I’m not 100% sure, but I think today is Saturday…yeah…I’m pretty sure that’s what day it is…Saturday. Well, Saturday when you guys are reading this, anyway. Today is actually Monday, when I’m writing this, Monday. Yup, I’m almost 100% sure that today is Sunday, no Monday, wait…yes, no, maybe almost quite assuredly one of the days of the week. We’re going to settle on Monday. Okay, now that that’s settled.
How’s everyone doing?
Good, I hope.
I know you guys can’t answer me yet, but you aren’t reading this yet. It’s still several days before you guys will be reading it, so let’s just pretend you’re reading it now, shall we?
So how …. where was I? Oh yeah, Sunday, NO! Wait! Monday! Right, Monday.
Okay, I give up!
Uncle!
Pax!
My friends with most of their ten kids, My son, with his dear wife and 3 of their 4 kids, (my grandkids) all came over to my house yesterday and spent about 4 hours doing yard work for me! What a truly wonderful gift that was for me! I’m getting a little too old to do the kind of stuff that these guys did for me. Truly a blessing. They worked their butts off. I am truly grateful.
Okay, it is time to get on with the laughter, we’ll get into other things as we go along.
Experts issue reminder to check home air filters after Canadian wildfire smoke moves through area
Now that our sky has cleared from the Canadian wildfire smoke, you might think you’re in the clear.
A concerned viewer reached out to us after discovering something in her house she’s never seen before.
“I don’t think people really understood when the report said unhealthy air quality, just how unhealthy it was,” said Clermont County resident Sharlene Graham.
Graham changes her filter monthly, and when she changed it on July 1, she was shocked.
“I was like, ‘What the heck, what is going on?'” she said.
“I looked very deeply at the coils, and I’m like, that is smoke. There’s no explanation other than the wildfire smoke,” said Graham.
Last week’s air quality levels were the worst in decades. It trapped Cincinnati in a haze dropped down by Canadian wildfires.
Matt Tyner with Thomas and Galbraith Heating, Cooling, and Plumbing said we should change our filter more often, especially with the poor air quality.
“A lot of that has to do with bringing in the fresh air through the intake, or if they have a fresh air ventilator, its purpose — sole purpose — is to bring fresh air into the home. And then as well as the normal opening and closing of doors,” he said.
Graham also noted that once she changed her filter, her house cooled by a degree in a matter of minutes.
“I didn’t realize my air conditioner was working that hard,” Graham said.
“When we start seeing that more and more contaminants are getting on the filter, the filter doesn’t stay as efficient as it was designed because it’s capturing more and more and more, it actually becomes more efficient in filtering; however, less efficient of letting the air through so that your system can breathe,” Tyner said.
Tyner said it’s good to check air filters monthly, but in cases when air quality is bad, weekly check-ins are a good idea.
Out of curiosity, WLWT News 5 Anchor Steven Albritton checked his filter, which hadn’t been changed in about six months. This is what he found:
Allison Rogers
Meteorologist
“In my country, we have two parties. The stupid party, of which I am a member, and the evil party, which we oppose vehemently. Sometimes my party wins, in which case we get lots of stupid legislation. Sometimes the other party wins, in which case we get lots of evil legislation. Occasionally, the parties act together in what we call ‘bipartisanship, ‘ in which case we get legislation which is both evil and stupid.”
Nothing better than cuddling with a friend.
My brother Jon and I were fishing last summer, not having any luck he told me to we needed to move. I turned the key….nothing so I looked things over and turned it again….nothing, again….nothing! I told him “no problem, we can row to shore” then it him me, I left the oars laying in the yard at home!
Stranded, my Brother said, “What now dipshit?”
“Don’t worry. Somebody is going to come by.” I answered.
Just then around the bend came my new Englishman neighbor and two ladies with parasols. I yelled out, “Could I borrow one of your oars?”
The Englishmen said, “Them’s not oars! One’s me wife and the other’s me sister.”
A couple of thoughts
Real friends are those who, when you feel you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked.
Before you ask why someone hates you, ask yourself why you even care.
