Christian Pipe Smokers

Baseball
Two 90 year old guys, Leo and Frank, had been friends all of their lives. When it was clear that Leo was dying, Frank visited him every day.

One day Frank said, "Leo, we both loved playing baseball and we played all through high school. Please do me one favor: when you get to heaven, somehow you must let me know if there's baseball there.

"Leo looked up at Frank from his deathbed and said, "Frank you've been my best friend for many years. If it's at all possible, I'll do this favor for you."

Shortly after that, Leo passed away.

A few nights later, Frank was awakened from a sound sleep by a blinding flash of white light and a voice calling out to him, "Frank ... Frank …"

"Who is it?" asked Frank sitting up suddenly. "Who is it?"

“Leo. it's me, Leo."

"You're not Leo. Leo just died."

"I'm telling you it's me, Leo," insisted the voice.

"Leo! Where are you?"

"In Heaven," replied Leo. "I have some really good news and a little bad news.”

"Tell me the good news first," said Frank.

"The good news," Leo said, "is that there's baseball in heaven. Better yet, all of our old buddies who died before us are here too. Better than that, we're all young again. Better still, it's always springtime, and it never rains or snows. And best of all, we can play baseball all we want, and we never get tired."

"That's fantastic," said Frank. "It's beyond my wildest dreams! So what's the bad news?"

"You're pitching Tuesday."

"Once you understand why pizza is made round and packed in a square box and eaten as a triangle...Then you will understand women"

--Unknown--

Troubadour wrote: ↑18 Sep 2022, 17:17

Bloodhound wrote: ↑18 Sep 2022, 12:32 "Once you understand why pizza is made round and packed in a square box and eaten as a triangle...Then you will understand women"

--Unknown--

It's amazing that people buy into clichés like this as well. Sigh...

*Pizza is made round because it makes it easier to cook evenly

*Pizza boxes are square because they're much easier to mass-produce and can be made from a single sheet of cardboard

*Pizzas are cut into triangles because it's the most common way to evenly divide a circle.

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I should win something for this.

(And it sure as hell better not be someone trying to sell an "understanding of women" - since I don't buy into clichés or "conventional wisdom" that women or men can't be "understood", and think they can rather simply).

You're a cliché

Troubadour wrote: ↑18 Sep 2022, 17:17 (And it sure as hell better not be someone trying to sell an "understanding of women" - since I don't buy into clichés or "conventional wisdom" that women or men can't be "understood", and think they can rather simply).

That is a lot funnier than you intended!

Troubadour wrote: ↑19 Sep 2022, 12:31 Just start with the fact that men and women are more similar than they are different. And that trying to understand "women" or "men" is rather futile without trying to understand the human condition, and that clears things up quite a bit.

Wait.... so there's a human condition now? What's that look like in your simplified worldview?

Del wrote: ↑19 Sep 2022, 18:29

Thanks. You win this thread.

I’m sorry in advance.