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- From the
- JOKIN' AROUND DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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-
- DEFINITIONS
-
- BRAT: A kid who behaves much better than your own children, but belongs to a
- neighbor.
-
- CHILD PSYCHOLOGY: That wonderful device employed by parents who are allowing
- the child to have it's own way.
-
- PAR: What a golf addict's children call their father.
-
- PRAISING YOUR WIFE: Try it, although it will frighten her at first!
-
- MISUNDERSTOOD HUSBAND: One whose wife really understands him.
-
- MARITAL DIFFICULTIES: It's not the institution, its the personell.
-
- ASIAN MARRIAGE: In certain countries of Asia, a man does not know his wife
- until he marries her. But then, why single out Asia?
-
- SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE: One in which the couple has a prayer book, a check book,
- and a cook book.
-
- COMMON SENSE: That which would have prevented a great number of divorces by
- having prevented a great number of marriages.
-
- THE BETTER SPOUSE: The better spouse is the spouse who is not trying to make
- the other person better.
-
- MOTHER: A woman whose life is disorganized around her children.
-
- PUPPY LOVE: That which always evolves into a dog's life.
-
- CHINESE PROVERB: No married household can hang out a sign reading "No problems
- here."
-
- CONSIDERATE HUSBAND: Always willing to purchase a new summer outfit for his
- wife - a new rake and some seed packages.
-
- TELEVISION: Proof positive that some people would much rather look at most
- anything other than one another.
-
- HOME: The place where the kids stay, while the automobile is being repaired.
-
- CHILDREN: Young persons, most of whom would be on the right track if only the
- parents provided the correct switching facilities.
-
- HUSBAND: The man who knows he is in charge, and has his wife's permission to
- say so.
-
- FATHER: The man who has complete command, most of the time, of the dog.
-
- PARENT: A person able to supply toilet paper from nowhere on instant demand.
-
- DOCTOR: A person who makes a considerable amount of money just watching all
- this happen.
-
- MEALS: Those things which Mom and Dad eat, and which the kids inhale.
-
- GROCER: A person who makes a considerable amount of money just watching all
- this happen.
-
- TELEPHONE: A natural growth from a child's ear which comes about in late grade
- school and subsides sometime during college.
-
- BUBBLE GUM: The thing that Mom and Dad never touch, and which the kids exhale.
-
- KITCHEN: A room the kids have discovered in their quest for snacks.
-
- REPAIRMAN: A person who makes a considerable amount of money just watching all
- this happen.
-
- NEIGHBOR: A person very often quite willing to call the Orkin Man and sick him
- on your children.
-
- INSURANCE MAN: A person who makes a considerable amount of money just watching
- all this happen.
-
- STEREO SALES PERSON: A person who makes a considerable amount of money just
- watching all this happen.
-
- PLUMBER: A person who comes to your home and asks you if you own it free and
- clear, before he goes out to the truck to bring in tools.
-
- PSYCHOLOGIST: A person with problem children at home who is going to charge
- money to tell you how to raise yours.
-
- PSYCHIATRIST: A person with even more problem children at home who will charge
- you even more to tell you how to raise yours.
-
- TRUANT OFFICER: A person in the employ of the school district who is forced to
- come around and tell you a giant lie - the school wants the kid
- back!
-
- RETAIL OUTLET CLERK: A person who can tell you more about your children than
- any parent really wants to hear.
-
- DENTIST: A person who makes a considerable amount of money just watching all
- this happen.
-
- SCHOOL: A place where kids congregate to observe and discuss just how dumb
- teachers really are.
-
- SHOE SALESPERSON: A person who makes a considerable amount of money just
- watching all this happen.
-
- PROUD PARENTS: A man and woman, father and mother, who feel sure that the
- retail outlet clerk is not talking about their child!
-
- WATER METER READER: A person who keeps looking around your place, to see where
- the circus is located, since you are obviously watering all
- the animals.
-
- BATHROOM: A small room subject to continuous instantaneous disaster.
-
- CLOSET: The very last place anyone thinks to look for any lost item.
-
- ORTHODONTIST: A professional who, when approached, asks if you own your own
- home free and clear, and then asks whether the grand-parents own
- their home free and clear.
-
- SCOUT LEADER: Real proof positive that God still makes Saints!
-
- SHOPPING MALL SECURITY AGENT: A person possessed of very obstinate conviction
- that Retail Outlet Clerk is an absurd optimist.
-
- CHAUFFEUR: An average Mother who must deliver five children to six places in
- ten minutes, during the rush hour, and then get home to cook supper
- before anyone gets home.
-
- CAR POOLING: A game whereby Mom plays Chauffeur only every so often, which
- allows time for blood pressure to return to normal and strength to
- flow for next time.
-
- CHILDREN'S BEDROOM: A place for which you had better have a fairly stiff excuse
- if some health official visits.
-
- GARAGE - An area said to have been built for a thing the size of a car which
- now is taxed when you try to put the lawnmower away.
