Through the Looking Glass

Good Morning World!!

Today we have a collection of my favorite “Deep Thoughts” from Jack Handey.

To me, clowns aren’t funny.  In fact, they’re kinda scary.  I’ve
wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I
went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.
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If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let’em go,
because, man, they’re gone.
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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them
down?  We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
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To me, it’s a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when
you walk around.  That way, if anybody says, “Hey, can you give me a hand?”  You can say, “Sorry, got these sacks.”
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One thing kids like is to be tricked.  For instance, I was going
to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old
burned-out warehouse. “Oh no,” I said, “Disneyland burned down.”
He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a
pretty good joke.  I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but
decided to go home instead.
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The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
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If you lived in the Dark Ages and you were a catapult operator, I
bet the most common question people would ask is, “Can’t you make it
shoot farther?”  “No, I’m sorry.  That’s as far as it shoots.”
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Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo,
flying across in front of a beautiful sunset?  And he’s carrying a
beautiful rose in his beak, and also he’s carrying a very beautiful
painting with his feet.  And also, you’re drunk.
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I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our
children’s children, because I don’t think children should be having sex.
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If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, “God is crying.”  And if he asks why God is crying, another cute
thing to tell him is, “Probably because of something you did.”
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If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the
mirror, because I bet that’s what REALLY throws you into a panic.
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Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first
instinct is to laugh.  But then I think, what if I was an ant and she
fell on me.  Then it wouldn’t seem quite so funny.
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no
choreography and the dancers hit each other.
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I hope if dogs ever take over the world and they choose a king, they
don’t just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with
some good ideas.
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If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons
(maybe by shoving them down his throat).
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Instead of having “answers” on a math test, they should just call
them “impressions,” and if you got a different “impression,” so what,
can’t we all be brothers?
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Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort
of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
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I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out
that I’d just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because
I was thinking about doing that anyway.
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I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver.
And since he’s so busy, you’d probably have to run up to him real
quick and hand it to him.
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Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word
itself. MANKIND.  Basically, it’s made up of two separate words “mank” and
“ind.” What do these words mean?  It’s a mystery and so is mankind.
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If you go flying back through time and you see somebody else flying
forward into the future, it’s probably best to avoid eye contact.
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It’s easy to sit there and say you’d like to have more money.  And I
guess that’s what I like about it.  It’s easy.  Just sitting there,
rocking back and forth, wanting that money.
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If you ever reach total enlightenment while you’re drinking a beer,
I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
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As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red
again, I sat there thinking about life.  Was it nothing more than a
bunch of honking and yelling?  Sometimes it seemed that way.
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
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I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in
my brain, because later you might think you’re having a good idea but
it’s just eggs hatching.
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Whenever you read a good book, it’s like the author is right there,
in the room talking to you, which is why I don’t like to read good books.
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What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing
and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get
drunk? And after you’re real drunk, maybe go down to the public park
and stagger  around and ask people for money, and then lay down and go
to sleep.
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Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window?  The guy looks out
it, and if he leans too far, he falls out.  Wait.  I guess that’s like
a regular window.
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During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not
putting on your armor because you were “just going down to the corner.”
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If I ever get real rich, I hope I’m not real mean to poor people, like
I am now.
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When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call
the police. But then I got curious about it.  I picked it up, and
started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
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I remember how my great-uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and
whittle all day long.  Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger
toy boat I had.  It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had
bumpy whittle marks all over it.  And no paint, because he had whittled
off the paint.
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Here’s a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don’t know
anybody:  First take out the garbage.  Then go around and collect any
extra garbage  that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and
take that out too.  Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy
garbage guy.
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Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,
even if you don’t know what your rights are, or who the person is you’re
talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door.
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If you’re a cowboy and you’re dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet
it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading
a magazine.
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If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think
it’s okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to
teach him to do some tricks.  But only if you’re serious about adopting
the vulture.
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Broken promises don’t upset me.  I just think, why did they believe me?
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If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while
you’re in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on
a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don’t know what to tell you.
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One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don’t run
with a wooden stake.
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If you go to a costume party at your boss’s house, wouldn’t you think
a good costume would be to dress up like the boss’s wife?  Trust me,
it’s not.
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Most of the time it was probably real bad being stuck down in a
dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you’d look
out your little window and think, “Boy, I’m glad I’m not out in that.”
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Consider the daffodil.  And while you’re doing that, I’ll be over
here, looking through your stuff.
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For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here’s a tip: why not add
a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness?

For more of Jack Handey visit the website: http://www.deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com

A WOMAN’S POEM:

I pray for a deaf-mute gymnast nymphomaniac with
huge boobs who owns a bar on a golf course,
and loves to send me fishing and drinking. This
doesn’t rhyme and I don’t give a shit.
The End

(Thanks to Uncle Phil for this Insight)

I’ve been wondering lately if my hometown, Tucson, AZ. , is lost in the past or not.

I believe I have the answer now.

Here are some interesting “things” I’ve noticed in the last two weeks, here in Arizona.

Due to cost-cutting initiatives our local newspaper has decided to eliminate ALL STOCK LISTINGS except those of “local interest”!! We NEVER had the Dow 30 listed and now we’ve even less! - However, the paper has seen fit to INCREASE the size of it’s Cable TV listings! Priorities, I guess.

I think I should point out a correlative used by The Joker in Batman, The Dark Night. He says “I don’t want you dead by any means, Who would I play with then?”

In an interview in the ’30s Adolf Hitler was asked if he wanted the Jews annihilated. Reply: “Of course not, If there were no Jews, we would have to invent them.”

How is it even vaguely possible that one could refer to Israelis as the “bad guys”? Israel offered and established a Palestinian state, twice! A short list of countries that have not offered the same:

Syria, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon UAR, Kuwait; you get the idea.

How can the masses of Americans possibly think that a country the size of New Jersey, a people with a population of less than 2% of the world, are the bad guys? Seven days of warnings, including an unprecedented appearance on an Arabic TV station, allowing humanitarian aid in…This is not a journalistically winnable argument. Are all Americans this stupid? I really need to go to the jungles of Costa Rica. For now, I think I’ll eat a chile relleno or two. Unless that would make me a Wetback loving, illegal immigrant supporting commie. Oh, and of course, a Jew.

Finally, a quote from Sir Winston Churchill: “Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.”

I thought we’d start out 2009 with some of the wit and wisdom of Winston Churchill. Mr. Churchill did not suffer fools kindly, and was noted for stating what was on his mind.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.

If you want to know the problems in a Democracy, spend five minutes talking to a voter.

And finally:  Democracy is the worst of all systems, except for the ones we’ve tried.

To all our Today.com friends: Have a great New Year and try hard not to get arrested without the proper bail in-hand.

The Argus