Wednesday Wink

Thanks to Cleary Buckley.  Top Gear’s amazing story of James May’s Lego House:

Grandma’s Superhero Therapy (18 photos) – My Modern Metropolis

Thank you John Song

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

A well-known story is that of the showman who had a big placard on his tent, announcing that he was exhibiting a horse with his tail where his head ought to be. The inquisitive paid their money, were admitted within, beheld a horse turned around so that his tail was in the oat-bin, laughed shamefacedly, and then lingered outside the tent to watch their fellow-creatures get victimized in the same way.

– William Shepard Walsh, Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities, 1892

Thanks to Greg Ross

0 meets 8 and says “nice belt.”

An “anti-joke”, as told by Frank Froessler in Mariakirchen tonight. Cheers from the old Castle and the Schlosspark hotel.

Q: What do you call a crate full of ducks?
A: A box of Quackers.

Q: Who stole the soap?
A: The Robber Ducky.

Q: What do you call 2 ducks and a cow?
A: Quackers and Milk.

Thanks to Annalena Hongo.

A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.”
He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket.
The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will tell everyone how smart and brave you are and how you are my hero” The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.
The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will be your loving companion for an entire week.” The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.
The frog then cried out, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I’ll stay with you for a year and do ANYTHING you want.” Again the man took the frog out, smiled at it, and put it back into his pocket.
Finally, the frog asked, “What is the matter? I’ve told you I’m a beautiful princess, that I’ll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won’t you kiss me?”
The man said, “Look, I’m a computer programmer. I don’t have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is cool.”

Jerry Seinfeld

“Are there keys to a plane? Maybe that’s what those delays are sometimes, when you’re just sitting there at the gate. Maybe the pilot sits up there in the cockpit going, “Oh, I don’t believe this. Dammit..I did it again.” They tell you it’s something mechanical because they don’t want to come on the P.A. system, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to be delayed here on the ground for a while. I uh..Oh, God this is so embarrassing…I, I left the keys to the plane in my apartment. They’re in this big ashtray by the front door. I’m sorry, I’ll run back and get them.” —Jerry Seinfeld