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Potpourri

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While some schools are suspending kids for posing in photos with toy guns, the Broken Bow (central Nebraska) school board has voted 6-0 to allow students — seniors, at least — to pose with real guns. “The board I believe felt they wanted to give students who are involved in those kinds of things the opportunity to take a senior picture with their hobby, with their sport, just like anybody with any other hobby or sport,” said Superintendent Mark Sievering. Many students not only hunt, but also shoot skeet or other targets. The resulting photos must be “tasteful and appropriate,” the district says. “But I think that goes with any photo, whether it’s a scantily clad girl or something like that,” said school board member Matthew Haumont. He says it’s “important” to add that the new district policy prohibits students from posing with drugs, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco products.

-- Omaha World-Herald

Jokes

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"Mamma, don't soldiers ever go to heaven?"

"Of course they do! What makes you ask?"

"There are so many soldiers with beards, but I never saw any pictures of angels with beards."

"Oh, that's because most men who go to Heaven get there by a close shave."

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For their anniversary, a couple went out for a romantic dinner. Their teenage daughters said they would fix a dessert and leave it waiting.

When they got home, they saw that the dining room table was beautifully set with china, crystal and candles; there was a note that rea😛 "Your dessert is in the refrigerator. We are staying with friends, so go ahead and do something we wouldn't do!"

"I suppose," the husband responded dryly, "we could clean the house."

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Our supervisor recently made a casual comment about my shaggy mane of hair. He then went on to extol the virtues of a good haircut, which, he insisted, makes an elderly man look younger and a younger man seem more mature.

"How would a haircut make a middle-aged man like me appear?" I asked.

"Still employed," he answered

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.