Friday, November 13, 2009
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JOKE: A guy driving a Yugo pulled up to a stoplight next to a Rolls-Royce.
A guy driving a Yugo pulled up to a stoplight next to a Rolls-Royce.
He rolled down his window and shouted to the driver of the Rolls. "Hey, buddy, that's a nice car. You got a phone in your Rolls? I've got a phone in my Yugo!"
The driver of the Rolls looked over and said snobbishly, "Yes, I have a phone."
The driver of the Yugo said, "Cool! Hey, you also got a fridge in there, too? I've got one in the back seat of my Yugo!"
The driver of the Rolls, much annoyed, says, "Yes, I have a refrigerator."
The driver of the Yugo said, "That's great, man! Hey, you got a TV in there? You know, I got a TV in the back seat of my Yugo!"
The driver of the Rolls, quite irritated by now, replied, "Of course, I have a television. A Rolls-Royce is the finest luxury car in the world!"
The driver of the Yugo said, "Yes, a very cool car! Hey, you got a bed in there? I got a bed in the back of my Yugo!"
The driver of the Rolls, upset that he did not have a bed, sped away and went straight to the dealer, where he promptly ordered a bed to be installed in the back of his Rolls-Royce.
The next morning, he returned to pick up his car, and the bed looked superb It came complete with silk sheets and a brass-trimmed headboard. It was clearly a bed fit for a Rolls-Royce. So the driver of the Rolls began searching for the Yugo. He drove around all day and finally found the Yugo late that night.
It was parked, with all the windows fogged up from the inside. He got out and knocked on the window of the Yugo. When there wasn't any answer, he continued knocking and knocking until finally, the owner of the Yugo lowered the window, and stuck his soaking wet head out.
"I now have a bed in the back of my Rolls-Royce," the driver of the Rolls stated arrogantly.
The driver of the Yugo looked at him narrowly and said, "You got me out of the shower to tell me that?!?!"
Quadruplets Born to Lesbian Couple
UK
Sitting on their mothers' knees, they could be any ordinary babies.
But these two sets of twins , born to Karen Wesolowski and Martha Padgett, are actually quadruplets .
The babies are related because they were created from Miss Padgett's eggs and donor sperm using IVF treatment . Two embryos were then implanted in each woman.
Happy family: Lesbians Karen Wesolowski, holding Sophia and Alex, and Martha Padgett, with babies Andrew and Sienna on her knee
Miss Wesolowski, a 42-year-old physical therapist, said the couple, who met nine years ago, had tried unsuccessfully for the past three years to have a baby.
'My biological clock was ticking,' she added. 'We had been trying on and off for three years and we were exhausted. We had tried using my eggs and a sperm donor and we had tried using Martha's eggs in me.
'We had literally tried everything and had spent tens of thousands of pounds on treatment. So when Martha said to me that we should both have her eggs implanted, I thought, "Why not?''.'
Feeding time: (From left to right) Sienna and Sophia, with siblings Andrew and Alex, enjoying a mushy treat
Now the pair, of Riverside, California, are happily cradling twins - one boy and one girl each - who are all quadruplet brothers and sisters.
Martha, 38, gave birth first to babies Sophia and Alex, and Karen gave birth 22 hours later to their siblings Andrew and Sienna.
'We just wanted one baby,' said Martha, 38, a nurse, who already has a ten-year-old daughter with ex-husband David.
'We wanted to have a really strong family bond which was why we originally wanted Karen to carry the baby but using my eggs.
'But that didn't work out because Karen was that bit older.'
The women met and fell in love nine years ago when they both worked a a nursing centre in Hemet, California.
Karen said: 'Initially we became friends and hung out now and then with a group of others from work.
'After about a year our friendship grew into a relationship, and a year later Martha and Julia came to live with me.'
Martha said: 'My relationship with David had ended because we'd grown apart while he was away with the military.
'Then I dated a couple of men, and never had any idea of falling for another woman, until I met Karen.'
She added: 'David is supportive of us and even spends special days with us such as Christmas and Julia's birthday.'
The couple decided to have IVF treatment to create embryos from Martha's eggs and donor sperm, and to both have them implanted, to increase their chances of conceiving.
'It's very, very expensive,' said Martha. 'You are looking at $15,000 (�7,500) a time and we had tried about five times already.
'Luckily our doctor didn't think we were mad and accepted that it was appropriate given our age and that we had tried before.
Brotherly love: Andrew and Alex (left to right) share a playful moment together
'We both had to take medication to make sure we were on the same cycle.
