We got all excited this week when we heard this announcement on TV there was major news  that millions of jobs were available.

We immediately thought, gosh, what is happening? Is all of this over? What great news for all of those unemployed.

We had just heard the day before that hundreds had applied for one job as maintenance man at this one high school, and this zoo had received thousands of applications for five or six summer jobs.

The TV announcement went on to say..stay tuned and we will tell you where these two million  jobs are located. We just could not believe there were that many jobs available all at once.

The news came back on, the announcer continued his story and told there were jobs available for pharmacists, veterinarians and nurses.

How dumb, dumb, to make this a major news story. We could not keep from thinking how many people that were laid off from car manufacturing, restaurants, secretaries,clerks and etc., would run right out and apply to be a veterinarian.

We doubt two many pharmacist, veterinarians or nurses were lined up at the unemployment line to begin with.

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This story has been told on Larry Joe Murray. You know Larry Joe is at Black’s Appliances and he was called recently to come to this house and work on the dishwasher.

The lady told Larry Joe she had to go to work the next day and said "I'll leave the key under the mat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter, and I'll mail you a check."

"Oh, by the way don't worry about my bulldog Spike. He won't bother you. But, whatever you do, do NOT, under ANY circumstances, talk to my parrot!" "I REPEAT, DO NOT TALK TO MY PARROT!!!"

When the larry Joe arrived at Wanda's apartment the following day, he discovered the biggest, meanest looking bulldog he has ever seen. But, just as she had said, the dog just lay there on the carpet watching the repairman go about his work.

The parrot, however, drove him nuts the whole time with his incessant yelling, cursing and name calling. Finally the repairman couldn't contain himself any longer and yelled, "Shut up, you stupid, ugly bird!"

To which the parrot replied, "Get him, Spike!"

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The little boy wanted $100 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened .

Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00.

When the postal authorities received the letter to God , USA , they decided to send it to the President.

The President was so amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $ 5.00 bill.

The President thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.

The little boy was delighted with the $5.00 bill and sat down to write a thank-you  note to God, which read:

Dear God:

Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you sent it through

Washington D.C. and those rear ends took $95.00 in taxes.

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A new doctor had arrived in town. He could cure anything and anybody. Everyone was amazed with what he could do - everyone except for Mr. Thompson, the town skeptic.

Grumpy old Mr. Thompson went to visit this 'miracle doctor' to prove that he wasn't anybody special. When it was time for his appointment he told the doctor, "Hey, doc, I've lost my sense of taste. I can't taste nothin', so what are ya goin' to do?"

The doctor scratched his head and mumbled to himself a little, then told Mr. Thompson, "What you need is jar number 47."

So the doctor brought the jar out, opened it, and told Mr. Thompson to taste it. He tasted it and immediately spit it out, "This is gross!" he yelled. "Looks like I just restored your sense of taste Mr. Thompson," said the doctor. So Mr. Thompson went home.... very mad.

One month later, Mr. Thompson decides to go back to the doctor and try once again to expose him as a fake, by complaining of a new problem. "Doc," he started, "I can't remember anything!" Thinking he had the doctor stumped now, he waited as the doctor scratched his head, mumbled to himself a little, and told Mr. Thompson, "What you need is jar number 47, it's......"

But before the doctor could finish his sentence, Mr.Thompson was cured and fled the room!

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Three men, an editor, a photographer, and a journalist are covering a political convention in Miami. They decide to walk up and down the beach during their lunch hour. Halfway up the beach, they stumbled upon a lamp. As they rub the lamp a genie appears and says "Normally I would grant you three wishes, but since there are three of you, I will grant you each one wish."

The photographer went first. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living in a huge house in St. Thomas with no money worries." The genie granted him his wish and sent him on off to St. Thomas.

The journalist went next. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living on a huge yacht cruising the Mediterranean with no money worries." The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to the Mediterranean.

Last, but not least, it was the editor's turn. "And what would your wish be?" asked the genie.

"I want them both back after lunch" replied the editor, "The deadline for tomorrow's newspaper is in about ten hours."

A person was visiting Washington, DC for the first time. Unable to locate the Capitol building, the person asked a police officer for directions, "Excuse me, officer, how do I get to the Capitol building?"

The officer replied, "Wait here at this bus stop for the number 54 bus. It'll take you right there."

Three hours later the police officer returned to the same area and, sure enough, the person is still waiting at the same bus stop.

The officer got out of his car and said, "Excuse me, but to get to the Capitol building, I said to wait here for the number 54 bus and that was three hours ago! Why are you still waiting?"

The person replied, "Don't worry, officer, it won't be long now. The 45th bus just went by!"

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We have been missing Pat and Tom Mathews and have now learned they have been on a little vacation. Pat and Tom went on a cruise to Hawaii and their report is priceless.

They flew 2,000 to California, cruised four days (2,000+ miles) and them rode a shuttle bus to downtown to shop. They went to Wal-Mart and inside the store they had a McDonald's cheeseburger.

Tom did bring Ole IC some new information from California.  They have a Viagra called a Disney Pill – Because there is a 2-hour wait for a 2-minute ride.

Another is Viagra Trill (a combination of Viagra and a tranquilizer) – Might not work, but then you don’t care.

For sometime now various ones have been sending us stories about getting old, now we are apparently beginning to get reports about Viagra. We just don’t understand why everyone is directing these particular reports to us.