Lighten up Francis!

Ok, a virtual beer to who can name the move where the title of this post is quoted. SisterToldjah has one heck of a blog. Y’all should visit her regularly. On the debate thread she posted, I put a comment in that was much in line with my “Bleak” posting below. In the comment thread, a comment by Trish said that my posts have been rather cynical lately. I don’t know if it’s cynicism, but she is right that things have been waaayyyyyyy to serious lately. So, let’s start to lighten things up a bit. We need to smile more and so I’m going to try to do that. Here is a rather cute forwarded chain email my wife received. I thought it was funny and since I had not seen it before, I think I’ll share it without clogging your inbox:

“I was talking to a friend of mine’s little girl, and she said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were president what would be the first thing you would do?’ She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’

‘Wow - what a worthy goal,’ I told her. ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the grass, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food or a new house.’

She thought that over for a few seconds ’cause she’s only 6.’ And while her Mom glared at me, she looked me straight in the eye and asked, ‘Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?’ And I said, ‘Welcome to the Republican Party.’ Her folks still aren’t talking to me.”

And now, because they’re cute and funny as heck, kittens:

Um, yeah…

Funny as heck:

Finally someone fights back after being pranked:

And, a couple happy endings:

And the other:



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6 Responses to “Lighten up Francis!”

  1. GravatarSeptember 28th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
    Mamacita says:

    Ah, STRIPES!



  2. GravatarSeptember 28th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
    USCitizen says:

    “Stipes”



  3. GravatarSeptember 28th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
    USCitizen says:

    Doh! “Stripes”



  4. GravatarSeptember 29th, 2008 at 12:43 am
    Kevin says:

    Dee dee dee! Stripes!



  5. GravatarSeptember 29th, 2008 at 5:09 am
    Scott says:

    Yep, got that email a couple of months ago. It’s a classic. Read it to my daughters so that they could see the point, and hopefully be inoculated against future class warfare panderers when they become voters.



  6. GravatarSeptember 29th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
    Stix says:

    Damn too late Stripes



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