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- Too Whom It May Concern,
-
- The following was mailed to me originating from the chain mail
- pool of perverts at ECN. Don't blame me, I just thought I would
- pass it along...
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:
-
- If two bits make a nibble and two nibbles make a byte,
- what does two bytes make? A dog mad.
-
- If sixty men can do sixty times the work of one man,
- and it takes one man sixty seconds to dig a posthole;
- can sixty men dig a posthole in one second?
-
- Logic and paradox: What do you get if you divide infinity by two?
-
- (Half of one hell of a lot of something....)
-
- How long is a string?
- a. If you say you dont know,they say you're stupid.
- b. If you say twice as long as half of it they say you're a
- real smart-ass.
-
- Why do physicists make good dictators?
- Because they have practiced applying force to the masses.
-
- Let it be known...........
- The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only at midnight.....
- (Maybe not funny, but very deep...)
- who.....who.....who.....
- (also very deep...)
-
-
- She said ...
- "If I was only half as smart as I think I am,
- I would still be twice as smart as you think you are."
-
- Do you know how many neuter martians it takes to wash a car?
- ???
-
- HOW DO YOU KEEP A POLLOCK IN SUSPENSE?
-
-
-
- What did the gum say to the tennis shoe??
- I'm stuck to you!!!!
-
- how many computer scientists does it take to screw in light bulb?
- None, its a hardware problem.
-
- What put you in such a rambunctious mood?,
- your dog pee in your corn flakes this morning?
-
-
- Niklaus Wirth (inventor of Pascal) has complained that, whereas
- Europeans pronounce his name correctly (Nee-Klows Virt), Americans
- invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say
- Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.
-
-
- Computer Science is to Science, as Plumbing is to Fluid Mechanics.
-
- A saying taken from a desk tag:
-
- To err is Human;
- ----------------------------
- to really foul things up
- requires a computer.
-
- Q: Why don't guys from Minnesota like girls from same going out with guys
- from Wisconsin?
- A: Have you ever seen a gopher hole when a badger gets throught with it?
-
- WHY IS THEIR NO ICE IN IOWA STATE DRINKS?
- BECAUSE THE GUY WITH THE RECIPE GRADUATED.
-
- HOW MANY IOWEGIANS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB?
- FOUR ... ONE TO HOLD THE BULB DOWN, TWO TO HOLD SAFETY PINS,
- AND ONE TO LICK THE HOLE CLEAN.
-
- "we tried to tell you earlier in the film but you just panned off us..."
-
- I don't like all this sex on the tellyvision.
- I mean, I keep falling off!
-
-
- And how do YOU get on with French people? . . .
- More importantly, how do you get OFF with French people?
-
-
- We are the knights who say nee
- and you shall not pass unless
- you have any shrubry
-
- Oh Brave Sir Robin!
- She turned me into a newt she did.
-
- What do you mean I don't need a fish licence??
- I got one for my pet cat ERIC!!
-
-
- REMEMBER THERE'S TWO WAYS TO SAY ANYTHING:
-
- "WHEN I LOOK AT YOU TIME STANDS STILL," OR
- "YOUR FACE CAN STOP A CLOCK."
-
- "You have a peaches and cream complexion," or
- "Your face could sour milk..."
-
- "She's semi-beautiful," or
- "She looks like a Mack truck."
-
-
- SEX IS LIKE SNOW:
- YOU NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH YOU'RE GOING TO GET OR HOW LONG IT WILL LAST.
-
- PLAYING BRIDGE IS A LOT LIKE SEX:
- IF YOU DON'T HAVE A GOOD PARTNER, YOU'D BETTER HAVE A GOOD HAND.
-
- MOMMY,MOMMY :
- Are you sure this is the way to make pizza??
- Shut-up and get back in the oven!
-
- I don't want to see Grandma!
- Shut-up and keep digging...
-
- I hate spaghetti!
- Shut-up, or I'll take the veins out of your other arm!
-
- I hate my sister's guts...
- Shut up! You'll eat what's been put in front of you...
-
- I LOOK LIKE A WEREWOLF!
