From Harper's Magazine: Amount of pizza eaten each day in U.S. (acres): 75.

On April Fools Day, a mother put a fire cracker under the pancakes. She blew her stack.

Sign in restaurant window: "Eat now - Pay waiter."

This last weekend I was reminded at the pace we are converting to metric. I was on I-75 in Ohio when I saw a sign that said: All signs metric - Next 20 miles.

Leonid Brezhnev, a former ruler of Russia, was thought not to be too bright. He comes to address a big Communist party meeting, and starts: "Dear Comrade Imperialists," The whole hall perked up - "what did he say?" Brezhnev tried again... "Dear Comrade Imperialists," Well, by now the hall was in pandemonium - was he trying to call them Imperialists? Then, an advisor walked over to the podium and pointed to the speech for Brezhnev. "Oh..." he muttered, and started again: "Dear Comrades, Imperialists are everywhere."

- A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. - Dijon vu - the same mustard as before. - Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death. - A hangover is the wrath of grapes. - Sea captains don't like crew cuts. - Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? - Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red. - When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I. - A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired. - What's the definition of a will? (Come on, It's a dead giveaway!) - A backward poet writes inverse. - In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes. - A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. - Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I'll s

One of my husband's duties as a novice drill instructor at Fort Jackson, S.C., was to escort new recruits to the mess hall. After everyone had made it through the chow line, he sat them down and told them, "There are three rules in this mess hall: Shut up! Eat up! Get up!" Checking to see that he had everyone's attention, he asked, "What is the first rule?" Much to the amusement of the other instructors, 60 privates yelled in unison, "Shut up, Drill Sergeant!"

Knock-Knock Who's There. Pick up. Pick up Who? Pick up your truck and I'll grab the money.

- Your local ambulance has a trailer hitch. - You watch cartoons long after your kids get bored. - You think the French Riviera is a foreign car. - You think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard. - You're still scalping tickets after the concert is over. - You don't think Jeff's Foxworthy's jokes are funny. - Every time you see a roadsign that says "DIP" you reach in your back pocket. - You've ever had Thanksgiving dinner on a Ping-Pong table.

The wise old Mother Superior from county Tipperary was dying. The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make her comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to drink, but she refused it. Then one nun took the glass back to the kitchen. Remembering a bottle of Irish whiskey they had received as a gift the previous Christmas, she opened and poured a generous amount into the warm milk. When she walked back at Mother Superior's bed, she held the glass to her lips. Mother drank a little, then a little more. Before they knew it, she had drunk the whole glass down to the last drop. "Mother," the nuns asked with earnest, "please give us some wisdom before you die." She raised herself up in be

The teenage son was having trouble mastering the fine points of balancing his new checking account. "The bank returned the check you wrote to the sporting goods store," his mother said. "Oh good," he replied, "Now I can use it to buy some stereo equipment!"

A couple had been married for 45 years and had raised a brood of 11 children and were blessed with 22 grandchildren. When asked the secret for staying together all that time, the wife replies, "Many years ago we made a promise to each other: the first one to pack up and leave has to take all the kids."