Virtually all of my memories of Boy Scouts involve farting. I spent several years in the Boy Scouts, ultimately attaining the rank of Second Class, but I can’t remember the Morse Code, or how to hang your backpack from a rope so the raccoons can’t get your food, or how to start a fire by rubbing pine cones together, or how to tie important tactical knots with names like the "sheepskank." What I can remember is being out in the woods on scout-troop camping trips, at 1:30 AM, lying in a sleeping bag in a tent with three other guys, none of us even close to falling asleep due to the fact that we were entertaining ourselves by ritualistically telling jokes that we had all heard upwards of four hundred times, such as:
"What’d you have for breakfast?"
"Pea soup."
"What’d you have for lunch?"
"Pea soup."
"What’d you have for supper?"
"Pea soup."
"What’d you do all night?"
"Pee soup."
(Laughter, followed by shouts of "BE QUIET!" and "GO TO SLEEP!" from the scoutmaster’s tent.)
So we’d be lying there, trying to giggle as quietly as possible, and one of the guys - probably as a result of eating our usual Boy-Scout-camping-trip food, which consisted of semi-warm baked beans mixed with Hershey’s chocolate and Tang - would have some kind of gaseous nuclear chain reaction in his bowels, and there would be a sound like
BWAAARRRRRRPPPPPPPP
and flames would come shooting out of the victim’s sleeping bag ant the tent walls would bulge violently outward, and the other three of us guys, in a desperate effort to escape before the tent was filled with the Deadly Blue Cloud, would lunge for the tent flap, still inside our sleeping bags, all trying to get out simultaneously, so that, from the outside, the tent looked like some bizarre alien space pod giving birth to giant crazed green worms.
"GAS ATTACK!" we’d shout, causing the startled raccoons to drop our Hershey bars.
"BE QUIET!" the scoutmaster’s tent would shout, but by now we were totally out of control, rolling around on the ground, howling, setting off chain reactions of laughter and fart noises in the other tents.
Boy Scouts: It made me the leader I am today.
From: Bruce Chandler
Cherokee tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Pretty simple, don’t you think? This wisdom dates back at least several hundred years.
Modern tribes, however, sometimes feel that ancient wisdom can be improved or replaced. Listed below are some present-day attempts to deal with the dead horse problem:
Buying a stronger whip.
Changing riders.
Saying things like, "This is the way we have always ridden this horse."
Hiring a consultant to provide an outside perspective to the dead horse situation.
Arranging to visit other sites to see how they deal with dead horses.
Decreasing the standards to ride dead horses.
Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
Creating and implementing a training plan to increase the riding ability of those tasked to ride dead horses.
Creating a link between the state of a dead horse and the environment.
Passing a resolution declaring that "This horse is not dead."
Blaming the horse's parents.
Harnessing several dead horses together for increased performance.
Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
Undertaking a long-term study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
Simply declaring that the horse is "better, faster, and cheaper" dead.
Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
Forming a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
Revisting the performance requirements for horses.
Stating emphatically that this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Just (horse) food for thought.
From: Jana Hertz
Orange County Council, CA
You Might Drink Too Much Coffee if..........
Juan Valdez named his donkey after you.
You ski uphill.
You get a speeding ticket even when you’re parked.
You speed walk in your sleep.
You have a bumper sticker that says: "Coffee drinkers are good in the sack."
You answer the door before people knock.
You haven’t blinked since the last lunar eclipse.
You just completed another sweater and you don’t know how to knit.
You grind your coffee beans in your mouth.
You sleep with your eyes open.
You have to watch videos in fast-forward.
The only time you’re standing still is during an earthquake.
You can take a picture of yourself from ten feet away without using the timer.
You lick your coffeepot clean.
You spend every vacation visiting "Maxwell House."
You’re the employee of the month at the local coffeehouse and you don’t even work there.
You’ve worn out your third pair of tennis shoes this week.
Your eyes stay open when you sneeze.
You chew on other people’s fingernails.
The nurse needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse.
Your T-shirt says, "Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s coffee."
Your so jittery that people use your hands to blend their margaritas.
You can type sixty words per minute with your feet.
You can jump-start your car without cables.
Cocaine is a downer.
All your kids are named "Joe."
You don’t need a hammer to pound in nails.
Your only source of nutrition comes from "Sweet & Low."
You don’t sweat, you percolate.
You buy milk by the barrel.
You’ve worn out the handle on your favorite mug.
You go to AA meetings just for the free coffee.
You walk twenty miles on your treadmill before you realize it’s not plugged in.
You forget to unwrap candy bars before eating them.
Charles Manson thinks you need to calm down.
You’ve built a miniature city out of little plastic stirrers.
People get dizzy just watching you.
When you find a penny, you say, "Find a penny, pick it up. Sixty-three more, I’ll have a cup."
You’ve worn the finish off your coffee table.
The Taster’s Choice couple wants to adopt you.
Starbucks owns the mortgage on your house.
Your taste buds are so numb you could drink your lava lamp.
You’re so wired, you pick up AM radio.
