David Jaggard's

Quorum of One

Issue number 26

February 15, 2000

 

Wet humor on the Web since 2000

 


 

This issue:

 

 SPECIAL REGISTERED TRADEMARK ISSUE

 

Everest Climbers Set New Records

 
The Mount Everest Timing and Overseeing Office for Marking Authentic Records and Titles for Historic Ascents has released the official list of world records set on Mount Everest for the month of January:

Jan. 1, 2000: First team to climb Mount Everest in the 21st century.

Jan. 2, 2000: First team of pedants and wet blankets to climb Mount Everest in the last year of the 20th Century.

Jan. 3, 2000: First team to climb Everest without hiking sticks.

Jan. 4, 2000: First team to climb Everest without stickers or flags on their backpacks.

Jan. 5, 2000: First team to climb Everest without a compass.

Jan. 6, 2000: First team to climb Everest without a guide.

Jan. 7, 2000: First team to climb Everest without a clue.

Jan. 8, 2000: First team to climb Everest without regret for anything they did in high school.

Jan. 9, 2000: First team to climb Everest without actually wanting to.

Jan. 10, 2000: First team to climb Everest without climbing Everest.

Jan. 11, 2000: First team to climb Everest without wondering what the hell that last team's record could possibly mean in the first place.

Jan. 12, 2000: First team to climb Everest without speaking to each other (unintentional -- they had intended to set the record for first team to climb Everest wearing plastic novelty "nose-and-glasses" disguises, but when they reached base camp and found out that Ian had left the Groucho SpecsTM back at the hotel, they got in such a huge squabble they ended up doing the entire climb in deafening silence, communicating entirely by spiteful but meaningful looks).

Jan. 13, 2000: First team to climb Everest without claiming some kind of record.

Jan. 14, 2000: First team to climb Everest without ever once wishing they were back home in front of a roaring fire, toasting their feet on the hearth, curled up in a down comforter with the drool-inspiring lust object of their choice, sipping a vintage wine and telling fascinating anecdote after fascinating anecdote about this very ascent of Everest, instead of being stuck here in a raging blizzard in a flimsy one-half-person tent not even long enough to stretch out in, with hardly any food or water, gasping for every breath, hallucinating in what seems like the 87th day of altitude sickness, constipated like there's a champagne cork (magnum) in their SMALL intestine and having to listen to the incessant whining, carping and from-the-diaphragm sighing of their insipid tent-mate, whose idea of a fascinating topic of conversation, when he's not carping, whining or sighing, is to fantasize about sitting back home in front of a nice hot fire, toasting his feet on the hearth, curled up in a down comforter with the drool-inspiring lust object of his choice, sipping a vintage wine and telling fascinating anecdote after fascinating anecdote about this very ascent of Everest, instead of being stuck here in a raging blizzard in a flimsy one-half-person tent not even long enough to stretch out in, with hardly any food or water, gasping for every breath, hallucinating in what seems like the 87th day of altitude sickness, constipated like there's a champagne cork (magnum) in his SMALL intestine and having to listen to the incessant whining, carping and from-the-diaphragm sighing of his insipid tent-mate, whose idea of a fascinating topic of conversation, when he's not carping, whining or sighing, is to fantasize about sitting back home in front of a nice hot fire, toasting his feet on the hearth, curled up in a down comforter with the drool-inspiring lust object of his choice, sipping a vintage wine and telling fascinating anecdote after fascinating anecdote about this very ascent of Everest, instead of being stuck here in a raging blizzard in a flimsy one-half-person tent not even long enough to stretch out in, with hardly any food or water, gasping for every breath, hallucinating in what seems like the 87th day of altitude sickness, constipated like there's a champagne cork (magnum) in his SMALL intestine and having to listen to the incessant whining, carping and from-the-diaphragm sighing of his insipid tent-mate, whose idea of a fascinating topic of conversation, when he's not carping, whining or sighing, is to fantasize about sitting back home in front of a nice hot fire, toasting his feet on the hearth, curled up in a down comforter with the drool-inspiring lust object of his choice, sipping a vintage wine and telling fascinating anecdote after fascinating anecdote about this very ascent of Everest, instead of being stuck here in a raging blizzard in a flimsy one-half-person tent not even long enough to stretch out in, with hardly any food or water, gasping for every breath, hallucinating in what seems like the 87th day of altitude sickness, constipated like there's a champagne cork (magnum) in his SMALL intestine and having to listen to the incessant whining, carping and from-the-diaphragm sighing of his insipid tent-mate, whose idea of a fascinating topic of conversation, when he's not carping, whining or sighing, is to fantasize about sitting back home in front of a nice hot fire, toasting his feet on the hearth, curled up in a down comforter with the...

Editor:     Hey! David!!
Me:  
        Wha . . . ?
Editor: 
    (SLAP!!!)
Me:
          Whoa, thanks.
Editor:    
What the hell's wrong with you today?
Me: 
         I went to a Philip Glass concert last night . . .   
Editor:
     Yeah, I can see how that would do it.
Me:            . . .
and ever since I just keep getting into these loops!
Editor:
     Well, let's try to get on with it, shall we?
Me: 
         Loops!  I mean, OK, here goes:

Jan. 15, 2000: First green-eyed person to climb Everest.

