Sunday, August 18, 2019

Ah, Young Love (Cajun Joke) and Sunday Selections

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Just because Sandee of Comedy Plus is no longer hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, do not expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes, especially as it has now become a habit.

Little Girl came in and sat down with a sigh.

"Are all men like Alston?" she asked.

Boyfriend trouble?

"Yesterday I reminded him that I am going to a party tomorrow night at my friend Maggie's house, and he's angry.  He says I never told him about the party, but I did tell him, over a month ago when I got the invitation.  We knew he couldn't come because he will be on orders, but he's mad at me and I think he's jealous."

Remind him that you are going to your friend Maggie's house, not your friend John, not your friend Charles, Maggie.  He has no reason to be jealous.  And you did tell him, but he heard and did not retain the information.  Next time, text him a picture of your calendar so he can't say you never told him.

Boudreaux an' Clothile's girl Aline done been havin' trouble wit' de garçon she done be seein'.  One day, she be talkin' on de phone, tryin' be quiet 'cause she not want to be rude wit' de phone.

De garçon, Pierre, done get suspicion 'cause she not bein' loud on de phone, an' he say, "Who you be talkin' to?  Do you be cheatin' on me?  You be seein' someone else?"

An' fin'ly Aline look at him and say, "Mais, if dere would be someone else, do you t'ink I would date you?"


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Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files.  The rules have been relaxed, and it is now simply a showcase for your photos, new or old, good or bad, although nothing rude, please.  It is now hosted by Elephant's Child.     

How about a few old photos for old time's sake:








































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Today is:

Bad Poetry Day -- Wellcat Holidays suggests you get back at your high school English teacher for making you read all that "good" poetry; get together with friends, write some truly awful stuff, and mail it to him/her!

Dog Day Road Race -- Harvey Cedars, NJ, US (sponsored by the High Point Volunteer Fire Company)

Long Tan Day a/k/a Vietnam Veterans Day -- Australia

Mail Order Catalog Day -- the first one was published by Montgomery Ward this day in 1872, and was only one page (Do yourself a favor and opt out of the doggone things, save a few trees: www.catalogchoice.org )

National Ice Cream Pie Day

National Science Day -- Thailand

National Soft Ice Cream Day

Parsi New Year/Shahenshahi -- MH, India

Rushbearing -- Macclesfield Forest and St. Stephens Church Forest Chapel, Cheshire, England (ancient tradtion of bringing new rushes, plaited in traditional weaves, to carpet the church and keep it warm, always on the first Sunday after Aug. 12)

Serendipity Day -- and it's here serendipitously! begun by writer Madeleine Kay, it's the day to step out of routine, do something you've always wanted to do, and see what happens

St. Agapitus' Day (Patron of Palestrina, Italy; against colic)

St. Helena's Day (Mother of Constantine the Great; Patron of archaeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, dyers, empresses, nail smiths, needle makers; Birkirkara, Malta; Helena, MT, US; against fire and thunder)

Toge-Pogling Season begins -- Fairy Calendar (Toges are normally pogled in groups of five or six, depending upon the size and strength of the individual Poge)


Birthdays Today:

Andy Samberg, 1978
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 1970
Christian Slater, 1969
Edward Norton, 1969
Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, 1962
Madeleine Stowe, 1958
Patrick Swayze, 1952
Elayne Boosler, 1952
Martin Mull, 1943
Robert Redford, 1936
Roberto Clemente Walker, 1934
Roman Polanski, 1933
Luc Montagnier, 1932
Rosalynn Carter, 1927
Shelley Winters, 1920
Greta Garbo, 1905
Max Factor, 1904
Meriwether Lewis, 1774
Virginia Dare, 1587 (first English child born in the Americas)


Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Private Lives"(Play), 1930
"Iphigénie"(Racine's dramatic tragedy), 1674


Today in History:

Founding of the oldest known Roman temple to Venus, BC293
Rome is occupied and plundered by Visigoths under King Alarik I, 410
Death of Genghis Khan (fell from his horse), 1227
A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the Japanese province of Higo, 1541
The Boston, Massachusetts Evening Post begins publishing, 1735
Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1834
Pierre Janssan discovers helium, 1868
German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers, 1903.
Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River, 1909
A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless, 1917
19th US Amendment ratified (gives women the vote), 1920
Premier of The Wizard of Oz, 1939
The first commercially produced oral contraceptives are marketed, 1960
James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi, 1963
Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies, 1977
Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, 2005
Columbia's Chiribiquete National Park expands to 3 million hectares from 1.2 million hectares, becoming one of the Amazon's largest protected zones, 2013
Civilian researchers led by Paul Allen re-discover the USS Indianapolis 18,000 feet below the Pacific surface, 72 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, 2017
Food matter found in the 3,200 year old tomb of Ptahmes, an official of Memphis, Egypt, is confirmed to be cheese, the oldest evidence yet of cheesemaking, 2018

10 comments:

  1. Echoing Ec, beautiful photos. Love the tiny kitties.

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  2. Apparently there is an unlimited number of good Cajun jokes. Somehow the punch lines are always funnier with the Cajun touch.

    Man Rule:
    One month advance notification to a man is no notification. One month is just a casual mention that needs to be reinforced at least once a week and twice the week before the event.

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  3. Bwahahaha! I'll remember this joke!
    Hey, Husby has a shirt exactly like that one!
    And I'm interested in knowing how to 'bullyrag' an animal...

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  4. Wonderful post and fun Cajun joke ~ and I do love those kitty and dog photos ~ ^_^ Others are great too!

    Happy Day to You,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  5. Love those pictures, the demanding male human, not so much.

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  6. I enjoyed all the photos and as always the Cajun joke haha!

    Nice post :-)

    Have a cajuntastic Sunday :-)

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  7. Cute joke. Great photos, you got a little bit of everything in there :)

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  8. Love the Man Rule in the comments above. So true! Actually it's a pretty good Old Lady rule, too, I think. I seem to need constant reminders about things.

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