On the level...
We're dropping my father-in-law at the airport. He's getting his bag from the trunk when he sees a folded paper on the ground. Did he drop it? Could it be his tickets?
He picks up the paper and unfolds it. It's just some pamphlet. He drops it back to the pavement.
Dad doesn't consider this littering because the pamphlet had already been dropped by someone else. It was pre-littered. So Dad thinks it's perfectly alright to return the paper to where he found it - as if he had never picked it up.
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A question...
If children can get cash for lost teeth, why stop there?
Say a child gets a haircut. He could put the snipped-off hair in a Ziploc, and put it under his pillow, and get some cash from the Hair Fairy.
How about money for clipped fingernails? Or tonsils? And what kid hasn't fallen off a bicycle and skinned his knee? A few days later there is a big crusty scab. Don't you think that should be worth at least five bucks to the Scab Fairy?
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Field Report...
Floyd Frock has spent decades in Africa, following behind missionaries from village to village, undoing their work as he goes.
"It really isn't that difficult to restore a tribe's original beliefs," said Frock. "I ask them to tell me something about the white man's religion. Then I ask, 'Kwa nini mungu kufanya hivyo?' which means, 'Why would God do that?'"
Frock continued, "While the natives are scratching their heads, I quietly hand a rattle to their former Shaman and he takes if from there. Somebody gets out a drum and everyone happily goes back to their traditional ways."
"But not so far back as cannablism," says Frock, "I tell them, if they must cook people, just enjoy the broth.
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Just asking...
Can you think of a better way to spread germs than the bathroom pass? Teachers, who certainly know about germs, require little children to take the wood or plastic pass with them to the bathroom.
The children put the pass on the sink while they do their business. Then they drop it on the floor, and after they don't wash their hands, they carry it back to the classroom and hang it back on the hook, where it waits, teeming with germs, for the next child who needs to go to the bathroom.
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Senior news...
Since introducing Scrabble Junior™, the makers of the popular word game have seen sales skyrocket. "Children enjoy the larger tiles and simplified board," says company president, Quincy Quaid.
Now the company has released Senior Scrabble™for older folks. It also features larger tiles and simplified board. "Actually," explained Quaid, "Senior Scrabble is just Scrabble Junior in a different box."
To reach the aging game-player market, the company will soon introduce See's Candy Land, and by the holidays we should see ADA Chutes and Ladders.
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