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
It’s just a short jump to the castle…
Being a typical blowhard Narcissistic, Dennis thinks he is such the Mountain Man and Hunter. When I went to Wyoming to see him he started in bragging to me about it all. He told me about all the Elk hunting, all the Moose hunting and Deer and everything else he has hunted. Then he said “I even hunted bear last year, I bet you never hunted bear have you?” I said “no, but one time I went fishing in just my shorts!”
Sitting by the window of her convent, Sister Barbara opened a letter from home one evening.
Inside the letter was a $100 bill her parents had sent. Sister Barbara smiled at the gesture.
As she read the letter by the window, she noticed a shabbily dressed stranger leaning against the lamp post below.
“Don’t Despair paid 80-to-1.”
Frieda had just finished her fish dinner. She was, however, not at all happy with it, so she called over the waiter.
“I’ve tasted fresher fish,” said Frieda.
“Not in here,” replied the waiter.
Bernie and Esther were not the most religious Jews and in fact they really only went to Temple once a year.
As they were leaving the Temple, the Rabbi said, “Bernie, it sure would be nice to see you and Esther here more than once a year!”
“I know,” replied Bernie, “but at least we keep the Ten Commandments.”
“That’s great,” the Rabbi said. “I’m glad to hear that you keep the Commandments.”
“Yep,” Bernie said proudly, “Esther keeps six of them and I keep the other four.”
Equal” is not always synonymous with “the same.”
Men and women are created equal. But, boys and girls are not born the same.
1. You throw a little girl a ball, and it will hit her in the nose. You throw a little boy a ball, and he will try to catch it. Then it will hit him in the nose.
2. You dress your little girl in her Easter Sunday best, and she’ll look just as pretty when you finally make it to church an hour later. You dress a boy in his Easter Sunday best, and he’ll somehow find every mud puddle from your home to the church, even if you’re driving there.
3. Boys’ rooms are usually messy. Girls’ rooms are usually messy, except it’s a good smelling mess.
4. A baby girl will pick up a stick and look in wonderment at what nature has made. A baby boy will pick up a stick and turn it into a gun.
5. When girls play with Barbie and Ken dolls, they like to dress them up and play house with them. When boys play with Barbie and Ken dolls, they like to tear off their appendages.
6. Boys couldn’t care less if their hair is unruly. If their bangs got cut a quarter-inch too short, girls would rather lock themselves in their room for two weeks than be seen in public.
7. Baby girls find mommy’s makeup and almost instinctively start painting their face. Baby boys find mommy’s makeup and almost instinctively start painting the walls.
8. If a girl accidently burps, she will be embarrassed. If a boy accidently burps, he will follow it with a dozen fake belches.
9. Boys grow their fingernails long because because they’re too lazy to cut them. Girls grow their fingernails long – not because they look nice – but because they can dig them into a boys arm.
10. Girls are attracted to boys, even at an early age. At an early age, boys are attracted to dirt.
11. By the age of 6, boys will stop giving their dad kisses. By the age of 6, girls will stop giving their dad kisses unless he bribes them with candy.
12. Most baby girls talk before boys do. Before boys talk, they learn how to make machine-gun noises.
13. Girls will cry if someone dies in a movie. Boys will cry if you turn off the VCR after they’ve watched “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie three times in a row.
14. Girls turn into women. Boys turn into bigger boys.
Suddenly, a cow runs out onto the road, and the limo driver hits it head on, and the car comes to a stop. The woman in the back seat, in her usual abrasive manner, says to the Chauffeur, “You get out and check on that poor cow. You were driving.”
his hair ruffled, and a big grin on his face. “My God, what happened to you?” asks the nasty woman.
“What on earth did you say?” asks the woman.
“I’m Nancy Pelosi’s chauffeur, and I’ve just killed the old cow.”
Don’t you just love a story with a happy ending?
Boy, I know I do!
If the FBI can ID you at a protest in another country with facial recognition but can’t catch a person stashing coke at the white house with 700 cameras…Does anyone actually buy this crap?!
Men in the 1940’s lied about their age so they could go and help fight in WWII.
Men in 2023 lie about their gender so they can win medals in women’s sports.
Aren’t they so proud!!
I was working in a scrap yard in Southern England during summer vacation at an engineering university. I used to work repairing construction equipment.
