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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/04/2004 : 14:33:17
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Happily, it will only rate an Honerable Mention. But give this guy a little time............
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Up Up and Away!
2004 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
This is another gem from the Short Stay Unit in Frankston Hospital:
In Australia, there was an ad campaign which encouraged parents to supervise their kids while they swam in the pool. Our Honorable Mention was one of these parents.
He was watching his kids play in the pool in the backyard. They had an aboveground pool with a trampoline next to it. The kids had a great time jumping from the trampoline into the pool. The Dad thought that would be fun.
However the Dad didnt jump from the trampoline but from the roof of the nearby garden shed. He summoned up all of his cretinous courage and leaped:
He landed on the trampoline square in the center. The trampoline launched the 40-something Dad into the air.
Dad cleared the pool...
And the back fence...
And landed on his neighbour's windscreen backside first.
It gets better. He was stuck! He couldnt get out! He called out to his kids but they were laughing too hard to get mum
He needed several stiches in his rear end and payment of his neighbours windscreen. Unfortunately the neighbour didnt see this astronaut otherwise his enforcement of payment for the windscreen perhaps would have been more lenient
The kids? Once they regained composure (apparantly a good five minutes) they went straight back jumping trampoline-to-pool.
Submitted on 04/28/2004
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
751 Posts |
 Posted - 05/04/2004 : 16:41:41 [Permalink]
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Good on us Aussies for keeping the tradition alive....
Frankston is famous for its stupidity, it is a suburb of Melbourne that never ceases to amaze....a low I.Q. is a prerequisite for living there..
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
775 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 04:15:06 [Permalink]
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Frankston is famous for its stupidity, it is a suburb of Melbourne that never ceases to amaze....a low I.Q. is a prerequisite for living there..
Frankston sounds like my kind of town. Never a dull moment, I reckon...Perhaps, I could retire there? |
"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country." Dubya in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 9/6/2004
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2004 : 04:44:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Tim
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Frankston is famous for its stupidity, it is a suburb of Melbourne that never ceases to amaze....a low I.Q. is a prerequisite for living there..
Frankston sounds like my kind of town. Never a dull moment, I reckon...Perhaps, I could retire there?
Um, not a good idea, methinks. You could have life and property threatened by trampoline propelled non-thinkers.
I wonder how much of that good Ozzy beer was in him when he made the bounce.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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