Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Good morning crew,

Well, it might be a waste of time, but I put the ol' condo back on the market. It didn't sell the last two times I tried it, so I figure I'm due for a change of luck eventually!

The realtor brought somebody through for a showing just a week after it went on the market, so that's a good sign.

But the real advantage of having the place on the market is it forces the wife and I to keep the place clean. No more piles of unwashed dishes under the bed and dirty clothes in the sink...or...well, you know what I mean.

Somebody has got to walk into the place and think, 'I could live here.' Not, 'Oh, my God, I need to call the FEMA.'

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral." --Robert Orben

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Recently we called a business phone number and heard the following: If you are calling from a touch-tone phone, press one now. If you are calling from a rotary phone, hang up and call back from a touch-tone phone.

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"You need to have a stupid girlfriend so that on a bad day you can call her. 'Tanya, I'm having a bad day, tell me something stupid you've done. You caught on fire, and you tried to put it out with alcohol?'" --Ellen Cleghorne

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While I was serving as a chief master sergeant at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, La., my son and namesake was also serving there. His two month old son, whose name was the same as ours, was receiving medical treatments at the base hospital.

I went on sick call one morning, and as the doctor reviewed my file, he looked at me in disbelief. "Are you Curtis E. Chaffin?" he asked. When I answered yes, he told me, "It says here that you turn blue when you cry."


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I had been teaching my seventh-graders about World War II, and a test question was, "What was the largest amphibious assault of all time?"

Expecting to see "the D-Day invasion" as the answer, I found instead on one paper, "Moses and the plague of frogs."