Half an hour later, another loud noise sounded from outside the plane. The captain once again came on the intercom, “Attention passengers, do not be alarmed. We lost another engine, but the other two will still keep us flying. We will arrive at our destination about three hours late.”

After the captain said this, the blonde leaned over to the passenger next to her and said, “If those other two engines go out, we’ll be up here forever.”

The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. (Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate of food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.)

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn’t help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king size bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue to sleep on the couch to ensure your comfort. Look at videos of dogs and cats sleeping. They can actually curl up in a ball. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. (I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space used is nothing but sarcasm.)

My compact discs are not miniature Frisbees.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine meow, try to turn the knob, or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I entered. (In addition, I have been using the bathroom for years…canine or feline attendance is not mandatory.)

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dogs or cats. I cannot stress this enough. It would be such a simple change for you.

To pacify you I have posted the following message on our front door….. Rules for Non-pet owners who visit and like to complain about our pets:

1. They live here; you don’t.
2. If you don’t want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture
3. I like my pet better than I like most people.
4. To you it’s an animal. To me he and/or she is an adopted son and/or daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and is speech challenged.

Dogs and cats are better than kids. They eat less, don’t ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called, never drive your car, don’t hang out with drug using friends, don’t drink or smoke, don’t worry about buying the latest fashions, don’t wear your clothes, don’t need a gazillion dollars for college, and when they have young, you can sell the results.

2. All men hate to hear, “We need to talk about our relationship.” These seven words strike fear in the heart of even General Schwartzkopf.

3. Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.

4. Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

5. Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

6. Men forget everything; women remember everything. Think about it! How many women’s sports use something called an “instant replay?”

7. Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

8. No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.

9. Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I’ve never seen a man walk into a party and say, “Oh no, I’m so embarrassed; I’ve got to get out of here. There’s another man wearing a black tuxedo.”

10. Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.

The driver says, “Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60 perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating.

Not looking up from her knitting the wife says: “Now don’t be silly dear, you know that this car doesn’t have cruise control.”

As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, “Can’t you please keep your mouth shut for once?”

The wife smiles demurely and says, “You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did.”

As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, “Darn it, woman, can’t you keep your mouth shut?”

The officer frowns and says, “And I notice that you’re not wearing your seat belt, sir. That’s an automatic $75 fine.”

The driver says, “Yeah, well, you see officer, I had it on, but took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket.”

The wife says, “Now, dear, you know very well that you didn’t have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you’re driving.”

And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket the driver turns to his wife and barks, “WHY DON’T YOU PLEASE SHUT UP??”

The officer looks over at the woman and asks, “Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma’am?”

“Only when he’s been drinking.”

The girl looks like she’s having some discomfort so her boyfriend asks her, “What’s wrong honey?”

She replies. “My head hurts.”

Her boyfriend kisses her forehead, and asks her, “Is it better now?”

“Yes,” she says.

Then he asks, “Does it hurt somewhere else?”

“Here,” she replies, pointing to her lips.

So the boyfriend kisses her lips. “Is it better now?”

“Much better.” “Anywhere else?”

She replies by pointing to her neck. So the boyfriend kisses her neck

Annoyed at the pitiful public display, the elderly man asks the young man, “Excuse me son, do you do hemorrhoids?

The car owner complained that he should not be fined.

The policeman asked : ” Why ? ”

To which the owner replied, “Your board says ‘ FINE FOR PARKING ‘

This new boss is determined to rid the company of all slackers.

On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. The room is full of workers and he wants to let them know he means business!

The CEO walks up to the guy and asks, “And how much money do you make a week?”

A little surprised, the young fellow looks at him and replies, “I make $300.00 a week. Why?”

The CEO then hands the guy $1,200 in cash and screams, “Here’s four weeks pay, now GET OUT and don’t come back!”

Feeling pretty good about his first firing, the CEO looks around the room and asks, “Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-off did here?”

With a sheepish grin, one of the other workers mutters, “Pizza delivery guy from Domino’s.

Avoidable (uh-voy’-duh-buhl): What a bullfighter tries to do.

Baloney (buh-lo’-nee): Where some hemlines fall.

Bernadette (burn’-a-det): The act of torching a mortgage.

Burglarize (bur’-gler-ize): What a crook sees with.

Control (kon-trol’): A short, ugly inmate.

Counterfeiters (kown-ter-fit-ers): Workers who put together kitchen cabinets.

Eclipse (i-klips’): what an English barber does for a living.

Eyedropper (i’-drop-ur): a clumsy ophthalmologist.

Heroes (hee’-rhos): what a guy in a boat does.

Left Bank (left’ bangk’): what the robber did when his bag was full of loot.

Misty (mis’-tee): How some golfers create divots.

Paradox (par’-uh-doks): two physicians.

Parasites (par’-uh-sites): what you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Pharmacist (farm’-uh-sist): a helper on the farm.

Polarize (po’-lur-ize): what penguins see with.

Primate (pri’-mat): removing your spouse from in front of the TV.

Relief (ree-leef’): what trees do in the spring.

Rubberneck (rub’-er-nek): what you do to relax your wife.

Seamstress (seem’-stres): describes 250 pounds in a size six.

Selfish (sel’-fish): what the owner of a seafood store does.

Subdued (sub-dood’): like, a guy, like, works on one of those, like, submarines, man.

Sudafed (sood’-a-fed): bringing litigation against a government.

The manager asked, “Do you have any sales experience?”

The kid said, “Sure, I was a salesman back home in Texas.”

The boss liked the kid so he gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did.”

His first day on the job was rough but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down to see how things went.”How many sales did you make today?”

The young man replied without hesitating, “One.”

The boss said, “Just one? Our sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale for?”

The kid said, “$101,237.64.”

The boss said, “$101,237.64?! What the hell did you sell?!”

The kid said, “First I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fish hook. Then I sold him a larger fish hook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down at the coast, so I told him he was gonna need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him that twin-engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Blazer.”

Amazed, the boss said, “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a truck?”

“No, he came here to buy a box of tampons for his wife and I said, ‘Well, your weekend’s shot, you might as well go fishing.’”

The newly arrived soul thought for a moment and replied, ‘Yeah, once I was driving along and came upon a woman who was being harassed by a group of goons. So I pulled over, got out my tire iron, and went up to the leader of the gang. He was a big, muscular, hairy guy with tattoos all over his body and a ring pierced through his nose. Well, I tore the nose ring out of his nose, and told him he and his gang had better stop bothering the woman or they would have to deal with me!’

‘I’m impressed,’ Yamraj responded, ‘When did this happen?’

‘About two minutes ago,’ came the reply.