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2007.Jun. 8

Rocky II, III, IV Decisions Overturned After Stallone Caught With Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Category: 7 - Wit, k - steroids – DrMike – 00.10

Zwiebel Press is reporting that “In the wake of last month’s shocking revelation that actor Sylvester Stallone had been caught with the illegal human growth hormone Jintropin at an Australian airport, the World Boxing Association, in a joint decision with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Actors Guild, has overturned the uplifting, feel-good endings of Rocky II, III, and IV, sources said Monday.” . . .

2005.Oct. 16

Report: 92 Percent Of Souls In Hell There On Drug Charges

Category: 6 - Social Policy, 7 - Wit – DrMike – 23.33

A reputable US publication reported the following from Hell on October 12: HELL—A report released Monday by the Afterlife Civil Liberties Union indicates that nine out of 10 souls currently serving in Hell were condemned on drug-related sins.

“Hell was created to keep dangerous sinners off the gold-paved streets of Heaven,” ACLU spokesman Barry Horowitz said. “But lately, it’s become a clearing-house for the non-evil souls that Heaven doesn’t know how to deal with.”

(NB: this report is not for the faint of heart or stomach… .)

2005.Aug. 24

The untrustworthy puritan… .

Category: 7 - Wit – DrMike – 21.03

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatever. (Mark Twain)

2005.Aug. 23

The price of gasoline… .

Category: 7 - Wit – DrMike – 09.07

Everyone of us out here in the land of sunshine and second mortgages, is hustling from bank to bank, trying to renew our notes. A man has to be careful nowadays, or he will burn up more gasoline trying to get a loan than the loan is worth. (Will Rogers)

2005.Aug. 22

The value of books… .

Category: 7 - Wit – DrMike – 21.05

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. (attributed to A. Lincoln)