{"id":87896,"date":"2019-06-21T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T17:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87896"},"modified":"2019-06-12T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:33:33","slug":"weekend-open-thread-yer-friday-funnies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87896","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread:  Yer Friday Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some quotations that should leave you smiling, if not laughing.  Unless of course you\u2019ve had your sense of humor surgically removed. (smile)<\/p>\n<p><b>. . . <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Anonymous<\/em>\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinston, if you were my husband I\u2019d put poison in your coffee.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIf you were my wife, I\u2019d drink it.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Lady Astor and Winston Churchill, following an argument<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely nothing could be that funny.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 jazz singer George Melly, after hearing Mick Jagger insist his wrinkles were laugh lines<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperman don\u2019t need no seat belt.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSuperman don\u2019t need no airplane either.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 exchange between Muhammed Ali and an unnamed flight attendant which occurred after the flight attendant had asked Ali to buckle up<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I guess your long hair makes you a woman.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSo I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 exchange between radio and TV personality Joe Pyne and Frank Zappa during a 1960s interview<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows I never read comics.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThat explains &#8216;Batman&#8217;.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 exchange between director\/writer Kevin Smith and Tim Burton  (Smith had just told Burton that Burton\u2019s film &#8220;Planet of the Apes&#8221; reminded him of a comic book Smith had written.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you aware that you [as Spock] are the source of erotic dream material for ladies around the world?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMay all your dreams come true.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 exchange between an unnamed female fan and Leonard Nimoy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know there\u2019s a problem when you realize that out of the three Rs, only one begins with an R.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Dennis Miller, comedian<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy all means let\u2019s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Richard Dawkins, scientist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy advice to you is get married: If you find a good wife you\u2019ll be happy; if not, you\u2019ll become a philosopher.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Socrates<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Steve Mirsky, author<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd, finally (and somewhat seriously, though it also should make you smile for different reasons):<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8220;Will you tell me how we did this?&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 James E. Rudder, D-Day commander of Ranger Force (2nd and 5th Ranger Bns), to <b>Collier&#8217;s<\/b> reporter W. C. Heinz during a 1954 visit to Pointe du Hoc<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cc\/01_Pointe_du_Hoc.jpg\/640px-01_Pointe_du_Hoc.jpg\" height=\"340\" width=\"500\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><u>Sources<\/u>:  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/funny-stuff\/funniest-quotes-all-time\/\"><i>https:\/\/www.rd.com\/funny-stuff\/funniest-quotes-all-time\/<\/i><\/a> (for all except the last quotation)<\/p>\n<p>The last quote is from <u>D-Day<\/u>, by Stephen E. Ambrose (New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1994, paperback edition), p. 399.  If you&#8217;ve never read that history of the Normandy invasion, IMO it&#8217;s eminently worth the time.<\/p>\n<p><b>. . . <\/b><\/p>\n<p>OK, enough humor for today.  Enjoy the WOT, everyone.  And have a great first weekend of astronomical summer (today is the Summer Solstice).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some quotations that should leave you smiling, if not laughing. 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