Overheard
June 12, 2006 @ 5:42 am | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
Jane: Did you know that you never get any new brain cells as you grow?
Rose: Or knuckles. You never get new knuckles.
(Brief silence.)
Beanie: But I WANT new knuckles!
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At 9:46 am
Alice said:
That is ridiculously funny! I’m howling here!
At 8:15 am
Lisa said:
LOL!!