Not so - Superman

Peter didn't show for tennis this morning. The same Peter who at 52 still thinks that he can throw a 24 hour party from 9 pm Saturday to 9 pm Sunday and still get up for tennis on Monday morning. Hmnnn.

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Aren't modern communications wonderful. Mum arrived recently to stay for a few days without some of her medication. So this morning, after tracking down her doctor's phone number on the internet, we persuaded the surgery to email us details of the medicine. The next stage is to persuade our local doctor to give us a script and everyone's happy (and feeling better.)

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I went to the Patent Office the other day to register some of my inventions. I went to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk had a form that had to be filled out. She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had invented. I said,

"A folding bottle."

She said, "Okay. What do you call it?"

I said, "A Fottle."

She said, "What else do you have?"

I said, "A folding carton."

She said, "What do you call it?"

I said, "A Farton."

She sniggered and said, "Those are silly names for products and one of them sounds kind of crude."

I was so upset by her comment that I grabbed the form and left the office without even telling her about my folding bucket.