Gotta Love Five Year Olds

Gotta Love Five Year Olds

 

A class of five-year old students are learning to read.


One of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,
  
“Look at this!   It’s a frickin’ elephant!”

The teacher took a deep breath, then asked…”What did you call it?”

“It’s a frickin’ elephant!    It says so on the picture!”

And so it does…

Gotta Love Five Year Olds

” A f r i c a n Elephant “

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Basket Case – Common Sayings

Basket Case – Common Sayings

Basket Case - Common Sayings

Meaning: 
One that is in a completely hopeless or useless condition.

Most say it came from ...

The supposed origin came about during World War I and was used to describe servicemen that had all of their limbs either surgically or explodingly removed–leaving them as nothing more then torsos that would have to be carried in a basket.

So is that true? 
Again, it’s a yes and no answer. Yes, there were servicemen that went home sans all limbs during the World Wars, but only two documented cases and there were no reports of either of them being carried off in baskets of any kind.

Confusingly, the earliest recorded uses of the phrase were from US military statements claiming no such limbless soldiers existed. One way or another, it doesn’t seem like there were enough cases to create a whole phrase to describe them. Why have a term for something that doesn’t exist? Then again we have a word for “leprechaun” so, why not.

A lot of the English language seems to have been developed as some kind of elaborate practical joke. It’s full of little sayings and idioms that on their face make no sense at all, and if traced back to their origins are downright horrifying.

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Welcome To Wisconsin

Welcome To Wisconsin

Welcome To Wisconsin

ATTENTION:   CRIMINALS and TERRORISTS!

Over 170, 000 Wisconsin residents have a legal permit to carry a handgun.

They are armed and prepared to defend themselves and others against acts of violence.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Illinois and Chicago however have been disarmed for your convenience.

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Raining Cats and Dogs – Common Sayings

Raining Cats and Dogs – Common Sayings

Raining Cats and Dogs - Common Sayings

Meaning:
A torrential rain. As in, “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

Most say it came from …

In the 1500s human beings had the pleasure of living in homes with thatched roofs. In these strange times, humans for some reason didn’t want their pets shitting in their homes and so they were always kept outside. The animals would keep themselves warm in the little nooks in the thatching on the roofs and store their food and porno up there for a rainy day.

When an especially rainy day did come along, the animals would either get washed off of the roof or would come leaping down looking for better cover. The story goes that the townsfolk would look out their window, see pets falling from the sky, and proclaim it to be “raining cats and dogs.” Then they would probably burn a witch or something.

Raining Cats and Dogs - Common Sayings

So is that true?
Apparently the saying didn’t come about until the 17th century, not the 16th. So, we’ll just move on and call this a complete lie.

Unfortunately there are so many suggested origins of this one that it’s hard to tell if any of them are more than legends mutated by time and people who like to lie. One story says 17th century sewage systems (if the town even had one) were prone to massive flooding, washing out dead dogs and cats that had fallen in. This would leave some to believe that dead animals were literally falling from the sky. Why the sight of a dead animal on the ground would cause anyone to assume it fell from the heavens, as opposed to just falling over dead the normal way, is anyone’s guess.

Others claim it goes all the way back to Norse mythology (the storm god Odin had two hounds). Still others say it has to do with the freak occurrence of frogs or fish falling from the sky (after being swept up by storms and flung miles away) and that the saying “it’s raining cats and dogs” is just a way to say it’s raining even harder than the time it rained fish. Still it seems like a catchier idiom would have been, “It’s raining bears!” or “It’s raining human babies! Quick, catch the babies!” followed by frenetic screaming.

Anyway, there’s no hard and fast proof for any of them so take your pick.

A  lot of the English language seems to have been developed as some kind of elaborate practical joke. It’s full of little sayings and idioms that on their face make no sense at all, and if traced back to their origins are downright horrifying.

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Bust Your Chops – Common Phrases

Bust Your Chops – Common Phrases

Bust Your Chops - Common Phrases

Meaning: 
To give someone a hard time. As in, “Yes, I’m late and I’m not wearing pants. Don’t bust my chops.”

Most say it came from …
There was once a time in the world when it was considered cool to sport a long, ridiculous pair of mutton chop side burns. From America to England, Russia to … some other place even further away than Russia, the civilized global population couldn’t get enough of these peninsula-shaped patches of hair.

