Post Turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, his doctor struck up a conversation.

Eventually the topic got around to current affairs.

The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, let me tell you about the ‘Post Turtle’.”

The doctor said “What’s a ‘Post Turtle’ ?”

The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘Post Turtle’.”

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she don’t belong up there, she don’t know what to do while she’s up there, and you just wonder what kind of dummy put her up there to begin with.”

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

I came across this today and just had to share:

Yeah, it took me a few seconds …

(Later: I remembered where I found this: Stu Savory’s Blog.)

Too busy doing things that aren’t really bloggable, so it’s been pretty quiet around here lately. I have posted a couple of nice fireworks photos on my photo blog, luminosity:

http://www.allthepages.org/luminosity/2008/07/beautiful_fireworks.html

http://www.allthepages.org/luminosity/2008/07/fire_wheel.html

I still squeeze in some time for blog reading (via Google Reader, naturally), and that’s how I found this quick little quiz from my friend Julie-Ann. It fits the bill for a quick, light summertime post:

Erase my answers, enter yours and repost. Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things, nothing made up! You can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name? Mike

2. 4-letter word: Meta

3. Car: Maybach

4. TV show: Mannix

5. City: Montreal

6. Boy’s name: Mark

7. Girl’s name: Moneka

8. Occupation: Mystic

9. Something you wear: Madras (shirt)

10. Food: Mozzarella

11. Something found in a bathroom: Magazine

12. Reason for being late for work: Moonstruck