An old lady was rocking away the last of her days on her front porch, reflecting on her long life. All of a sudden, a fairy godmother appeared in front of her and informed her that she would be granted three wishes.
The old lady made her first wish, “I guess I would like to be really, really rich.”
POOF! A huge pile of money appeared next to her on the porch!
She smiled and said, “Gee, I guess I wouldn’t mind being young and beautiful again.”
POOF! She turned into a beautiful young woman.
“Your third wish?” asked the fairy godmother.
Just then the old woman’s cat wandered across the porch in front of them.
“Can you change my cat into a handsome young man?” she asked.
POOF! Before her stood a young man more handsome than anyone she could possibly imagine.
As her fairy godmother flew away, the handsome young man sauntered across the porch and whispered in her ear, “Now I bet you’re really sorry you had me neutered!”
Two marijuana plants walked into a bar and sat next to a couple of Viagra pills. As the marijuana plants mulled over their drinks, they lamented the fact that in most places they were still considered illegal.
The Viagra pills overheard the conversation and scoffed. They remarked how they felt marijuana should be illegal everywhere.
The Marijuana plants tried to explain their case to the Viagra pills, but to no avail.
Finally the bartender came over and explained to the marijuana plants, “It’s no use trying to convince them, They’re hard on drugs.”
My family has three sacred holidays. The most important is Christmas, followed by Thanksgiving, and then there is Easter. Our family clan has gathered on the 4th of July only once, but that’s usually a “Do your own thing” holiday just like New Year’s and Labor day. And outside of the day off work, Memorial day doesn’t get much love either.
Typically though, we will have about one or two non-holiday family gatherings during the summer, but that’s about it.
It was almost weird not having Easter this year. I say “almost” because in recent years, I could take it or leave it. Traditionally my dad hosts Easter, and he’s gotten much older and crankier. Going over and helping him set things up is a true test of patience that I don’t have anymore.
He had a strong tendency to get pissed and fly off the handle at me for absolutely no valid reason. He would go off on stupid shit like merely asking, “Hey Dad, where do you want me to put the cooler?” His dementia fueled tantrums has driven me to the point where I have to outright refuse to help him set up for family gatherings.
So I’m not sad that Easter got the ax. If anything, it’s kind of nice that I didn’t have to put up with the stress of it all this year.
Hopefully you and yours are also enjoying a low stress Easter.
Kudos
Thanks to Glenn and George for providing me with jokes this week. Our submission page is still open as is my email address at flush2x@gmail.com. Please consider contributing a joke or two.
“When you’re 89, dementia develops. I mean, I’ve told a story onstage, and I’m telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.” ― Jerry Lewis
A travel agent looked up from his desk to see an older lady and an older gentleman peering in the shop window at the posters showing the glamorous destinations around the world.
Having had had a good week, the agent experienced a rare feeling of generosity towards the dejected looking couple outside his window.
He called them into his shop and explained, “I know that on your pension you could never hope to have a holiday, so I am sending you off to a fabulous resort at my expense, and I won’t take no for an answer.”
The travel agent then had his secretary to write two flight tickets and book a room in a five-star hotel. The two gladly accepted the opportunity, and were on their way.
About a month later the little lady came into his shop.
“And how did you like your holiday?” the agent asked eagerly.
“The flight was exciting and the room was lovely,” she said. “I’ve come to thank you. But, one thing puzzled me. Who was that old guy I had to share the room with?”
A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog.
The children fell to discussing the dog’s duties.
“They use him to keep crowds back,” said one youngster.
“No,” said another, “he’s just for good luck.”
Then a third child brought the argument to a close. “They use the dog,” she said firmly, “to find the fire hydrant.”
A farmer in Alabama was driving across a bridge in his pickup truck when he noticed a man standing on the rail of the bridge ready to jump to his death in the river below.
The farmer stopped his truck, ran up to the man and said, “Hey, why are you doing this?”
The man replied, “Well, I have nothing to live for.”
The farmer replied, “Well, think of your wife and children!”
The jumper replied, “I have no wife or children.”
“Well, then think of your mother and father!”
The man replied, “Mom and Dad passed on many years back.”
The Alabama man then said, “Well, think of General Robert E. Lee!”
The would-be jumper replied, “Who?”
With that the farmer said, “Jump you damn Yankee, jump!”
So in my continuing operating system saga, I have once again returned to the Linux Mint Debian Edition (aka LMDE). On March 20, version 4 was released. Being the sentimental type, I just had to try it out.
Debian is one of the greatest distros out there, but getting it installed and correctly configured can be quite the hassle. LMDE is much easier to install and is essentially a Debian box with all the bells and whistles preconfigured.
My biggest beef with LMDE is that they no longer provide a version that comes with the MATE desktop environment. The Cinnamon desktop is now the only option, and quite frankly I don’t like it very much.
For those who don’t know, the desktop environment is what you see on your computer. It provides the look and feel, and is one of the most important aspects of a Linux system. If a distro doesn’t support your preferred desktop environment, it’s a definite deal breaker! That’s why last time I jumped ship from LMDE (Debian) to Linux Mint (Ubuntu).
Now don’t misunderstand- You can install whatever desktop environment you want on any distro, but if your distro doesn’t “support” it, you’re on your own, and things might not work like they’re supposed to.
Fortunately this time around there is an EASY fix. After installing LMDE (which only comes with Cinnamon), I opened the terminal and typed the command “sudo tasksel”. It’s like a one-stop-wonder for installing preconfigured software. I selected the MATE option and it did all the work for me!
Once MATE was installed, I logged out, switched to the MATE desktop, logged back in, and used the software manager to delete Cinnamon. Now I’m back home again, and everything works like it’s supposed to!
I realize that Linux is not for everyone, but I’ve just become really comforable and accustomed to the MATE desktop environment. Windows kept changing their layout from 7, to 8, to 10, and now there is another version of 10 again. Meanwhile, MATE kept everything the same, and I like that kind of stability in my life.
“You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?” ― Richard Bach
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What is Flush Twice?
Flush Twice has been around since May of 2003. It started out as a JOTD (Joke of the Day) website. New jokes were published every weekday. Over the years, good jokes were increasingly hard to come by, and eventually they got so rare that I just stopped trying to publish them.
Since 2004 there has also been an eponymous comic. I still occasionally publish a new one on Saturdays. It’s also rare anymore, but sometimes it happens.
Here lately I’ve been posting a “Link of the Day”. For the time being, I will be featuring a new website from my enormous collection of bookmarked websites every weekday. None of it is solicited promotions, and no one is paying me to feature their site. These are just websites that at one time I thought were interesting enough to add to my bookmarks folder.
I highly encourage using some kind of ad blocking extension before clicking on any of these links. You’ll also hear me say this phrase a lot about these posts: “They can’t all be winners.” But it’s better than just leaving the site abandoned.
The jokes were generously provided by friends and visitors such as yourself. I want to express my eternal thanks to everyone over the years who helped contribute to the collection.
So what is it that makes a joke funny?
It all boils down to a sudden shift in perception. The story starts you thinking one way, then the punchline turns that thinking on its ear. The art of the joke is to craft a short story that isn’t overly contrived, then deliver a punchline that suddenly shifts your perception about the story you were being told.
Many of the jokes on this site are offensive, and I make no apologies for it. Offensive jokes work by making the reader uncomfortable through the use of a taboo subject thus enhancing the underlying humor. Without the offensive element, the joke would simply not be as funny.