Situations — worst jokes

People have been complaining about the rising price of gasoline recently, but I have always thought that gas was a good value (especially if you were to take the $0.30, $0.40 per gallon tax off at the pump)! Obviously others need a little convincing. So the article in this week's "Autoweek" magazine brought it all to light. What if you were to buy a gallon of . . .

• Diet Snapple 16 oz for $1.29 = $10.32 per gallon
• Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz for $1.19 = $9.52 per gallon
• Gatorade 20 oz for $1.59 = $10.17 per gallon
• Ocean Spray 16 oz for $1.25 = $10.00 per gallon
• Quart of Milk 16 oz for $1.59 = $6.32 per gallon
• Evian (water) 9 oz for $1.49 = $21.19 per gallon
• STP Brake Fluid 12 oz for $3.15 = $33.60 per gallon
• Vicks Nyquil 6 oz for $8.35 = $178.13 per gallon
• Pepto Bismol 4 oz for $3.85 = $123.20 per gallon
• Whiteout 7 oz for $1.39 = $254.17 per gallon
• Scope 1.5 oz for $0.99 = $84.84 per gallon

So next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on Nyquil or Scope or Whiteout!

• Non stick Cellotape
• Solar Powered Flash Light
• A black highlighter pen
• Glow in the dark sunglasses
• Inflatable Anchor
• Smooth Sandpaper
• Waterproof sponge
• Waterproof Teabags
• AC adapter for Solar powered calculators
• Fireproof Matches
• Fireproof Cigarettes
• Battery powered Battery Charger
• Seatbelts for Motorbikes
• Hand powered Chainsaw
• Inflatable Dartboard
• Silent Alarm Clock
• A Pedal powered wheelchair
• Braille Drivers Manual
• Double sided playing cards
• Ejector seats for Helicopters

• American Express calls and says: "Leave home without it!"
• Your idea of a 7-course meal is taking a deep breath outside a fine restaurant.
• You're formulating a plan to rob the food bank.
• You've rolled so many pennies, you've formed a psychic bond with Abe.
• Long distance companies no longer call you to switch.
• Your credit card companies raised the rates from 6.9% to 24.9%.
• You see your roommate as a large fried chicken in tennis shoes.
• You receive care packages from Europe.
• Your bologna has no first name.
• You rob Peter...and then rob Paul.
• You finally clean your house, hoping to find change.
• You think of a lottery ticket as an investment.
• You give blood everyday - for the orange juice.
• McDonalds supplies you with all your kitchen condiments.
• Consumer Credit Counseling services said "No."
• The neighborhood dog stopped sniffing at your pockets

Things you wouldn't know without the tube. All of life's mysteries are on TV:

• If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises wearing their most revealing underwear.
• If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.
• All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.
• All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
• It's easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
• Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.
• The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.
• You're likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of you sweetheart back home.
• Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
• The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.
• People of TV never finish their drinks.
• A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
• The chief of police is always black.
• When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
• If you lose a hand, it will cause the stump of your arm to grow by 15cm.
• Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.
• During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
• Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.
• Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.
• Wearing a singlet or stripping to the waist can make a man invulnerable to bullets.
• A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.
• If a killer is lurking in your house, it's easy to find him. Just relax and run a bath - even if it's the middle of the afternoon.
• Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.
• Although in the 20th century it is possible to fire weapons at an object out of visual range, people of the 23rd century will have lost this technology.
• All single women have a cat.
• Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
• Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
• One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.
• Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.
• If a phone line is broken, communication can be restored by frantically beating the cradle and saying, "Hello?, Hello?"
• Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.
• It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involved martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessor.
• During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.
• When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
• Dogs always know who's bad and will naturally bark at them.
• Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.
• When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
• Action heroes never face charges for manslaughter or criminal damage despite laying entire cities to waste.
• No matter how badly a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.
• If there is a deranged killer on the loose, this will coincide with a thunderstorm that has brought down all the power and phone lines in the vicinity.
• You can always find a chain saw whenever you're likely to need one.
• Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
• Having a job of any kind will make all fathers forget their son's eighth birthday.
• Many musical instruments - especially wind instruments and accordions - can be played without moving the fingers.
• All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
• It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
• Guns are like disposable razors - if you run out of bullets, just throw the gun away. You can always buy a new one.
• Make-up can safely be worn to bed without smudging.
• A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
• If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