- SHUT UP AND COMB YOUR FACE!!
-
- Why am I running in circles?
- Shut up or I'll nail your other foot to the floor.
-
- Tommy just cut off my legs with the power saw!!
- Well, don't come running to me for help!!!
-
- I don't like tomato soup.
- Shut up, and drink it before it clots!
-
- but I don't like hamburger!
- Shut up, and put your arm back in the meat grinder.
-
- Daddys throwing up!
- So why are you crying?
- Tom is getting all the big pieces!
-
- THAT ISN'T OUR BABY!!
- SHUT UP, ITS A BETTER CARRIAGE.
-
- I DON'T WANT TO SEE EUROPE.
- SHUT UP AND KEEP ROWING!
-
- WHY CAN''T I PLAY WITH THE OTHER KIDS?
- SHUT UP AND DEAL.
-
- LAWNMOWER JUST CUT OFF MY FOOT!
- WELL STAY OUTSIDE TILL IT STOPS BLEEDING,
- I JUST VACUMED THE RUG.
-
- JUNIORS ON FIRE!
- WELL SHUT OFF THE FURNACE, THERE'S NO SENCE IN WASTING FUEL.
-
- BUT MOMMY, I LIKE TO TALK.
- SHUT UP AND DRINK THIS GLUE!!
-
- MOM,QUICK,WHERE ARE THE MARSHMELLOWS?
- WHY?
- MARVIN'S ON FIRE!
-
- CAN JOHNNY COME OUT AND PLAY WITH US?
- NO, HE DIED 3 DAYS AGO.
- WELL, CAN WE USE HIS SLED?
-
- WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET A TRASH CAN?
- SHUT UP AND KEEP EATING!
-
- Why is daddy running?
- Shut up and pull the trigger!!!
-
- I don't like being buried up to my neck! /-
- Shut up while I mow the lawn. __o ____o_____mower/_______
-
- The doctor said I had AIDS. What does that mean?
- Adios, Ignorant Dick-Sucker
-
-
- How was copper wire invented?
- Two Jews fighting over a penny.
-
- QUES: OKAY, SO HOW DO YOU DIVIDE A PIE EIGHT WAYS?
- ANS: GIVE IT TO FIVE ARABS WITH AK-47s
-
- Did you hear about the new aardvark tire?
- It not only stops on a dime, it picks it up.
-
- Did you hear about the Italian snow tires?
- Dago thru snow, Dago thru ice but when dago flat dago "Wop Wop Wop".
-
- WHY DID THE JEWS WANDER AROUND THE WILDERNESS FOR 40 YEARS(IN THE BIBLE)??
- SOMEBODY LOST A QUARTER.
-
- what did the elephaant say to the nakedman?
- how do you breath out of that thing?
-
- How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- Only 2 of course, but I still can't figure out how they get in there.
-
- THERE WERE TWO FLIES ON THE CEILING,
- ONE SAID TO THE OTHER; "ZIP YOUR HUMAN!"
-
- Did you hear about the two flies sitting on a toilet
- seat having an argument?
- One of them got pissed off!!!!
-
- Have ye heard the tale of the lasses of Ireland?
- Well, they always carried with them a lemon, in case of seduction.
- Now the effectiveness of the lemon, as a deterrent, was not great.
- But, it served to take the smile off the lasses' face before she
- returned home.
-
- A MAN GOT TO HEAVEN AND FOUND TWO LINES. ONE LINE SAID,"HEN
- PECKED MEN." ABOVE IT, THE OTHER SAID, "BOSSES". THERE WAS A LONG,
- LONG LINE AT THE HEN-PECKED LINE, BUT THERE WAS ONLY ONE MAN STANDING
- IN THE BOSSES LINE.
- WHEN ST.PETER ASKED THE MAN IN THE BOSSES LINE WHY HE WAS THE
- ONLY ONE STANDING THERE, THE MAN REPLIED, "I DON'T KNOW, MY WIFE TOLD ME
- TO STAND HERE."
