Saint Patrick’s

SYMPTOM: Drinking fails to give taste and satisfaction, beer is unusually pale and clear. FAULT: Glass empty. ACTION: Find someone who will buy you another beer. SYMPTOM: Drinking fails to give taste and satisfaction, and the front of your shirt is wet. FAULT: Mouth not open when drinking or glass applied to wrong part of face. ACTION: Buy another beer and practice in front of mirror. Drink as many as needed to perfect drinking technique. SYMPTOM: Feet cold and wet. FAULT: Glass being held at incorrect angle. ACTION: Turn glass other way up so that open end points toward ceiling. SYMPTOM: Feet warm and wet. FAULT: Improper bladder control. ACTION: Go stand next to nearest dog. After a while complain to the owner about its lack of house training and demand a beer as compensation. SYMPTOM: Floor blurred.FAULT: You are looking through bottom of empty glass. ACTION: Find someone who will buy you another beer. SYMPTOM: Floor swaying. FAULT: Excessive air turbulence, perhaps due to air-hockey game in progress. ACTION: Insert broom handle down back of jacket. SYMPTOM: Floor moving. FAULT: You are being carried out. ACTION: Find out if you are taken to another bar. If not, complain loudly that you are being kidnapped. SYMPTOM: Opposite wall covered with ceiling tiles and fluorescent light strip across it. FAULT: You have fallen over backward. ACTION: If your glass is full and no one is standing on your drinking arm, stay put. If not, get someone to help you get up, latch yourself to bar. SYMPTOM: Everything has gone dim, mouth full of cigarette butts. FAULT: You have fallen forward. ACTION: See above. SYMPTOM: Everything has gone dark. FAULT: The Bar is closing. ACTION: Panic. SYMPTOM: You awaken to find your bed hard, cold and wet. You cannot see your bedroom. FAULT: You have spent the night in the gutter. ACTION: Check your watch to see if bars are open yet. If not, treat yourself to a lie-in.

PUNS: The Stock Market Report

Today’s Stock Market ReportHelium was up, feathers were down.Paper was stationary.Fluorescent tubing was dimmed in light trading.Knives were up sharply.Cow steered into a bull market.Pencils lost a few points.Hiking equipment was trailing.Elevators rose, while escalators continued their slow decline. Weights were up in heavy trading.Light switches were off.Mining equipment hit rock bottom.Diapers remain unchanged.Shipping lines stayed at an even keel.The market for raisins dried up.Coca Cola fizzled.Caterpiller stock inched up a bit.Sun peaked at midday.Balloon prices were inflated.Scott Tissue touched a new bottom.And batteries exploded in an attempt to recharge the market.

Big Game Hunter

The big-game hunter walked into the bar and bragged to everyone
about his skills as a hunter. The man was undoubtedly a good
shot and no one could dispute that. But then he said that he
could recognize any animal’s skin by feeling it, and he could
tell what caliber rifle was used to shoot it by locating the
bullet hole. This was a bit too much for the other customers,
and soon a heated argument started.

The hunter said that he was willing to prove it if they would
put up the drinks, and the bet was on. They blindfolded him and
took him to his first animal skin.

After feeling it for a few moments, he announced, “Springbok.”
Then he felt for the bullet hole and declared, “And it was shot
with a .22 rifle.” He was right! The others could not believe it
and the argument was even hotter than before. When someone
suggested that he must have peeped, he said that he was prepared
to do it again for another round.

So they blindfolded him again, very thoroughly this time, and
they brought a skin that someone happened to have in the trunk
of his car. He took a bit longer this time and then said,
“Kalahari Lion.” Fingering the bullet hole, he added, “The rifle
was a .308.” He was right again! This only made the crowd more
curious, and he had to prove his skills over and over again,
every time winning a round of drinks.

Finally he staggered home, bombed out of his mind, and went to
sleep. The next morning he got up and saw in the mirror that he
had one hell of a shiner. So he said to his wife, “Listen, I
know I was drunk last night, but not too drunk to know that I
didn’t get into a fight. So where did I get this black eye?” His
wife replied angrily, “From me!” “What did I do?” he asked. She
replied, “You got into bed and put your hand inside my panties.
Then you fiddled around a bit and announced, ‘Skunk, killed with
an ax!'”

The Top 15 Surprises at the Oscars

15> Not only is he devastatingly handsome, Eugene Levy can sing, too!

14> Charlize Theron announces that in “Monster 2,” she’ll play the dress that was eating Uma Thurman.

13> Three of the five “Queer Eye” guys have strokes when they see Peter Jackson.

12> Billy Crystal shows he has bigger boobs than Renee Zellweger.

11> The ugly catfight when Johnny Depp tries to get his outfit back from Diane Keaton.

10> Price Waterhouse divulges that Roman Polanski tried to vote for Keisha Castle-Hughes multiple times.

9> Although he couldn’t make it to the awards, Nemo was resting comfortably in the Flipper wing of the Betty Ford Clinic.

8> In a special live broadcast from San Francisco, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon finally tie the knot.

7> The New Zealand mafia somehow got to Price Waterhouse!

6> Joan Rivers’ plastic surgeon receives a lifetime achievement award.

5> A tearful Peter Jackson thanks his brother, Samuel L.

4> The ghost of Gene Siskel repeatedly knocks the Raisinets out of Roger Ebert’s hands.

3> The only exposed boob in sight? Keanu Reeves.

2> Oprah Winfrey gets caught slipping away from her seat to buy Girl Scout cookies from Jack Nicholson’s date.

1> Covering the red carpet for Peoria’s public access channel 58? Ben and Jen!

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