Author: Dr Wingnut
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
