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“Worker ants
carry pieces of food five times their own weight,” the teacher explained
to her first graders. “What do you conclude from that?” |
A bus driver was arrested recently for robbing his customers. He didn’t get much money—most people didn’t have the exact change.
I’m reading this great book on levitating. I just can’t put it down.
One day a little girl was watching her
mom make a roast beef. Mom cut off the ends, wrapped the remainder in string,
seasoned it and set it in the roasting pan. “Why do you cut the ends
off?” the girl asked.
“Well,” the mother said after some
thought, “that’s just how my mother did it.”
Grandma
came to dinner that night, so they both asked why she cut the ends off of the
roast before cooking it. She paused a moment, then said, “Well,
that’s how mother had always done it.”
Now they were all
curious. That weekend they visited great-grandma in the nursing home, and they
asked her about it.
She looked at them a bit annoyed and answered,
“So it would fit in the pan.”
A dietitian was addressing a convention:
“The material we put into our stomachs would kill any other animal. Red
meat is hard to digest, soft drinks erode your stomach lining, and our drinking
water is filled with chemicals. Now,” she continued, “can anyone here
tell me what common food causes the most human suffering?”
A
75-year-old man in the front row said, “Wedding cake?”
“When do we get to toast
the bride and groom?”
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