An accountant was passing a beggar in the street, and the man said "I have not eaten for three days" The accountant replied "How does that compare with the same period last year"?

Well gorgeous weather where I live, Only trouble is wife at work and had chores to do ref garden.
Fence painting and decking to clean and paint were a tad warm.

We're just breaking in the grandson as a lawn mower. Higher rates than I remember from my youth, but saves me putting sun tan lotion on!

Raspberry buttermilk coffeecake with some Earl Grey tea.  Gourmet magazine recipe that I modified.  It's tender and delicious.  The tea is necessary because I have to have my wits about me.  Next!

Good one, goldie!

A duck walks into a supermarket and asks the manager if they have any duck food.  The manager recoils and says, "No we don't have any duck food.  And we don't allow ducks in here, so get out!"

The next day, the duck goes back into the supermarket, sees the same manager, and asks, "do you have any duck food?"  At this point, the manager is pissed and says, "No!  We don't and if you come in here again, I'm going to nail your feet to the floor!  So get out and stay out!"

Undeterred, on the third day, the duck goes into the supermarket, sees the manager and asks, "Do you have any nails?"  The manager, puzzled, responds, "No.  Why?"  The duck replies, "Got any duck food?"

It really surprised me that all y'all had versions of "Steptoe and Son" and "Till Death Us Do Part". I wouldn't have thought that they would have travelled at all, and I also assumed that "The Office" was too insular to be exported. I guess that's why I'm not a TV executive.

I never knew that Norman Lear based All in the Family on a British show.  Archie Bunker was super popular as was Red Foxx's Fred Sanford in Sanford and Son.  The latter was previously known for raunchy standup routines that were circulated on LP recordings, like those of Moms Mabley and other comedians.

The American Office ended up being sweet and syrupy with successful office romances and less of the biting satire that Gervais succeeded in achieving in his painfully self-effacing version.  I always found Coupling funnier than its American-based Friends -- a show that ran on far longer than necessary.  Sadly, after Richard Coyle left the show, it took a nose dive and became unwatchable.