WHY MEN ARE SELDOM DEPRESSED:

 

Men Are Just Happier People --

 

What do you expect from such simple creatures?

Your last name stays put.

 

The garage is all yours.

 

Wedding plans take care of themselves.

 

Chocolate is just another snack.

You can be President.

 

You can never be pregnant.

 

You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.

 

You can wear NO shirt to a water park.

 

Car mechanics tell you the truth.

 

The world is your urinal.

 

You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.

 

You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.

 

Same work, more pay.

 

Wrinkles add character.

 

Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.

 

People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.

 

New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.

 

One mood all the time.

 

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

 

You know stuff about tanks.

 

A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.

 

You can open all your own jars.

 

You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.

 

If someone forgets to invite you,

 

He or she can still be your friend.

 

Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.

 

Three pairs of shoes are more than enough..

 

You almost never have strap problems in public.

 

You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes..

 

Everything on your face stays its original color.

 

The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.

 

You only have to shave your face and neck.

 

You can play with toys all your life.

 

One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons.

 

You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.

 

You can 'do' your nails with a pocket knife.

 

You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.

 

You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives

 

On December 24 in 25 minutes.

 

No wonder men are happier.

 

Send this to the women who can handle it

 

And to the men who will enjoy reading it.

 

Men Are Just Happier People

 

NICKNAMES

 

· If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.

 

· If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Bubba and Wildman .

 

EATING OUT

 

· When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.

 

· When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

 

MONEY

 

· A man will pay $20. for a $10. item he needs.

 

· A woman will pay $10. for a $20. item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

 

BATHROOMS

 

· A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel.

 

· The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.

 

ARGUMENTS

 

· A woman has the last word in any argument.

 

· Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

 

FUTURE

 

· A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.

 

· A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

 

MARRIAGE

 

· A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.

 

· A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

 

DRESSING UP

 

· A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.

 

· A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

 

NATURAL

 

· Men wake up looking the same as when they went to bed.

 

· Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

 

OFFSPRING

 

· Ah, children A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.

 

· A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

 

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

 

A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing!

 

 

TV costs defy inflation

A 1954 advertisement. In today's (2013) dollars this $200 TV would cost $1700. The cost of electronics has been kept low by advances in technology. Today Walmart has a 22" LCD TV with built-in dvd player for $178.

Disease 1900 to 2000

The graph shows the U.S. death rate for infectious diseases between 1900 and 1996. The line starts all the way at the top. In 1900, 800 of every 100,000 Americans died from infectious diseases. The top killers were pneumonia, tuberculosis and diarrhea. But the line quickly begins falling. By 1920, fewer than 400 of every 100,000 Americans died from infectious diseases. By 1940, it was less than 200. By 1960, it’s below 100. When’s the last time you heard of an American dying from diarrhea?  “For all the millennia before this in human history,” Coburn says, “it was all about tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases and all the other infectious disease. The idea that anybody lived long enough to be confronting chronic diseases is a new invention. Average life expectancy was 45 years old at the turn of the century. You didn’t have 85-year-olds with chronic diseases.”

With chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease you don’t get better, or at least not quickly. They don’t require cures so much as management. Their existence is often proof of medicine’s successes. Three decades ago, cancer typically killed you. Today, many cancers can be fought off for years or even indefinitely. The same is true for AIDS, and acute heart failure and so much else. This, to Coburn, is the core truth, and core problem, of today’s medical system: Its successes have changed the problems, but the health-care system hasn’t kept up.

Kenneth Thorpe, chairman of the health policy and management school at Emory University, estimates that 95 percent of spending in Medicare goes to patients with one or more chronic conditions — with enrollees suffering five or more chronic conditions accounting for 78 percent of its spending.

personal observations: When I go to the lab for blood work it is 95% elderly patients in the waiting room. I think I read that 75% of the cost of a person's health care will occur in the last 6 months of life.

A funny story

Why Parents Drink

The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent but had not phoned in sick one day. Needing to have an urgent problem with one of the main computers resolved, he dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper. ' Hello?'

'Is your daddy home?' he asked.

' Yes,' whispered the small voice.
May I talk with him?'

The child whispered, 'No '

Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, 'Is your Mummy there?' 'Yes'
'May I talk with her?' Again the small voice whispered, 'No'

Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, 'Is anybody else there?'

'Yes , ' whispered the child, 'a policeman  '

Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss asked, 'May I speak with the policeman?'

'No, he's busy' whispered the child.

'Busy doing what?'

'Talking to Daddy and Mummy and the Fireman' came the whispered answer..

Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise in the background through the earpiece on the phone, the boss asked, 'What is that noise?'

'A helicopter' answered the whispering voice.

