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jhnbrbr

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The most beautiful story ever told?

[Hankies at the ready folks]

This is a story about an Amercan couple who have two children, a boy and a girl. The husband works in the power generation industry. He hates his job, but it's reasonably well paid, so he puts up with it in order to provide for his family. But when, at last, the mortgage on their house is paid off, he does a few sums and realises the family could now survive on a smaller salary. He soon takes up a new post in the leisure industry, but not before celebrating his departure by humiliating his old boss in front of his fellow workers. He loves his new job, it suits his personality down to the ground. A whole new atmosphere of peace and contentment settles over the family. One evening, he takes his wife for a romantic picnic on the beach. When they get home they find they have to remove their clothes because the sand has got everywhere, and ... well ... one thing leads to another!

Nine months later, the wife gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. The man is over the moon, and dearly loves the new addition to his family. But as time goes by, he realises that the family finances are very finely balanced, and it's impossible to make ends meet now the family is larger. Finally, he is forced to do the thing he dreads the most. He goes back to his old boss on his hands and knees and begs for his old job back. The boss agrees, but needless to say, makes the man eat a great deal of humble pie first. He even has a special plaque made to hang over the man's workplace to taunt him. It says "Don't forget you're here for ever".

So, as the man one day explains to his older children, the new arrival has cost him his dream, but he wouldn't change a thing because he loves her so dearly. "But if you love her so much, why are there no pictures of her around the house?" his son wants to know. "That's because I keep them where I need them the most!" It's true, he has covered every inch of his workplace with pictures of his baby girl. Some of them overlap the plaque, covering some of its letters. It no longer says "Don't forget you're here for ever." It simply says ...

"Do it for her."


OK, I admit it, I'm simply repeating an old episode of The Simpsons. But wow, what an ending! :cry: Right up there with Shakespeare and Dickens imho.
 

Dorsetmike

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Forum Raid!!!

Careful Amie, this place is addictive
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Dorsetmike

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Purely symbolic, I'm waiting for Mr smiley maker to update to flat screen.

I can go back to this if you prefer
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newspapers don't age like monitors.
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jhnbrbr

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Time for a random thought

Your mother always knows how to press your buttons - she was the one who installed the buttons in the first place.

(A friend of mine came out with this profound observation - but I'm not sure whether she thought of it herself, or got it out of "Psychologies" magazine)
 

jhnbrbr

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and a definition

Paranoia (n) Thinking everyone is out to get you, even at those rare times when they're not.
 

marval

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Goodness me, I am away for a while and this is what I come back to. I think I need a Gin and Tonic, anyone care to join me?
 

jhnbrbr

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On the plausibility of bicycles

If you'd never seen one, or even heard of one, and someone explained the principle of the bicycle to you, would you believe them? :confused:
 

marval

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Well I will try and have a steadying influence, but I am not sure after that Gin and Tonic how steady I am. lol
 

jhnbrbr

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Have you noticed how everything is "digital" these days ..

...watches, clocks, calculators, radios, televisions, rectal examinations :eek:, ..
 
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