Today's Giggle

It's the summer of 1957 and Harold goes to pick up his date, Peggy Sue. Harold's a pretty hip guy with his own car and a ducktail hairdo. When he goes to the front door, Peggy Sue's mother answers and invites him in.

'Peggy Sue's not ready yet, so why don't you have a seat?' she says.

"That's cool."

Peggy Sue's mother asks Harold what they're planning to do. Harold replies politely that they will probably just go to the malt shop or to a drive in movie.

Peggy Sue's mother responds, 'Why don't you kids go out and learn to screw? I hear all the kids are doing it.'

Naturally this comes as quite a surprise to Harold and he says: 'Wha...aaat?'

'Yeah,' says Peggy Sue's mother , 'We know Peggy Sue tried it and really likes it; she'd screw all night if we let her! ' Harold's eyes light up and he smiles from ear to ear. Immediately, he has revised the plans for the evening.

A few minutes later, Peggy Sue comes downstairs in her little poodle skirt with her saddle shoes, and announces that she's ready to go.

Almost breathless with anticipation, Harold escorts his date out the front door while Mom is saying, 'Have a good evening kids,' with a small wink for Harold.

About 20 minutes later, a thoroughly dishevelled Peggy Sue rushes back into the house, slams the door behind her and screams at her mother:

'Dammit, Mom! The Twist! The Twist! It's called The Twist'!

Comic Economics

I readily admit I know very little about the topic of Economics...me and John McCain. So this morning I was listening to Alan Greenspan speak before Congress and the subject of "derivatives" was mentioned. Derivatives? What the heck are derivatives? I asked Mr. Fairway who at that moment was reading the Comics section of our local newspaper. He started to laugh and called me into the kitchen. "Here," he said, "read this."

So now I know what "derivatives" are all about. Whew!