-
- How is the Starship Enterprise and Truck Driver's toungues alike?
- They both wipe out Klingons from around Uranus.
-
- Q: Why did California get AIDS and Indiana get Purdue??
- A: Because California had first choice!
-
- When comparing N.D. with P.U., you always have to put N.D. on top. Why?
- Because you can't divide by 0. (as in PU/ND)
-
- "What do you mean that girls are like rocks?"
- "The flat ones are better to skip!"
-
- WHAT DID THE HIGH-SCHOOL BOYS SAY TO THE FLAT-CHESTED CHICK WHEN THEY
- LOOKED DOWN HER SHIRT ?
- NICE SHOES.
-
-
- prelude: In the silicon valley in California, there is a
- distinct breed of computer genuises called Silicon Valley
- Guys(SVGs)
-
- How many teen-age SVGs does it take to change a lightbulb?
- Five:
- - One to reroute the high-voltage lines from his neigh-
- borhood to Canada, causing a brown-out all along
- the west coast.
- - One to hijack a shipment of arc lamps headed for the astro-
- dome.
- - One to rewire the house with 12 in. coaxial cable.
- - One to install a 6 ton air handeller and cooling system,
- and :
- - One to unscrew the old bulb to substitute the greater
- light source.
-
-
- Did You Know?
-
- IT TAKES THE AVERAGE CHICKEN-PLUCKING MACHINE ABOUT 14 SECONDS
- TO PLUCK A CHICKEN.
-
- Evan Finch's middle name is "George."
-
- All of the cichlids in Lake Malawi are of Haplichromis origin.
-
- The square root of two is 1.141
-
- The square root of two is a little-known fact???
- Maybe not, but the state of Indiana in 1920s passed a law setting
- pi equal to 3.4159 ... exactly.
-
-
- How do you confuse a polock??
- Put three shovels in a corner and tell him to take his pick!
-
- Did you hear about the polack whose doctor told him he only
- had two weeks to live????
- He said I'll take one one week in JULY and one week
- in SEPTEMBER!!!!!!!
-
- WHY DID THE POLLACK LEAVE HIS WIFE FOR A OUTHOUSE??
- THE HOLE WAS SMALLER, AND IT SMELLED BETTER!!
-
- Did you hear about the Polack who thought that Grape Nuts was a form
- of venereal disease?
-
- How many sorority girls does it take to change a lightbulb?
- 11 --- 1 to change it and 10 to sing about it!
-
- What's the difference between a PHI MU and a bowling ball?
- ---- You can only get 3 fingers in a bowling ball!
-
- What's the difference between a PHI MU and a Rolls Royce?
- ---- Not everybody's been in a Rolls!
-
- What's the first thing a sorority girl does in the morning?
- Walks home!
-
- What's the difference between an IU sorority girl and an elephant?
- About 5 pounds!
-
- What's better for keeping time than a Timex watch?
- The Phi Mu sorority!
-
- What's the difference between a sorority girl and garbage?
- Garbage gets taken out once a week!
-
-
- What's red and sits in the corner?
- A baby with a razor blade.
-
- What's red and green and sits in the same corner?
- The same baby 2 months later.
-
- What's black and green and sits in a corner?
- The same baby 6 months later.
-
- What's blue and white and sits in a corner?
- A baby in a plastic bag.
-
- How did the dead baby get across the road?
- It was tied to the chicken.
-
- what is grosser than a barrel of dead babies?
- A live one at the bottom, eating his way out.
-
- how do you unload a truck full of dead babies?
- With a pitchfork!
-
- What is red and swings through the air?
- Dead baby on a meathook.
-
- What is red and flies through the air?
- A dead baby pushed through a fan.
-
- WHAT'S GREEN AND HANGS ON THE END OF YOUR LEG??
- A HOMESICK ABORTION!!
-
- How do you fit a truckload of dead babies into a telephone booth ??
- La Machine !!!!! (any good food processor will do).
-
- How do you get them out ???
- A straw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- How do you make a dead baby float????
- A big glass, 3 scoops of Vanilla ice cream,
- 1 dead baby, and soda of your choice.
