Old Lottery

This was a standard kiosk for the Romanian National Lottery during the communism era. The shot was taken in the city of Felix Baths...

And speaking about communism, let's have a laugh from that era:

Q: What is KGB?
A: It's the heart of the Communist Party, which beats, and beats, and beats...

And another one:

Two convicts were having a conversation:
"John, how many years you got?" asks the first one.
"15 years", answers John.
"What for? What did you do?"
"Nothing!" says John.
"You're lying! For nothing you get only 5 years!"

Let's ride a train!

Shot taken in New Mexico while traveling on I-40 at 75 mph... and that was between two snow showers, well first was a snow storm actually, just before Albuquerque, while the second just a snow shower, somewhere close to the AZ state line...

Today's joke:

A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks if he can buy him a drink."Why, of course," comes the reply. The first man then asks: "Where are you from?"
"I'm from Ireland," replies the second man.
The first man responds: "You don't say, I'm from Ireland, too! Let's have another round to Ireland."
"Of course," replies the second man.
Curious, the first man then asks: "Where in Ireland are you from?"
"Dublin," comes the reply.
"I can't believe it," says the first man.
"I'm from Dublin, too! Let's have another drink to Dublin."
"Of course," replies the second man.
Curiosity again strikes and the first man asks:
"What school did you go to?"
"Saint Mary's," replies the second man.
"I graduated in '62."
"This is unbelievable!" the first man says.
"I went to Saint Mary's and I graduated in '62, too!"
About that time, in comes one of the regulars and sits down at the bar.
"What's been going on?" he asks the bartender.
"Nothing much," replies the bartender. "The O'Malley twins are drunk again."

Nothing About Pleasantville

Well, I've choose this title 'cause it reminded me those scenes from "Pleasantville" when things turned into color from b/w...
I took this shot in Bonn, Germany...

Today's joke:

A young engineer was leaving the office at 3.45 p.m. when he found the acting CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.
"Listen," said the Acting CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document, and my secretary is not here. Can you make this thing work?"
"Certainly," said the young engineer. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.
"Excellent, excellent!" said the Acting CEO as his paper disappeared inside the machine, "I just need one copy."

Lesson: Never, ever, assume that your boss knows what he's doing.

The Little Princess

Well, it's not me the one who calls her "Princess" (I'm not a monarchist, that's why!), but her father - my younger brother. Here we were at Starbucks, she was waiting for her vanilla milkshake, and she didn't want me to picture her (usually she likes to be a photo model, but that day I guess she was really tired, she had I don't know what kinda dance contest, then the long walk in Kemah, and so on). Unlucky her, I had enough patience to wait til she turned her head toward me!

Today's joke (from a Canadian friend):

A father walks into a restaurant with his young son. He gives the young boy 3 nickels to play with to keep him occupied. Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickels and starts Slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up 2 of the nickels, but keeps choking. Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help. A well dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman, in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar, reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant. Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy's testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly.. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand. Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word. As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying:
"I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?"
"No", the woman replied. "I'm with Revenue Canada..."