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"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."

-- Will Rogers

Jokes

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A General retired after 35 years and realized his life-long dream of buying a bird-hunting estate in South Dakota. He invited an old friend to visit for a week of pheasant-shooting.

The friend was in awe of the General's bird dog, "Sarge".

The dog could point, flush and retrieve with the very best, and the
friend offered to buy the dog. The General declined, saying that Sarge
was the best bird dog he had ever owned and that he wouldn't part with
him at any price.

A year later the same friend returned for another week of hunting, and
was surprised to find the General breaking in a new dog.

"What happened to ol' "Sarge?" he asked.

"Had to shoot him," grumbled the General. "A friend came to
hunt with me

and couldn't remember the dog's name. He kept calling him Colonel.

After that, all the dog would do was sit on his ass and bark."

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Wayne, a friend of mine, owns an auto-repair business. One day a woman called to inquire when he could work on her car. "I'm not busy now," he replied. "bring it right in."

A short time later, the woman pulled into the service bay, stopping her small car perfectly over the wide, deep grease pit.

"Wow!" Remarked Wayne. "That's great driving. Your wheels only have a couple of inches to spare on each side of the pit."

She looked blankly at him and asked, "What pit?"

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While standing watch in the Coast Guard station in Juneau, Alaska, I got a call from the Navy in the nearby city of Adak. They had lost contact with one of their planes, and they needed the Coast Guard to send an aircraft to go find it. I asked the man where the Navy aircraft had last been spotted so we would know where to search.

"I can't tell you," the Navy man said. "That's classified."

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The older you get, the better you were