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Peter Fogel

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RE: Your Friday Chuckle - Every Day Of The Week
2/19/2010 4:06:41 PM
Hi All,

When I got this one I couldn't stop laughing. Could this possibly be the source of all the dumb blond jokes?

Shalom,

Peter


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RE: Your Friday Chuckle - Every Day Of The Week
2/19/2010 9:41:18 PM
Stella Awards

It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico, where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That' s right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head.. So keep your head scratcher handy.


Here are the Stella’s for the past year:


*SEVENTH PLACE*

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

Start scratching!

* SIXTH PLACE *

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

Scratch some more...

* FIFTH PLACE *

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching.. There are more.......

Double hand scratching after this one.....

*FOURTH PLACE*

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard.. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot..

* THIRD PLACE *

Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

Only two more so ease up on the scratching....

*SECOND PLACE*

Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000.....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses.

Ok. Here we go!!

* FIRST PLACE *

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs... Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.


Are we, as a society, getting more stupid.....
or are more members of Congress serving on juries these days?
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RE: Your Friday Chuckle - Every Day Of The Week
2/20/2010 4:29:55 AM
Hi Evelyn,

The Stella award indeed. Although the meaning is a bit different it could be called the Stupid award.

The below graphic shows stupidity, ignorance, blindness ..........etc.?

Shalom,

Peter


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RE: Your Friday Chuckle - Every Day Of The Week
2/20/2010 6:14:56 AM
Hi All,

This one's an oldie but still very cute.

Shalom,

Peter

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between
Grandmothers and Grandfathers?
Well here it is: A friend, who worked away from home all
week, always made a special effort with his family on the
weekends.
Every Sunday morning he would take his 7-year old
granddaughter out for a drive in the car for some bonding
time -- just he and his granddaughter. One particular Sunday
however, he had a bad cold and really didn't feel like being
up at all. Luckily, his wife came to the rescue and said that
she would take their granddaughter out.

When they returned, the little girl anxiously ran upstairs to
see her Grandfather. 'Well, did you enjoy your ride with
grandma?' 'Oh yes, Papa' the girl replied, 'and do you know
what? We didn't see a single ass hole, dumb bastard, dip
**** or horse's ass anywhere we went today!'

Almost brings a tear to your eyes, doesn't it? :)

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RE: Your Friday Chuckle - Every Day Of The Week
2/20/2010 11:04:10 PM

Hi Peter,

That last one was just precious, "Out of the mouth's of babes".

Here's a few that came in the mail today...

Cure for Lateness

Bob had this problem of getting up late in the morning and
was always late for work.

After a few weeks of this, his boss was mad and threatened
to fire him if he didn't do something about it.

So Bob went to his doctor, who gave him a pill and told him
to take it before he went to bed. He got a great night's
sleep and actually beat the alarm in the morning. After a
leisurely breakfast, he cheerfully drove to work.

"Boss," he said, "the pill my doctor prescribed actually
worked!"

"That's all fine," said the boss, "but where were you
yesterday?"

______________________________________________

Head Son

A man was waiting for his wife to give birth. The doctor
came and informed the dad that his son was born without a
torso, arms, or legs. The son was just a head!

But the dad loved his son and raised him as well as he
could. Twenty-one years later, the son was old enough for
his first drink. The dad took him to a bar, tearfully told
him he was proud of him, and ordered the biggest, strongest
drink for his boy. With all the bar patrons looking on
curiously, the boy took his first sip of alcohol.

Swoooop! A torso popped out!

The bar was dead silent, then burst into a whoop of joy. The
father, shocked, begged his son to drink again. The patrons
chanted, "Take another drink! Take another drink!" The
bartender shook his head in dismay.

Swoooop! Two arms popped out!

The bar went wild. The father, crying and wailing, begged
his son to drink again. The patrons chanted, "Take another
drink! Take another drink!" But the bartender ignored the
whole affair.

By this time, the boy was getting tipsy. With his new hands,
he reached down, grabbed the drink, and guzzled the last of
it.

Swoooop! Two legs popped out.

The bar was in chaos. The father wept with joy. The boy
stood up on his new legs. He stumbled to the left. He
stumbled to the right. Then he stumbled through the front
door and into the street, where a truck ran him over.

The bar fell silent. The father moaned with grief. The
bartender merely sighed and said...

Wait for it, Wait for it...

"He should have quit while
he was a head."

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Dangerous Criminal

One night, a lady stumbled into the police station with a
black eye. She claimed she heard a noise in her back yard
and went to investigate. The next thing she knew, she was
hit in the eye and knocked out cold.

An officer was sent to her house to investigate, and he
returned 1-1/2 hours later with a black eye.

"Did you get hit by the same person?" his captain asked.

"No," he replied. "I stepped on the same rake."

____________________________________________________

Senior Moment

"Where is my Sunday paper?" the irate customer calling the
newspaper office loudly demanded, wanting to know where her
Sunday edition was.

"Ma'am," said the newspaper employee, "today is Saturday.
The Sunday paper is not delivered until tomorrow, on
Sunday."

There was quite a long pause on the other end of the phone,
followed by a ray of recognition, as she was heard to
mutter, "Well, that's why no one was at church today!"

Have An Awesome Weekend My Friends,

Phil

“There may be trouble all around, but I am calling you to a place of peace. Be still and know that I am God. Come to Me, and I will give you wisdom, strength, and grace for everything you face." Psalm 46:10
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