The Gates of Gardendale

Joke:

Gates Of Hell

Bill Gates croaked it and met his maker, and God said, "Well, Bill, I'm really confused on this one. I'm not sure whether to send you to Heaven or to Hell. After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in the world, and we even have them up here now, yet you created that ghastly Windows. I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to let you decide where you want to go.

Bill Gates said, "What's the difference between the two?" God said, "It might help you decide if you took a peek. I've set up webcams at both places. Shall we look at Hell first?" Bill was amazed. He saw a clean, white sandy beach with clear blue waters. There were thousands of beautiful men and women running around, playing in the water, laughing and frolicking about. The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect. "This is great!" said Bill. "If this is Hell, I can't wait to see Heaven." God said, "Here then" and clicked on his mouse and they viewed Heaven. Bill saw puffy white clouds in a beautiful blue sky, with angels drifting about playing harps and singing. It was nice, but surely not as enticing as Hell. Bill thought for only a brief moment and rendered his decision. "God, I do believe I would prefer to go to Hell." "As you wish," said God.

Two weeks later, God decided to check up on the late billionaire to see how things were going. He found Bill shackled to a wall, screaming amidst the hot flames in a dark cave. He was being tortured by demons with pitchforks. "How ya doin', Bill?" asked God. Bill responded with anguish and despair, "This is awful! This isn't what we watched at all! What happened to the beach and the beautiful women playing in the water?" "Oh, that," said God. "That was the screen saver..."

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At Home:

In case you might be wondering about today's title ,"The Gates"... no real reason other than that I had been reading about these stupid sheets of 'saffron' fabric that have been installed in Central Park in New York by some goofey "artist" at a cost of 20+million dollars . They call this 'art'? To me, it looks like a gay brothel on laundry day..... but that's just my opinion.

I went to the doctor today. Things are still going well. I had the stitches removed from my new and improved thumb. YIKES! Didn't hurt a bit .... well, not too much anyhow. I don't think I used more than a handful of swear words while the doc pulled them out. ;)

The doc did give me another 2 weeks off work. YES! ... I mean, Darn!.. Wink,Wink :) It's not that I mind working....really, ......no, really. .... Come on ! ...I've only been off for the last 3 weeks and the doc said it'd be like 8 weeks before I can start using this thing. Right now, it's still so swollen, if I took off the cast and waved... people would think I was shaking a baby. ;)

I've noticed Tiff hasn't done an update on her blog in a while.... we may all have to go there and leave 'slacker' comments. Hmmmmm ? Tiff ?

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Anecdote:

Edison,Charles (1890-1969), US politician. The son of Thomas Alva Edison, he was governor of New Jersey from 1941-1944.

Campaigning for the governorship in 1940, Edison was anxious to dissociate himself from his father's renown. " I would not have anyone believe I am trading on the name Edison," he would explain as he introduced himself. " I would rather have you know me merely as the result of one of my father's earlier experiments." :)
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Fini:

Well, ladies and germs, I hope ya'll enjoyed another day in Doug's somewhat twisted brain. Oh... and don't REALLY go to Tiff's blog and make slacker comments... not yet, we'll give her a day or two more before we let her have it. ;)
......again, 'wink,wink'. :)

Till Next Time !
KEEP SMILING!!!!!
-Doug-