He: “That bicycle* pedal doesn’t feel good.”
She: “Doesn’t sound good, either.”
He: “No, it doesn’t.”
She: “Sounds like a bearing to me.”
He: “‘Fraid you’re right. Looks like I’ll have to go fishing.”
She: “In the Bering Sea?”
He: “Yeah! How did you know?”
She: “Sweetheart, the story of human colonization of the Americas via the land bridge across the Bering Strait is an essential part of the 5th grade curriculum.”
He: “I see. Does that curriculum also discuss the role that the Bering Sea played in the inception of the Industrial Revolution?”
She “I don’t think so …”
He: “Or in the commercialization of striptease? After all, you were in Vegas …”
She: “Certainly not!“
* That bicycle, together with Your Friendly Neighborhood Amoeba, is, as of 0900 HST, 26 October 2009, officially living on borrowed time. Next post.
- O Ceallaigh
Copyright © 2009 Felloffatruck Publications. All wrongs deplored.
All opinions are mine as a private citizen.
Okay, you got me laughing. What’s next?
By: gigihawaii on October 26, 2009
at 12:22 pm
Gigi, I was inches away from replacing the hood ornament on someone’s car. You may not be amused by the response.
By: The Amoeba on October 26, 2009
at 12:59 pm
Love — I am so glad you did NOT become a hood ornament. Please take extra special care of whatever lives you have left just in case you’re down to your last one!
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By: Quilly on October 26, 2009
at 1:18 pm
can you see russia from your house, too?
By: sauerkraut on October 26, 2009
at 4:05 pm
Kitty, those Russian house jokes palin comparison to ours. “Russia?” “Why, what’s your hurry?”
By: The Amoeba on October 26, 2009
at 5:54 pm