Wednesday, February 27, 2013

More jokes, more Budget reactions...

Yesterday's active ageing joke came from a compilation I received. Here's the rest:

 Brenda  and Steve took their six-year-old son to the  doctor.
With some hesitation, they explained  that although their little angel appeared to be  in good health, they were concerned about his  rather small penis.

After examining the  child, the doctor confidently declared, 'Just  feed him pancakes.  That should solve the  problem.'

The next morning, when the boy  arrived at breakfast, there was a large stack of  warm pancakes in the middle of the  table.

'Gee, Mom,' he exclaimed. 'For  me?'

 

'Just  take two,' Brenda replied.  'The rest are  for your father.'
  

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An 87-year-old woman came home from her regular Bingo Night  to find her 92-year-old husband in bed with  another woman.  Enraged, she became violent and pushed him off the balcony of their  20th floor apartment, killing him  instantly.

In court on the charge of murder, she was asked if  she had anything to say in her own defence.  

'Your  Honour,' she began coolly, 'I figured that at  92, if he could screw, he could  fly.' 

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A doctor was addressing a large audience: 'The material we put into our stomachs is  enough to have killed most of us sitting here,  years ago. Red meat is awful.  Soft drinks  corrode your stomach lining.  Chinese food  is loaded with MSG.  High fat diets can be  disastrous, and none of us realises the  long-term harm caused by the germs in our  drinking water.  However, there is one  thing that is the most dangerous of all and we  all have eaten, or will eat it. Can anyone here  tell me what food it is that causes the most  grief and suffering for years after eating  it?'
After  several seconds, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly  said, 'Wedding Cake.' 
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A group of Canadians were travelling by tour bus through Holland. As they stopped at  a cheese farm, a young guide led them through  the process of cheese making, explaining that  goat's milk was used.  She showed the group a lovely hillside where many goats were  grazing.  'These' she explained, 'are the  older goats put out to pasture when they no longer produce.'  She then asked, 'What do  you do in North America with your old  goats?' 
A spry old gentleman answered, 'They send us on  bus  tours.'
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A woman was on the witness stand, accused of poisoning her husband. "After you put poison in the coffee, you sat at the breakfast table and watched your husband drink it. Tell me, didn't you feel the slightest bit of pity for him?" the defence lawyer prompted. "Yes," she replied, "I think there was one moment when I felt sorry for him." "And when was that?" "When he asked for his second cup."
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Check out this YouTube site with the titile "ThenWhyBuy"...



http://www.youtube.com/user/ThenWhyBuy

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Here's a follow-up story from insing.com on the government's "double whammy" measures to cool the new car market...

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/vehicle-loan-limits-spark-talk/id-026e3f00

There are also these reactions, in ST and TODAY:


Poor rich man! Now he has to forgo his Ferrari! Reminds me of that story about Maria Antonette. Meanwhile, hoi polloi are griping they can't have their cake and eat it too...


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Well, this ST story (Feb 27) below anticipates a trend towards further progressive taxation...




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What this ST Forum contributor (Feb 27), below, has to say is food for thought. It made me think about how, in other developed countries, it is not uncommon -- and certainly no loss of self-esteem -- for, say, university students to work part-time as wait staff at F&B places. Their being part of this "service staff pool" means a lesser reliance on foreign workers in this sector. How many Singaporean tertiary students do this?...




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Finally, I had thought I had given the last say on the defence tax idea to Hri Kumar Nair. But this letter (Feb 27) is a forceful rejoiner and needs to be put here:


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