Issue
number 34 January 30, 2001
Wet
humor on the Web since 2001
Quorum
of One is intended for adult readers
This
issue:
Dear Sirs:
You know all those stories you see about people who get trapped in burning
buildings, buried under avalanches or kidnapped in trunks of cars and then they
call 911 on their cell phones and get themselves rescued? Well guess what? They
don't really need help! They're just trying to show off what big-time
bigshots they are because they have a cell phone! Why don't these people just
grow up and die like everybody else?
Sheesh,
Karen Mudge
Kipupski, New York
To the Editors:
It's been three weeks now since Jennifer and I broke up and I have to say I'm
taking it really well. No, really, I'm fine. I hardly ever think about her at
all any more.
There is this one little
thing, though: today I called her up just to say "Happy Birthday"
since her birthday is only two months away, and this guy I never even heard of
answered. Jason something or other. Turned out Jennifer was at the supermarket
so I couldn't talk to her anyway, but he said he'd take a message, so I told
him why I was calling and he said he'd tell her, with this sort of smirk in his
voice, and then before hanging up I told him, "Hey, you might want to know
that Jennifer has a real snit-fit if she's trying to butter toast and the
butter is hard." And he said, all cool like, "I'll be keeping that in
mind." YOU SEE? YOU SEE? YOU SEE? Not, "I'll
keep that in mind," but "I'll be keeping that
in mind!" He's thinking of the loooooooong-term future! It's like they're
engaged already! And it's only been three weeks!
So what's the deal? Was she seeing
this guy already behind my back before we broke up? All right, so for how long?
And what kind of lies did she tell to keep it a secret? Come to that, if she'd
lie to me about this one thing, what else did she lie
about? I ask you: can I believe anything she ever said about anything?
Seriously! What if, like, it turns out her real name is Nina?
Or something.
I dunno
Sigh,
Jack Andy Beane
Wood, NY
Dear Sirs,
If you have a single shred of common human decency, you'll help us by
publishing the following public service announcement:
What do you suppose is the biggest killer of
cockroaches in this country? Insecticides? Mechanical compression under shoes,
hammers, hands, bricks, buttocks, teeth, etc.? The hotel/motel industry? Well,
if you thought one of those you're dead wrong: more cockroaches die of
malnutrition than all of those other causes combined!
So how can you ensure that the cockroaches in your apartment are getting a
balanced diet?
First of all, always keep in mind that our little six-legged friends prefer,
and in fact insist on, food that doesn't exist in nature but requires human
intervention. Funny, isnt it? Well, that's just one of the hundreds of things
that make those lil' scurriers such exciting household companions!
So be sure to leave a little something in the kitchen sink or on the floor from
each of the five basic roach food groups every day:
If everyone would follow these simple instructions we could wipe out the
scourge of malnutrition among cockroaches within our lifetime!
Please help us spread the word.
Signed,
Grants for Ants, Gnats, Mosquitoes, Etc.
A non-profit organization
Dear Sirs,
Wait a minute. I just thought of something:
If Jennifer, or Nina, or whatever
her name really is, could lie through her teeth like that about this Jason guy,
I'll just bet that she was lying when we were dividing up our stuff before she
moved out and I asked her where my Heidelberg University beer stein was and she
said she broke it while cleaning a couple of weeks earlier and forgot to tell
me. She had probably decided to steal it and had already given it to that Jason
guy for safekeeping until she could make a clean getaway.
She always liked that beer stein.
Used it as a coffee mug. They're worth a lot of money, you know.
So how about it? Can't I sue or have
her arrested for something like this?
I mean really,
J.A. Beane
Bridge, MA
Dear People,
I'm like, let's get out of here. Note that it would not be accurate to
say that I am let's get out of here. Im only like
let's get out of here. I only resemble let's get out of here in certain
ways. You could say that I'm similar to let's get
out of here or that we share a few key characteristics, but that's about as far
as it goes.
I used to be like, let's stay for a
while and see if anything happens. But everyone changes as they get
older, and slowly but surely I started bearing more and more of a semblance to
let's get out of here, until everyone who knew me well realized that I was,
indeed, like let's get out of here.
My goal in life now is to be I'm
home. I can feel myself getting closer and closer to a state where I will
have enough points in common with I'm home to be able to declare, without fear
of contradiction, that I'm like I'm home. But I haven't progressed that
far yet. Ultimately, I hope that my similarity to I'm home will grow and
grow to the point where I can truthfully say that I'm home and I are as one,
that I am the genuine mirror image of I'm home -- that I have truly become I'm
home. I won't be merely like I'm home, I
will be I'm home. I'll be all I'm home. Then,
and only then, will I be able to say: I'm I'm home.
Until then, I'm like, Hurry up!
Signed,
Adele Essence
Oak Rapp, TN
Dear Sirs,
I got another question here.
So say I file a complaint and get
Jennifer arrested. Do you know if they'd let me watch the interrogation through
one of those two-way mirrors? That'd be so great. Let 'em pull one of those "Good
Cop - Bad Cop" routines on her and watch her squirm. See how well she can
lie her way out of that one.
I'd just love it.
Whaddaya think?
Jack
Ton, CA
Dear Editors,
I'm sorry to have to bother you about this, but I'm afraid you might be getting
some letters from my ex-boyfriend spouting off a bunch of wild accusations
about what a sneak and a low-down dirty liar he thinks I am. He apparently got
it into his head that I was seeing my present boyfriend behind his back before
we broke up. If you can believe that. It wouldn't surprise me if he starts
accusing me of grand larceny next.
So if he does write you with some
cockamamie story about how everything is my fault and how dishonest I am and so
forth, please just ignore him.
He can be so
immature.
Signed,
Nina P. St. Maria
Holm, Sweden
P.S. Thanks for publishing my question
in last week's Handy Homemaker column about how to get coffee stains out of a
beer stein, but the baking soda didn't work. Got any other ideas? I really need
to know soon 'cause I want to give it to my boyfriend for our six-month
anniversary next week.
©2001 by David Jaggard