Then, these people got punched in the face–their “chops busted,” if you will–and an idiom was born.

So is that true? 
Even though there is no definitive proof to back this up, this seems to be the only theory going. Also, it involves stupid looking facial hair, so it has that going for it.

It’s just too bad that as regal and dignifying as the chops were for our founding fathers they only made hippies in the ’60s seem like unwashed piles of tie-dyed failures. To this day the only people able to successfully pull off mutton chops are old-timey gold miners. If you have the chops in question and you are not one of these three, please, shave now or prepare to have them busted.

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Rule of Thumb – Common Sayings

Rule of Thumb – Common Sayings

Rule of Thumb - Common Sayings

Meaning: 

A common or ubiquitous benchmark. As in, “The rule of thumb is one part tonic to four parts gin.”

Most say it came from … 

17th century English Judge Sir Francis Buller, who allegedly ruled that it was A-OK for a husband to beat his wife with a stick, given that said stick was no wider then his thumb.

This is the stuff that white trash dreams are made of.

Judge Sir Francis Buller

So is that true?

As it turns out there isn’t any record of Buller actually making this ruling, though he was known to be a big powdered wig-wearing dickhead to everyone around him regardless of sex. Still, roughly a year after the supposed ruling, British satirist James Gillray called out Buller in this cartoon, selling his thumb-width wife beating sticks:

So why would Gillray create this poster if the ruling it referenced didn’t exist? Who knows. Maybe it was already an urban legend back then. The truth of the phrase is that it likely just refers to carpenters and tailors who, without a ruler handy, would just measure things in thumb-lengths. We tried digging up evidence that they were using actual severed thumbs for the task, but even that turned out to be too awesome to be true.

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Pete The Amazing Skateboarding Dog

Pete The Amazing Skateboarding Dog

Pete The Amazing Skateboarding Dog

This is Pete now famous skateboarding dog ripping the ramps at the Skatelab in California.These are just a few of the tricks that he can perform. He was trained with positive reinforcement, never abused in any ways, and he loves to do everything that you see on this video.

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Computer Support – My Printer Is Not Working

Computer Support – My Printer Is Not Working

Support Call:

CallerHi, our printer isn’t working.

Customer Service:  What’s wrong with it?

Caller :   Mouse is jammed.

Customer Service:  Mouse?

                                Printers don’t have a mouse you fool!

Caller:  Hmmmm … Oh really?  I will send a picture.

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Computer Support - My Printer Is Not Working

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Cute Amimals Doing Cute Things

Cute Amimals Doing Cute Things

Cute Amimals Doing Cute Things

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How can we teach them to get along? Cesar decides to investigate, and brings in an expert to help us understand…

Are dogs and cats born to fight with each other—or can they get along peacefully? They are the two animals who have shared our homes for the longest time—but as I thought about this I realized they have very different histories, and they see the world in very different ways. Dogs, it’s been said, see themselves as one of us, but cats see us as one of them. I decided to do some research to try to understand better.

Man started domesticating the dog’s wolf ancestors at least 15,000 years ago, and, as pack animals, they responded to training from their new human pack leaders. Cats, according to recent studies, chose to live with humans and in effect domesticated themselves. When humans began growing grain in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago, their stores of wheat attracted rats and mice. Wild cats found a ready food source and moved in. Since there was food, it was comfortable, and they were protected from other predators, they stuck around. And because it suited the humans to have the rodent problem solved, they let the cats stay. The earliest known domestic cat is a kitten discovered in Cyprus that was buried with its owner 9,500 years ago.

Cats have done well. They spread across Europe, Asia, and Africa and came with Europeans to the Americas. In the USA today, almost half of domestic cats live in a household where there is also a dog. So it’s pretty important that they’re able to get along.

Dogs and cats have become so much a part of our domestic scene that we sometimes forget how much of their DNA they share with their wild ancestors. Cats—like their big relatives, lions and tigers—are among the most effective hunters on the planet. One reason is that for cats, hunting was always a matter of life and death because they need meat to survive. Dogs, on the other hand, evolved to be able to supplement meat with plant matter when they couldn’t find prey.

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