People can test their batteries in your ears.
Your life’s goal is to amount to a hill of beans.
Instant coffee takes too long.
You channel surf faster without a remote.
When someone says. "How are you?", you say, "Good to the last drop."
You want to be cremated just so you can spend the rest of eternity in a coffee can
You want to come back as a coffee mug in your next life.
Your birthday is a national holiday in Brazil.
You’d be willing to spend time in a Turkish prison.
You go to sleep just so you can wake up and smell the coffee.
You’re offended when people use the word "brew" to mean beer.
You name your cats "Cream" and "Sugar."
You get drunk just so you can sober up.
You speak perfect Arabic without ever taking a lesson.
Your Thermos is on wheels.
Your lips are permanently stuck in the sipping position.
You have a picture of your coffee mug on your coffee mug.
You can outlast the Energizer bunny.
You short out motion detectors.
You have a conniption over spilled milk.
You don’t even wait for the water to boil anymore.
Your nervous twitch registers on the Richter scale.
You think being called a "drip" is a compliment.
You don’t tan, you roast.
You don’t get mad, you get steamed.
Your three favorite things in life are...coffee before and coffee after.
Your lover uses soft lights, romantic music, and a glass of iced coffee to get you in the mood.
You can’t even remember your second cup.
You help your dog chase its tail.
You soak your dentures in coffee overnight.
Your coffee mug is insured by Lloyds of London.
You introduce your spouse as your coffeemate.
You think CPR stands for "Coffee Provides Resuscitation."
Your first-aid kit contains two pints of coffee with an I.V. hookup.
From: "Michael F. Bowman"
Subject: I Can Hardly Bear It - Chuckles
My thanks to Unit Commissioner Dan Pickens for sharing the gems you will see below.
Things to keep in mind;
Be nice to your kids. They’ll choose your nursing home.
3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can’t.
Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?
Don’t use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
...Every morning is the dawn of a new error...
A flying saucer results when a nudist spills his coffee.
For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.
I can see clearly now, the brain is gone...
I used up all my sick days, so I’m calling in dead.
Mental Floss prevents Moral Decay.
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full.
I’d explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
I don’t have a solution but I admire the problem.
Don’t be so open-minded your brains fall out.
If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished!
Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way.
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
If things get any worse, I’ll have to ask you to stop helping me.
If I want your opinion, I’ll ask you to fill out the necessary forms.
Don’t look back, they might be gaining on you.
It’s not hard to meet expenses, they’re everywhere.
Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply.
Look out for #1. Don’t step in #2 either.
Budget: A method for going broke methodically.
Car service: If it ain’t broke, we’ll break it.
Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark.
Demons are a Ghouls best Friend.
Copywight 1994 Elmer Fudd. All wights wesewved.
Department of Redundancy Department
Headline: Bear takes over Disneyland in Pooh D’Etat!
What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.
Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted.
COFFEE.EXE Missing - Insert Cup and Press Any Key
Buy a Pentium 586/90 so you can reboot faster.
2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL
C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN
<-------- The information went data way -------->
Best file compression around: "DEL ." = 100% compression
The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in.
BREAKFAST.COM Halted...Cereal Port Not Responding
The name is Baud......, James Baud.
BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go!
Access denied—nah nah na nah nah!
C:\> Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner.
Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay..
Why doesn’t DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!"
As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
Southern DOS: Y’all reckon? (Yep/Nope)
Backups? We don’ NEED no steenking backups.
E Pluribus Modem
... File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny
A mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available.
An error? Impossible! My modem is error correcting.
CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/n)?
Does fuzzy logic tickle?
A computer’s attention span is as long as it’s power cord.
Disinformation is not as good as datinformation.
Windows: Just another pane in the glass.
SENILE.COM found . . . Out Of Memory . . .
Who’s General Failure & why’s he reading my disk?
Ultimate office automation: networked coffee.
RAM disk is not an installation procedure.
Shell to DOS...Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...
All computers wait at the same speed.
DEFINITION: Computer - A device designed to speed and automate errors
Press <CTRL>-<ALT>-<DEL> to continue ...
Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.....
Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!
E-mail returned to sender—insufficient voltage.
Help! I’m modeming... and I can’t hang up!!!
All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
DOS Tip #17: Add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to CONFIG.SYS
Hidden DOS secret: add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS
Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE!
Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...
Excuse me for butting in, but I’m interrupt-driven.
REALITY.SYS corrupted: Reboot universe? (Y/N/Q)
Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_~"
Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)
Read my chips: No new upgrades!
Hit any user to continue.
2400 Baud makes you want to get out and push!!
I hit the CTRL key but I’m still not in control!
Will the information superhighway have any rest stops?
Disk Full - Press F1 to belch.
Backup not found: (A)bort Žetry (T)hrowup
Backup not found: (A)bort Žetry (P)anic
(A)bort, Žetry, (T)ake down entire network?
(A)bort, Žetry, (G)et a beer?
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Programmers don’t die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
Programmer - A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate objects.
Real programmers don’t document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."