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Classified Ad Bloopers

As the following classified classics will demonstrate, there are often more laughs on the advertising and classified pages than you can find in the cartoons and comic strips:

Lost: small apricot poodle. Reward. Neutered. Like one of the family.

A superb and inexpensive restaurant. Fine food expertly served by waitresses in appetizing forms.

Dinner Special -- Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00.

For sale: an antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers.

For sale: a quilted high chair that can be made into a table, pottie chair, rocking horse, refrigerator, spring coat, size 8 and fur collar.

Four-poster bed, 101 years old. Perfect for antique lover.

Now is your chance to have your ears pierced and get an extra pair to take home, too.

Wanted: 50 girls for stripping machine operators in factory.

Wanted: Unmarried girls to pick fresh fruit and produce at night.

We do not tear your clothing with machinery. We do it carefully by hand.

No matter what your topcoat is made of, this miracle spray will make it really repellent.

For Sale. Three canaries of undermined sex.

For Sale -- Eight puppies from a German Shepperd and an Alaskan Hussy.

Creative daily specials, including select offerings of beef, foul, fresh vegetables, salads, quiche.

7 ounces of choice sirloin steak, boiled to your likeness and smothered with golden fried onion rings.

Great Dames for sale.

Have several very old dresses from grandmother in beautiful condition.

Tired of cleaning yourself? Let me do it.

20 dozen bottles of excellent Old Tawny Port, sold to pay for charges, the owner having lost sight of, and bottled by us last year.

Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children.

Vacation Special: have your home exterminated.

If you think you've seen everything in Paris, visit the Pere Lachasis Cemetery. It boasts such immortals as Moliere, Jean de la Fontain, and Chopin.

Mt. Kilimanjaro, the breathtaking backdrop for the Serena Lodge. Swim in the lovely pool while you drink it all in.

The hotel has bowling alleys, tennis courts, comfortable beds, and other athletic facilities.

Get rid of aunts: Zap does the job in 24 hours.

Toaster: A gift that every member of the family appreciates. Automatically burns toast.

Sheer stockings. Designed for fancy dress, but so serviceable that lots of women wear nothing else.

Stock up and save. Limit: one.

Save regularly in our bank. You'll never regret it.

We build bodies that last a lifetime.

Offer expires December 31 or while supplies last.

This is the model home for your future. It was panned by Better Homes and Gardens.

For Sale--Diamonds $20; microscopes $15.

For Rent: 6-room hated apartment.

Man, honest. Will take anything.

Wanted: chambermaid in rectory. Love in, $200 a month. References required.

Wanted: Part-time married girls for soda fountain in sandwich shop.

Man wanted to work in dynamite factory. Must be willing to travel.

Used Cars: Why go elsewhere to be cheated? Come here first!

Christmas tag-sale. Handmade gifts for the hard-to-find person.

Modular Sofas. Only $299. For rest or fore play.

Wanted: Hair-cutter. Excellent growth potential.

Wanted. Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or drink.

3-year-old teacher need for pre-school. Experience preferred.

Our experienced Mom will care for your child. Fenced yard, meals, and smacks included.

Our bikinis are exciting. They are simply the tops.

Auto Repair Service. Free pick-up and delivery. Try us once, you'll never go anywhere again.

See ladies blouses. 50% off!

Holcross pullets. Starting to lay Betty Clayton, Granite 5-6204.

Wanted: Preparer of food. Must be dependable, like the food business, and be willing to get hands dirty.

Illiterate? Write today for free help.

Girl wanted to assist magician in cutting-off-head illusion. Blue Cross and salary.

Wanted. Widower with school-age children requires person to assume general housekeeping duties. Must be capable of contributing to growth of family.

Mixing bowl set designed to please a cook with round bottom for efficient beating.

Mother's helper--peasant working conditions.

Semi-Annual after-Christmas Sale.

And now, the Superstore--unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.

We will oil your sewing machine and adjust tension in your home for $1.00.

And these beauties from the radio:

Ladies and gentlemen, now you can have a bikini for a ridiculous figure.

Be with us again next Saturday at 10 p.m. for "High Fidelity," designed to help music lovers increase their reproduction.

When you are thirsty, try 7-Up, the refreshing drink in the green bottle with the big 7 on it and u-p after.

Tune in next week for another series of classical music programs from the Canadian Broadcorping Castration.

