Why Parents Have Gray Hair

The boss of a big company needed to call one of his employees about an urgent problem with one of the main computers. He dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whispered, "Hello?" Feeling put out at the inconvenience of having to talk to a youngster, the boss asked, "Is your Daddy home?"

"Yes" whispered the small voice.

"May I talk with him?" the man asked.

To the surprise of the boss, the small voice whispered, "No."

Wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, "Is your Mommy there?"

"Yes" came the answer.

"May I talk with her?"

Again, the small voice whispered, "No"

Knowing that it was not likely that a young child would be left home alone, the boss decided he would just leave a message with the person who should be there watching over the child. "Is there any one there besides you?" the boss asked the child.

"Yes" whispered the child, "a policeman."

Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss asked, "May I speak with the policeman?"

"No he's busy" said the little voice.

"Busy doing what?" asked the boss.

"Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the fireman." came the whispered answer.

Growing concerned and even worried as he heard the sound of a helicopter through the ear piece on the phone the boss asked, "What is that noise?"

"A hello-copper" answered the whispering voice.

"What is going on there?!" asked the boss, now getting alarmed.

In an awed whispering voice the child answered, "The search team just landed the hello-copper."

Alarmed, concerned and more than just a little frustrated, the boss asked, "What are they searching for?!"

Still whispering, the young voice replied along with a muffled giggle, "Me!" 

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Morning Pic Dump

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Birthdays on November 12th

1840 - Auguste Rodin
1945 - Neil Young
1929 - Grace Kelly
1915 - Roland Barthes
1980 - Ryan Gosling

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Todays Pic Dump

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Blast from the Past

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Afternoon Funnies

  

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Today in History

Lead Story

Ellis Island closes, 1954

American Revolution

Abigail Adams leads rhetorical charge against Britain, 1775

Automotive

Goldenrod sets the land-speed record, 1965

Civil War

The destruction of Atlanta begins, 1864

Cold War

Yuri Andropov assumes power in the Soviet Union, 1982

Crime

High school sweethearts murder their newborn child, 1996

Scott Peterson convicted, 2004

Disaster

Plane crashes in Rockaway, New York, 2001

General Interest

First meteor shower on record, 1799

Japanese war criminals sentenced, 1948

Voyager I flies near Saturn, 1980

Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan, 1990

Hollywood

William Holden, star of Sunset Boulevard and Network, dies, 1981

Literary

DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, is born, 1889

Music

Toby Keith has his third straight #1 country album with Shock'n Y'all, 2003

Old West

U.S. reconsiders war with Plains Indians, 1867

Presidential

Carter shuts down oil imports from Iran, 1979

Sports

Pudge Heffelfinger becomes first pro football player, 1892

Vietnam War

Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story, 1969

Nixon sets new deadline for next troop withdrawal, 1971

World War I

Allied fleet enters Dardanelles, 1918

World War II

Brits sink the battleship Tirpitz, 1944

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