Year: 2007

  • Something to brighten your day

    Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, while visiting a primary school class, found themselves in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.The teacher asked both men if they would like to lead the discussion of the word “tragedy”.  So the illustrious Rev Jackson asks the class for an example of a…

  • IM to SMS bridge

    I was reading the paper today, and there was an article about sending SMS text messages to cell phones from your email account by using the number@provider.com method which I have been using for years.It seemed stupid to me that there wasn’t some way just to use an IM client like Adium to send the…

  • Listening

    The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.Henry S. Haskins

  • Plane Crash

    I received this from a friend in Texas, and hasten to pass it on in the interest of aviation safety.Some of you may know my ex-wife, Donna.  She had started secretly taking flying lessons about the time our divorce started (1995) and she got her license shortly before our divorce was final, later that same…

  • Missing the beauty

    It does make a difference what you call things.Kate Douglas Wiggin

  • I would like to apologize!

    Over the past few weeks I have received many funny images/jokes and have emailed them to friends who I thought shared a similar sense of humor.Unfortunately, I seem to have upset a few people and received criticism for being sexist and shallow.  If you feel that way, I would like to apologize and demonstrate my…

  • Who are you?

    When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.W.S. Gilbert