Jan. 16, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest.

Jan. 17, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone.

Jan. 18, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen.

Jan. 19, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers.

Jan. 20, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks.

Jan. 21, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards.

Jan. 22, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with his eyes closed.

Jan. 23, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with her eyes closed.
 
Jan. 24, 2000:
First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with her eyes closed and holding her urine.

Jan. 25, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with her eyes closed, holding her urine and not once thinking about the song "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow.

Jan. 26, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with her eyes closed and holding her urine, not once thinking about the song "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow or that old joke about "not thinking about elephants".

Jan. 27, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with her eyes closed and holding her urine, not once thinking about the song "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow or that old joke about "not thinking about elephants" and without ever once saying "Look at the view!"

Jan. 28, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with her eyes closed and holding her urine, not once thinking about the song "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow  or that old joke about "not thinking about elephants", without ever once saying "Look at the view!" or "You sure those are human footprints?"

Jan. 29, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with her eyes closed and holding her urine, not once thinking about the song "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow  or that old joke about "not thinking about elephants", without ever once saying "Look at the view!" or "You sure those are human footprints?" or "If all of us record-setters are climbing alone who would we be saying 'Look at the view!' or 'You sure those are human footprints?' to in the first place?"

Jan. 30, 2000: First green-eyed stamp collector to climb Everest alone without oxygen, wearing penny loafers and only one pair of socks, walking backwards with her eyes closed and holding her urine, not once thinking about the song "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow  or that old joke about "not thinking about elephants", without ever once saying "Look at the view!" or "You sure those are human footprints?" or "If all of us record-setters are climbing alone who would we be saying 'Look at the view!' or 'You sure those are human footprints?' to in the first place? Have we started talking to ourselves?  Do we all have imaginary Sherpas?  Or have we just lost our minds?  And if so, why?  The stress?  The cold? The thin air?  The fact that we can't stop asking little short pointless questions?  Like this one?  Huh?  Well?  Hey!...

Editor: (SLAP!!!) (SLAP!!!)
Me:
     OK, OK, let's try something else:
 

News from the World Court

The Hague, the Netherlands  The World Court on Thursday passed down a sentence of 75 years in prison for a radical terrorist who was found guilty of planting a bomb that killed 12 people in a crowded marketplace.  The defendant explained that his act was in retaliation for the conviction of another terrorist who was found guilty of a rifle attack in a church that killed 10 people in protest of the imprisonment of another terrorist who was found guilty of leading an armed attack on a military base that killed 8 people in revenge for the capture of another terrorist who was found guilty of bombing a police station and killing 6 people as a counterattack after the execution of another terrorist who was found guilty of murdering 4 soldiers as an act of vengeance for the imprisonment of another terrorist who was found guilty of throwing a grenade into a government building and killing 2 people in reciprocation for the detention of another terrorist who was found guilty of attempting to assassinate the Pope to avenge the death in a shoot-out with the police of another terrorist who was wanted for taking hostages in a school to demand the release of another terrorist who was in jail for hijacking a plane to demand the release of another terrorist who was awaiting trial on charges of robbing a bank to finance the defense fund of another terrorist who was being tried for the kidnapping of a prominent industrialist to demand the release of another terrorist who was sentenced to life as a galley slave for sabotaging the construction of the Acropolis in defiance of. . .

Editor:    (SLAP!!!)
 
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Instructions:
 
1.
Make sure you're alone in the house.
 
2.
Better double-check that.
 
3.
Make sure the door is locked and all the curtains tightly closed.  Keep in mind that flimsy white and rattan curtains are virtually transparent at night.
 
4.
Put the chain on the door while you're at it in case your ex comes by with his or her old key.
 
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Editor:     David!!! Fer chrissake, my hand's swelling up already!
Me:  
        All right, all right!  Put some ZZ Top on the
                stereo and I'll finish this thing:
 
7.
Choose the background setting from among the hundreds of options.  The most common choices have been placed at the top of the list for easy selection:

Penthouse suite at the Plaza
Hot tub in Hawaii

Venetian Gondola

Tropical beach at sunset

19th century Parisian bordello

Lear jet at 5,281 feet

Back seat of 1964 Cadillac

Oval Office

Boardroom at Microsoft

 

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9.
Make sure that, ah, everything is, ah, "in place", and punch the "START" button.   Using your elbow, because those sensor mitts are thick and clumsy.
 
10.
Because your hands will likely be otherwise occupied, EroGeniusTM is equipped a voice-activated stop routine. When you want to halt the program, just say in a loud clear voice, "I'll call you sometime!" and the system shuts down.
 

EroGeniusTM is a registered trademark of the Blomy Corporation.

Software and instructions copyright 1997, 1999 and 2000 by Barry Dittener, Herb Rozzof and Blomy Inc.

 

 
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