-
- Your Mama is so stuped that she has a wooden leg and
- uses a kickstand.......
-
- yo mama swims after troopships
-
- Yo mamma so uglyy that when she looks in a mirror,
- she scares herself.
-
- Yo mama's so dry that the crabs carry canteens!
-
- Yo mama does squat-thrusts on fire-hydrants.
-
-
- Oh, sage can you E,
- by the con's dim green light,
- when so loudly we hailed,
- at the twilight's last gleaming,
- whose key strokes and bright windows,
- while in rollout we watched,
- were so vibrantly glowing?
- Oh, say does that program still run,
- in the core of memory and on disks
- that are free?
-
-
- DUMB MARY JANE:
-
- DUMB MARY JANE WAS PUSHING THE BABY CARRIAGE UP A HILL.
- WHEN SHE GOT TO THE TOP, SHE LET IT GO DOWN THE OTHER SIDE.
- DUMB MARY JANE JUST LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AND LAUGHED.
- YOU KNOW WHY?
-
- BECAUSE SHE KNEW THAT THERE WAS A STOP SIGN AT THE BOTTOM
- OF THE HILL!
-
- ALL THE BOYS WANTED DUMB MARY JANE TO CLIMB UP THE FLAG
- POLE SO THEY COULD SEE HER UNDERWEAR, BUT DUMB MARY JANE JUST
- LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AND LAUGHED.
- YOU KNOW WHY?
-
- BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T HAVE ANY ON.
-
- Dumb Mary Jane was riding a car. She was going 100 mph.
- A police car was chasing her. Mary Jane just laughed and laughed.
- Do you know why???
-
- Because it was her friend Hester Sue's car!
-
- One day, dumb Mary Jane was with her friend, Computer Whiz
- Joe. Computer Whiz Joe was sad because his printer was broken.
- He didn't know what to do. Dumb Mary Jane just laughed and
- laughed, because she thought she was smarter than him.
- Do you know what Dumb Mary Jane said??
-
- TAKE IT TO A HARDWARE STORE!!
-
- Mary Jane ran into the house, screaming 'Mommy I just set
- the garage on fire!' Mary Jane's mother said, you just wait till
- your father gets home!!! M.J. laughed and she laughed and she
- laughed...why?
-
- Because she knew her father was in the garage.
-
-
- There once was a bum who stopped a taxi. He asked the taxi driver
- if his cab would hold a pizza, 20 beers, 4 steaks, and a pound of cheese.
- The cabby said "of course". The man said "Good, BLUUUUCCHLH[LAAAARRRRRR-
- CHHHHHBBBBBEELLLLEEECCCHHH"
-
- did ya hear about the notre dame coach breaking his leg?
- he was at home raking leaves and fell out of a tree.
-
- the lawyer who was a graduate of notre dame was irate.
- "do you know the penalty for perjury?," he shouted at the
- witness. a few minutes ago you told this court that you
- only have 1 brother. now your sister swears that she
- has 2 brothers. let's have the truth!
-
- did you hear about the indiana student who studied five days
- for a urine test?
-
- and then there was the iowa student who was such a slow reader he had
- to go back to the optometrist a second time to finish the eye chart.
-
- And we all know why they don't have ice at Notre Dame.
- The guy with the recipe graduated and went to grad school at IU!
-
- professor: are the examination questions giving you any trouble?
- student: no. the questions are clear. it's the answers that's the problem.
-
- There was a big football game between Michigan and Purdue at Purdue.
- A guy from each team met each other in the restroom taking a squirt. As
- they finished the Purdue guy started to walk over and wash his hands as
- the Michigan guy was just going to walk out.
- The Purdue guy says to the Michigan guy, "You're not going to wash
- your hands? What the hell do they teach you up there?"
- The Michigan guy responded, "They teach us not to piss on our hands!"
-
- Why do they use Astro-turf at I.U.'s sports events instead of just plain
- grass?
- To keep the cheerleaders from grazing.
-
- what do richard pryor, michael jackson, and margaret houlihan all have in
- common?
