PLANT THE POTATOES A woman wrote to her husband who was serving time in prison for armed robbery. “When is the best time to plant the potatoes?” she wrote. The husband wrote back, “Don’t dig in the potato patch now. That is where I hid all of my guns.” The prison mail was monitored, of …
Y-ZERO-K PROBLEM FROM: Plutonius in Rome DATE: January 18, 1 B.C. MESSAGE: Dear Cassius, Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? This change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven’t much time left. I don’t know how people will cope with working the wrong way …
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CREATIVE SOLUTIONS Not all creative ideas become effective solutions. It seems that a whale washed up on a beach in Florida. But all efforts to save it failed. Then they had to decide what to do with this dead whale carcass. Nobody wanted it or knew what to do with it. Someone decided, for some …
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A STRANGE VICTORY It seems that God had finally had it with the Earth. So He invited Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates to dinner. Afterwards, He told them that He was going to destroy the world the next day, and He needed three important men to go spread the news. Yeltsin returned to …
POLITICS IS Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx
WHY WE ASK ADVICE Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but want a different one. Ivern Ball in National Enquirer
SIMPLE THINGS Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein
FOUR ENGINEERS & ONE BROKEN CAR There are four engineers traveling in a car; a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, an electrical engineer, and a computer engineer. The car breaks down. “Sounds to me as if the pistons have seized. We’ll have to strip down the engine before we can get the car working again”, …
SOLOMONIC SOCIETAL SOLUTION? Solution to two of the world’s problems: Feed the homeless to the hungry. From Internet address:
IS THE SEAL BROKEN? A mother and her young son returned from the grocery store and began putting away the groceries. The boy opened the box of animal crackers and spread them all over the table. “What are you doing?” his mother asked. “You can’t eat them if the seal is broken” the boy explained, …
The person who has all the answers either is getting easy questions or is giving wrong answers.
IN STINKED A momma skunk had two little skunks named “In” and “Out.” It seemed that when In was going out, that Out was coming In, and if Out was in, In was out. It was rare to find Out, out if In wasn’t in, and In, in if Out wasn’t out, because In and …