Dr Wingnut

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  • The Art of Unhappiness

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    Why are creative types skeptical of joy?  Because somebody has to be.It gets exhausting, this constant goad to joy.  If you’re not smiling—after we made all those wonderful pills and cell-phone plans!—what’s wrong with you?  Not to smile is un-American.James Poniewozik, Essay in Time, 17 January 2005

  • Seventh Level of Hell

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    The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished me to the Seventh Level of Hell!  DAMN!  Only two more to go!

  • What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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    The thought came this morning that it is the sound of a male homo sapiens engaged in the practice of masturbation.  Save the kittens.

  • Shut Up Already!

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    When they guy in the next stall won’t shut up, hand him a card from the Society for HandHeld Hushing (SHHH!), perhaps that will do the trick.

  • Great System

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    There are more churches in Las Vegas than Casinos.During Sunday services at the Offertory, some worshipers contribute Casino Chips as opposed to cash.Some are sharing their winnings – some are hoping to win.  Since there are so many Casinos, the Catholic churches send all the chips into the diocese for sorting.Once sorted for the respective…

  • Dr. Wingnut gets a kiss

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    Man!  You take some people fruitcake, and they just go hog wild.

  • Let’s take this offline

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    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…