October 5 Humor
* My mother had tried every diet she read about over the years without much beneficial effect. Suddenly she was eating practically nothing and exercising everyday. I asked her what the program was that had inspired all this effort. She went to the refrigerator and showed me the invitation to her 20th school reunion.
* After dieting and exercising for a few weeks, I measured myself and was delighted to see I had lost 4 inches. When my husband came home that night I told him. “Gee, honey,” he said “what does that make you now four foot 11?”
@ Each year Army reserve officers from every walk of life soldier during their two-week annual training. As an active duty officer during one such training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina I was having trouble getting a lesson across to a reservist. “Look,” I said, “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to get this right.” The reservist stopped, looked straight at me and replied, “but I am a rocket scientist.”