NFR Humor (No political jokes)

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Northern said:
Something reminded me yesterday of this true story:

A bit of context: first, I'm a woman. Second, for reasons lost to the mists of time, my immediate family has called me "Otis" since I was a toddler. No one remembers why.

Fast forward to when I was a petite, kinda cute twenty-something with an impacted wisdom tooth, late last century.
Just after the anesthetist had administered nitrous to settle me before whatever they use to knock you out for the surgery, this huge, Barry White-looking guy with voice to match, and wearing floral scrubs, enters the room and purrs in a serious baritone: "Hello. I'll be your nurse today. My name is Otis."
I responded immediately with a slight slur "What a coincidence. So is mine."
He gazed at me for several seconds with an expression that was tinged with clear suspicion that I was mocking him, glanced at the clipboard in his hand, and then replied in his slow, deep tones, "Suuuuuure it is."

As my drug-fogged brain slowly caught up to the conversation, I distinctly remember thinking that I wasn't going to even try to explain myself while stoned, and just let it hang there, giggling helplessly under the laughing gas.

I never did see him after waking up.
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Well, Otis! ;-)
 
THAT is a funny story. He’s thinking “Otis, you got some ‘splainin to do.” And then you were gone. I’d bet my head he still remembers too.
 
Had a roommate named Otis...well not really, wasn't named Otis, we just called him that.
Got his moniker from the Andy Griffin Show character,
 
Northern said:
Wasn't he Mayberry's town drunk? :ROFLMAO:
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"Read me my rights, as if I didn't know this.
Threw me in a tank with a dog called Otis.
With a five o'clock shadow,
He smelled of three day old beer.
My man turned to me
And said: Why are you here?

I said I'm charming,
I'm dashing,
I'm rental car bashing.
I'm phony paper passing and nix check cashing."
 
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Northern said:
Just after the anesthetist had administered nitrous to settle me before whatever they use to knock you out for the surgery, this huge, Barry White-looking guy with voice to match, and wearing floral scrubs, enters the room and purrs in a serious baritone: "Hello. I'll be your nurse today. My name is Otis."
I responded immediately with a slight slur "What a coincidence. So is mine."
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Which reminds me of a joke. You remember those.....

I recently had surgery and when the anesthesiologist came in I asked him if I could administer my own anesthetic.

He said, 'Sure, knock yourself out!'
 
So sometimes at the store things hit my funny bone, and then my wife says what is wrong with you...

The first thing I took a picture and told her i wasn't a t-shirt with this on it...

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The second was just the name, logo, and protein amount... she said don't go there! ... i am think this might be this year's Halloween costume!

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Interestingly enough Otis was the only married character in the TV serious "The Andy Griffith Show". Andy, Barney, Aunt Bee, Guber, Gomer, the barber Floyd...all of them single. Otis (the town drunk) was the only character in that show that was married.... That made an impression on me as a youngster in the 1960s.
 
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