{"id":9958,"date":"2012-01-27T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=9958"},"modified":"2012-01-26T18:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:57:25","slug":"friday-funnies-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=9958","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY FUNNIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a vicious debate that rages among two gangs who oppose each other in a fight to the finish. Yes, it&#8217;s the battle over whether to use the serial comma or not &#8212; the one commonly referred to as the Oxford comma (or Harvard comma). I don&#8217;t use it, but don&#8217;t tell the pro-Oxford faction or my life won&#8217;t be worth a plugged nickel. (If the joke doesn&#8217;t make sense to you, you&#8217;re probably way too normal to be reading here.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Oxford-comma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9998\" title=\"Oxford comma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Oxford-comma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Oxford-comma.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Oxford-comma-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Everybody seems to dread staff meetings, but with this kind of disagreement and power struggle going on, you know the meeting is going to take on a bad tone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Staff-meeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9999\" title=\"Staff meeting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Staff-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Staff-meeting.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Staff-meeting-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was going to explain what this pictures is, but I still can&#8217;t figure out for sure. Is it cake? Or is it pi?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cake-or-pi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10000\" title=\"Cake or pi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cake-or-pi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cake-or-pi.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cake-or-pi-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things are getting a lot different in banks these days. It used to be the tellers who worried about a customer walking in and taking money at the barrel of a gun. Nowadays, though&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Bank-bailout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10001\" title=\"Bank bailout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Bank-bailout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Bank-bailout.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Bank-bailout-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, if you don&#8217;t know that much about dogs, he&#8217;s a handy guide to help you tell the difference between various types of labs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Guide-to-lab-breeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10002\" title=\"Guide to lab breeds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Guide-to-lab-breeds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Guide-to-lab-breeds.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Guide-to-lab-breeds-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a vicious debate that rages among two gangs who oppose each other in a fight to the finish. 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