Emotional Extremes

"Third Wish"

A man was sitting alone in his office one
night when a genie popped up out of his
ashtray and said, "And what will your third
wish be?"

The man looked at the genie and said,
"Huh? How can I be getting a third wish
when I haven't had a first or second wish
yet?"

"You have had two wishes already," the
genie said, "but your second wish was
for me to put everything back the way it
was before you made your first wish.
Thus, you remember nothing, because
everything is the way it was before you
made any wishes. You now have one
wish left."

"Okay," said the man, "I don't believe
this, but what the heck. I wish I were
irresistible to women."

"Funny," said the genie as it granted his
wish and disappeared forever. "That was
your first wish, too!"

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"Emotional Extremes"

The aspiring psychiatrists from various
colleges were attending their first class
on emotional extremes.

"Just to establish some parameters," said
the professor, to the student from the University
of Houston, "What is the opposite of joy?"

"Sadness," said the UH student.

"And the opposite of depression?" he asked
of the young lady from the University of Texas.

"Elation," said she.

"And you sir," he said to the young man from
Texas AM, "how about the opposite of woe?

"The Aggie replied, "Sir, I believe that would
be giddy-up."
Received on Thu Jul 6 00:19:08 2006