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Today is Friday, Aug 12
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!

What's a British "yob"?

It's the British version of a "yahoo".

What's a yahoo?
Way back in history, when the Wild West was the popneer towns
west of Chicago, teenagers used to get drunk on Saturday 
evening, and groups of them used to ride through town, yelling and
yahooing and firing off their guns, trying to just fire into 
the air, but quite frequently hitting an attic window. 

The term "bunch of silly yahoos" is still in use, though a 
lot of people have forgotten the origin.

While Englad didn't have a colorful history like the Wild West,
they always had a distinctly layered society, with each layer
or class having derogatory terms for members of the next
lower class.

The upper-middle-class used the word "boy" for male servants,
and in reversed back slang as "yob" for former or unemployed
male servants. By about Shakespeares time, "yob" had come
to be used as the accepted term for "uncouth or thuggish 
working-class male". 

Since about 2000, the British media seems to have dropped
that class a bit to describe "unemployed uncouth or thuggish 
working-class person", including petty crooks, male and female.
For example groups of teenage female shoplifters are now
also called "yobs".

It will be interesting to see if the current Blackberry and 
cell-phone organized riots by yobs will change the meaning
of the word again.

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Scientists have finally figured out what is wrong with politicians. 
The problem lies in the two halves of their brains -
the left and the right.  

The left half has nothing right in it 

And the right half has nothing left in it!



From Chuck:
Some friends and I were visiting a nearby city for a
football game and one of the friends was drinking
prior to and during the game. By the time we went to
dinner after the game he was "feeling no pain". Our
attractive waitress was wearing a low cut blouse and
when she asked him what he wanted he said, 
"I wanna get inna your pantsch."

She replied, "You'll have to wait your turn, sir,
there's already one dumb ass in there."



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Two golfers were waiting their turn on the tee when a naked 
woman ran across the fairway and into the woods. Two men 
in white coats and another guy carrying two buckets of sand 
were chasing her, and a little old man was bringing up the rear.

One of the golfers asked the old man,
"What the hell is going on?"

The old guy said, "She's a nymphomaniac from the asylum, 
she keeps trying to escape, and us attendants are trying to 
catch her."

The golfer said, "What about the guy with the buckets of sand?"

The old guy said, "That's his handicap. He caught her last time."



Howard picked up an attractive woman who flagged down his 
car in a seedy part of town.  As they rode, he asked her what 
she did for a living. She winked at him and said, "I'm a magician." 

"No way," he scoffed. 'Prove it." 

So she touched him on the thigh, and he turned into a motel.




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Dallas flight 111 was coming in for a landing when a combination of
mechanical errors and unstable weather caused the plane to start
plummeting to the ground! The pilot feverishly worked his controls, and
finally the engines roared back to life in time to prevent the plane
from going splat on the ground!

As the plane landed, airport officials rushed to the
disembarking gate and were stunned to see 200 midgets shakily get off
the plane. Finally the crew got off the plane and the local manager of
the airline came up to congratulate him on his perseverance under
extreme odds. As the official and the pilot were talking, the official
commented how unusual it was that there were so many midgets on the
flight.

"Those aren't midgets," the pilot replied."Those are Texans
with all the crap scared out of them. They'll be fine after a few beers."




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