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IS STRANGER THAN FICTION When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold up in Long Beach, California, would be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder!! He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Beltway had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days. An American teenager was in the hospital yesterday recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit. A mother took her daughter to the doctor and asked him to give her an
examination to determine the cause of her daughter’s swollen abdomen.
It only took the doctor about 2 seconds to say ‘your daughter is
pregnant.’ The mother turned red with fury and argued with the doctor
that her daughter was a good girl and would never compromise her reputation
by having sex with a boy. The doctor faced the window and silently watched
the horizon. The mother enraged and screamed, ‘Quit looking out
the window! Aren’t you paying attention to me?’ ‘Yes
of course I am paying attention ma’am. It’s just that the
last time this happened, a star appeared in the East, and three wise men
came. I was hoping that they would show up again.’ We got this today and apparently the warning is genuine. Yesterday, a
friend was travelling on a Brisbane train line. A man of Arabic appearance
with shifty eyes got off the train and our friend noticed that he had
left his briefcase behind. She grabbed the case and ran after him, caught
him at the top of the escalator and handed him back his case. He was extremely
grateful. He looked around to make sure nobody was looking and whispered,
‘I can never repay your kindness, but I will try to --- with a word
of advice. Stay away from Ipswich.’ My friend was genuinely terrified,
‘Is there going to be an attack?’ she asked. ‘No’
he whispered. ‘It’s a shithole.’ A married attorney was having an affair with his secretary, she fell pregnant. He gave her a wad of money and asked her to go to Italy and have the baby there, promising to cover the kids’ expenses till it turned 18. ‘But how will I let you know when the baby is born?’ she asked. He replied, ‘Just send me a postcard and write ‘spaghetti’ on the back.’ Six moths later the postcard arrived at the attorney’s house. As soon as he read it he fell to the floor with a heart attack. When the ambos had rushed him to hospital his wife picked up the card and read ‘Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti: two with meatballs two without.’
A bloke walks into a pet shop that specialises in monkeys. The old ones
are cheap at $200, most are $1000 and a few have higher prices. He finds
one with a $5000 tag around it’s neck. The guy is curious. The shopkeeper
explains. ‘Ah, that monkey works on cars, he can weld too in Mig,
Tig and gas and is very fast. The welds are good and very strong, no wages.
Well worth the money.’ Then the bloke sees one costing $10,000.
‘That one’ he is told, ‘is an A1 monkey, it can weld,
panel beat and spray paint perfectly. Great work, panels as straight as
an arrow.’ The bloke is impressed but then is amazed to see one
for $50,000. He can’t believe it and wants to know what on earth
could make it worth so much. The storekeeper says, ‘well, I haven’t
actually seen it do anything, but it says it’s a consulting engineer.’ A gynaecologist had a burning desire to be a mechanic, so she signed
up for evening classes, learned all she could, when the practical exam
approached, prepared carefully for weeks. She completed the exam with
tremendous skill. When the results came back, she was surprised to find
that she had obtained a mark of 150 per cent. She was bewildered. The
teacher explained, ‘during the exam, you took the engine apart perfectly,
which was worth 50 per cent of the total mark. You put the engine back
together again perfectly, which was worth 50 per cent. I gave you an extra
50 per cent because you did all of it through the muffler.’ One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behaviour
that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check
it out. So he called one of his angels to Earth for a time. When the angel
returned, she told God, ‘yes, it is bad on Earth: 95% are misbehaving
and 5% are not! ‘ He though for a moment and said, ‘maybe
I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion.’ So
God called another angel and sent her to earth for a time too. When the
angel returned she went to God and said, ‘Yes, the Earth is in decline,
95% are misbehaving and 5% are being good.’ God was not pleased.
So he decided to E-Mail the 5% that were good because he wanted to encourage
them…Give them a little something to help them keep going. Do you
know what the email said? This chap John who lived on the Gold Coast received word that his sister
in Melbourne had died so he drove his car to the airport and caught the
first available plane to Melbourne. After the cremation he requested that
the ashes be put in a cask and he would bring them back to the Gold Coast.
Arriving back at the airport he got in his car and proceeded to drive
to the Coast when he was pulled over by a Police Patrolman, when he asked
what the problem was as he had not been speeding? The patrolman advised
him that he was giving him a ticket because he was driving in a Transit
2 Lane and as you are on your own I have no option, John replied oh yes,
I have my sister on the seat beside me. The patrolman put his head inside
the car and noticed the urn on the front seat, but he said to John yes
that is ok but I still have to issue you with a ticket, John inquired
what for? The patrolman replied because she is not wearing a seat belt. |
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