Subject:                          Daily Dose - 060524 - More Groaners...

 

Today - more Groaners....

 

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Once upon a time, in Medieval England, a provincial baron's castle was under siege from a neighboring, rival baron. Day and night, the attackers launched catapulted fireballs of burning pitch, yeomen launched flight after flight of deadly arrows at the ramparts of the castle.

 

Little by little, the resources of the villagers huddled in the castle were dwindling away;  almost no water, no wheat to make bread, no meat at all. Finally, the "mayor" of the peasants went to the baron and begged him to send for help.

 

The baron, sensing that if he didn't do something soon, the peasants under his care would revolt and he would no longer be able to expect him to work his far-flung estate lands. So, the baron sent a knight on horseback to the nearest province to ask another baron for help in repelling the attackers.

 

As it happened, the attacking baron had constructed a huge, yellow hand and as soon as the knight left the castle to ride for help, the yellow hand immediately grasped the aid-seeking knight and crushed him, armor and all, into a small ball and was immediately flung back over the castle walls.

 

Undaunted, the poor baron in the castle sent out several more brave knights but each was captured and crushed by that giant yellow hand and again, one-by-one, flung back over the castle wall in a small ball.

 

Finally, the baron's court magician, Marvin (Merlin's cousin, since Merlin was busy elsewhere), provided a solution to the problem. He advised the baron, "That yellow hand is formidable, Your Excellency, you should send out your lowliest court page to seek help."

 

"But how will that help?  My pages carry no armament, and most of them do not know how to ride a steed, " whined the baron.

 

"Sire," replied Marvin, "haven't you heard that you should let your pages do the walking through the yellow fingers?"

 

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A young man was in love with two women and  could not decide which of them to marry. Finally he went to a marriage counselor.

 

When asked to describe his two loves, he noted that one was a great poet and the other made delicious pancakes.

 

"Oh," said the counselor, "I see what the problem is. You can't decide whether to marry for batter or verse."

 

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After devouring too many cheeseburgers in paradise, Jimmy Buffet had piled on tons of weight.

 

He immediately rented a villa in a Budapest fat farm run by a Hungarian martinette named Rita.

 

She so starved him and had him run and work out morning, noon and night, that after just three weeks he literally was wasting away in Magyar Rita's ville.

 

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A vet was performing an operation, trying to revive an injured baldeagle, when he was overcome with dizziness and spasms.

 

He was unable to recover and complete the surgery before the eagle died.

 

Unfortunately, he then had to be prosecuted under the 4th Amendment:

 

Ill eagle surgeon seizure.

 

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Q: What did the mime say to the bartender?

 

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Q: Do you know why crows are never hit while eating road kill?

 

A: Because their friends are on the Power Lines yelling..... CAAAAAR,CAAAAAAR.

 

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Q: Who makes suits and eats spinach ?

 

A: Popeye the Tailorman.

 

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Q: Why don't blind people skydive?

 

A: Because it scares the hell out of their dog.

 

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Q: Why was the little ink drop crying?

 

A: Because his father was in the pen and he didn't know how long the sentence was gonna be.

 

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Q: What do you get when you mix Holy Water and Prune Juice?

 

A: A Religious Movement.

 

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So there are these two bees and one bee asks the other, "Where can I get something to eat around here?"

 

The second bee replies, "Well, there is a Bar Mitzvah going on down the street, about half a mile, should be plenty of flowers and pastries to eat."

 

The first bee thanks him and heads off to the party.

 

A little while later, the first bee returns, with a bloated belly and a yarmulke on his head.

 

He tells the second bee, "I found it, it was awesome! So many fresh flowers, so many sweet pastries!"

 

The second bee asks him, "So what's with the yarmulke? Did you convert?"

 

The first bee replies, "I wore it so they wouldn't think I was a WASP."

 

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Jesus and his disciples were walking around one day, when Jesus said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9."

 

The disciples looked very puzzled, and finally asked Peter, "What on earth does Jesus mean -- 'the Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9?'"

 

Peter said, "Don't worry, guys. It's just another one of his parabolas."

 

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A young lad is caught stealing soap from the local soap factory. When the case comes to court the judge decides to make an example of him to discourage other youths from a life of crime.

 

Judge: "Well, what have you to say in your defense?"

 

Boy: "Only that I'm sorry your honor."

 

Judge: "Hrmph. I sentence you to 10 years hard labor, starting immediately."

 

Boy: "But sir, it was only a few bars of cheap soap!"

 

Judge: "Consider yourself lucky... It could have been life boy."