• 60: Californians put on sweaters (if they can find one)
• 50: Miami residents turn on the heat
• 40: You can see your breath, Californians shiver uncontrollably, Minnesotans go swimming
• 35: Italian cars don't start
• 32: Water freezes
• 30: You plan your vacation to Australia
• 25: Boston water freezes, Californians weep pitiably, Minnesotans eat ice cream, Canadians go swimming
• 20: Politicians begin to talk about the homeless, New York City water freezes, Miami residents plan vacation further South
• 15: French cars don't start, Cat insists on sleeping in your bed with you
• 10: You need jumper cables to get the car going
• 5: American cars don't start
• 0: Alaskans put on T-shirts
• -10: German cars don't start, Eyes freeze shut when you blink
• -15: You can cut your breath and use it to build an igloo, Arkansans stick tongue on metal objects, Miami residents cease to exist
• -20: Cat insists on sleeping in pajamas with you, Politicians actually do something about the homeless, Minnesotans shovel snow off roof, Japanese cars don't start
• -25: Too cold to think, You need jumper cables to get the driver going
• -30: You plan a two week hot bath, Swedish cars don't start
• -40: Californians disappear, Minnesotans button top button, Canadians put on sweaters, Your car helps you plan your trip South
• -50: Congressional hot air freezes, Alaskans close the bathroom window
• -80: Hell freezes over, Polar bears move South
• -90: Lawyers put their hands in their own pockets

Top reasons why it's great to be Canadian:

• It beats being an American.
• Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
• You can play hockey 12 months a year, outdoors.
• Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground
• Where else can you travel 1000 miles over fresh water in a canoe?
• A political leader can admit to smoking pot and his/her popularity ratings will rise.
• Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
• Kill Grizzly bears with huge shotguns and cover your house in their skins
• Own-an-eskimo scheme.
• Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground

• Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
• If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
• Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
• Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."
• Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."
• Practice making fax and modem noises.
• Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc." them to your boss.
• Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
• Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy."
• Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.
• Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.
• Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
• Adjust the background color on your email so that all your email correspondence is in green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."
• Staple papers in the middle of the page.
• Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
• Honk and wave to strangers.
• Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.
• TYPE ONLY IN UPPERCASE.. type only in lowercase. dont use any punctuation either
• Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
• Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now."
• As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
• Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce, "no, wait, I messed it up," and repeat.
• Ask people what gender they are.
• While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
• Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
• Sing along at the opera.

• Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
• Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your kleenex to other passengers.
• Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: "Shut up, all of you just shut UP!"
• Whistle the first seven notes of "It's a Small World" incessantly.
• Sell Girl Scout cookies.
• On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.
• Shave.
• Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: "Got enough air in there?"
• Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
• Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
• When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
• Lean over to another passenger and whisper: "Noogie patrol coming!"
• Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
• One word: Flatulence!
• On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
• Do Tai Chi exercises.
• Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"
• When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: "Oh, not now, motion sickness!"
• Give religious tracts to each passenger.
• Meow occassionally.
• Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
• Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
• Sing "Mary had a little lamb" while continually pushing buttons.
• Holler "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends.
• Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.
• Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You're one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.
• Burp, and then say "mmmm...tasty!"
• Leave a box between the doors.
• Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
• Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers "through" it.
• Start a sing-along.
• When the elevator is silent, look around and ask "is that your beeper?"
• Play the harmonica.
• Shadow box.
• Say "Ding!" at each floor.
• Lean against the button panel.
• Say "I wonder what all these do" and push the red buttons.
• Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
• Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space."
• Bring a chair along.
• Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: "Wanna see wha in muh mouf?"
• Blow spit bubbles.
• Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
• Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body."
• Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
• Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
• Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers.
• Stare at your thumb and say "I think it's getting larger."
• If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler "Bad touch!"

Top reasons why it's great to be French:

• Yet to experience the joy of winning the world cup for the first time
• You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs
• If there's a war you can surrender really early
• You don't have to read the subtitles on those late night films on Channel 4.
• You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries
• You can be ugly and still become a famous film star
• Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street humiliating your sense of national pride
• People think you're a great lover even when you're not

10 rejected Saturday morning cartoons:

• "Billy, the Homicidal Smurf."
• "Scooby and Shaggy Go To The Retirement Home."
• "Archie, the Abcessed Tooth."
• "Yosemite Sam... UNCENSORED!"
• "The Golden Girls meet The Power Rangers."
• "Da Boys in Mister Rogers Neighborhood."
• "The Land of The Lost... The Barney Years."
• "COPS" in full color animation!