As an airline reservation agent, I took a call from a man who wanted to book a flight for two but wasn't happy with the price of $59 per ticket.
"I want the $49 fare I saw advertised," he insisted, saying he would accept a flight at any time.
I managed to find two seats on a 6 A.M. flight. "I'll take it," he said, then he worried that his wife might not like the early hour.
I warned that there was a $25 fee per person if he changed the reservation. "Oh, that's no problem," he said dismissively. "What's fifty bucks?"
In loving memory of Tom Hogg, 1943–2023
MoFunny for
Tuesday
November 23, 2027
Trivia question....
Why do leaves change color?
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Consider these words of wisdom....
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. -- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. -- Kathleen Norris
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. -- Madame de Tencin
I bet ya' didn't know....
December is the peak month for candle fires in the U.S. Nearly 13,000 fires occur annually, killing more than 150 Americans and causing more than $175 million in property damage.
The earthworm doesn't have gills or lungs. It breathes through its skin.
Things that make you go Hmmm....
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Jokes & stories....
While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft.
Spotting and old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted, "Are there any gators around here?!"
"Naw," the man hollered back, "they ain't been around for years!"
Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore. About halfway there he asked the guy, "How'd you get rid of the gators?"
"We didn't do nothin'," the beachcomber said. "The sharks got 'em."
"The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard!"
Three blondes had just bought a can of Pepsi One and were anxious to try it for the first time.
So the first blonde opens the can, the second blonde pours it into three glasses.
The third blonde eyes the three glasses suspiciously and says "I wonder which one has the calorie?"
NEVER SAY TO A COP
1. I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer. (OK in Texas)
2. Sorry, Officer, I didn't realize my radar detector wasn't plugged in.
3. Aren't you the guy from the Village People?
4. Hey, you must've been doin' about 125 mph to keep up with me. Good job!
5. Are You Andy or Barney?
6. I thought you had to be in relatively good physical condition to be a police officer.
7. You're not gonna check the trunk, are you?
8. I pay your salary!
9. Gee, Officer! That's terrific. The last officer only gave me a warning, too!
10. Do you know why you pulled me over? Okay, just so one of us does.
11. I was trying to keep up with traffic. Yes, I know there are no other cars around. That's how far ahead of me they are.
12. When the Officer says "Gee Son....Your eyes look red, have you been drinking?" You probably shouldn't respond with," Gee Officer your eyes look glazed, have you been eating doughnuts?"
You might be a redneck if…
You fish in your above-ground pool. . . and catch something.
Tired of having to balance his wife Cindy's checkbook, Mike made a deal with her; he would look at it, but only after she had spent a few hours trying to wrestle it into shape.
The following night, after spending hours poring over stubs and figures, Cindy said proudly, "I've done it! I made it balance!"
Impressed, Mike came over to take a look. "Let's see... mortgage 550.00, electricity 70.50, phone 35.00." His brow wrinkled as he read the last entry. "It says here ESP, $615. What the heck is that?"
"Oh," she said, "That means, Error Some Place!"
Scouse Keyboard
"I'm a Scouser. Well, what does that mean? It means I come from Liverpool (which makes me a Liverpudlian too). But being a Scouser is more than just being born, or growing up in Liverpool. When I have time I want to write something worthwhile which describes what it means to be a Scouser."
Trivia answer....
Why do leaves change color?
Leaves change color in the fall, because the chemical changes in the leaves, as their nutrients drain into the tree’s branches, trunk, and roots for winter storage, cause the leaves to stop producing the green pigment chlorophyll.
Chlorophyll’s role in the leaves, to absorb sunlight and to use the sun’s energy, is no longer necessary, and the remaining chlorophyll in the leaves disintegrates.
When the pigment chlorophyll departs, secondary pigments, substances that also absorb light, emerge to take its place, and change the leaves’ colors to theirs. For example, yellow and orange leaves contain the pigment carotene, the same pigment that gives carrots their bright orange color.
Red, wine-red, and purple leaves contain the pigments anthrocyanins, which also lend their color to radishes, cabbage, roses, and geraniums. The main difference between carotene and anthrocyanins is that the anthrocyanins only form in the leaves in the fall when the weather becomes cooler, especially when the temperature falls to between 32 degrees to 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
One characteristic of the leaves’ color is that, for the most part, it is inherited. The variations in the color, however, are determined by weather conditions. The richest and most brilliant foliage appears after weeks of cool, sunny weather in places in the United States such as New England.
The color of the leaves fade as fall turns to winter, and the stems that secure them to the branches begin to loosen with the change in weather. The cells at the ends of the stems fall apart, leaving the leaves attached to the branches by the thin veins that, in warmer weather, transported water and nutrients to the leaves. At this point, virtually any movement can break the veins and the leaves tumble to the ground.
Although the yellow and red pigments last for a few days once on the ground, they soon disintegrate just as the green chlorophyll pigment did. All that remains are brown leaves colored by tannins, which also give tea its brown color. Without a water supply, the brown leaves carpeting the ground become dry and brittle, and the trees bare.