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Crazy Thoughts No 4

Babies have been known to crawl Up to seven hundred feet a day Better tie a rope tightly around them Or they'll wind up miles away Sex burns 360 calories per hour Who has sex for an hour Longest for me is seventy-three seconds Burn more just having a shower In Finland every Donald Duck comic Was banned a few decades ago Betcha can't guess the reason why He was naked down below Summer on Uranus lasts 21 years Packing my bags as I write Better not forget the sun tan lotion My epidermis is pure lily white From around the age of thirty Humans begin to shrink Imagine we lived to a hundred and fifty We'd be one inch tall methinks During a normal human life span Hearts beat more than two billion times So anything less than that huge number You're dead so it's time to recline About 400 different kinds of microbes Coexist on the human body They don't even wait for an invitation Like in-laws I find that shoddy Only one in two billion people will live To the age of one hundred sixteen Sorry for all you nice folks out there But I'm the one chosen it seems Giraffes can clean their ears with their tongue It's dangerous don't try this at home It might just twist you into a pretzel And even break a few bones! © Jack Ellison 2012

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Date: 4/1/2018 4:27:00 AM
8th stanza, we are counting on you to live that long! ;) These are hilarious Jack. I'll stop here tonight. Sending lots of love your way. Always, Laura
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Laura Breidenthal
Date: 4/2/2018 6:51:00 PM
Don't be silly, you know I always return for more of the good stuff!;)<3
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Jack Ellison
Date: 4/1/2018 7:12:00 AM
You're STOPPING???? You don't love me anymore??? (sob out loud!!!) XOX
Date: 11/12/2012 2:49:00 PM
Lol, too funny, Jack. I like "I'm the one chosen it seems". Lol, great thinking! Love ya, Toquyen
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Jack Ellison
Date: 11/12/2012 5:54:00 PM
Think I've just about exhausted this theme eh! LOL Glad I made you chuckle! LOve, Jack xox
Date: 11/12/2012 2:35:00 PM
My favorite is the microbes not waiting for an invitation... A lot like my kids... They just barge in whenever they want... But I don't want to stop them from coming home from college... Of course once they're there... they disappear to be with friends in parts unknown... LOL.
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Jack Ellison
Date: 11/12/2012 5:53:00 PM
But above all you gotta love 'em eh! Big huggeroonies, Jackers xox
Date: 11/12/2012 1:25:00 PM
To funny, what happend to the other one you posted??? I thought it was pretty funny.
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Jack Ellison
Date: 11/12/2012 2:11:00 PM
Well Richard, upon your advice I've reposted it! Here 'tis! LOL
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 11/12/2012 1:41:00 PM
But Jack, you have to stay outside of the box. I also did not find it in bad taste. I think it is good to laugh at all the things that make us human. If it was me I would put it back.
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Jack Ellison
Date: 11/12/2012 1:35:00 PM
After much consideration, took it down... thought it might have been in bad taste for some in this group! "Crazy Thoughts" are more what people expect of me! Cheers, Jack

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