Year: 2000

  • Meal tome?

    A woman asks her husband if he'd like some breakfast. "Would you like bacon and eggs, perhaps? A slice of toast? Grapefruit and coffee to follow?" she asks.He declines. "It's this Viagra," he says, "It's really taken the edge off my appetite."At lunchtime, she asks if he would like something. "A bowl of homemade soup,…

  • A visit to the Doctor

    A lady goes to the doctor and complains her husband is losing interest in sex. He gives her a pill but warns her it is still experimental. He tells her to slip it in his mashed potatoes at dinner and she does.About a week later she's back at the doctor and says, "The pill worked…

  • Some Thought on Exercise

    My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now & we don't know where the hell she is.The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. I haven't lost a pound;…

  • A question of Medical Ethics

    Howard had felt guilty all day long. No matter how much he tried to forget about it, he couldn't. The guilt and sense of shame was overwhelming. But every once in a while he'd hear that soothing voice trying to reassure him: "Howard, don't worry about it. You're not the first doctor to sleep with…

  • TV Show

    Hi,I'm not sure I told you that the TV production company Hannah is working for produces a weekly health program for Rhode Island PBS. They are interested in doing a program on the effects of stroke on daily family life and have asked if Cherrie and I would be the subjects. We agreed feeling that…

  • A Merry Heart

    Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than ten years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions."How old are you?""I'm four and a half,"You're never 36 and a half ….you're four and a half going…

  • Investment tips

    Are your investments in order? Below are some of the latest rumors from Wall Street. In the wake of the AOL/Time Warner deal, here are the latest mergers we can expect to see:Federal Express and UPS merge to become: FED UP.Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Company merge to become:…