One afternoon, I was taking apart a piling hammer that had some very large bolts holding it together. One of the nuts had corroded on to the bolt; to free it, I started heating the nut with an oxy-acetylene torch.
As I was doing this, one of the dimmest apprentices I have ever known came along. He asked me what I was doing. I patiently explained that if I heated the nut, it would grow larger and release its grip on the bolt so I could then remove it.
“So things get larger when they get hot, do they?” he asked.
Suddenly, an idea flashed into my mind (I know not from where.) “Yes,” I said, “that’s why days are longer in summer and shorter in winter.”
There was a long pause, then his face cleared. “You know, I always wondered about that,” he said.
If Tarzan and Jane had been Italian, what would Cheeta have been?
A: The other woman.
If Tarzan and Jane had been Jewish, what would Cheeta have been?
A: A fur coat.
If Tarzan and Jane had been Polish, what would Cheeta have been?
A: A gifted child
HEY!!!!
Two Puns from Joe from NJ………..
My friend Jack says he can communicate with vegetables.
That’s right…Jack and the beans talk.
I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants.
But, you probably have not heard of herbivore.
I was watching a show for about 10 minutes, and this lady was listing all of these great things to do for fun. Then I realized that it’s one of the religious channels, and she was reading a list of sins.
So, here’s a short email from Leah D.
The chicken dinner chocolate bars reminded me:
I am watching the 1883 series of the Dutton family.
Last night, the covered wagons came to a mostly tent city.
When a cowboy, left to watch the cattle, was asked if there was anything he wanted from the town, he asked for a chocolate bar.
My mind did a ‘wait a minute . . . ‘. I looked it up today:
In 1847, British chocolatier J.S. Fry and Sons created the first chocolate bar molded from a paste made of sugar, chocolate liquor and cocoa butter. Swiss chocolatier Daniel Peter is generally credited for adding dried milk powder to chocolate to create milk chocolate in 1876.
When were chocolate bars first sold in America?
Hershey, who had made his fortune in caramels, saw the potential for chocolate. He installed chocolate machinery in his factory in Lancaster, and produced his first chocolate bars in 1894.
So, was that just a joke Kevin Costner played? Or are the writers that dumb?
Good catch Leah. I know I wouldn’t have caught that!
Great and good are seldom the same man.
-Thomas Fuller (1608 – 1661)
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft……………
Today, it’s called golf.
Mom got mad at Dad the other day and went shopping to relieve her irritation. When she returned home she informed him that she had purchased ten new dresses.
“Ten!” he hollered, “What could any woman want with ten new dresses??”
My mom calmly replied, “Ten new pairs of shoes.”
Morris, an 82 year-old man, went to the doctor to get a physical.
A few days later the doctor saw Morris walking down the street with a gorgeous young lady on his arm.
A couple of days later the doctor spoke to Morris and said, “You’re really doing great, aren’t you?”
Morris replied, “Just doing what you said, Doc, ‘Get a hot mamma and be cheerful.'”
The doctor said, “I didn’t say that. I said, “You’ve got a heart murmur. Be careful.”
That’s it dear friends. May God Bless you with Love and Happiness until we meet again.
Dragon Laffs 
I like the Rosy the riveter post, not sure if its for the right reason but I do
Yeah, if the truth be told, me too.
If I say that x=4, does that mean I have to go to New York?
Just that you can, not that you have to.
Whew. What a relief. I’m just an old Southern boy!
My grandmother worked in Hershey’s “karmel” factory in 1910, she was 12 years old. She wrapped the pieces individually, by hand. She wasn’t allowed to do the top layer, because the points on the wrappers had to line up perfectly. That was left up to the older, more experienced girls. I didn’t believe some of the stories, like using a shovel tho scoop the chocolate that splashed out of the vats and onto the floor, back into the melters. I found out how true it could be, when I got a job in another candy manufacturer in Lancaster. One of my jobs was . . .you guesses it, scoop the chocolate from the floor and put it back into the vat. This was in 1968.
X is 4.
ROFLMAO! Yes it is!
Just wanted to let you know I do pay attention to details.
I ended up getting about five different people replying to that…and everyone got it right.
Amen…