Dr Wingnut

Day: July 19, 2004

  • Remember The Original Hollywood Squares?

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    Peter Marshall asking the questions.Q. Do female frogs croak?A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.Q. If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.Q. True or False, a pea can last as long…

  • How old is Grandma?

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    One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events.  The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.The Grandma replied, “Well, let me think a minute, I was born, before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees…

  • Rumor too close to phone home

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    BOINC’d by Aliens: Reader Greg A. warns that users running the SETI@home screen saver may be vulnerable to alien invasions. The SETI project, which uses the spare clock-cycles of 4.7 million machines to search the heavens for intelligent life, recently switched to a client based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (or BOINC…