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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Jan 4, 2005 18:47:17 GMT -5
That's the title of my new calendar for 2005.
Entry for Jan 3, 2005 "During the first Gulf War, an Iraqi radio propagandist known as Baghdad Betty tried to undermine the morale of American troops. She broadcast messages telling American soldiers to go home because while they were in the desert "movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend. Bart Simpson is making love to your wife."
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Jan 5, 2005 14:47:14 GMT -5
Stupid Signs from around the globe:
On a bathroom hand dryer at an American rest stop: DO NOT TURN ON MACHINE WITH WET HANDS.
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Jan 7, 2005 14:55:23 GMT -5
Dumb Things Famous People Said
When the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia died in 1997, his widow complained that he had left her broke. "We only have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank," she explained. Who doesn't feel the pinch when you get down to your last few hundred thou?
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Jan 13, 2005 17:53:39 GMT -5
Why should Americans have to put up with the inconvenience of traveling all the way to the other side of the world to see the Great Wall of China simply because the ancient Chinese lacked the foresight to build the wall in a more convenient location? In 1981, the Department of Commerce spent $200,000 to erect an 800-foot limestone replica of the Great Wall of China in Indiana, right where the Chinese should have built it all along.
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Jan 18, 2005 14:35:48 GMT -5
January 15
Dumb Product Warning Labels
On a household iron: "Never iron clothes while they are being worn."
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Jan 19, 2005 9:00:47 GMT -5
That's the title of my new calendar for 2005. Entry for Jan 3, 2005 "During the first Gulf War, an Iraqi radio propagandist known as Baghdad Betty tried to undermine the morale of American troops. She broadcast messages telling American soldiers to go home because while they were in the desert "movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend. Bart Simpson is making love to your wife." www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/baghdad.htm
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2005 13:53:30 GMT -5
Thanks, Agent B, for the URL for the "Urban Legends" site. Some of these legends are amost hysterically funny and how they came into existence is fascinating.
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Jan 21, 2005 19:37:58 GMT -5
I'm not guaranteeing that any of the lines reported on this calendar are true. They are, however, funny.
Bumper Sticker Wisdom
Seen on a pickup truck: Where am I going? And what am I doing in this handbasket?
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Post by Skippy on Jan 28, 2005 20:44:34 GMT -5
I have the same calendar! 'Tis wonderful, indeed.
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Feb 9, 2005 20:49:19 GMT -5
Seen on a Lexus bumper sticker: You can fool some of the people all the time, and that's enough to make you rich.
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