Monday, February 27, 2012

Euphemism

Dr. Grumpy: "Any problems on the new medication?"

Mr. Von Braun: "I can raise the missile, but can't launch a warhead."

13 comments:

  1. Why do men use war analogies for everything?

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  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKn1aSOyOs

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  3. well his wife is happy it turned him from a 15 second wonder into her boy toy.....

    Kay

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  4. My husband's father saw fit to show him his Viagra when my husband visited them. Because everybody wants to know that his dad can still raise the missile.

    This is the same father who offered to let my husband, who was then my boyfriend, and me share their shower in the master bath. "[My wife] and I shower together all the time," he boasted. I almost threw up.

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  5. Bet he can't find the right button either :-(

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  6. "Once the rockets go up / who cares where they come down
    That's not my department" / said Werner Von Braun

    - Tom Lehrer

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  7. I love Tom Lehrer!

    www.southgeek.blogspot.com

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  8. OMG, I fell off the chair laughing at that one! Just wondering how it is you did not do the same?

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  9. A friend of mine once did a stand-up comedy routine on our campus (he's actually quite good). One of his bits stemmed from the fact that his father was...well, a rocket scientist. A real one.

    But while an excellent scientist, he struggled when it came to delivering "the talk" to his son.

    So, as my friend noted, "He could program a missile so it would land within a thirty-foot radius on a target thousands of miles away. But when it came to delivering MY payload...."

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So wadda you think?