Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Irene Lord’s Candied Fruit Cakes

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    This is my paternal grandmother’s fruit cake recipe.  In contract with other fruit cakes which so many deign to be doorstops, this recipe is in a class by itself since it has none of the nasty doorstop fruitcake items like citron, citrus peels and the like.  The doctor always makes 3 or 4 batches to…

  • Relationships

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    Relationships are hard.  It’s like a full time job, and we should treat it like one.  If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks’ notice.  There should be severance pay, the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.Bob Ettinger

  • 250 (More) Ways to Annoy Your Roommate

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    Make brown-bag lunches for your roommate every morning.  Give them to him/her before s/he goes to class. Every time you enter the room, sit in a chair, lean back too far, and fall over backwards.  Laugh hysterically for about ten minutes.  Then, one day, repeat the falling-over exercise, but instead of laughing, get up, look…

  • Communicating

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    Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.Joel Barish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • Success

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    The [application] development isn’t successful if the infrastructure team that builds the physical system isn’t successful.  The infrastructure team isn’t successful if the operations team doesn’t know how to measure the system.  They all are measured in their success based on the final impact to the business.Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman

  • 250 Ways to Annoy Your Roommate

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    Smoke jimson weed.  Do whatever comes naturally. Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class. Twitch a lot. Talk while pretending to be asleep. Steal a fishtank.  Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it.  Talk to them. Become a subgenius. Inject his/her Twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG.…

  • The new holiday

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    Last week, we stopped in the Radio Shack near our house to see if they had some doodad or other that was necessary for life.  While the rest of the family went in search of the doodad, I was standing near the Virgin Mobile phone display; and noticed that apparently there is a new holiday…