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The Friday Funny is from K: - but it brought to my mind the following scene from " Master and Commander - Far Side of the World" Jack Aubrey and HMS Joyful Surprise  "During a dinner in the Captains Mess Captain Aubrey sees two weevils on a plate of food. Lucky Jack asks his good friend and naturist Stephen Maturin if he had to choose between the two, which one the good Doctor would choose. After much prodding Stephen lays claim to the larger of the two beetles from the super family Curculionoidea. At this point Captain Aubrey slams his drunken hand onto the table and exuberantly states, Why Doctor haven't you ever been told to choose the lesser of two weevils?" And in the book - Maturin grouses " A man who would pun would pick a pocket" But what the heck - it's Friday and I've not blogged in a while so to whit: 1 . A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one...