Year: 2007
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Just for you
Today is International Disadvantaged People’s DayPlease send an encouraging message to a retarded friend… just as I’ve done.I don’t care if you lick windows, screw farm animals, take the short bus or occasionally shit yourself…You hang in there sunshine,You’re frigging special!via email from Bob Rosen, Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:58:20 -0700
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The Omission
A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this,…
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Work
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.W. Kelly Griffith
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All Fords
Bet you didn’t know this…And so it goes The 3 Goldberg brothers, Norman, Hyman, and Max invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17th, 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97.The 3 brothers walked into old man Henry Ford’s office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that 3 gentlemen were there with…
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Simplification
Mile by mile, life’s a trial. Yard by yard, it’s not so hard. Inch by inch, it’s a cinch.Proverb
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Art thief
A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre.After carefully planning, he got past security, stole the paintings and made it safely to his van.However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such…
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Lotus Symphony
Now they’ve really done it. I’m so old that Lotus has reused as a product name for an entirely different product.Back in 1984, before Lotus was part of IBM, and after the wildly successful release of Lotus 1-2-3, the first really popular spreadsheet program, the company released a follow-on product called “Symphony” that was a…