{"id":16062,"date":"2012-07-27T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=16062"},"modified":"2012-07-27T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:32:36","slug":"friday-funnies-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=16062","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY FUNNIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The doctors had been on strike for several days before anyone figured out what was going on, because nobody could read their picket signs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Doctors-on-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16089\" title=\"Doctors on strike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Doctors-on-strike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Doctors-on-strike.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Doctors-on-strike-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Bass and treble had never gotten along, but things got really serious one day at the staff meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Musical-staff-meeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16090\" title=\"Musical staff meeting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Musical-staff-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Musical-staff-meeting.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Musical-staff-meeting-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what we might hear if symphonies had play-by-play announcers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Bassists-were-loaded.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16091\" title=\"Bassists were loaded\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Bassists-were-loaded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Bassists-were-loaded.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Bassists-were-loaded-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you really needed to get to a particular, pre-determined location, you wouldn&#8217;t have used the Zen GPS system anyway, would you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zen-GPS-system.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16092\" title=\"Zen GPS system\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zen-GPS-system.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zen-GPS-system.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Zen-GPS-system-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made waves this week when he vowed to block Chick-fil-A from opening in the city because of the political donations of the company&#8217;s ownership &#8212; saying the company&#8217;s religious donations don&#8217;t reflect &#8220;Chicago values.&#8221; At the same time, Emanuel was welcoming Nation of Islam leader\u00a0Louis Farrakhan&#8217;s offer to send men to help patrol the streets of the city.\u00a0Farrakhan&#8217;s oft-stated hatred of various other groups is obviously a Chicago value in Emanuel&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rahm-Emanuels-Chicago-values.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16093\" title=\"Rahm Emanuel's Chicago values\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rahm-Emanuels-Chicago-values.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rahm-Emanuels-Chicago-values.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rahm-Emanuels-Chicago-values-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctors had been on strike for several days before anyone figured out what was going on, because nobody could read their picket signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-4b4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16096,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions\/16096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}