Best Costume Award Goes to...

thanks to Doreen and Carolynn

Frightfully Great Time...

...Happy Halloween and...

...more Happy Halloween...

...from Bob & Doreen

No That's Not Me !

but Happy Halloween anyway...

...with thanks to Carol for thins one.

Temporary Brake Failure

This picture reminds me of when my sister had "temporary brake failure", drove right through the garage without brakes, and pushed her husband's brand new John Deere lawn tractor right though the back side of the garage like a cookie cutter in a Roadrunner cartoon !

...thanks to Carolynn

Make Mine a Whopper

Brad Sciullo, a 5-foot-11 and 180-pound chef from Pennsylvania, consumed a MAMMOTH 20 lb. hamburger in 4 1/2 hours.

Next Season on Dancing with the Stars

...thanks to Doreen

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

...with thanks to Steve for this one.

New Terminology for Ambitious Inve$tor$

CEO --Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO-- Corporate Fraud Officer.
BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to
mistake himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no
allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
BROKER -- What my broker has made me.
STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked
up in a nuthouse.
PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.

thanks to Doreen for this one.

WHAT'S A BILLION ?

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain... let's take a look at New Orleans... It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for

250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number... what does it mean?

A. Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans

(every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.

B. Or.. if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets $1,329,787.

C. Or... if you are a family of four your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D. C

HELLO!

Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax

- Building Permit Tax

- CDL License Tax

- Cigarette Tax

- Corporate Income Tax

- Dog License Tax

- Federal Income Tax

- Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

- Fishing License Tax

- Food License Tax

- Fuel Permit Tax

- Gasoline Tax

- Hunting License Tax

- Inheritance Tax

- Inventory Tax

- IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)

- IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)

- Liquor Tax

- Luxury Tax

- Marriage License Tax

- Medicare Tax

- Property Tax

- Real Estate Tax

- Service charge taxes

- Social Security Tax

- Road Usage Tax (Truckers)

- Sales Taxes

- Recreational Vehicle Tax

- School Tax

- State Income Tax

- State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)

- Telephone Federal Excise Tax

- Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax

- Telephone F federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax

- Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax

- Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax

- Telephone State and Local Tax

- Telephone Usage Charge Tax

- Utility Tax

- Vehicle License Registration Tax

- Vehicle Sales Tax

- Watercraft Registration Tax

- Well Permit Tax

- Workers Compensation Tax

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STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago... and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt... We had the largest middle class in the world... and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened? Can you spell "politicians"?

And I still have to press '1' for English.

I hope this goes around the USA at least 100 times

What the heck happened?????

…With thanks to the Big Boy