A Kansas farm wife called the local phone company to report her telephone failed to ring when her friends called and that on the few occasions, when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang.
The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile lady. He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber’s house.
The phone didn’t ring right away, but then the dog moaned and the telephone began to ring.
Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:
1. The dog was tied to the telephone system’s ground wire with a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was called.
4. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.
5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.
Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning.
Just thought you’d like to know.
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Are you sure that Kansas only? lol
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Too funny!
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SEE! I told you the tactic worked but nooooo, no one believed me.
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It can also be painful, ask any man(boy) who has pissed on an electric fence and then moaned when he was stuck. 🙂
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I got an electric fence….so far no takers.
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I’ve known some pretty stupid boys, never witnessed it, but have heard the stories.
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favorite method of democratic congress to “fix things”
lol
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Hi, joshua! Nice to see you. And now I know how to draw you out.
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Yeah, like junkies get a fix.
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That lady needs to see someone about those ugly xanthomata growing over her eyes. The left one is particularly bad.
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Geez, nothing like a member of the Medical-Industrial complex to take the fun outta the day.
Alternate answer: fat chance!
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Now that is funny.
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