Tuesday, May 1, 2007
On the role of good looks in love - children's talk
"If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful." (Jeanne, 8) "It isn't always just how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet." (Gary, 7) "Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a...
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Interesting!
Prof. Lachner once taught a class from 2:30pm to 5:30pm. Every time the class met, all the students would have a lot of food on their desks when the class started. During the 5 minutes break, all of them would line a queue at the nearby vending machine. He couldn't understand why these students were...
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Sign in a gas station
I've really seen this!!!! Coke - 49 cents. Two for a dollar.
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Work for nothing!
Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle laboured 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Smart kid!
Recently, when I went to McDonald's. I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets", said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Definitions of professions
A psychologist is a man who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. A schoolteacher is a disillusioned woman who used to think she liked children. A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Be careful when working for Boeing!
Some Boeing employees recently "liberated" a life raft from one of the 747s on the company's production line. Later, they took it for a float on the Stilliguamish river. Imagine their surprise when a Coast Guard helicopter "rescued" them after homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Taking measurements
Jenn says her husband worked with this guy at the high school. The guy wanted to measure the wall and he asked Mike (Jenn’s husband) for some assistance. Mike said, "Why not use the yardstick over there?" The guy looked at Mike and, very serious, said, "I can't use that. The wall is longer than the...
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Monday, April 23, 2007
Happened at Frankfurt Airport
Those German controllers at Frankfurt Airport tend to be a short-tempered lot. They not only expect pilots to know their parking location but how to get there without any assistance. So it was with some amusement that a Brussels Airlines jet listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt...
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
Bean in the ear
Nairobi, Kenya -- A Kenyan doctor who removed a bean stuck in the ear of a young girl forced it back when her parents said they couldn't afford the bill, local newspapers reported Wednesday. The Daily Nation said the doctor successfully removed the bean from the child's ear and then presented the...
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