-
- CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS: Those items recently found on an Easter Egg Hunt which
- could not be found last November or December, and so you
- bought new ones, which are now lost.
-
- SCHOOL PLAY: A socially recognized ritual which brings parents together in a
- gym during the hottest of spring evenings, when the heater for the
- school mysteriously turns on and runs at full steam.
-
- SCHOOL PLAY STARLET OR STAR: Your own child, who portrays the deck of a sinking
- ship.
-
- BABYSITTER: A person old enough to know what to do, but not old enough to know
- better.
-
- BABYSITTER: A fairly small person who can eat more than a horde of locusts.
-
- BABYSITTER: A person who gets paid for emptying your fridge, deep freeze,
- kitchen cabinets, and who asks you for money to reimburse the Pizza
- delivery person.
-
- LAUNDRY: A good place to look, if it is not to be found on the floor in the
- children's bedroom.
-
- PETS: The chief cause of the neighbors remarks about why you do not take out a
- zoo license.
-
- BACK YARD: An area seldom used and even by accident in fairly good order.
-
- FRONT YARD: The area in which your kids and the neighborhood kids dig trenches
- to play war. The City sends an investigator to see if you are
- tampering with the water meter.
-
- MUDHOLE: See above, Front Yard.
-
- DRIVEWAY: Where your teenage son parks the 1964 Renault Dauphine he is going to
- restore, if the parts can be found....and they can't.
-
- RENAULT DAUPHINE: The car unanimously voted the most ugly commercial product
- ever produced by civilization in the entire history of
- humanity.
-
- TOW-TRUCK OPERATOR: A person who makes a considerable amount of money selling
- that old Renault Dauphine to teenagers and having them park
- it on their drive, until the parents revolt and order it
- towed away.
-
- GARBAGE COLLECTOR: A person who makes a considerable amount of money watching
- all this happen.
-
- GRANDPARENTS: People who think a Shopping Mall Security Officer is marked with
- the sign of the beast, a fiend, a criminal or worse.
-
- GIRL SCOUT COOKIES: What sweet little innocent girls sell that causes you to
- contact the Trust Officer at the Bank.
-
- INVESTIGATOR: A Public Park Ranger on Special Assignment, who tells you that
- your son CAN write, and does a fairly nice job of signing his
- name in spray paint. However, the statue is of Washington, not
- Bobby Thurston, and so you owe the Park Board $ 250!
-
- SCHOOL BUS SUPERVISOR: Another form of public servant who arrives to reinforce
- the paint spray episode, and you learn how much it will
- cost to repaint those buses!
-
- POLICE OFFICER, JUVENILE DIVISION: Another public servant who arrives to inform
- you that the Thurston Railroad Overpass now
- needs repainting, since this new logo for
- the railroad was done in bad taste and is
- incorrect.
-
- BREAD TRUCK DRIVER: Calls to ask if you are going to repaint the delivery
- truck, or if the matter will have to go to court.
- Does not deliver Thurston Bread!
-
- ATTORNEY: A person who makes a considerable amount of money watching all this
- happen.
-
- JUDGE - JUVENILE COURT: Is happy to see that this matter is being handled in a
- very expeditious manner and all damages are being paid
- for.
-
- SEASONED PARENT: One who has learned that, in the wrong hands, a can of spray
- paint can easily cost over one thousand dollars!
-
- NEWSPAPER REPORTER: A person who makes a considerable amount of money watching
- all this happen. Writes up detailed report, giving your
- home address and listing all previous offenses of family,
- including the time Grandpa stole horse from undertaker.
-
- ATTORNEY (2): A person who makes a considerable amount of money watching all
- this happen. Informs you that there is nothing to be gained by
- going after the newspaper reporter. Advice costs about half the
- price of spray paint.
-
- EDITOR: Defends reporter and refuses to run ad about reporter in paper.
-
- COFFEE SHOP: Location of final discussion and wisdom of whole affair.
- Discussion ceases when you are present, takes up after you leave.
-
- WEEKLY SHOPPER (Free): Owner refuses to run ad about Editor of Local Paper
-
- TRAFFIC: Continuous stream of automotive congestion caused by readers of local
- paper, seeing where the phantom painter actually lives.
-
- DOCTOR (2): A person who makes a considerable amount of money watching all this
- happen. Gives you medication for recent high blood pressure.
- And some light sleeping pills to help you get to sleep despite
- traffic in front of your home.
-
- PHARMACIST: A person who makes a considerable amount of money watching all
- this happen. Gladly fills prescription for medication and offers
- liberal free advice on what to do with budding artist.
-
- WRITER: A person who makes a considerable amount of money watching all this
- happen and writing it up for publication. Comes to interview you and
- ask about chances of your cooperation.
-
- RESPONSE: Never mind, you tell him, someone has already done that, but the
- names have been changed, and there is no traffic!
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- From the
- JOKIN' AROUND DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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