"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'" Isaac Asimov

                   Join me in some funny Discoveries !

  Subject: Actual Newspaper Headlines in 2002

 Something Went Wrong In Jet Crash, Expert Says

 Police Begin Campaign To Run Down Jaywalkers

 Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

 Is There A Ring Of Debris Around Uranus?

 Prostitutes Appeal To Pope

 Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over

 Teacher Strikes Idle Kids

 Miners Refuse To Work After Death

 Juvenile Court To Try Shooting Defendant

War Dims Hope For Peace

If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile

Cold Wave Linked To Temperatures

Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide

 Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges

Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge

New Study Of Obesity Looks For Larger Test Group

Astronaut Takes Blame For Gas In Spacecraft

Crack Found On Governor's Daughter

 Kids Make Nutritious Snacks!

 

 Newspaper Headlines in the Year 2035
 
 

Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally
but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.

   Spotted Owl plague threatens Western North America crops & livestock. 

Middle East (formerly known as Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon)

Afghanistan still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least
ten more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.

George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.

35 year study: diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.

Nursing home event... Bill Clinton denies allegations of affair with candy
striper.

Texas executes last remaining citizen.

Upcoming NFL draft likely to focus on use of mutants. Baby conceived
naturally.....scientists stumped.

Authentic year 2000 "chad" sells at Sotheby's for $4.6 million.

Ozone created by electric cars now killing thousands in Los Angeles.

Average height of NBA players now nine foot seven inches.

Microsoft announces it has perfected its newest version of Windows so it
crashes BEFORE installation is completed.

New California law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, and
baseball bats be registered by January 2036.

 

 

                          Contributed By Betty Ann  (author unknown)
"Democracy" is two wolves and a lamb voting what's for lunch.
A "Republic" is two hundred wolves and one hundred lambs electing two wolves and one lamb to vote what's for lunch.
A "Constitutional Republic" is the same two hundred wolves and one hundred lambs electing two wolves and one lamb to vote what's for lunch, where a Constitution guarantees that lamb is off the menu. Eventually, the Supreme Court votes 5 wolves to 4 lambs that mutton is not the same as lamb.

 
       This following play on words was sent to us from George B.C and we liked it so much we included it here. 
 
 

The Washington Post asked readers to take any word from the dictionary... alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter...and supply a new definition!
 Here are some recent winners:
 1) Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund,which lasts until you  realize it was your money to start with.
 2) Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
 3) Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
4) Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5) Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person  who doesn't get it.
6) Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late
7) Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
 8) Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (this one got extra credit)
 9) Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really  bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
 10) Glibido: All talk and no action.
 11) Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they  come at you rapidly.And, the pick of the liter(ature):
 12) Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

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     Dyslexics have more fnu
     Clones are people, two
     Entropy isn't what it used to be
     Microbiology Lab Staph Only!
     Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses
     Eschew obfuscation
     186,000 miles/sec (300,000km/sec):  Not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
     Air Pollution is a mist-demeanor
     Atheism is a non-prophet organization
     Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
     Editing is a rewording activity
     Help stamp out and eradicate superfluous redundancy
     I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure
     My reality check just bounced
     Rap is to music, what Etch-a-Sketch is to art
     What if there were no hypothetical questions?
     Energizer bunny arrested, charged with battery
     No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway
 


 
An Israeli doctor says "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we  can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him  looking for work in six weeks."

A German doctor says "That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person,  put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks."

 A Russian doctor says " In my country, medicine is so advanced that  we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have  them both looking for work in two weeks."

 The American doctor, not to be outdone, says  "You guys are way  behind, we just took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the  White House, and now half the country is  looking for work."

 


 

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