More Odds and Ends

Questions

1.  How many Ukrainians have the Russians killed since Feb 2022?

2.  How many Russians have the Ukrainians killed since Feb 2022?

Whenever I search for the answers I get Covid statistics instead.  A total exceeding 5 million Ukrainians have gotten the virus, but only 110,000 have died. 

Rural News

Yesterday's headline for a Virginia newspaper;

"TRAVEL DELAYED.  TRAIN HITS DEAR!"

Dad Jokes?

These jokes aqppeared in my email.  They came from some Instagram page called: "Dad says jokes."

 Scales

When my wife caught me standing on the bathroom scales sucking in my stomach, she laughed, "Ha! That's not going to help!"

"Sure it does," I said. It's the only way I can see the numbers."

Future Salesman

I was at a job interview when the manager  handed me a laptop and said, "I want you to try selling this to me."

So, I put the laptop under my arm, left the building and went home.

Eventually he called me and said, "Bring my laptop back now!" 

I said, "For $300 it's yours."

ARTLE

I'm enjoying Artle. Every day it is my next item on my to-do list. As a Liberal Arts graduate, I should be able to recognize all of the artists.  Actually, I've identified only three.

But... I've been introduced to some painters I had never heard of before.  Some of the works by some of these artists I never heard of, I think of as "pure garbage."  Cons perpetrated on the nouveau riche, who are hurrying to make expensive purchases before the impending crypto crash.  

Word From Above

Four years ago "a Texas judge instructed a jury that God had advised him that a defendant was not guilty.  (The judge) called jurors out of deliberation to tell them of his revelation.

The jury convicted the defendant anyway, but (the judge) said he had no regrets. "When God tells me to do something," he said.  "I gotta do it!"

Disability Pensions

Chuck Shepherd reports on U.S. Government Disability Pensions being paid for war injuries.   As of 2013, payments were made yearly to the disabled or to their families, totaling:

Civil War - two payments.

Spanish- American War - $1,700.

World War One - $20 Million.

World War Two - $5 Billion.

Viet Nam War - $22 Billion. 

Canadian Delicacy

One of 12 Canadian foods chosen to accompany that Country's International Space Station astronaut is the limited-issue dry cereal especially noted for its fiber, organic buckwheat and various non-traditional ingredients.  "Holy Crap" cereal is available throughout Canada and in 19 other countries.

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