his fa before him?”

Granny looked deeply into Paddy’s, trou­bled brown eyes and said, “Because your fa, your grandfa and your great grandfa were all born in Decem­ber, when the lake is frozen, and you were born in August, ya right eejit.


This wasn’t intended to be today’s post, but with March Mad­ness in full swing, it just turned out that way.

Started up, went down, still down.
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The Hunting Party

Two hunters char­tered a plane to fly them to Canada, to hunt moose, and they man­aged to bag six.

As they were load­ing the plane to return, the pilot said the plane could take only four moose.

The two hunters objected strongly. “Last year we shot six. The pilot let us take them all, and he had the same plane as yours.”

Reluc­tantly, the pilot gave in and all six were loaded.

How­ever, even on full power, the lit­tle plane couldn’t han­dle the load and went down.

Some­how, sur­rounded by all the moose bod­ies, both hunters sur­vived the crash.

After climb­ing out of the wreck­age, one asked the other, “Any idea where we are?”

He replied, “I think we’re pretty close to where we crashed last year.”