'What is going on there?' demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive.Again, whispering, the child answered,

' The search team just landed a helicopter'

Alarmed, concerned and a little frustrated the boss asked, 'What are they searching for?'

Still whispering, the young voice repliedwith a muffled giggle...

'ME'

Lefties Show Their Values in Hate Filled Rhetoric

Story in our local paper inflames lefties. Excerpt:

"Officials from the national chapter of Kappa Delta sorority are investigating a report that the Bloomington chapter of the sorority house participated in a themed event that demeaned the homeless this week.

Heidi Roy, director of communications for Kappa Delta sorority’s national headquarters in Memphis, Tenn., issued a response on Friday to the “cultural insensitivity” of members of its Sigma Upsilon chapter at Indiana University.

“National and local leaders of Kappa Delta sorority were recently made aware of an inappropriate event theme that perpetuated insensitivity toward the homeless community. Kappa Delta does not condone these actions or any language that demeans an individual or group. We continue to investigate and will respond accordingly,” Roy stated in a news release."

Here is my sampling of comments by readers on this story today:

I never did care for sororities or fraternities, so I'm really not surprised at anything they do. These girls are ignorant, self-absorbed infants.

the Greek system loves to collect for national charities, but wouldn't raise a hand to help local homeless folks. Guess adults who are down and out aren't as glamorous as kids with cancer at Riley

It's easy mocking and deriding other human beings while tucked away in ivory towers, but none of these little fascists would dare go down to shalom center with that crap, nor would any punk-a$$ white boy go to the hood and act like a jackass...if they did, they'd get a large dose of reality that conflicted with what they've been programmed to believe.

wonder if the girls see the irony; they are poking fun at the unemployed who use cardboard signs to solicit handouts from strangers. Unemployed sorority members use their cell phones to solicit handouts from Mommy & Daddy.

Typical that conservatives would show up in support of spoiled white chicks to laugh at the expense of a marginalized disenfranchised group.

My own comment on the story:

The prejudice, racism and class warfare shown by the lefties is here for all to see.  Without knowledge of the facts or knowing the girls involved the sorority is criticized for: 1. being white, 2, being in a sorority, 3. being  fascists (a favorite lefty  slur), 4.  being spoiled (by parents who care about their kids??),  5. giving to national charities ( how evil!). One commenter indirectly threatens violence . 

A Marine in Afghanistan

Message from a Recon Marine in Afghanistan:
  This young man is  articulate and has a flare for colorful language, and descriptive prose... Scorpions, Chiggers & Sand Fleas/great letter, must read!

From the Sand Pit...

It's freezing here.  I'm sitting on hard cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at  the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains, along the Dar'yoi Pomir River, watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave.  Stake out, my friend, and no  pizza delivery for thousands of miles.

I also glance at  the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion  sting.  I've actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but the  scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard.  The antidote  tastes like transmission fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for the five  vials of it in my pack.

The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which  means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's  where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy.  I track the couriers, locate  the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld,  shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware.  We bash some heads for a while, then I track and  record the new movement.

It's all about intelligence.  We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats  have no idea what they're in for.  We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin.  But you know me, I'm a romantic.   I've said it before and I'll say it again:  This country blows, man.  It's not  even a country.  There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no  government.  This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes.  There are no jobs here, like we know jobs.

Afghanistan offers  two ways for a man to support his family:  join the opium trade, or join the army.  That's it.  Those are your options.  Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party.  But the smell alone of those  'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.

I've been living  with these Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Turkmen. and even a couple of Pushtuns, for  over a month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for sure:  These guys, all  of 'em, are Huns... actual, living Huns... They LIVE to fight.  It's what they do.  It's ALL they do.  They have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor  for each other, nor for themselves.   They claw at one another as a way of life.  They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor.  Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism.  Cavemen with AK-47's.  Then again,  maybe I'm just cranky.

I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice, and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You like to  write letters, right?  Do me a favor, Bizarre.  Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling  the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart.  I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary  because the word they are looking for is 'cunning.'  The Taliban are cunning, like jackals, and hyenas, and wolverines.  They are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites, who create nothing,  and destroy everything else.  Smart.  Pfft.  Yeah, they're real smart.

They've spent their  entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go), and  consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil.  They're still  figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about  improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen;  eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.  OK,  enough.  Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get back to my hole.  Covering my  tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice, but I'm good at it.

Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets and move on with your lives.  The  story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter bullshit, and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials.  We've got this one under control.  The worst thing you  guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here,  because you have no idea what we're doing, and really, you don't want to know.  We are your military, and we are doing what you sent us here to do.

