Post #269,411
10/4/06 6:37:17 PM
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Achnod goes to the doctor
Achnod the Arab came to the United States from the Middle East and he was
only here a few months when he became very ill. He went to doctor after
doctor, but none of them could help him. Finally he went to an Arab doctor who
said: "Take dees bocket, go into de odder room, poop in de bocket, pee on de
poop, and den put your head down over de bocket and breathe in de fumes for ten
minutes." Achnod took the bucket, went into the other room, pooped in the
bucket, peed on the poop, bent over and breathed in the fumes for ten minutes.
Coming back to the doctor he said, "It worked. I feel terrific! What was
wrong with me?"
The doctor said, "You were homesick!"
Quite a few places in the world that joke works for, Belize, Sierra Leone, certain parts of Alaska come to mind
thanx,
bill
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Post #269,441
10/4/06 10:08:46 PM
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Works for most big cities.
New York in the financial district has that distinct odor, as does Chicago in several areas.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #269,659
10/6/06 3:45:14 PM
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That's the ghost of the old Chicago Stockyards
combining with the exhaust of the steel mills in Gary, Indiana
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #269,671
10/6/06 4:20:50 PM
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No, this was quite local sewage exhalations.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #269,672
10/6/06 4:25:41 PM
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Were you in the far SE side near the garbage landfills?
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States.
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Post #269,682
10/6/06 5:07:29 PM
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Around the museums and near the Magnificent Mile.
Cities can't help it. That much sewage, some of it is going to go awry.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #269,799
10/7/06 6:53:28 PM
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You must be unlucky
I've been to every major museum Chicago has to offer more times than I can count, and I've never had an olfactory experience like yours.
Now, driving down I-55 and crossing the Sanitary and Ship Canal ... well, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States.
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Post #269,488
10/5/06 1:18:33 AM
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Would work for many parts of Asia, too.
I remember an item in The Borneo Post about the difficult task of teaching the general public (i.e. the local Malays!) that stairwells are not places to urinate.
Wade.
"Insert crowbar. Apply force."
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Post #269,859
10/8/06 6:24:58 PM
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Russian one
A big warm and a small worm pop their heads from a dung heap. The small one looks around and says: "Dad, how come the sun is so warm and then flowers are so bright and the air is so sweet, but we live in shit?" Dad thinks a bit and says: "You see, my son, there is such a thing as 'motherland'".
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