A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their small children. "You all have obsessions," he observed.
To the first mother, Mary, he said, "You are obsessed with eating. You've even named your daughter Candy."
He turned to the second Mom, Ann: "Your obsession is with money. Again, it manifests itself in your child's name, Penny."
He turned to the third Mom, Joyce: "Your obsession is alcohol. This too shows itself in your child's name, Brandy."
At this point, the fourth mother, Kathy, quietly got up, took her little boy by the hand, and whispered, "Come on, Dick, this guy has no idea what he's talking about. Let's pick up Peter and Willy from school and go get some dinner."
Do not blame me for this one. Blame Doug. He made me do it.
I've heard this many times. It's still bad. It's still funny! And, of course, it is what the schismatics are all saying. They are obsessed with those three words. :)
ReplyDeleteJames, dammit! I forgot to add my disclaimer: "There is nothing new under the sun." ;-) What can I say? The joke passed my LOL test.
ReplyDeleteAmen. You can't look for cooperation and compromise from ideologues. The moderate left only works through government because they think it efficient. The right hates the idea regardless of whether it works or not. This cuts across almost all issues, including sexuality: liberals say, "Look at these loving lives," and the right answers, "It's wrong!" It is the clash of pragmatism with ideology.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mondale that the Pres has woken up to this reality. A good thing, as there is nothing worse than wifty liberalism!
All right, then, Tobias, but did you like the joke?
ReplyDeleteoops... loved the joke, and also the quote from Mondale? Pressed wrong button. Bad Tobias.
ReplyDeleteI re the joke, I recall years ago how amusing the English found the title of the film, "Free Willy" !
Ironically amusing, given the cost of that commodity to the film's producer.
ReplyDeleteTobias, I quoted your comment in the proper thread.
ReplyDeleteLapin, perhaps I'm thick, but I don't understand your comment.
Mimi, does Lapin mean the producer got in trouble for putting his [fill in euphemism of choice here] about town a little bit too freely?
ReplyDeleteThat is an oldie, but this has to be the best version of it I have heard.
ReplyDeleteFWIW
jimB
I'm guessing dinner is going to include some meat (sausage? ;-X).
ReplyDeleteJCF, to put it crudely and explicitly, which I'd perhaps rather you didn't do. There's a lot to be said for leaving certain things to the imagination.
ReplyDelete"Free Willy" was produced by this gentleman.
ReplyDeleteOh.
ReplyDeleteLet me add my "oh" to Mimi's. Good joke though. Nice for a morning chuckle.
ReplyDeleteMy wv is "verymort". Maybe it means some things should be left truly dead.
I have a grandson named William, and his parents insist that he be called by his full name, but sometimes even the parents slip into "Willy". As for the rest of us....
ReplyDeleteI have friends whose elder son is known as Willy and whose younger if Dicky. At which point a hysterectomy intervened.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Richard is a very nice name, we didn't go there with our children nor with our grandchildren, although I had no say with the grandchildren.
ReplyDeletePS One of my friends works as a teacher and at the school she used to work at, the woodwork teacher was called Richard Hare and he insisted on being called Dick. Honestly.
ReplyDeleteI really don't like to think what the kids made of that.
PPS. At least he wasn't called Richard Head. But then, he might as well have been.
ReplyDeleteI really don't like to think what the kids made of that.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that the kids made much of the name out of hearing distance of the teacher.