- they've all had major burns.
-
- If richard pryor and michael jackson were to start a college scholarship
- what would it be called?
- The Ignited Negro College Fund!
-
-
- Famous answers on the phone ...
- "City morgue ... you kill 'em, we chill 'em."
-
- "McCutcheon Hall, 6th floor summer home...
- Some are home, some are not.."
-
- "Duffy's Tavern, where the elite meet to eat.
- Archie the manager speakin', Duffy ain't here. Oh, hello Duffy."
-
-
- what's gray and has purple feet?
- an elephant that makes its own wine.
-
- what's big as an elephant but doesn't weigh an ounce?
- an elephant's shadow.
-
- what is gray on the inside and clear on the outside?
- an elephant in a plastic bag.
-
- what's gray and lights up?
- an electric elephant.
-
- why do elephants like peanuts?
- because they like to save the wrappers for valuable prizes.
-
-
- TWO MEN STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER PISSING. ONE SAYS TO THE OTHER :
- "YOU'RE JEWISH, AREN'T YOU?"
- "YES ", REPLIED THE SECOND .
- "YOU'RE RABBI IS RABBI COHEN , RIGHT?"
- "YES, HOW DID YOU KNOW", REPLIED THE SECOND.
- "YOU'RE PISSING ON MY FOOT"
-
-
- <Sign on Program Maintainer's desk : "The Bug Stops Here!" >
-
- Last week I posted the Official Equation of the 1984 Summer
- Olympic Games:
- ___
- 12 + 144 + 20 + 3 V 4 2
- ---------------------- + 5(11) = 9 + 0
- 7
-
- 10 months ago, when i first posted it, i didn't get a reply. Maybe
- it never got to the net, because this time i received 23 replys (including
- postings).
-
- The Solo., as published in the linguistics magazine, is:
-
- A dozen, a gross and a score,
- Plus three times the square root of four,
- Divided by seven,
- Plus five times eleven,
- Is nine squared, and not a bit more.
-
- Four people gave this answer; eight more gave equivalent answers, with
- perfect meter and perfect rhyme (so far as i can judge). Ten others made
- attempts, many failing only due to the words being improperly accented in
- order to get the meter correct.
-
- All of the responses (minus some of the sender's names) are being
- posted in a note to net.jokes.d
-
- sdcrdcf!alan
-
- . . . . .
-
- When I heard about Nate...
-
- Nate the snake's job was to guard a lever which, if ever thrown,
- would destroy the world. Nate did his job well, until one day,
- a truck came careening toward it. Nate had to make a decision, whether
- to throw himself in front of the truck to stop it, or let it
- hit the lever, and of course he decided better Nate than lever.
-
-
- ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT WHAT MORE YOUR
- COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU.
-
- Why is sex like air?
- Because it is no big thing unless you are not getting any!
-
- David Letterman Quotables...
-
- THEY PELTED US WITH ROCKS AND GARBAGE!
-
- I do and do and do for you kids,
- And this is the thanks I get!!!!
-
- 'Waddya want, wicka?'
-
-
- "Say Paddy, do you know why there are no Irishmen in heaven?"
- "No Mike, why are there no Irishmen in heaven?"
- "Why?, they drink Irish whiskey, and that's so good it's a sin."
-
- "Say Mike, do you know why there can't be any Scots in hell?"
- "No Paddy, why aren't there any Scots in hell?"
- "Did you ever drink Scotch?"
-
- --------------------------Profoundity...-----------------------------------
- We keep talking about it.
- We say we want it.
- WE say we are going to do it.
-
- But we never make any real progress.
-
- Maybe it is hard.
- Maybe we are afraid of it.
-
- Don't think about why you are doing what you are doing.
- You may stop doing it!
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Student : I have all these tests coming up.
- Professor : Good excuse to learn the material!
-
- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
-
- When the head of Learjet received a complaint that a six foot person
- could not stand erect in one of his airplanes, he responded that
- one cannot stand in a Rolls Royce either.
-
- Howard is a great watchdog. He watched the last three burglaries at our
- house.
