{"id":11337,"date":"2012-03-09T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:50:03","slug":"friday-funnies-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=11337","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY FUNNIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weight loss is tough for anybody, but consider the poor snowball who decides to get athletic. I wonder how many of our weight loss methods are similarly counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Weight-loss-is-hard.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11363\" title=\"Weight loss is hard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Weight-loss-is-hard.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Weight-loss-is-hard.gif 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Weight-loss-is-hard-225x300.gif 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The snowball probably doesn&#8217;t need to worry about weight loss anyway, because there&#8217;s that pesky crank warning him that the end is near.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snowman-doomsday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11364\" title=\"Snowman doomsday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snowman-doomsday.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snowman-doomsday.png 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snowman-doomsday-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surely I&#8217;m not the only one who goes to look something up on Wikipedia and &#8220;wakes up&#8221; an hour later to realize I&#8217;m reading about 12 different unrelated things instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wikipedia-and-time.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11365\" title=\"Wikipedia and time\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wikipedia-and-time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wikipedia-and-time.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Wikipedia-and-time-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if the tables were turned and the cats were our &#8220;keepers&#8221; &#8212; and they dropped off the unwanted children at the &#8220;human shelter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/At-the-human-shelter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11366\" title=\"At the human shelter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/At-the-human-shelter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/At-the-human-shelter.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/At-the-human-shelter-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With any luck, this is going to be a popular game this year, even though I&#8217;m afraid those Angry Taxpayers will make the same old mistakes and just end up with a different group of pigs to laugh at them in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Angry-taxpayers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11367\" title=\"Angry taxpayers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Angry-taxpayers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Angry-taxpayers.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Angry-taxpayers-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight loss is tough for anybody, but consider the poor snowball who decides to get athletic. 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