In loving memory of Tom Hogg, 1943–2023
MoFunny for
November 26, 2026
Why do we have daylight saving time?
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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. -- Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them. -- Madame de Stael
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
The chief Latin American languages are Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
Is it OK to use the AM radio after noon?
A tourist was admiring an Indian's necklace and asked him, "What is it made of?"
"Alligator's teeth," the Indian replied.
The tourist said, "And I suppose that they mean as much to you as pearls do to us."
And the Indian said, "Oh, no. They have a much greater meaning to me. Anybody can open an oyster."
A young boy about eight years old was at the corner, mom&pop grocery picking out a pretty good size box of Tide detergent. The grocer walked over and trying to be friendly, asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do.
"Oh, no laundry," the boy said, "I'm going to wash my dog."
"But you shouldn't use this to wash your dog. It's very powerful and if you wash your dog in this, he'll get sick. In fact, it might even kill him."
But the boy was not to be stopped and carried the detergent to the counter and paid for it, even as the grocer still tried to talk him out of washing his dog.
About a week later the boy was back in the store to buy some candy. The grocer asked the boy how his dog was doing.
"Oh, he died," the boy said.
The grocer, trying not to be an I-told-you-so, said he was sorry the dog died but added, "I tried to tell you not to use that detergent on your dog."
"Well, the boy replied, "I don't think it was the detergent that killed him."
"Oh? What was it then?"
"I think it was the rinse cycle!"
Do you think Dan Quayle supports NATOE?
This lady goes to the doctor for a check up.
When she gets home her husband asks,
"So how did the appointment go?"
She replies, "He said, I have the body of a twenty year old.
Her husband says, "Oh yeah. and what did he have to say about your forty year old ass?"
She says, "Your name didn't come up."
Why Are Fire Trucks Red?
Everyone knows that fire engines have 4 wheels and 8 men. 4 and 8 make 12.
There are twelve inches in a foot. A foot is a ruler. Queen Elizabeth, a ruler, is the name of one of the largest ships on the seas.
Seas have fish and fish have fins. The Finns fought the Russians and Russians are red. . .
and fire trucks are always rushin' therefore, fire trucks are red!
You might be a redneck if…
You owe the taxidermist more than your annual income.
Cassie was a really good mom. When her children were growing up, her one son gave her more "stop and count to 10" periods.
Once, after her small son fell into the pond and came home with his good school clothes dripping wet, the exasperated Cassie sent him to his room while she washed and dried his clothes.
A little later, Cassie heard a commotion in the back yard. She called out "Are you out there wetting your pants again!?"
There was dead silence for a moment. Then a deep, masculine voice answered meekly, "No, ma'am, I'm just reading the meter."
For Those who Reed and Right
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.
Let's face! it! - English is a crazy language.
Why do we have daylight saving time?
Fall back, spring ahead…
Daylight saving time, the brainchild of Benjamin Franklin during his 18th century Parisian days, seems to increase the number of productive daylight hours we have, during the seasons when the sun sounds revile early. Today, the additional hour of sunlight we gain, by setting our clocks one hour ahead of time, allows us to close up shop an hour early, and to enjoy play time after the work day is done while the sun still beams high above us.
The extra daylight hour we now enjoy, by altering our circadian rhythms by one hour, did not immediately gain acceptance during Benjamin Franklin's time. Instead, the practice was born of necessity during World War I and II. The practicality of his idea came into play during these wars, when scarcity and rationing were the operative words. By following their normal routines, and by going to bed hours after sundown, people relied upon artificially generated light, which depleted the scarce reserves of fuel in its generation. Germany realized that this precious commodity could better be used to serve the war effort, and instituted the first daylight saving laws in 1915. Those who refused to comply with the lights out curfew faced punishment.
England followed suit in 1916, and, finally, the United States, in 1918. The United States reinstated the daylight saving laws on a national basis during World War II. The close of the war ended the law's necessity, but the national habit continued on a voluntary basis. Daylight saving time had taken root in our society, and was now the norm. Of course, daylight saving time never effected the farmer, whose livelihood dictates that he adheres to the old adage "Early to bed, early to rise."