[2538] in Humor
HUMOR: And you think you have had a bad day...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Fri Nov 6 13:12:25 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:06:01 -0500
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Subject: FW: And you think you have had a bad day...
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:12:50 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service
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Subject: And you think you have had a bad day...
1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil
spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most
expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and
applause from onlookers. A minute later both were eaten by a killer whale.
2. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter
in order to nag him instantly and study his reactions. After weeks of
needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her
mentally impaired.
3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world
flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours
short of the record of 400 days only to find that his sponsor had gone bust,
his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been
disconnected.
4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically
with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric
skillet. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked
him with a plank of wood that had been standing by the back door, breaking
his arm in two places. Until that moment he had been happily listening to
his Walkman.
5. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending
pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly the pigs, all two
thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling
the two hapless protesters to death.
And the capper.......
6. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't put enough postage on a letter
bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was
the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
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