****The Official Friday Silliness Thread****

[PERKY2004]

I am laden with cats.

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[dragonblustar]

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[LonePalm]

See #64

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[TrueKnightGalahad]

My wife asked me if the new red dress she was modeling for me made her butt look big. I said to her, “Not nearly as much as the white dress you were wearing yesterday.”

And then the fight started.....

[fredhead]

When you ask a man a yes or no question, you get a yes or no answer.

Why is it that when you ask a woman a yes or no question, you get five minutes of explanation, and still don’t know if the answer is yes or no?

[princess leah]

Come to Arizona - it’s 85 in Phoenix today - all those
Ny Giants fans flying in this weekend for the big game won’t want to go home!

[fredhead]

I'd love to.....
Not because of the weather, but I find on the Volkswagen forum I frequent that there's lots of rust-free VW's there.
I'd love to find me an old air-cooled microbus. However, the wife wouldn't let me buy it.
Here's an example....

[ErnBatavia]

You know why they have essence, don't you?

....so the deaf can enjoy them too.

[envisio]

>>>the wife wouldn’t let me buy it<<<<<<<<

dude.

[weegee]

Myth: Too many carrots will turn skin orange.

[CPOSharky]

Two guys were driving to Mexia, Texas.

Neither had been there before and were discussing how to pronounce “Mexia.”

One was saying “Meh-he-cah.” and the other was saying “Mex-e-ah.”

They pulled in to the first business in town and to settle it, they asked the clerk.

“So we can settle an arguement about the how the name is pronounced, could you say the name of this place very slowly?”

The clerk said, “Sure. It’s pronounced Dairy Queen.”

[weegee]

I don’t know about crossed-eyes, but they can get “stuck” that way if you mess with your vision...

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1997-03/858984531.Ns.r.html

The upside-down glasses that you describe were first investigated by George Stratton in the 1890 s. Since the image that the retina of our eye sees is inverted, he wanted to explore the effect of presenting the retina an upright image. He reported several experiments with a lens system that inverted images both vertically and horizontally. He initially wore the glasses over both eyes but found it too stressful, so he decided to wear a special reversing telescope over one eye and keep the other one covered.

In his first experiment, he wore the reversing telescope for twenty-one hours. However, his world only occasionally looked normal so he ran another experiment where he wore it for eight days in a row. On the fourth day, things seemed to be upright rather than inverted. On the fifth day, he was able to walk around his house fairly normally but he found that if he looked at objects very carefully, they again seemed to be inverted. On the whole, Stratton reported that his environment never really felt normal especially his body parts, although it was difficult to describe exactly how he felt. He also found that after removing the reversing lenses, it took several hours for his vision to return to normal.

[weegee]

At that point you can hop into some water to cool off.

I wouldn’t recommend hopping into a fire to get warm.

[Lady Jag]