Politically Correct Lexicon

Insensitive Term - Preferred Term

ETHNICITY

PC people do not recognize the term, "race," as valid

  • Black- African-Canadian, (NOTE: DOES NOT INCLUDE: LIBYANS, EGYPTIANS, WHITE South AFRICANS. DOES INCLUDE: PEOPLE WITH DARK SKIN REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY ARE FROM OR WHERE THEY LIVE.)
  • Oriental- Asian-Canadian (Note: Not Considered "REAL" Minorities since they tend to do well)
  • Indian- Native-Canadian (NOTE: The following terms are no PC: Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, (Avoid these cities!)
  • Chicano -Hispanic (NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ARE NOT PC: Cheech and Chong, Chico and the Man episodes, Cisco Kid, Rosarita Salsa, Speedy Gonzales, AVOID! AVOID!)
  • White Trash-PC Unaware, Rustically Inclined
  • WASP (white male)-insensitive Cultural Oppressor (ICO)

GENDER

(PC people don't like the word "sex" as it has confusing connotations)

  • Woman- Womyn; Vaginal-Canadian
  • Girl-Pre-Womyn
  • Housewife-Domestic Engineer
  • Fireman-Firefighter
  • Stewardess-Flight Attendant
  • Meter Maid-Parking Enforcement Adjudicator
  • Post Man-Post Person Mail Man Person Person
  • Policeman-Law Enforcement Officer; Baton Boy Cal. Clubber
  • Prostitute-Sex Surrogate (Teen Victim. See: Broken Home)
  • Mankind/Human-Earth Children
  • Handicapped-Physically Challenged Differently Abled Handi-Capable
  • Blind-Optically Darker Photonically Non-receptive
  • Deaf-Visually Oriented
  • Poor-Economically Unprepared
  • Bum-Homeless Person Displaced Homeowner
  • Hunter-Animal Assassin Meat Mercenary Bambi Butcher
  • Whaler-Blubber Lovers
  • Old Person /Elderly-4th-Dimentionally Extended Gerontologically Advanced
  • Conservative-Right Wing Extremist Fascist Pig
  • Drug Addict-Chemically Challenged
  • Bald-Comb-Free
  • Bisexual-Sexually Non-preferential
  • Midget, Dwarf-Little People, Vertically Challenged
  • Convict-Socially Separated
  • Insane People-Selectively Perceptive Mental Explorers
  • Learning Disability-Self-Paced Cognitive Ability
  • Tree-Hugger-Environmental Activist
  • Logger-Wood Weasel, Paper Pirate, Treeslayer
  • Dead People-Dysfunctional Earth Children Biologically Challenged Metaphysically Challenged
  • Broken Home-Dysfunctional Family
  • HouseBroken-Family Dysfunction
  • Cattle Ranch-Cattle Concentration Camp (CCC) "Moo-shwitz"
  • Senile Bag o'Bones-Alzheimer's Victim
  • Ghetto/Barrio-(EHA) Ethnically Homogenous Area
  • Pre-Integrated Pre-Nirvana
  • Hamburger-Seared Mutilated Animal Flesh (SMAF)
  • Cheeseburger-Adding Insult to Injury
  • Cheating (in School)-Academic Dishonesty
  • Used Books-Recycled Books
  • Trees-Oxygen Exchange Units
  • Gang-Youth Group
  • Slum-(EOZ) Economic Oppression Zone
  • Obese- People of Mass Gravitationally Challenged
  • Delicatessen- Corpse Farm Charnel House

Politically Correct Terms

New Official Politically Correct Terms for the 90's

OLD -- NEW

  • conservative -- reactionary
  • the establishment -- white power elite
  • hearing person -- temporarily aurally abled
  • sighted person -- temporarily visually abled
  • blind -- visually challenged
  • mute -- vocally challenged
  • deaf -- aurally challenged
  • dead -- metabolically different
  • alive -- temporarily metabolically abled
  • ugly -- aesthetically challenged
  • fat -- gravitationally challenged
  • heavy-set -- people of mass
  • rude -- politically correct
  • psychopath -- socially misaligned
  • crooked -- ethically challenged
  • klutzy -- kinesthetically challenged
  • bald -- follicularly challenged
  • short -- differently statured
  • non-white, non-male oppressed -- white melanin impoverished / genetically oppressive
  • white male -- oppressor
  • black -- african-american
  • asian -- asian-american
  • afro-american -- african-american
  • minority group -- numerically challenged group; under-represented population
  • black -- person of color
  • Chicano -- person of color
  • weird green freak -- person of color
  • female -- person of gender
  • drooling drunk idiot -- person on floor
  • group of blacks -- Under-Represented population of persons of color
  • Group of Whites -- L.A.P.D.
  • woman -- womyn
  • women -- wymin
  • girl -- pre-womyn
  • man -- oppressor
  • boy -- oppressor-to-be
  • pregnancy -- parasitic oppression
  • janitor -- sanitation engineer
  • disabled car -- mechanically challenged car
  • dish washer -- utensil sanitizer
  • dairy -- where cows are raped
  • ranch -- where cattle are murdered
  • egg ranch -- where hens are raped
  • biology department -- where animals are tortured and then murdered to fulfill the sadistic fantasies of white male scientist lackeys of the imperialist drug companies
  • fishing -- raping the oceans
  • farming -- exploiting mother earth
  • nhl hockey -- uniformed fascists vying for superiority
  • paper bag -- processed tree carcass

Many of the labels from the 80's are now passe. Here is a partial list of the denotations that are now acceptable (all labels are subject to change without notice).

old 80's/90's

  • deaf/hearing impaired/aurally challenged
  • blind /sight impaired/visually challenged
  • retarded/mentally handicapped/mentally challenged
  • queer/gay/homosexual/queer (strange but true)
  • fat/big boned/alternative body image

French Guest's Pepper

A French guest, staying in a hotel in Edmonton phoned room service for some pepper.

