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I mowed my grass yesterday afternoon, and got rather hot doing it. I then put my head under a cold shower and swept it back behind my ears and brought the back to a point behind. Then I went to fetch my wife from the railway station.
"What have you done with your hair? Have you cut it?"
Oh no - just wetted it. Ha ha ha!
Glad you didn't cut it.
Am I the only one who hates April fools day? When I think of April fools day the first thing I think of was in the 1970s when a
a local tv station in Boston ran an April fools joke that Blue Hills was erupting. (Never mind that it wasn't a volcano and can't erupt). Well panic ensued, a there were many auto accidents, a number of injuries, property damage, etc. I have to wonder how many of those are still dealing with the injuries sustained all these years later.
That just shows a little stupidity goes a long way.
I remember when Johnny Carson, the host of the Tonight Show, said that there was a toilet paper shortage, which was a joke and completely false. People all over the country panicked, and they ran out and bought up every roll they could find. They ended up creating a shortage.
An even worse panic was the non-existent "oil shortage" in 1973. People mobbed gas stations and burned up so much gas waiting in lines to top off their tanks, that a shortage resulted.
Bill
That actually was a real shortage. It was the Yom Kippur war
in the middle east and the arab nations shut dowh the xupply of
oil. I still vividly remember it and the long lines at the
few stations that gas. While you'd be waiting in line they would come by and raise the price. Here in this part of the US of a it was a very real nightmare.
The shortage was regional, and mostly fed by hysteria. I lived in a rural area at the time, where gas stations normally got a few customers an hour. Doubling that due to tank toppers didn't cause any lines, and I never once found any station to have no gas.
The hysteria spread to using electricity, and I knew the guy who ran the local power plant. He said the hysteria was hurting him financially, because people were using less electricity, while the pile of coal behind the power plant was as big as ever. On TV they were telling people to turn down their thermostats, while the local mine continued to dig up as much coal as people wanted, and people who heated their houses with free gas from the local wells continued to use it, because otherwise it just would have been burned off.
Bill
That is your region. I worked at a number of gas stations
and we had so much volume that we would get gas deliveries
every day. These were very busy locations. And one day without a delivery and we were out of gas. These stations were in urban
lcoations. (There were company owned stations, the company provided the gas from the tank farm behind corporate headquarters which was nearby.
That's a great one Anthony! But please don't go too far and get your wife mad! She might want you to really cut it! We don't want that!
Ted
I am also glad you didn't cut..
The Spaf Man...