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Hey Kon, I don't order much, but when I reorder cartos I will use your code.

The other day I mentioned that my acquaintance in Greece grew plants in a Greek Urn.

He ask me what's a Greek Urn.

I told him a couple of Euros and hour lately. :laugh:

Sorry for the bad joke! :facepalm:
 

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OK Kon, here is a better Greek Joke

Three Greeks and Three Turks
Three Greeks, Costa, George and Niko as well as three Turks, Melik, Alican and Bora are travelling by train to a conference. At the station, the Turks each buy one ticket and watch as the Greeks buy only a single ticket. "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks Melik. "Watch and you'll see," answers Costa. They all board the train. The Turks take their respective seats but all three Greeks cram into a restroom and close the door behind them.

Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.

The Turks saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Turks decide to copy the Greeks on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Greeks don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says Alican. "Watch and you'll see," answers Niko.

When they board the train the 3 Turks cram into a restroom and the 3 Greeks cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the Greeks leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the Turks are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please."
 

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Slightly better but dude, do not make it strange.
Turks and Greeks.....
Who the heck tells these jokes in the US?

Ethnic jokes (any ethnic group you care to name) are fairly popular here in the US. Some people are insulted by them, but they are meant all in good fun. Even so, I'm careful about the jokes I tell. Here's my standard when ethnic jokes are called for.

What's Irish and stays out all night?

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Answer: Paddy O'Furniture (patio furniture).
 

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That thing can get you killed outside US. :D :D
Training for the summer vacation?

Sandy i don't understand it.:oops:

That's because it's such a stupid joke. That's why I use it. It's so stupid it's relatively harmless. The idea is, when you ask the question, everyone thinks about Irishmen drinking and bars and stuff. Then, when they hear the answer, which is a play on words -- an Irish-sounding name and a description of something that stays outside all night long -- they groan. But it's sort of funny in a very lame way. I hope I've explained it well enough. Don't worry if you don't get it. It's really very pointless, which is the point.
 

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O boy, I'm back from shopping and I got a new, good quality 100 foot hose and two giant bags of moisture retention potting soil. Along with quite a bit of groceries and supplies. I did splurge on a summer weight exercise T-shirt that is supposed to be less sweaty for $10. I'm not sure it is less sweaty since it is 74 degrees in here and I am sweaty. Maybe I'll take it back:)

I also splurged on the healthy Starbucks lunch/snack of apple slices, almonds, currants and 3 kinds of cheese with whole grain crackers. I felt like I was on a summer picnic in the desert:) Of course, I had to try the new hazelnut machiatto. Yummy although caramel machiatto remains my all time fave. A fun day of shopping. Not crowded. Hate when it is crowded.

Decided to get the big horse watering trough out. Sure, I am being premature but I only filled it halfway so even if it freezes up I can pour hot water into it in the morning.

Once you get home from the big shopping trip, you have to unload. I'm almost there. I have to drive the dog and cat food over to the far side of the house and put it in the pet food/potting shed.I'm not just older, I'm smarter. Why walk the food one hundred feet when you could drive it to within 25 feet?
 
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It's All Greek to Kon:laugh:

Yes, I wonder how different Americans' sense of humor is to Greeks. I bet if he told us some Greek jokes, we'd wonder what the point is, too. I think different nationalities must have a different sense of humor. I've read that a different language makes you think in a different way. I find that very interesting. Kon, do you find that when you speak English your mind works a bit differently than when you speak Greek? See Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I found out that this idea is called Whorfianism. It seems linguists are in disagreement about whether speaking a certain language affects your thought patterns. So you, being bilingual, can answer best. What do you experience?
 

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Nope it's the same, infact i was amazed on how people behave in the states. You can smile very easy, talk very easy and you can take down chicks much much easier than Greece.
You are like us and we are way different than those cold Nothern European countries, they suck.
US citizens can go along with Greeks very easy and our humor is similar, for me doesn't make any difference when i speak Greek, German or English.
I am Trilingual :D
 

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Here's an interesting video. A racehorse loses his jockey early in the race and runs it by himself to win. Of course, he was actually disqualified, since he didn't have a jockey, but the horse didn't know that. If anyone ever wondered if horses enjoy racing, I guess this proves he did, since no one was making him run.

Horse loses jockey and WIns! - YouTube
 

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Nope it's the same, infact i was amazed on how people behave in the states. You can smile very easy, talk very easy and you can take down chicks much much easier than Greece.
You are like us and we are way different than those cold Nothern European countries, they suck.
US citizens can go along with Greeks very easy and our humor is similar, for me doesn't make any difference when i speak Greek, German or English.
I am Trilingual :D

Interesting. America is such a melting pot, so many different nationalities together, and most people are mixes of nationalities, too, that it seems there are lots of different types. I found that when I moved from NYC to California's San Francisco Bay Area, the mentality of people was subtly different. It was sort of like being in a foreign country, where people think and respond a bit differently. Of course, NYC may have a mentality of its own, different from other cities. What part of the country did you visit in the US? Or are you referring to Americans you know in Greece? So location may dictate a way of thinking more than language. What do you think of that idea?
 
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