Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Vision

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    What an elder sees sitting, the young can’t see standing.Ibo proverb

  • Change

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    Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle

  • It’s Hard to Beat a Texan

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    A man from Texas, driving a Volkswagen Beetle, pulls up next to a guy in a Rolls Royce at a traffic light.  Their windows are open and he yells at the guy in the Rolls, “Hey, you got a telephone in that Rolls?”The guy in the Rolls says, “Yes, of course I do.”“I got one…

  • Little Sisters of the Grassland

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    I only have a bad copy on tape of this vinyl album.  Wish there was a CD issue of:Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wu Tsu-Chiang composer, Concerto for Pipa & Orchestra “Little Sisters of the Grassland”, Ozawa (Liu Teh-hai) [1979]Philips 9500 692 S Wu: Little Sisters of the Grassland (LIU TEH-HAI, pipa); Liszt: Concerto #1 (LIU SHIH-KUN,…

  • Teaching

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    Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.Gail Godwin

  • Darwin Award Winners

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    Yes, it’s that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.  Here then, are the glorious winners.Darwin Award Winners:When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only…

  • Stoned On E-Mail

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    Using E-mail and other messaging technologies excessively can lower your IQ as much as if you smoked some weed, according to recent research sponsored by Hewlett-Packard.InformationWeek Daily, 5 May 2005Soon there will be meetings for E-mail Anonymous to go with How to Run a Microsoft-Free Shop.