In loving memory of Tom Hogg, 1943–2023
MoFunny for
December 9, 2027
Can dogs see colors?
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If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being. -- Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. -- Saint Theresa of Jesus
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
Of all the people admitted to Emergency Rooms on Friday/Saturday nights, 73% were there due to fights with someone they know.
Thomas Edison held over 1,300 US and foreign patents.
Is the year on a wine bottle the expiration date?
So it was my birthday. I had a big party, and my friend made me a birthday cake. He brought it out, and it was a savory cake. It had a doughy base, with cheese and all sorts of other toppings sprinkled on top.
I said "That must have taken a lot of effort to make."
And he said "No, it was a pizza cake."
Even though I swore I'd never give 'em any money, I finally broke down and signed up for a year on classmates.com. They've got quite a racket. Tease you with names from your past, and make you pay to catch up with 'em. (Man -- what will they think of next? Make you pay for jokes?)
One Class of '61 buddy of mine had filled out the profile form with this information:
Marital Status: Not Good
Wife's Name: Plaintiff
Why won't melons elope in Las Vegas? They cantaloupe.
A construction worker on the 3rd floor of a building needs a handsaw so he sees another man on the 1st floor. He yells down to him, but he can't hear, so he does sign language. He points at his eye meaning "I", points at his knee meaning "need", and moves his hand back and forth in a handsaw motion.
The man on the 1st floor nods his head, pulls down his pants, and starts masturbating.
The man on the 3rd floor gets so angry he runs down to the 1st floor and says, "What the hell is wrong with you dumbass? I said I need handsaw!!"
The other guy says, "I knew that, I was just trying to tell you I'm coming."
One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house.
Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.
He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened. He found her lounging in the bedroom, still curled in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went.
He looked at her bewildered and asked, "What happened here today?"
She again smiled and answered, "You know every day when you come home from work and ask me what in the world I did today?"
She answered, "Well, today I didn't do it."
You might be a redneck if…
Your mother keeps a spit cup on the ironing board.
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.
Heard on my cable-company's answering machine:
We realize you are still holding.
Please do not hang up as this will further delay your call.
Amusing But Irrelevant Facts...
'The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
'There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
'Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
'Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
'In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
'In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
'An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
'The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
'The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
'The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
'America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
'A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
'The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
'The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
'Every person has a unique tongue print.
'Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
'Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
'Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
'About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
[The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
'Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
'Most lipstick contains fish scales.
'Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
'The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
'27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
'Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
'"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
Can dogs see colors?
No.
Man's best friend is colorblind, but, fortunately, his survival does not depend upon the ability to see colors. His keen sense of smell compensates for his inability to see colors, and enables him to differentiate between things.
Extensive scientific testing on dogs supports the conclusion that they live in a colorless world. The testing done primarily focused on the dogs' responses to colors for food. Dogs could not tell the difference between one color, a signal for food, and other colors, that were not for food. Similar tests conducted on cats produced similar results, which led scientists to conclude that they, too, are colorblind and live in a gray world.
The inability of most animals to see colors, from an evolutionary standpoint, is quite simple to understand. Many colorblind animals have dull-colored coats, hunt for food in the dark of night, or graze in the dim twilight hours. Their other senses have developed to the point where the lack of color vision in no way impairs them. For them, life in a colorless world is neither a handicap, nor a threat to their survival.
The only animals, other than man, scientists can conclusively say have color vision are monkeys and apes. Both can be trained to open a colored door, behind which is food, and man can be trained to open a refrigerator door of any color!