Volume 23 No. 18
April 29, 2016
Grandpa The Gambler
The IRS decides to audit Grandpa, and summons him to the IRS office. The auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney.

The auditor said, "Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I'm not sure the IRS finds that believable."

"I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it," says Grandpa. "How about a demonstration?"

The auditor thinks for a moment and said, "Okay. Go ahead."

Grandpa says, "I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye."

The auditor thinks a moment and says, "It's a bet."

Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor's jaw drops.

Grandpa says, "Now, I'll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye."

Now the auditor can tell Grandpa isn't blind, so he takes the bet. Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye.

The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with Grandpa's attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.

"Want to go double or nothing?" Grandpa asks. "I'll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between."

The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there's no way this old guy could possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again.

Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he ends up urinating all over the auditor's desk.

The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win. But Grandpa's own attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.

"Are you okay?" the auditor asks.

"Not really," says the attorney. "This morning, when Grandpa told me he'd been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and pee all over your desk and that you'd be happy about it!"
"get together" (excerpt)
Try and love one another right now
If you hear the song I sing,
You must understand
You hold the key to love and fear

Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try and love one another right now
Right now
   
Written by Chet Powers


how to maintain a healthy level of insanity
1.  At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on, point a hair dryer at passing cars, and watch them slow down.

2.  On all your check stubs write, 'For marijuana.'

3.  Skip down the street rather than walk, and see how many looks you get.

4.  With a serious face, order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat.

5.  Sing along at the Opera.

6.  When the money comes out of the ATM, scream, "I won, I won!"

7.  When leaving the Zoo, start running towards the car park, yelling, "Run for your lives.  They're loose!"

8.  Tell your children over dinner, "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go..."

9.  Pick up a box of condoms at the pharmacy, go to the counter and ask where the fitting room is.

10.  Go to a large department store's fitting room, drop your drawers to your ankles and yell out, "There's no toilet paper in here!" 





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