{"id":10915,"date":"2012-02-24T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2012-02-24T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:01:42","slug":"friday-funnies-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=10915","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY FUNNIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re allergic to bad grammar and poor word usage, you have to be very careful who you hang out with, because it can be dangerous. (In fairness, though, I should point out that there&#8217;s a missing comma in the last frame, but maybe the victim is too sick to realize it.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Allergic-to-bad-grammar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10916\" title=\"Allergic to bad grammar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Allergic-to-bad-grammar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Allergic-to-bad-grammar.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Allergic-to-bad-grammar-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If you have a daughter who&#8217;s getting close to the age when she might start dating, here&#8217;s an application that you might want to consider adopting to screen her potential suitors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Application-to-date-my-daughter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10917\" title=\"Application to date my daughter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Application-to-date-my-daughter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Application-to-date-my-daughter.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Application-to-date-my-daughter-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First it was bees dying for unknown reasons that some people believe are linked to modern technology. Now it appears that birds are having trouble adapting, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Birds-and-wireless-technology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10918\" title=\"Birds and wireless technology\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Birds-and-wireless-technology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Birds-and-wireless-technology.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Birds-and-wireless-technology-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantasy has become a very popular literary genre, and it appears that another classic work of fantasy has just been published.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pure-fantasy.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10919\" title=\"Pure fantasy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pure-fantasy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pure-fantasy.jpeg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pure-fantasy-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very important that schools teach students to be independent and critical thinkers. How else would they be able to come to the correct conclusions they&#8217;re expected to come to <em>and<\/em> obey everything that teachers and politicians tell them?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Critical-thinkers-who-obey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10920\" title=\"Critical thinkers who obey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Critical-thinkers-who-obey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Critical-thinkers-who-obey.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Critical-thinkers-who-obey-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re allergic to bad grammar and poor word usage, you have to be very careful who you hang out with, because it can be dangerous. 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