Saucy Jack
Recon Marine in Afghanistan
Semper Fi
"Freedom is not free... but the U.S. Marine Corps  will pay most of your share".

Islam, the Religion from Hell

My comment: The power of Islam rests on murder or the threat of murder. Like the Mafia, Muslim fanatics have power way beyond their numbers. Below, a normally vulgar comedian explains why he rips Christians but will not say anything about Muslims. Next, a European explains what Muslims are doing in Europe.  
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In this excerpt from a Las Vegas Weekly interview, Penn Jillette explains why he won't cover Islam or Scientology on his TV show, Bullshit!

Let’s talk about your TV show Bullshit! Will you ever run out of theories to debunk and people to expose? If you build a kingdom on bullshit, you're not in danger of running out of it. Our producer says that Teller and I can take any subject in the news and do a credible show on it. Sure, we like to have a villain, something to call "bullshit" on, but if we don't, we can depart from that model.

Are there any groups you won't go after? We haven't tackled Scientology because Showtime doesn't want us to. Maybe they have deals with individual Scientologists —- I'm not sure. And we haven't tackled Islam because we have families.

Meaning, you won’t attack Islam because you’re afraid it’ll attack back ... Right, and I think the worst thing you can say about a group in a free society is that you’re afraid to talk about it—I can’t think of anything more horrific. [...]

You do go after Christians, though ... Teller and I have been brutal to Christians, and their response shows that they’re good fucking Americans who believe in freedom of speech. We attack them all the time, and we still get letters that say, “We appreciate your passion. Sincerely yours, in Christ.” Christians come to our show at the Rio and give us Bibles all the time. They’re incredibly kind to us. Sure, there are a couple of them who live in garages, give themselves titles and send out death threats to me and Bill Maher and Trey Parker. But the vast majority are polite, open-minded people, and I respect them for that.

Why Mr. Anti-Bullshit Won't Call Out Islam or Scientology

Speech given in USA by Dutch conservative:

EUROPE TODAY
Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.


Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya , Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe . San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France . One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.


Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel , they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem .

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.

How big is Africa?

The continent of Africa is much larger than I realized! There is much activity now by foreign companies investing in Africa's natural resources. The Chinese are especially active in mining and acquiring farmland. Nigeria has the largest population and has a lot of oil but is so corrupt the weatlth does not reach the masses.  South Africa is the only government still functioning well south of the Shahara but it's future is cloudy due to mismangement and corruption by the new black ruling class.

What is Time?

Time has been called the fourth dimension. Your car is sitting somewhere. It has a location relative to a reference point at x, y and z coordinates. Your GPS can show it’s x-y (latitude and longitude) as well as z (elevation for aircraft GPS). But at 7am tomorrow your car will disappear from that location when you go to work. It will return to about that same location at 5pm. So we have to add a time to the xyz to insure the car is really there when we observe the location.

A Physicist said “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” I suppose that was a tongue in cheek answer but it does make sense.  We cannot all occupy the same space at the same time.  As the Bible says, there is a time to sow and a time to reap,  you cannot do both at the same time.  Can time be tinkered with? Einstein’s equations predict that if the velocity of a spaceship approaches that of light, time slows down for those on-board relative to a stationary observer. There are other effects such as an increase in mass and decrease in length of the spaceship.  Weird stuff! The word spacetime was created to describe the interaction.

I have tried to think of a Time as a river as have others ("The river of time") but I cannot make it work. If we are floating down the river, does the shore represent history after we pass? Time is hard to think about in isolation.

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

              a time for war and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes

Songs about time:

Right Place, Wrong Time...Dr. John 

As Time Goes By...Natalie Cole 

It's Just A Matter Of Time ...Brook Benton

Old Sayings I have heard

We older guys have heard some common jokes and sayings that should be passed on to the younger generation.

"Big hat, no cattle." Back in the day in some parts of Texas a certain amount of status and pride went with being a big cattle rancher. For these folks wearing a stetson cowboy hat went with the status. So the comment in quotes is a put-down on someone who tries to look the part but is not the real deal.

"It depends on who's bull is getting gored." Before modern times is was common to bring livestock, including cattle, to the local community market on market day. Bulls are known for their aggressiveness and will attack and attempt to gore other bulls when they are brought together. This of course could be a financial loss to the owner of the losing bull. So the saying implies that the agitated owner will run to the scene and attempt to rescue his bull while other farmers may just be spectators enjoying the show.

"We ain't got no dog in this hunt" Refers to the sport of coon hunting using dogs to track and tree the quarry. Owners knew the voice of their dog and could follow the sound and knew which dogs were on the scent. The saying expresses a lack of personal stake in the matter at hand.

Friends are the family you choose.

If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.