Icewind's Ramblings

WHY WE FORWARD JOKES? The Amazon Basin web site that I play a few online games with friends was down for several days recently with technical difficulties moving the server to another location and gave everyone time to venture into our minds for other things to occupy our time and energy. It got me thinking about something as I was out of town for a few days and had many emails when I was able to connect to the internet again. Do you ever wonder why we forward jokes to each other across the miles? I am going to ‘splain it to you now (‘splain=southern=explain) A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them. After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a lon...

I don’t know if you have this ad in your part of the world but I keep seeing ads for KY Sensual Mist Personal Lubricant on television and it seems like they are playing it quite a bit here lately. I am not sure if that is because the advertisers are getting us prepared for another long hard winter with the extra hours of darkness that we get in Alaska during our winter months. The set up for the ad is the husband is sitting on the couch adjusting the TV sports channels and the pretty wife is upstairs calling him on his cell phone and reading the directions from the label. (Like they will need any directions) The husband quickly tries to figure out how to record the sports program and hurries upstairs. I keep making the same bad jokes in my mind and sometimes even saying out loud, just a little bit different each time . . . "I like to be personally lubricated." "I, personally, like to be lubricated." "Personally, I like to be lubricated....

May you Rest in Peace Steve Irwin . Thank you for all the work you did to help endangered species and protect all animals. Your enthusiasm and wacky way made us laugh and look at the animal world through different eyes we may never have known. You will be very missed by millions around the world. Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter" , was killed Monday, September 4, 2006, by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef . He was 44. Irwin was diving off Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state in Australia, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean’s Deadliest" when he swam up behind and too close to one of the stingrays, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said. It sounds like a freak accident that was being filmed for another program. "He came on top of the stingray and the sti...

There’s an old Alaskan saying about the men here and it goes like this: “The Odds are good but the Goods are Odd” Translation -- Not everyone would consider many Alaskan men someone to take home to the parents . . . Here are a few other sayings about Alaskan Men and their women. "When a woman gets off the plane the whole town knows." - A Kodiak fisherman. "She walked right by me without saying hello. That's the last time I fix her four-wheeler." - Alaska handyman "An Alaska man's matching set of luggage: two cardboard boxes sealed with duct tape." - A mother "When she came to visit I gave her one drawer in the file cabinet and two in the bureau. After all, a woman needs a place for her stuff." - Alaska man on understanding women. "I keep ice-cream in there during the winter." - Alaska man on why he keeps a file cabinet in his yard. Alaska Bush Pilot landing on a river gravel bar: Ice