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.The next time you feel nobody loves you, think of these:



In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 am, regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the super natural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11 Sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents. The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits. Just when the clock struck 11, Burt Smith, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner.

Still Having a Bad Day?

The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska was $80,000.00. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.

Still think you are having a Bad
Day?

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his IPod.

OK now? - No?


Two animal rights defenders were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all 2,000 pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly. The two helpless protesters were trampled to death.

STILL having a Bad Day?


A terrorist didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with 'Return to Sender' stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb; he opened it and was blown to bits.

God is Good!

(Stereotypical names changed & removed)

LOL, .. no i'm not having a bad day ...:)))
Hazelx

Mildred;
My day is getting better by the minute- lol

And reading Snopes is always almost as much fun. ;)

http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.asp

I have one of my usual little niggles thtat stops this from being just funny (fake stuff is funny too!).

"Pookie" ... a pretty stereotypical African-American name, and stands in for stereotypical characteristics ascribed to African-Americans (lazy and dumb).

It's always a shame when jokes invoke such stereotypes, completely unnecessarily.

This wouldn't be obvious to someone on that side of the ocean receiving or circulating the joke, but it was no secret to the person who made it up.


https://kenhoma.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/the-pookie-effect-no-i-didnt-make-pookie-up/

... Pookie emerges as a stock character of the black popular imagination, a name that has come to personify the kind of layabout kin who, if endearing, is also a source of some embarrassment and consternation to his more successful relations.

“Pookie means a whole lot of different things; none of them are good.”

Pookie is the kind of ghetto character played by Cedric the Entertainer or Chris Tucker in one of those “Barbershop” or “Friday” movies. In the 1960s and ’70s, he would have gone by Leroy, Tyrone or Otis.

Pookie goes way back, but he has come into his own only in the last decade, as a “metaphor for kin … who everybody knows is just a little trifling and a little lazy.”

raflmao.point taken.

WOW!!
the things yer lern on 't internet!!

Bob

Made up or not, it gave me a laugh anyway.

As for "pookie" referring to race - I'm English so have never heard that term, I thought it was the blokes name, so therefore I'm sorry & there was no offence intended by me & I apologise to anyone I've offended posting this thread.

I got sent the funnies (by a fellow Brit) & I thought I'd make someone else smile - again sorry for that too.

(Off to FB now as I dont feel up to having my rare posts analized)

BYE !

lmaooo im havign a great day hahah x

That made me chuckle Mildred,
anymore to cheer me up? lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trish

I think I've heard the term before but didn't realise there was a reference to race. I thought it was a pet name given to babies. Garfield has a teddy called Pookie. I think some things are lost on us Brits.

I've noticed that you haven't posted much Mildred. Hope things are ok with you. ~~~~

I know that Mildred -- I know no one here who read "Pookie" would know what it was all about, and I know no offence at all was intended in posting it here and no one would have been offended, not even me by the posting off it. And I'm pretty sure I said that. Yup. I did.

What it just goes to show is how insidious and endemic racism is, that someone in the US can't just make up an innocently funny joke without slipping in an ugly stereotype.

No offence to you was intended by me mentioning it, and I wasn't analyzing your post, I was commenting on the content that you did not originate.

SO LONG THEN! Enjoy wherever you're going.

SRS, it definitely is a pet name. It's just that it's more recently also the stand-in for dumb lazy black man. Truly. That's why it was used in that joke. But once again I'll say: I am 100% sure that Mildred had no idea about that, and almost as sure that nobody else here would get it.

I guess that if anyone were to forward it back across the ocean where people do know what it's saying, they just might want to think a minute and maybe change the name.

The white equivalent appears to be Jethro. ;)

But hey, Nigel would work.

Or perhaps Vicky .......

Of course, it's also interesting to note that Iraqi terrorists aren't exactly a dime a dozen in the real world, just handy stereotypes.

Snopes notes:

Interestingly, a 1966 Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon titled "Sugar and Spies" contains a segment where the coyote attempts to mail a letter bomb to his nemesis. The rigged package marked "postage due" is returned by the road runner disguised as a postman. But of course the coyote opens it, blowing himself up.


When you think about it, I guess all those funny tales are about tree-hugging commie pinkos and their friends getting their come-uppance ...

Oh I hate it when people change meanings of existing words.

To be honest JC, I didn't read your post to mean that Mildred knew this and posted the joke intentionally. I should imagine (in fact I don't need to imagine) you'd be far more forthright if you did :)

Yeah, especially since I said:


This wouldn't be obvious to someone on that side of the ocean receiving or circulating the joke, but it was no secret to the person who made it up.


;)

Did you also notice Janey, that in all the devices that Wil e Coyote,or Road Runner , used were all made or supplied by the " Acme" ( something or other )manufacturing company

Acme meaning the best....Highest etc.....??

Bob

I'm back & feeling a bit better than I did last night, came out with a streaming cold this morning (thanks kids in school lol )

Sorry I got a bit snappy x & thanks Janey for pointing that out, I just felt a bit bad that I'd taken the p out of someone because of their colour with ouut realizing it. :o((

I'm going to change the name now to ged rid of this stereotype x