-
- When you ask someone to send something to you airmail and it doesn't arrive
- in a week , tell him you didn't mean dirigible service.
-
- Lu: Where are we?
- Wo: Well, you are on the road to tommorrow and here is today.
- It is a nice place to visit but you can't stay here for long.
-
-
- Seen in a local apartment complex:
- "Extermination is provided on 1 and 3rd. If we are unable to gain access,
- or the room is not properly prepared, your apartment will not be treated.
- This includes covering all dishes, etc. etc.
-
- "Those tenants who need to be exterminated, call the management office."
-
-
- Fritz Mondale asked John Zacarro (Ferraro's husband) how he liked playing
- second fiddle to such a successful attractive intelligent female.
- John Zacarro replied, "You'll get used to it."
-
- A wag said that Fritz Mondale is going to need to take up speed reading
- to read all the promises he is making before the election.
-
-
- Born diplomat: someone who remembers your birthdays, but forgets how many
- you've had.
-
- Father to teen-aged son' "You should run for the legislature. You're
- terrific at introducing all types of bills into the house."
-
-
- The secretary cleaned out her files and stacked all the discards in
- two boxes. She placed a sign on them saying "Rubbish." But the next day
- they were still there. So she put on a new sign saying, "Garbage, waste,
- refuse; please remove." The next day it was still there, but with a
- note: "Cannot remove unless marked trash.'"
-
-
- Newly married man to his friends: "My wife treats me like a Greek god;
- she keeps giving me burnt offerings."
-
-
- Wife to husband selecting a loud sports jacket he'd just purchased
- against her wishes: "That tie might go with the jacket, but I'll tell you
- something that won't go with that monstrosity -- me!"
-
- Old-timer: grandfather clock.
-
- Advise to politicians speaking on the campaign trail: "Keep it short for
- pithy sake."
-
- Strange: "Parents spend $40,000 to put a son through college and all they
- get is a quarterback."
-
- "I don't think my wife understands me. Does yours?"
- "I doubt it, I've never heard her mention your name."
-
- A young couple had gone right from the wedding to the photographer and
- asked that he rush the proofs to them. When the large envelope arrived the
- next day, inside were several proofs showing an infant in various poses. The
- accompanying note said, "Please let me know what size you want and how
- many."
-
- When a person goes on a diet, the first thing he loses is his temper.
-
- A tired but devoted football fan spent Monday night watching the game.
- He fell asleep in front of the television set and slept through the night.
- Next morning, his wife, worried that he'd be late for work, shook him
- awake syaing, "Dear, it's 20 to seven."
- "In whose favor?" he asked.
-
- World's loudest sound: the first rattle in the new car.
-
- For over two hours, a distinguished economist addresed the audience on
- the workings of our economic system. When he finished, the chairman summed
- up the speech, "What our guest has been saying is that if your outgo
- exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall."
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- From Bits and Pieces:
-
- 1. Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where
- you started.
-
- 2. The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for
- someone else
-
- 3. Monday is a hard way to spend one-seventh of your life.
-
- 4. A man was elected president of a large company. ONe of the older directors
- said, "So now you are president!"
-
- "So it seems," the man smiled.
-
- "Then," said the older man, "you have heard the truth for the last time."
-
- 5. Andrew Carnegie was once asked what he considered most important in
- industry: labor, capital ro brains. With a laugh Carnegie replied, "Which
- is the most important leg of a 3-legged stool?"
-
- 6. A manager was trying to pacify a certain employee who wanted a promotion.
- The manager, for many reasons, simply couldn't give it to him. "You
- know I cannot give you this promotion now," he told the man, "but I will
- do this. You have my permission to go back and tell your friends that I
- offered you the job but that you turned it down."
-
- 7. An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you
- really care to know.
-
- 8. A farmer asked his neighbor if he might borrow a rope. "Sorry," said
- the neighbor, "I'm using my rope to tie up my milk."
-
- "Rope can't tie up milk."
-
- "I know," replied the neighbor, "but when a man doesn't want to do
- something, one reason is as good as another."
