Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Willpower

    WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER.Anonymous

  • Let’s take this offline

    Take this discussion offline: Usually, this expression means, “Let’s not waste time on this while we’re all together at this meeting.”  Instead, everyone in the meeting gets CC’d on an E-mail to kick around the topic.  So taking a discussion offline almost inevitably means taking a discussion that wasn’t online, and putting it online.InformationWeek, “Between…

  • Only in Maine

    The owner of a golf course in Maine was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help.  He called her into his office and said, “You graduated from the University of Maine, and I need some help.  If I were to give you $20,000, minus 14%, how…

  • Progress

    The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.Sidney Webb

  • The best divorce letter ever written

    Dear Laura,I know the counselor said we shouldn’t contact each other during our “cooling off” period, but I couldn’t wait anymore.  The day you left, I swore I’d never talk to you again.  But that was just the wounded little boy in me talking.  Still, I never wanted to be the first one to make…

  • Love

    Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.Bessie Head

  • Interesting Trivia

    A new list to go with More Totally useless information (‘facts’ from Weird News)Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented.  It was ruled “Gentlemen Only…Ladies forbidden”…and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.It…