JOKER'S CORNER

[Edwin]

This is funny, and at the same time it isn't. I guess they used to, and maybe they still do, make cameras that you can see through the view finder even with the lense cap on. I had an education instructor who told us that he took a scenic tour on a train up into Canada, or maybe Alaska or both; it has been so long now since he told us this, that I can't remember all the details. Anyway he took lots of pictures, and even risked his life getting close to bears to try to get good close pictures of them. Then he discovered that he had been taking the pictures with the lense cap on. He didn't get any pictures. It was sad for him, but when he was telling us about it he was laughing, and that is the way many sad things are after a little time has elapsed, they then become funny.

I had a camera for a while when they used film that you got developed after taking the pictures. We went to a wedding of a relative of our son-in-law. Our granddaughter was a little girl then, now she is a senior in high school. But she was the flower girl at this wedding. I took my camera, and took lots of pictures of the wedding and her in it, only to discover that I had been trying to take the pictures with no film in the camera. I got no pictures.

When I went to the Philippines I didn't know anything about this camera that I used. I bought it for Carol in 2006 when she went to the Philippines. I asked her how to use it, and she told me it was very simple, and all I had to do was push the button. Well it was that simple to her because she used it so much and for so long a period of time that it was simple for her to use, but not for me. I took too many pictures in low light conditions without using the flash. What I saw on the display screen looked like a good picture, but after taking pictures for 2 weeks I discovered that I took lots of pictures that I thought would be good, and they were failures. Carol told me that she can lighten them up, so it would be a total loss, and then for a number of them the lighting was right without a flash, so I did get some good pictures, but I took many of them that are worthless. There might be a setting that allows the camera to decide if a fill in flash is needed, and the one I used when I knew conditions were too dark was the manual flash. Next time I will try a little harder to figure out that camera before I leave for the Philippines, and maybe I will have more good pictures.

[red]

Is this a spam? ha ha i mean scam...

[Edwin]

Is this a spam? ha ha i mean scam...

A funny thing about spam. When we were in the Philippines Al, Claire, and some of Claire's family members and myself all went to the grocery store. We bought some spam as Al said he was hungry for it. Then later we had spam sandwitches, three slices of spam in between two slices of bread, and that brought back some old memories.

My parents were cattle ranchers, and my Dad would not eat balogna or hotdogs, because he sold some cows at the sale that were not in very good condition, and he said he knew they went to make balogna and hotdogs, so he would not eat them, and none of us ate them. We never had any spam in the house, and I didn't even know it existed. I lived with my older brother and his family as much during the summer as I lived at home because I worked for my older brother as well as working for my parents. My sister-in-law heated spam and put the spam in sandwiches. That is the first time I ever remember eating spam, and I liked it. The downside was that the grease ran down onto my pants, making a large grease spot on otherwise nice looking pants.

I have not read the labels, but I think my Dad classified spam the same as balogna and hotdogs, and they were all taboo at our house.

I think my first experience with the word scam was when I was substitute teaching in the middle school special education room. This particular room had mostly behaviorally challenged children. That means they were a pain for the teacher! They were out to have fun at my expense, and they did, not necessarily to be mean to me, but to just do their own thing. They deceived me as to what they were supposed to be doing. The teacher was actually in the building working on other things. He came by, and I think he was as mad at me as he was at the kids, because I was letting them take advantage of me. He told me that the kids were scamming me. Before that time I had not heard the word used that way. Another friend of mine who was also a teacher took that job later, and he told me that he never had trouble with the kids; he just let them do whatever they wanted to do. So everyone has his/her own idea about what works, and what works for one doesn't work for the next guy. I tried to strike a happy medium, not being too strict, and at the same time not being too permissive, and I got along well, and did it for 10 years which is more than most substitute teachers last.

[Edwin]

I just thought of a song that my older brother taught me when I was a little guy:

I went to the boss to draw my roll
He figured me out $9.00 in the hole
Come a ky, yuy, yippy, yippy,yah, yippy yah, Come a ky, yuy, yippy yippy yah.

Another song he taught me:

Oh, it ain't a gonna rain no more, no more

Oh, it ain't a gonna rain no more

How in the heck, is Leo going to wash his neck,

If it aint a gonna rain no more!

[Edwin]

Our daughters got started to making snow icecream. You go out and gather clean white snow. Then you mix sweetened condensed milk in it, and I'm not sure about the rest of the ingredients. In any case you avoid gathering yellow snow as that is where the animals have been!

[edeline]

One day a province goes to the city. He goes to the a very expensive hotel.

The crew carries his luggages. While in the elevator, the man asks


Man: What is this? Is this my room? I am from a province but you can't fool me.
I might be innocent but I know the room should not be like this.
What is this? only light in here? No cr, no bed and no aircon.
This is not big. Is this the room that I have paid for so much?
Where is your manager, I need to talk?

Crew: Sir don't get too excited. You are still in the elevator. You are not yet in your room. You will be there don't worry.

[Tigger82d]

Our daughters got started to making snow icecream. You go out and gather clean white snow. Then you mix sweetened condensed milk in it, and I'm not sure about the rest of the ingredients. In any case you avoid gathering yellow snow as that is where the animals have been!

I use what milk I have in the fridge along with sugar and vanilla. Theres no real recipe its just add til its right for your taste buds, and yep its a great frozen treat. Once again I agree with you, don't eat the yellow snow. That reminds me, have you ever written your name in the snow standing up? lol

[Edwin]

Our daughters got started to making snow icecream. You go out and gather clean white snow. Then you mix sweetened condensed milk in it, and I'm not sure about the rest of the ingredients. In any case you avoid gathering yellow snow as that is where the animals have been!

I use what milk I have in the fridge along with sugar and vanilla. Theres no real recipe its just add til its right for your taste buds, and yep its a great frozen treat. Once again I agree with you, don't eat the yellow snow. That reminds me, have you ever written your name in the snow standing up? lol

Never thought of that, never tried that! I have wondered sometimes if someone would know that I had been there. When I was a high school kid I did get caught, when I got off the tractor in a large field thinking I was alone, and here drove up this car on a road that divided the field. I knew the people well to which made it worse!

[Edwin]

When I walk the dogs, Scooby and Rand, I sometimes relieve myself at the gate by the mailbox as it is out of sight from our houses. The only thing is that it is right by the county road, but very seldom does anyone drive by, and still I am taking a chance on being caught. After I do then both the dogs do also! They play follow the leader!

[edeline]

There was a couple and a baby having breakfast at the hotel. The baby was so happy and enjoyed calling his daddy, daddy daddy, daddy. After a while, there were these handsome man and his gf who passed by and had their breakfast also.
When the baby noticed the handsome guy, she said daddy, daddy , daddy though his true daddy was just in front of her.
She enjoyed so much calling that guy daddy for how many times but her hand was pointing to her real dad.
After a while, she noticed the gf of the handsome guy and she was thinking that the baby might call her mommy.
To her surprise, the baby called her puppy puppy puppy. The handsome guy and the girl were both laughing.
The girl was confused as it came her mind maybe she was looking like a puppy. She asked her bf if she looks like puppy. The guy just smiled.