Dr Wingnut

Year: 2006

  • Follow through

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    You give a monkey a gun, and it’s your responsibility what happens.Ira Winkler, former chief security strategist for Hewlett-Packard, about CEO Mark Hurd’s claims to have been ignorant of wrongful tactics in the company’s leak investigation.

  • More reasons to crawl under a rock

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    An insurance man visited me at home to talk about our mortgage insurance.  He was throwing a lot of facts and figures at me, and I wanted to follow as best I could, so I told my 6-year-old son to run and get me a pad.  He came back and handed me a Kotex right…

  • The Boy’s of October

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    The baseball gods have definitely been smiling on the Minnesota Twins this year.  From twelve eleven and one-half games back early in the season they won a Central Division championship today.  All of this in a nail biting finish where we were rooting for Joe Mauer to clinch the batting title for the American League…

  • Tools

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    All human beings hold to the tools of their own destruction.Barbara Gordon author of “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can” [1979]

  • Tools

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    Man is a tool-using animal.  Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.Thomas Carlyle

  • Building a house

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    A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot.One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.The young family’s 6-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking with the workers.  She hung around and eventually…

  • Helping to feed the poor

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    The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast; the chicken was ‘involved,’ the pig was ‘committed.’Unknown