Punday Night: Frog at the Bank
Pun of the Day:
The recent windstorm through the trees was an absolute debarkle.
There was a wolf named Tim and he decided to shave off all his fur in the middle of winter. What did the other wolves call him after that? Tim-Burr-Wolf.
I went to see my guru but he wasn’t omm.
Drinking too much of a certain potent potable may require a leave of absinthe.
What did the triangle say to the circle? You’re so pointless.
Russia was slow to recover after WW2 because it kept Stalin around.
Here’s some interesting news: HIV Turns Off Immune Cells — HIV appears to wear out the immune system. Killer T cells that would typically proliferate to ward off an infection instead languish under the HIV onslaught. Two independent teams of researchers have uncovered the cause of this failure, tracing it to a particular molecular pathway known as Programmed Death-1, or PD-1.
Evidently, HIV triggers PD-1, which then shuts down T-cells. (T-cells are the immune system’s SWAT team.) By lowering the expression of PD-1 — shutting it up, basically — the T-cells were turned back on, and went back to doing their job. Unfortunately: This does not mean, however, that a new treatment for AIDS is at hand, the authors warn in the paper presenting the finding, which was published online by Nature yesterday. Although drugs to block the PD-1 pathway have been developed for cancer patients, they affect all immune cells, not just HIV-specific ones. “If you turn back on an immune regulatory switch that the body has decided to turn off,” Walker cautions, “you could trigger serious immunological problems.”
Well, get to work on this, guys!
Brookfield Crew Rescues Dolphin Trapped in Speedo — A lucky adolescent male bottlenose dolphin is back to living nude and free in Florida’s Sarasota Bay after making a potentially fatal wardrobe choice early this summer.
The best part of this article? The writer actually refers to the team of marine biologists who rescued the dolphin as “the depantsing team”. That’s frickin’ priceless, kids.
This one is so bad: A frog is outgrowing his lily pad and decides to make some home improvements. He doesn’t have the money, so he hops to the bank to borrow some.
At the bank, he takes a seat at loan officer Patricia Black’s desk and explains his dilemma.
”I want to upgrade my lily pad, maybe add another window, but I don’t have the cash. Can you lend me the money?”
”Maybe. What can you offer as collateral?”
”Well,” says the frog. “All I have is this paperweight. You shake it up, and it snows on the little village. Cute, huh?”
”Hmm . . . I’ll have to speak to my manager.” She enters her manager’s office.
”Mr. Bitterby, I’ve got a frog at my desk who wants to borrow money for lily pad improvements. But all he can offer for collateral is this glass paperweight.”
Mr. Bitterby takes the paperweight, hefts it in his hand, looks at her and says, “It’s a knick-knack, Patty Black, give the frog a loan.”
August 21st, 2006 at 9:23 pm
He he he….I liked the frog joke. I’ll make a copy of that to take to the bank. How’s work? Same shi…different day, huh? I went to Dr today and my thyroid was actually overproducing so she droped my prescription to the next lower level. Blood pressure and weight are too much ( imagine that!! ) so she gave me some water pills to help the blood pressure and I need to lose a few pounds and stay away from teh salt. When I took my pressure here at home it was 119/75…But, I do need to lose weight so I’ll see what I can do. Talk to you soon. Love ya lots……
September 3rd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Well, I’m glad to hear the thyroid wasn’t anything serious! It’s too bad we don’t live closer together — we could walk together and stuff.