Oh well, still not a millionaire

Nope, nobody's given me a million dollars yet. But I'm telling joke after joke where the punchline is "And then Maug was paid a million dollars"

And YET, in the face of the evidence so far, there's still this one silly person on the MDFF yahoogroup who decided to lecture me AGAIN about making "jokes about fire during a drought."

See, I made this major score for MDFF yesterday at Terrapin Traders (A UofM and MD State Surplus outlet). I found a bunch of folding tables for sale for less than it costs to rent them, (and they were on sale for 20% off too AND they threw in the broken one for free)and then...
The major score...

For three dollars each I bought these yellow 22 gallon plastic trash/recyclying cans. We'll be wanting more trash cans at MDFF as we grow, and well, at this price for this size, who needs F*&^%ing Walmart?

So I bought 25 of them and reported my fabulous find to the list and calculated that 22gals x 25 buckets = 550 gallons of water that we could have by the fire, and made the joke "*Now* can I make fire jokes?".

Nope, Amy, who calls herself a "firegoddes" chided me again, warning me of how bad this is and comparing it to joking about bombs and fireworks in airplane searchlines.
( and my inner Wayne replies "Exqueeze Me?")
And again, I am dumbfounded by how insidious and widespread is the Curse of Greyface in our society and in this area, especially.

Ladies and gentlemen, HUMOR is NOT what we need to be afraid of.
In an age full of genocide, mass destruction, unchecked expansion, meanness, and mayhem, the goofy guy in the floppy hat who's poking fun of YOUR sacred cow is NOT who you need to get angry at.

Eris says unto you: "Jokes, my dears, are what FREE your soles and lift your spirits even in the darkest, heaviest times. By fearing humor, you fear the light of your own liberation. Now lighten up! Don't MAKE me get out MY Joy Buzzer! You won't be laughing, but *I* will!!!"

So, in honor of Amy, the Fearless Firegodess, here's the Maug Joke of the Day:

So Maug was stuck on a lifeboat with Amy and they were cold and arguing about whether joking about wishing for a fire would burn up the boat and make them sink. Maug argued that there was PUHLENTY of water right here to put any sized fire out.
Amy claimed that if the boat was on fire, to put it out, they'd wind up filling the boat with water and sinking it. Neither of them would budge and there they sat, in their lifeboat, day after day, arguing constantly. Finally, Jesus showed up, walking across the water and said "We can hear you two idiots all the way up in Christian Heaven and quite frankly, we're tired of it. We'll give you BOTH one million dollars to just SHUT UP!"
"Um, will we be rescued as well?" asked Maug

"YES! DUMBASS!!! You're going to be picked up by a Greenpeace Whaleboat Rammer at 2:46pm tomorrow!"

"Cool!" Said Amy

"I SAID... SHUT UP!" said Jesus.

So Amy and Maug shut up and were each paid a million dollars