From the March 5 edition of a favorite blog, Wordsmith.org: Poet Carl Sandburg once described slang as “a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.” Nothing wrong with words in a tie and suit, but sometimes only slang can do the job.
And a new addition to the Blogs I like list: Photographs, poetry, musings at http://photosbymartina.wordpress.com Thanks to Pat Bean for mentioning this in the Bean’s Pats section of her blog.
The following showed up in my spam box from a couple of old sailors hanging out in Mexico.
EIGHT THOUGHTS TO PONDER
Number 8
Life is sexually transmitted.
Number 7
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Number 6
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich .
Number 5
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.
Number 4
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospitals, dying of nothing.
Number 3
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
Number 2
In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
And The Number 1 Thought
Life is like a jar of Jalapeno peppers–what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
– – – and as someone recently said to me:
“Don’t worry about old age–it doesn’t last that long.”
A Year on the Road 
Love them all- truth can be hilarious- laughing out loud here. I especially like the one about health nuts dying of nothing. I have to run these off- too good. I remember laughing, also, at a book of Churchill’s quotes- so subtle, so appropriate…e.g. At a dinner party a very arrogant lady approached him and said “Mr. Churchill, I believe you are drunk!” He looked her over and said “Yes, Madam- I am drunk and tomorrow I will be sober. You are ugly and tomorrow, you will still be ugly”.
I laughed outloud at the one – Men have two emotions; Hungry and Horny. Boy, I can attest to that! And as to which comes first, depends on the man! They are all fun observations. I like the one also – Life is sexually transmitted.
Glad you got the kick I was sure you would.
AL
As to #6, also depends on his appetite
Al,
There are some gems around, keep digging. And since you got this from others, you won’t mind me re-harvesting.
Great Comments
Particularly when yesterday’s x ray noted SEVERE degenerative cervical disc in the neck. I Used to call that “a pain in the neck” Thanks for the postings John
Hey, I want some credit here having sent you this a few days ago…which of course I got from somewhere else. DG
I’m glad you sifted through your spam folder to mine these humorous nuggets.