'The side effects were horrible, hot flushes and we were bloated. Imagine two women living together going through all of that.'
Karen added: 'I kept worrying that I was too old. I didn't want them to face discrimination because we are lesbian couple either and that was one of the biggest problems.
'I wanted to know that as they got older they would be ok.'
Karen and Martha decided to opt for an anonymous sperm donor.
Martha said: 'I had the blood test first and when it came back positive, I was thrilled of course, but still wanted to know what Karen's results were.
'And when the doctor opened the door with a smile on her face and told us we were both pregnant, we could hardly contain ourselves.
'We knew from all the research we had done on the computer that there was a chance we could each have twins.
'But we literally laughed this off.
'The idea of having quads never really occurred to us then.'
Sleeping room: The mothers have lovingly made a special room for their babies
At the three-months stage the women discovered Martha was expecting twins - and a month later they were shocked to find Karen was too.
'The doctor told us one of the twins often dies before it develops properly,' said Martha.
'And of course it was still in the very early stages so we thought it best not to worry.
'But once we heard all four heartbeats we thought, "oh my god, we are going to have quads".
'We could not believe it.'
She added: 'At one stage our doctor actually asked us if we wanted to faze one of the babies out because of the risk to us both as older mums.
'But we knew we had come so far to get to this point and couldn't turn back.'
The women never expected they would give birth on the same date - but the babies arrived within 22 hours of each other.
'I went in to have a routine check up three weeks before my due date and they noticed that I was having very small contractions,' said Martha.
'I went into surgery to have the babies and Karen was right by my side. When we heard Sophia and Alex cry we couldn't have been happier.'
Karen added: 'I went home and left Martha, Sophia and Alex at the hospital.
'I had a doctors appointment in the morning so I needed to get some rest.
'But literally just a few hours later and 22 hours after Martha had given birth we were proud parents again.
She couldn't be by my side because I was at a different hospital but everything seemed to happen so quickly that I didn't mind.'
One of Karen's babies, Andrew, suffered breathing problems and had to stay in hospital for several weeks, but her daughter Sienna was fine and healthy.
'It was tough having to have one baby home at a time,' she said.
'But eventually we had them all together again.'
'We both breastfed,' said Martha. 'So, when one baby woke up one of us would get up and feed them, and then when another woke the other would feed.
'It's been really hard with four babies. But we're so thrilled, knowing they're all related and can help each other through life.'
Karen added: 'Now we have four babies who are all brothers and sisters. Our family is complete.'
note: this occured July 30,2008 but the issues and questions remain the same
Verizon: We Can't Set Up Your Account "Because Your Name Has Sh*t In It"
Meet Dr. Herman I. Libshitz, a retired radiologist and potential Verizon customer who would like DSL. Sadly, Dr. Libshitz was informed that he could not use his name in his email address or as his user name because it has "shit" in it.
He tried his best to escalate the complaint with Verizon, but had little luck. First, he called the help line:
"We called their help line, and got a wonderful young man in the Philippines who told us:
" 'We can't install it because your name has - in it.' "
I asked the doctor how I was going to print that. He said, "Just say it's a word contained in Libshitz."
He had no luck with a supervisor, so he called the billing disputes number and reached another supervisor who promised to investigate and have someone contact him because " the only person who could help was in Tampa, and that man would have to call India to get them to change the computer code." No one called back.
Finally, he got a letter informing him that he could not use his name as a username because it didn't comply with Verizon's policy.
It took calls from the Philadelphia Inquirer to get Verizon to deal with Dr. Libshitz and his "questionable" name, and that's what bothers him. He told the Inquirer that what he wants "is for these people at least to stand at attention to explain themselves. I don't know if you've ever tried to get to Verizon. . . . You cannot get to them. They are insulated from things like this." Unless you work for a newspaper, that is.
Here's Verizon's official response:
"As a general rule (since 2005) Verizon doesn't allow questionable language in e-mail addresses, but we can, and do, make exceptions based on reasonable requests. The one from Dr. and Mrs. Libshitz certainly is reasonable and we regret the inconvenience and frustration they've been caused."
JOKE: Grandpa and the Viagra
There was a family gathering, with all generations around the table. Mischievous teenagers put a Viagra tablet into Grandpa's drink, and after a while, Grandpa excused himself because he had to go to the bathroom.
When he returned, however, his trousers are wet all over. "What happened, Grandpa?" he is asked by his concerned children.
"Well," he answered, "I don't really know. I had to go to the bathroom. So I took it out and started to pee, but then I saw that it wasn't mine, so I put it back!"
~WHIRLED GNUS~
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