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Should children witness childbirth? Good question.

Here's your answer.

Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call. The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-yr old girl
to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could See while he helped deliver the baby...
Very diligently, Kathleen did as she was asked. Heidi pushed and pushed and after a little while, Connor was born.

The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his bottom. Connor began to cry.
The paramedic then thanked Kathleen for her help and asked the wide-eyed 3-yr old what she thought about what she had just witnessed..
Kathleen quickly responded, 'He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place.....smack his ass again!'

If you don't laugh at this one, there's no hope for you.

If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his ipod?

For all the readers of the Poser:-

Another scam to beware of

You might have already heard of this one but it's so nasty I wanted to make sure as many people as possible know about it and know not to get caught.

Here's what happens:

You get a phone call saying it's from Microsoft and they've noticed that your computer isn't protected and it's at risk. They might talk about a new virus that's out that can damage the actual physical bits of your computer. It's sweeping around and will catch anyone not protected - so you'd best pay now by card and they'll install the protection on your PC over the internet for you.

To try to make you even more likely to say yes they might say that if it does attack your computer, it will cost (say) £200 to put it right again - but the protection is only £70 (or however much they want to say that day).

As you can tell (since I'm writing about it here), this is a scam - it's not true. They'll charge your card for the £70 (or however much) and then sell on your card details.

Microsoft don't phone people like this - and in fact they wouldn't even know who to phone, since they don't normally sell Windows directly to you.

The best thing is just to put the phone down - if you like you can tell the police, though they do already know about it and are trying to catch the people behind it.

It's worth knowing about in advance as some of these crooks can be very persuasive and sound very convincing. But once you know in advance it's a scam, you won't be taken in.

Quite a few of you have had calls like this one so thanks to everyone who gave me all the details to pass on to everyone!

How do I get to the most recent 'posers of the day' - is there a shortcut?

Marnie, look at the address for this page:
http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/15502/offset/760
That 760 at the end of it brings you to the page with messages 760-770. Just change the number according to the number of posts showing for this thread on the front page.

Gee I hope Mr EdwardBear didn't see my post on here!!! He already thinks I'm a right Dumbo. Perhaps he's already returned to his 100-acre wood.
Thanks Bullfrog for the link to this page.

A ps to bullfrogs post.
when you 1st open - poser of the day
the address at the top will be
http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/15502/poser-of-the-day
I find it easiest to scroll to the bottom of the page and click on any number(1 thru 10)and them change the offset.
pps. the number of posts can be read in the bottom left of any post (eg "Post 1 of 767")
here you would change the number to 760.

Marnie, what Mr Bear thinks is only important in his own mind. If we ignore him, he'll soon go away.

Wierd -- thanks for adding that clarification.

Tired of constantly being broke & stuck in an unhappy marriage a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife with himself as the beneficiary, and then arranging to have her killed.

A 'friend of a friend' put him in touch with a nefarious dark-side underworld figure who went by the name of 'Artie.'

Artie explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was £5,000.

The husband said he was willing to pay that amount, but that he wouldn't have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife's insurance money.

Artie insisted on being paid at least something up front, so the man opened his wallet, displaying the single £1 Coin that rested inside.

Artie sighed, rolled his eyes, & reluctantly agreed to accept the £1 as down payment for the dirty deed.

A few days later, Artie followed the man's wife to the local Tesco Super Store. There, he surprised her in the produce department & proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands & as the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath & slumped to the floor........

... the manager of the produce department stumbled unexpectedly onto the murder scene. Unwilling to leave any living witnesses behind, ol' Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well.

However, unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings were captured by the hidden security cameras & observed by the store's security guard, who
immediately called the police. Artie was caught & arrested before he could even leave the store.

Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the whole sordid plan, including his unusual financial arrangements with the hapless husband who was also quickly arrested.

The next day in the newspaper, the headline declared ..








'ARTIE CHOKES 2 for £1.00 AT TESCO!'

Are those who jump off a Paris bridge in Seine?