Sunday, January 18, 2009

How Cold Was It?

                    How Cold Was It? It Was So Cold....

 - kids were using a new excuse to stay up late: "But Mom,
           my pajamas haven't thawed out yet!"


 - when kids go outside to play, they can only go as far
       as the extension cord will allow.

 - if you pee'd your pants, you'd either have to have them
       chiseled off or be stuck in them until the spring thaw.

 - groping in crowds was considered acceptable as long as
        you were wearing big woolly mittens.


 - we had to carry around hammers and chisels so we could
       get out of our parkas.


 - Levi Strauss started manufacturing electric jeans.

 - perps wouldn't take off their mitts when they were arrested....
       their fingerprint charts were just big mitten smudges.

 - the optician was giving away free ice scrapers with
       every new pair of eyeglasses.


 - the Statue of Liberty was seen sticking that torch
        under her robe.


 - you need the wallpaper steamer to get undressed.

 - "blanket suffocation" is now the number one cause of
        fatalities.


 - Playboy magazine stopped publishing because no women
        would take their clothes off.


 - the computer store was selling giant keyboards so
        people could type with mittens.


 - "hot pants" started selling again.... until people
         figured out they weren't.


 - kids had to stay inside all week.... parents are now
       organizing a "teacher appreciation day."


 - anyone with a body temperature near 104°F was in danger
       of being hauled out of their sickbed and used as a heater.


 - firefighters couldn't convince people to get out of
        their houses when they caught fire.


 - we had to chop up the piano for firewood.... but we
        only got two chords.

 - we didn't clean the house, we just defrosted it.

 - the lights would only go on in the house when someone
        opened the door.


 - I tried to take the garbage out, but it didn't want to go.

 - we pulled everything out of the freezer and huddled
       inside it to warm up.


 - when I turned on the shower, I got hail.

 - I chipped a tooth on my soup!

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