-
- 9. Everybody but Sam had signed up for a new company pension plan that
- called for a small employee contribution. THe company was paying all the
- rest.
-
- Unfortunately, 100% employee participation was needed; otherwise the plan
- was off.
-
- Sam's boss and his fellow workers pleaded and cajoled, but to no avail.
- Sam said the plan would never pay off.
-
- Finally the company president called Sam into his office.
- "Sam," he said, "here's a copy of the new pension plan and here's a pen.
- I want you to sign the papers. I'm sorry, but if you don't sign, you're
- fired. As of right now."
-
- Sam signed the papers immediately.
-
- "Now," said the president, "would you mind telling me why you couldn't have
- signed earlier?"
-
- "Well, sir," replied Sam, "nobody explained it to me quite so clearly
- before."
-
- 10.Running a business is about 95% people and 5% economics.
-
- 11.Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you but
- not in the one ahead of you.
-
- 12.When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
-
- 13.A letter written in a childish scrawl came to the post office addressed
- to "God." A postal employee, not knowing exactly what to do with the
- letter, opened it and read:
- "Dear God, my name is Jimmy. I am six years old. My father is dead and
- my mother is having a hard time raising me and my sister. Would
- you send us $500.00"
-
- The postal employee was touched. He showed the letter to his fellow
- workers and all decided to kick in a few dollars each and send it to the
- family. They were able to raise $300.
-
- A couple of weeks later they received a second letter. The boy thanked
- God, but ended with this request: "Next time would you please deliver
- the money directly to our home? If you send it through the post office
- they deduct $200."
-
- 14.It is always easy to see both sides of an issue we are not particularly
- concerned about.
-
- 15.When you try to make an impression, the chances are that is the
- impression you will make.
-
- 16.When you save for a long time to buy something, then find you can't
- afford it--that's inflation.
-
- 17.An economist was asked to talk to a group of buisness people about the
- recession. She tacked up a big sheet of white paper. Then she made
- a black spot on the paper with her pencil and asked a man in front
- row what he saw. The man replied promptly, "A black spot."
-
- The speaker asked every person the same question, and each replied,
- "A black spot."
-
- With calm and deliberate emphasis the speaker said: "Yes there is
- a little black spot, but none of your mentioned the big sheet of white
- paper. And that's my speech."
-
- 18.A canny Maine farmer was approached by a stranger one day and asked
- how much he thought his prize Jersey cow was worth. The farmer thought
- for a moment, looked the stranger over, then said: "Are you the tax
- assessor or has she been killed by your car?"
-
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- From Graduating Engineer:
-
- 1. Climbing up the ladder of success is a hands-on affair. You don't
- see anyone climbing up any kind of ladder with his hands in his
- pockets, do you?"
-
- 2. As one veteran speaker used to say when he bagin his presentations,
- "All of us have jobs to do there this afternoon. Mine is to speak.
- Yours is to listen. I hope that we finish together--that you don't
- get done before I do."
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-
- Why don't Russian women wear bikinis?
- Because it's too much of a hassle to shave their stomachs!
-
- Why do most Russian businesses prefer Russian cleaning ladies?
- Because they can scrub with their armpits and save on steel wool!
-
- UNIX Daffeynition: Site Specialist | User Confuser
-
- Sign in a Chicago S&M store for December: "Season's Beatings!"
- Daffynitions...
-
- FERENHEIT: MODERATELY TALL
-
- FILIBUSTER: TRAINER OF FEMALE HORSES
-
- INTENSE: WHERE BOY SCOUTS SLEEP
-
- INDEX: WHAT PLAYING CARDS COME IN
-
- FELICITY: ELECTRICAL ENERGY BY STROKING A CAT.
-
- HAIKU: THE SOUND OF A JAPANESE SNEEZING.
-
-
- Dateline - WASHINGTON D.C.
- The Society for the Cure of Abrasions (SCABS) has announced
- a warning to it's detractors. "Don't pick on us!"
-
- --
- Why pander life's complexities,
- when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat - The Smiths
-