Dr Wingnut

Year: 2005

  • Time

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    Day is short as ever; times as long as it has been.Geechee Proberb

  • Yankee judge at a Chili Cookoff

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    Frank from Boston explains: “Recently, I was honored to be selected as a judge at a chili cook-off.  The original person called in sick at the last moment and I happened to be standing there at the judge’s table asking for directions to the Budweiser truck, when the call came in.  I was assured by…

  • In charge?

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    Who’s in charge of Microsoft, anyway?TV personality Conan O’Brien, ad libbing during Bill Gates’ keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week (Jan 3-7, 2005), after a computer froze during one of Gates’ demonstrations

  • You know you are a true New Englander when:

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    “Vacation” means going South past New York City for the weekend.You measure distance in hours.You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.You see…

  • Philosophy

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    There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.Charles M. Schulz

  • Jeff Foxworthy on New England

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    If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in New England.If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot…

  • Information week item

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    Comcast Plans VoIP Service For Its 40 Million SubscribersPowerful telephone companies are serving notice on the cable-TV industry that its stranglehold over television programming will be coming to an end.  In response, Comcast plans to counterattack using VoIP, and its strength in broadband cable is expected to serve the cable TV company well.Information WeekThat’s all…