Chinese Wedding Night
A Chinese couple gets married - and she's a virgin. Truth be told, he is none too experienced either. On the wedding night, she cowers naked under the bed sheets as her husband undresses. He climbs in next to her and tries to be reassuring: "My darring" he says, "I know dis yo firs time and you berry frighten. I pomise you, I give you anyting you want, I do anyting jus anyting you want. Whatchou want?" he says, trying to sound experienced, which he hopes will impress his virgin bride. A thoughtful silence follows and he waits patiently (and eagerly) for  her request. She eventually replies shyly and unsure, "I want...... numba 69"
More thoughtful silence, this time from him. Eventually, in a puzzled tone he queries.............."You want.......Beef wif Broccori?"

Cartilage is extremely important for the healthy functioning of a joint, especially if that joint bears weight, like your knee. Imagine for a moment that you're looking into the inner workings of your left knee as you walk down the street. When you shift your weight from your left leg to your right, the pressure on your left knee is released. The cartilage in your left knee then "drinks in" synovial fluid, in much the same way that a sponge soaks up liquid when immersed in water. When you take another step and transfer the weight back onto your left leg, much of the fluid squeezes out of the cartilage. This squeezing of joint fluid into and out of the cartilage helps it respond to the off-and-on pressure of walking without shattering under the strain.
Arthritis For Dummies, by Barry Fox, Ph.D, and Nadine Taylor, gives you a great body of knowledge about this prevalent disease.

A woman walks into the drugstore and tells the pharmacist she wants to buy some arsenic.

"What do you want with arsenic?" asks the pharmacist.

"I want to kill my husband because he's cheating on me by having sex with another woman," the lady replies.

"I can't sell you arsenic so you can kill your husband, lady, even if he is having sex with another woman," the pharmacist says.

The woman then reaches into her pocket and pulls out a picture of her husband having sex with the pharmacist's wife and hands it to him.

"Oh, I didn't realize you had a prescription," the pharmacist replies.

The early morning raids took place in Troy, Waterford, Cohoes, Albany and at several rural locations in Rensselaer and Saratoga counties, authorities said. Agents seized weapons, drugs and records that law enforcement officials said will be used to build criminal cases against members of the club and their associates.

The investigation, which centered around a building on Sixth Avenue in Troy believed to be a Hells Angels clubhouse, is being conducted by the state Attorney General's Organized Crime Task Force, the FBI, ATF, State Police Special Investigations Unit, U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Troy and Waterford police departments, officials said.

No one was arrested and some of the people whose homes or businesses were raided said they did not think authorities collected anything incriminating. But authorities said they are confident the searches netted evidence that will be used to obtain criminal indictments.

"It's an ongoing investigation by federal, state and local authorities and we anticipate numerous charges in the future," said John Morgan, special agent in charge of the Albany ATF. He declined further comment and referred questions to the state attorney general's office, which is heading the investigation.

In addition to searching homes, authorities searched a Hoosick Street tattoo parlor in Troy and a hair salon in Waterford. A woman at the Broad Street hair salon did not identify herself, but said: "They didn't get anything."

Jesse M. Hunt, 31, who owns a Hoosick Street tattoo shop, Jesse James Tattoo Parlor, declined to confirm if he's a member of the Hells Angels. His shop advertises the sale of "81" items. The number 81 is a common reference to the Hells Angels because "H" is the eighth letter of the alphabet and "A" is the first.

"I'd rather not comment on nothing, man," Hunt, a Troy resident, said Friday night. "I don't even know why they would bother to go over there (to the hair salon). I don't even think they went to my (tattoo) shop, but maybe they were there."

At the Sixth Avenue building, federal agents and police said they were able to gain access when someone answered the door early Friday. In an interview 18 months ago, authorities told the Times Union they were monitoring activity at the three-story home and were concerned because it appeared to have been fortified to withstand a SWAT raid.

The home, which tax records show has been owned for three years by David D. Boyd of Rensselaer, is completely walled-in on the lower floors with cinder blocks. The steel front door has a customized skull on it with the words "Hells Angels Nomads" etched around the edges. Two surveillance cameras that had been bolted to the front of the building and aimed downward at the front door were taken by authorities during the raid.

Boyd could not be reached for comment.

Friday morning, authorities said they got their first glimpse of the home's interior. There is a barroom and meeting room on the first floor that are lined with Hells Angels memorabilia. Upstairs, there are living quarters for several people.

Friday afternoon, a heavily muscled man wearing a T-shirt declined comment when he emerged from the home briefly to carry out a bag of garbage.

"We ain't saying nothing, pal. You better take a walk," he said.

More than a decade ago, a series of successful police investigations crippled the Hells Angels chapter in Troy. But last year, police said members of the club were resurfacing -- including many who had returned to the area after serving time in prison.

While authorities were tight-lipped Friday about their investigation, they did talk last year about the club's presence.

"There certainly is a resurgence here in our area," FBI Special Agent Mike Kast, a biker gang expert in the Albany office, said. "It's evident because a couple years ago there was not a clubhouse in Troy, and now there is."

Troy once was home to a large Hells Angels chapter until it was decimated by a federal investigation in the mid-1980s and subsequent police stings. The federal raid, called Operation Roughrider, took place in May 1985 and was part of a nationwide sweep in which 130 Hells Angels bikers and their associates were arrested, mostly on drug and racketeering charges.

The Hells Angels roots in Troy date to the early 1970s, when members called themselves The Breed. The group later aligned with the Hells Angels. In 1971, a police sergeant in Albany was killed by Breed members.

The current investigation also centers on another club, the Dominion Saints, who are based in Troy and associated with the Hells Angels, authorities said.