Jacqueline Boanson of Cheltenham, England, was a bit perplexed when she saw a deposit from a bookie into her bank account for 291.40 pounds (US$445).

After calling the bookmaker, it was pieced together that her debit card had been stolen from her mailbox and used to gamble at the horse races.

The deposit was the winnings. The thief "would have needed complete ID matching the card to get paid in cash," said a spokesman for Ladbrokes, so the winnings were paid back to the debit card.

The employees were encouraged to bring their high school graduation photos to work. The pictures would be displayed on a bulletin board.

One lady in her mid-fifties did so and after a week, a young
gentleman came up to her and said, "Wow, you were really hot back
then!!

When I became a licensed chiropractor, I moved back to my hometown and soon had a thriving practice.

One morning I saw a new patient whom I recognized as my old high-school principal.

"Gee," I said nervously, "I'm a little surprised to see you here."

I got a call from a woman who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information when she interrupted me with "I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Cape Town is in Massachusetts."

SKUON, Cambodia - What may seem to most to be a challenge on Fear
Factor is a delicacy among the people of Skuon.

People here support themselves and their families by selling fried, palm-sized tarantulas in what is otherwise an impoverished farmland
community.

Described as crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside, these spiders are black, hairy with venomous fangs before they are fried.

When I was very young and naive I was fishing with my husband on a cold windy river bank. He was talking to another fisherman who had also braved the cold and wind.

I was a smoker, and couldn't seem to keep a match burning long enough to get a cigarette lit.

I said, "Honey, break wind for me, will you?"

Both men collapsed in laughter, and I had to wait till I got home to find out what was so funny.

John, a neighbor of mine, was annoyed because he had to search for his newspaper each morning after the paperboy tossed it. Often he would find it, covered with dirt, under the car in the gravel driveway.

Then one day the paperboy's mother mentioned that her son's ambition was to play professional basketball.

John had an idea.

When he got home, he attached a basketball hoop to a post on the front porch. Sure enough, the next morning there was a resounding "plunk" as the newspaper sailed through the hoop and landed by the door.

My wife, a flight attendant for a major airline, watched one day as a passenger overloaded with bags tried to stuff his belongings in the overhead bin of the plane. Finally, she informed him that he would have to check the oversized luggage.

"When I fly other airlines," he said irritably, "I don't have this problem."

My wife smiled and replied, "When you fly other airlines, I don't have this problem either."

Newly assigned officers to a Naval Air Station are quite often "adopted" by a family. One such young officer, a Lieut. Commander, kind-of became an Uncle to one family's 4 year old daughter.

Father Tomlinson had given a rather lengthy sermon on the joys of married life.

Today is day three of hell. Yes, I quit smoking. Got really tired of paying big bucks for something that's not good for me in the first place. Gonna have to take up another vice.

So, on top of everything else, I break a nail because I can't figure out how to get into my own gas tank(new car). The latch for the fuel door would not work. I had to go to my mechanic and beg him not to laugh at my stupidity. He got the door open.

With some misgivings, we left a young baby-sitter in charge of our three energetic youngsters.

When we returned a few, hours later, she was sitting alone watching TV.

I went to check on the children, and found them in our narrow hallway. By bracing their arms and legs against the walls, two of them had climbed up to the ceiling.

"The baby-sitter taught us how," they said gleefully.

The sitter joined me, her face a deep red. "Since they had me climbing the walls, I figured they might as well be too," she
stammered.

We kept the same girl for the next two years.

When my three-year-old son opened the birthday gift from his
grandmother and found a water pistol. He squealed with de-light and headed for the nearest sink.

I was not so pleased.

I turned to Mom and said, "I'm surprised at you. Don't you remember how we used to drive you crazy with water guns?"

Mom smiled and then replied, "I remember."

The old man was relaxing at his hundredth birthday party when a
reporter went up to him.

"Sir, what is the secret of your long life?"

The man considered this for a moment, then replied "every day at 9 PM I have a glass of port. Good for the heart I've heard."

The reporter replied, "That's ALL?"

I decided to stop worrying about my teenage son's driving and take advantage of it.