badbobby Loc: texas

The other night I was invited out for a night with the 'girls'. I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, 'I promise!'

Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily. Around 3 am, a bit loaded, I headed for home.



Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and cuckooed 3 times.

Quickly, realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 times.

I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him.

(Even when totally smashed... 3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos total 12 cuckoos = MIDNIGHT!)
The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in?




I told him 'MIDNIGHT'.. he didn't seem pissed off in the least. Whew, I got away with that one!




Then he said 'We need a new cuckoo clock!'



When I asked him why, he said,




'Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said 'oh shit' cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted."

Wonttakeitanymore

That’s funny! Oh what a wicked web we weave when we downright lie!!

pafret Loc: Northeast

Cuckoo's lie!

bahmer

Good one badbobby thanks for the laugh.

Oh by the way did you catch any fish yesterday

pafret Loc: Northeast

Did you not see my post "Cuckoos lie"? Does any fisherman ever tell the truth about the size or quantity of his catch? They all graduated from the Isaac Walton School of Prevarication and most were Summa Cum Laude.

bahmer

Gee I am sure glad that I don't fish anymore otherwise I wold be classified a liar. I will leave that for badbobby.

pafret Loc: Northeast

No, not common liars; that field is monopolized by politicians. Fishermen are professionals at embellishments. They can and do take a kernel of truth and fill a silo with it. Sort of a multiplication of the loaves and fishes with an emphasis on the fish.

badbobby Loc: texas

I'm shocked
profoundly shocked
to think that you would denigrate fishermen so

pafret Loc: Northeast

This is admiration, not denigration. Very few people can tell such whoppers with a straight face and get others to believe them. Fishermen are a special breed in that this is the only arena in which they practice their art and there is no cost to believing or disbelieving the story. Contrast that with Insurance Salesmen or Used Car Salesmen.

My wife shared an apartment with another teacher whose "boyfriend was a used car salesman. Harold described the various tactics used in "unhorsing" a prospective buyer from his current vehicle. His most telling point was that salesmen were so imbued with the fantasies they projected that they simply were unable to tell when someone was gaming them. Anything from collusion on flipping a coin to see who paid for coffee to bribing a mechanic to say that a car was in immanent danger of collapsing in the driveway.

badbobby Loc: texas

then I guess I forgive you

bggamers Loc: georgia

THANKS