Dr Wingnut

Year: 2005

  • Annus Horribilis

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    A second flood, a simple famine,Plagues of locusts everywhere,Or a cataclysmic earthquake,I’d accept with some despair.But no, You sent us Congress!Good God, Sir, was that fair?John Adams’ prayer, from the movie “1776”With the prospect of a influenza outbreak of pandemic proportions, major earthquakes, tsunami’s and hurricane’s in the last year; you begin to wonder if…

  • GR8 Plate

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    I have a habit, while driving of making words out of the acronyms on license plates.  Yesterday I was out on some errands, and was stuck behind a guy that had the Minnesota plate PRK-050.  Which naturally was transformed into, “Prick number fifty.”  I know that it was a guy and that it was an…

  • Laughter

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    The most useless day of all is that in which we have not laughed.Sebastien R.N. Chamfort

  • Retarded Grandparents

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    After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holiday away from school.  One child wrote the following:We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa.  They used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Florida.  Now they live in a tin…

  • Property

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    Property has its duties as well as its rights.Thomas Drummond

  • Who’s correct?

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    The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell

  • Playing it safe

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    Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.Sam Brown