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The Importance of
Time
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A college
student challenged a senior citizen, saying it was impossible for their
generation to understand his. "You grew up in a different
world," the student said. "Today we have television, jet planes,
space travel, nuclear energy, computers..."
Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the geezer
said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young;
so we invented them! What are you doing for the next generation??"
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Computer Terms For the Non-Computer Person
Log On: Makin' the wood stove hotter.
Log Off: Don't add no wood.
Monitor: Keepin' an eye on the wood stove.
Download: Gettin' the firewood off the pickup.
Mega Hertz: When yer not careful down loadin'.
Floppy Disk: Whatcha git from pilin' too much firewood.
Ram: The hydrolic thingy that splits the firewood.
Hard Drive: Getting' home in the winter season.
Prompt: What you wish the mail was in the winter.
Windows: What to shut when it's below 15 below.
Screen: What 'cha need for the black fly season.
Byte: That's what the flies do.
Chip: What to munch on.
Micro Chip: What's left in the bottom of the bag.
Infrared: Where the left-overs go when Fred's around.
Modem: What 'cha did to the hay fields.
Dot Matrix: Farmer Matrix's wife.
Lap Top: Where little kids feel comfy.
Keyboard: Where ya hang your keys.
Software: Them plastic eatin' utensils.
Mouse: Whats eats the horses grain.
Main Frame: Hold up the barn roof.
Port: Fancy wine.
Enter: C'mon in.
Random Access Memory: You can't remember whatcha' paid
for that new rifle when your wife asks.
Subject: Why is it?
1. Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in
it?
2. Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the
bubbles are always white?
3. Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
4. Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes
that something new to eat will have materialized?
5. On electric toasters, why do they engrave the message "one
slice"? How many pieces of bread do they think people are
really gonna try to stuff in that slot?
6. Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with
their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it,
then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
7. Why is it that no plastic garbage bag will open from the end
you first try?
8. How do those dead bugs get into those closed light fixtures?
9. Considering all the lint! you get in your dryer, if you kept
drying your clothes would they eventually just disappear?
10. When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with
shopping cart than apologizes for doing so, why do we say,
"It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right so why don't
we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"
11. Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's
falling off the table, you always manage to knock something else
over?
12. Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a
trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed?
13. In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in
summer when we complained about the heat?
14. How come we never hear father-in-law jokes?
15. If at first you don't succeed, shouldn't you try doing it like
your wife told you to do it?
16. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four
Americans is suffering from sort of mental illness. Think of your
three best friends, if they're okay, - - - - - - - - - -then it's you.
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Pizza order in a few years
Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Town. May I
have your national ID number?"
Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."
Operator: "May I have your NIDN first, sir?"
Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's
6102049998-45-54610."
Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland
Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln
Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Which number are
you calling from, sir?"
Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this
information?"
Operator: "We're wired into the system, sir."
Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your
All-Meat Special pizzas."
Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir."
Customer: "Whaddya mean?"
Operator: "Sir, your medical records indicate that you've got very
high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health
Care provider won't all! Ow! Such an unhealthy choice."
Customer: "What do you recommend, then?"
Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll
like it."
Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"
Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your
local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."
Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones,
then."
Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four
kids, sir. Your total is $49.99."
Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash.
Your credit card balance is over its limit."
Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your
driver gets here."
Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's
overdrawn."
Customer: "Never mind. Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash
ready. How long will it take?"
Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45
minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while
you're out getting the cash, but carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a
little awkward."
Customer: "How do you know I'm riding a bike?"
Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so
your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid up.
Customer: "@#%/$@&?#!"
Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got
a July 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop."
Customer: (Speechless)
Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"
Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents
us from offering free soda to diabetics."
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Subject:A true story
A man was flying fromSeattletoSan
Francisco. Unexpectedly, the plane stopped inSacramentoalong the way.
The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the
passengers wanted to get off the aircraft, the plane would re-board in
50minutes.
Everybody got off the plane
except one gentleman who was blind.
The man had noticed him as he
walked by and could tell the gentleman was blind because his seeing eye
dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of him throughout the
entire flight. He could also tell he had flown this very flight before
because the pilot approached him, and calling him by name, said,
"Keith, we're inSacramentofor almost an hour. Would you like to get
off and stretch your legs?"
The blind man replied, "No
thanks, but maybe my dog would like to stretch his legs."
Picture this:
All the people in the gate area
came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk
off the plane with a Seeing Eye dog!
The pilot was even wearing
sunglasses. People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but
they were trying to change airlines!
True story.... Have a great day
and remember... things aren't always as they appear.
English as a Language
If you've learned to speak fluent English, you
must be a genius! Peruse at your leisure, English
lovers. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time
to
present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine
in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France
(Surprise!).
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat
.
Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither
from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write
but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One
goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people
recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house
can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it
out, and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the
lights are out, they are invisible.
P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
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COWBOY LOGIC A cowboy was herding his herd in a
remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust
cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni
suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If
I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd,
will you give me a calf?"
The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully
grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out
his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, surfs
to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite
navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then
feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an
ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital
photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing
facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email
on his Palm Pilot that the
image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a
MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds
of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email
on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color,
150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and
finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586
cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can
take one of my calves," says
the cowboy.
He watches the young man select one
of the animals and looks
on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young
man, "Hey, if I can tell you
exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a
second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a consultant." says
the cowboy.
Wow! That's correct," says
the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required."
answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody
called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a
question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my business...
....Now give me back my dog." Golf
story
The husband reluctantly agreed to play in the couples alternate shot
tournament at his club. He teed off on the first hole, a par four, and
blistered a drive 300 yards down the middle of the fairway.
Upon reaching the ball, the husband said to his wife "just hit it
toward the green, anywhere around there will be fine."
The wife proceeded to shank the ball deep into the woods.
Undaunted, the husband said "That's OK, Sweetheart" and spent
the full five minutes looking for the ball.
He found it just in time, but in a horrible position. He played the shot
of his life to get the ball within two feet of the hole.
He told his wife to knock the ball in. His wife then proceeded to knock
the ball off the green and into a bunker.
Still maintaining composure, the husband summoned all of his skill and
holed the shot from the bunker. He took the ball out of the hole and,
while walking off the green, put his arm around his wife and calmly said, "Honey, that was
a bogey, and that's ok, but I think we can do better on the next hole."
To which she replied,
"Listen sweetie, don't start on me, only 2 of those 5 shots were
mine."
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What's Important? A
young, up and coming, stock broker on wall street parked his Jaguar and
was getting out when another car slammed into his open door, ripping it
from the hinges. He
was ranting and raving about his ruined Jag when the police
arrived. "Sir,
calm down! I don't believe I have ever seen anyone as materialistic as you
- have you even noticed your left hand has been ripped off?",
observed the officer. The
young broker looked at the bloody stub where his hand use to be. And with
great panic yelled, "OH
NO! Its gone! It's gone - - My Rolex is
gone!!!" =========================
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