"Black pepper, or white pepper?" asked the concierge.

"Toilette pepper!"

Shaggy Bear Story

Two guys were walking in the woods one day, and they all of a sudden came across a bear. The bear noticed them, and started growling and generally getting really mean.

The bear started to chase one of the guys, who, as it turns out, was from Czechoslovakia. The bear soon caught up with him, and ate him alive. The other guy turned around and ran for his life.

A little while later, the second guy found a park ranger station and told his story. The ranger took his gun, and they both went out in search of the bear, in order to destroy it.

Soon, they came across two bears, one male, and one female. The ranger turned to the other guy and said: "Quick... tell me which bear ate your friend!" The ranger levelled his gun and got ready to shoot.

"I'm not really sure," said the other guy, "they both look similar."
"QUICK! Make up your mind!" said the ranger.

"O.K.," said the other, "it was the male."

The ranger promptly aimed and shot the female bear. The male ran off. Using his knife, the ranger cut open the belly of the female and found the body of the other man.

"But why didn't you shoot the male when I thought it was the male who ate my friend?" the other man asked.

"Well," said the ranger...

"I never trust anyone who says that the Czech's in the male!"

Join a Club

The Yoko Club?
→ Oh no.

The German philosophy club?
→ I. Kant.

The Ford-Nixon club?
→ Pardon me?

The Arafat club?
→ Yessir.

The Alzheimer's club?
→ Forget it.

The Ebert movie club?
→ Roger.

The Groucho Marx club?
→ You bet your life.

The Peter Pan club?
→ Never. Never.

The Japanese theater club?
→ Noh.

The quarterback club?
→ I'll pass.

The Rhett Butler club?
→ I don't give a damn.

The compulsive rhymers club?
→ Okey-dokey.

The Spanish optometrists club?
→ Si.

The anti-perspirant club?
→ Sure.

The pregnancy club?
→ Conceivably.

The Procrastinator's Club?
→ Maybe next week

The Self Esteem Builders?
→ They wouldn't accept me anyway

The Agoraphobics Society?
→ Only if they meet at my house

The Co-Dependence Club?
→ Can I bring a friend?

The Prayer Group?
→ God willing!

Actual Newspaper Headlines

58 Actual Newspaper Headlines (collected by journalists)

  1. Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
  2. Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
  3. Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted
  4. Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
  5. Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents
  6. Farmer Bill Dies in House
  7. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
  8. Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus?
  9. Stud Tires Out
  10. Prostitutes Appeal to Pope
  11. Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
  12. Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal Again
  13. British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
  14. Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms
  15. Eye Drops off Shelf
  16. Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
  17. Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
  18. Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim
  19. Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66
  20. Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax
  21. Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told
  22. Miners Refuse to Work after Death
  23. Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
  24. Stolen Painting Found by Tree
  25. Two Soviet Ships Collide, One Dies
  26. Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter
  27. Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
  28. Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One
  29. Drunken Drivers Paid $1000 in '84
  30. War Dims Hope for Peace
  31. If Strike isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While
  32. Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
  33. Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
  34. Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge
  35. Deer Kill 17,000
  36. Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
  37. Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
  38. New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
  39. Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
  40. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
  41. Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy
  42. Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire
  43. British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply
  44. Ban On Soliciting Dead in Trotwood
  45. Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees
  46. Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
  47. New Vaccine May Contain Rabies
  48. Man Minus Ear Waives Hearing
  49. Deaf College Opens Doors to Hearing
  50. Air Head Fired
  51. Steals Clock, Faces Time
  52. Prosecutor Releases Probe into Undersheriff
  53. Old School Pillars are Replaced by Alumni
  54. Bank Drive-in Window Blocked by Board
  55. Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
  56. Some Pieces of Rock Hudson Sold at Auction
  57. Sex Education Delayed, Teachers Request Training
  58. Include your Children When Baking Cookies

Oxymorons

  • Act naturally
  • Found missing
  • Resident alien
  • Advanced BASIC
  • Genuine imitation
  • Safe sex
  • Airline food
  • Good grief
  • Same difference
  • Almost exactly
  • Government organization
  • Sanitary landfill
  • Alone together
  • Legally drunk
  • Silent scream
  • British fashion
  • Living dead
  • Small crowd
  • Business ethics
  • Microsoft Works
  • Soft rock
  • Butt head
  • Military intelligence
  • Software documentation
  • California culture
  • New classic
  • Sweet sorrow
  • Childproof
  • "Now, then ..."
  • Synthetic natural gas
  • Christian Scientists
  • Passive aggression
  • Taped live
  • Clearly misunderstood
  • Peace force
  • Temporary tax increase
  • Computer jock
  • Plastic glasses
  • Terribly pleased
  • Computer security
  • Political science
  • Tight slacks
  • Definite maybe
  • Pretty ugly
  • Twelve-ounce pound cake
  • Diet ice cream
  • Rap music
  • Working vacation
  • Exact estimate
  • Religious tolerance