Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:55:29 -0500 (EST) From: Words Are Just Noise Subject: BLAGUES-L: Fodder + Nagging [ Two short jokes today (/jg) ] Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:16:21 EST From: RNIL1970 For a couple of weeks after Hurricane Bonnie drenched the Eastern seaboard of the USA, farmers had to spread great stacks of alfalfa and hay and timothy grass out in the fields to dry. Some of them prayed for the weather not to be cloudy, so the feed their livestock will need this winter would be dry and good, not moldy. ... "They prayed for the fodder, in the sun, on the whole East Coast." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:37:10 -0500 From: Frédéric Seers Why nagging does NOT work: What a woman says: "This place is a mess! C'mon, you and I need to clean up, your stuff is lying on the floor and you'll have no clothes to wear, if we don't do laundry right now!" What a man hears: "blah, blah, blah, blah, C'MON blah, blah, blah, blah, YOU AND I blah, blah, blah, blah, ON THE FLOOR blah, blah, blah, blah, NO CLOTHES blah, blah, blah, blah, RIGHT NOW"