July 24, 1998
Emotional Extremes
The Spinster

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The aspiring psychiatrists were attending their first class on emotional extremes.
"Just to establish some parameters," said the professor to the student from Arkansas, "what is the opposite of joy?"
"Sadness," said the student.
"And the opposite of depression?" he asked of the young lady from Oklahoma.
"Elation," she answered.
"And you, sir," he said to the young man from Texas, "how about the opposite of woe?"
The Texan replied, "Sir, I believe that would be giddyup."

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The Spinster

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Did you hear about the spinster who could not see too well? Trying desperately to hide her failing eyesight from her fiancee, she stuck a knife in a tree. The next day, while walking in a field with him, she pointed to the tree, some hundred yards away, and said, "Isn't that a knife sticking out of that tree?" And as she ran to retrieve it, she tripped over a cow.

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