Friday Smiles: Welcome Spring

I'm a bit late today because I'm still adjusting to the time change.  Let's try to find a bit of springtime humor today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Spring, everyone, and thanks for dropping by. 

 

Let's celebrate

 

 

 

Happy Pi Day everyone. Thanks for joining Bleubeard and me in this celebration.

 

 

Friday Smiles 107: Lexophile

This is not a dirty word, but, according to The Community Dictionary:

lexophile - a lover of words, one who derives pleasure from various use of words, who appreciates the nuances surrounding different words, and who is alert to synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homonyms, often using them for effect, sometimes in humor.

So, today I'm sharing a few lexophiles with you and Annie at A Stitch in Time, where she hosts our weekly Friday Smiles.  What a great way to start the weekend.

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, then it hit me!

Police were called to a day-care center where a 3 year old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?  He's all right now.

The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.

In a democracy it's your vote that counts.  In feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

And possibly my favorite this week:

Writing with a broken pencil is pointless.

Don't forget to visit Annie for more smiles, and maybe a few laughs, too. She'd love for you to join her, too.

It's a sign of the times

Have a super Halloween!

A bit of nonspecific humor

Trivia I got in an e-mail;

1. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and"lollipop" with the right hand.
2. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
3. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
4. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
5. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
6. The words "racecar," "kayak," and "level" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
7. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
8. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say. a e i o u)
9. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
10. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
11. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
12. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
13. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
14. A snail can sleep for three years.
15. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
16. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
17. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
18. February, 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
19. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
20. If the population of China walked past you, eight abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
21. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
22. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
23. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
24. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
25. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
26. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
27. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
28. There are more chickens than people in the world.
29. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
30. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
31. The game of Roulette was created by French mathematician Blaise Pascal, which he discovered when doing experiments into perpetual motion.
32. J. Paul Getty earned infamy for noting: "A billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be."
33. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was training to be a priest when he got turned on to Marxism.
34. Jimmy Carter saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia fetch $5,000 at auction.
35. Fidel Castro's real first name is Ruz.
36. The world's largest soccer stadium is the Maracana in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
37. Instant coffee was invented by Joel Cheek.
38. MERICAN AIRLINES saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
39. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

I'm still gone, so I hope this brought a bit of fun to you today.