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News flash from DARKEST AFRICA:
"Big Game hunter lost in bush. It is feared that something he
disagreed with ate him."
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According to Harpers Index, sales of California Raisin(tm) merchandise in
North America topped $450 million last year. Sales of actual California
raisins were only $400 million during the same period.
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Then there's always the proverb "A fool and his money are soon parted."
What I'd like to know is how a fool and his money got together in the
first place?
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From the Monday, May 15, 1989 L.A. Times Sprots Section,
Morning Briefing;
A difficult trick: Have you heard the one about the baseball
announcer who was having trouble with his wire machine in the
press box? It was giving him wrong scores and wrong names all
night. Finally, he said, "Now look at this. Felton started the
game in Minnesota and now they've got him relieving himself on
the mound."
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"I'm opposed to millionares, but it would be dangerous to offer me the
position"
-Mark Twain
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"Times are bad. Children no longer
obey their parents, and everyone is
writing a book." (Cicero)
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This story was told to me by a family friend who is an Illinois State
Trooper. One day He was pulling off an expressway near Chicago. When
he turned onto the street at the end of the ramp, he noticed someone
at a chicken place getting into his car. He placed the bucket of chicken
on top of his car, got in and drove off with the bucket still atop his car.
So the trooper decides to pull him over and perform a community service
by giving the driver his chicken. So he pulled him over, walked up to the
car,
pulled the bucket off the roof and offered it to the driver. The driver
looks
at the trooper and says "No thanks, I just bought some."
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The Prof. enters the classroom, looks around and bids his charges a hearty
'Good Morning!'. The freshmen respond with 'Good morning, Professor!'...
the sophs mutter 'Morning!'...the jrs. grunt..the seniors simply write
down the Prof's greeting in their notes.
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One of the new hires was assigned to the Space Flight Operations Fac. tape
library and told her job would be to erase tapes that were returned by the
user community. She was given a boxful of the usual desk-stuffers and a
cart
of tapes to work on. Amongst the former was a bulk de-res'er..the poor girl
had never seen one. Four hours later, someone checked back on her and found
that she was using a "Pink Pearl" on every inch of the oxide! ..she'd done
two and was working on a third!
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There were three guys new on the job. The job was crushing rocks - BIG
rocks!
The first guy was a real big, husky black guy. The supervisor told him
to pick up the rocks and put them on the conveyor. The second guy was a
somewhat smaller, leaner Mexican guy. He told him to stand up at the top
of the conveyor and make sure the rocks kept going in a straight line and
did not jam up. Now, the third guy was a little bitty Chinese guy. The
supervisor looked at him and thought to himself, "What am I going to do
with
this little guy? He can't pick up any rocks, and he can't undo a jam -
I know!" He told the Chinese guy that he could be in charge of Supplies.
OK.
Around quitting time, the supervisor told the Black guy and the Mexican guy
what good jobs they had done. All the rocks for the day got put on the
conveyor
and none jammed - and they all got crushed. But, "Where's the little
Chinese
guy? I haven't seen him all afternoon." The other two told him they saw
him go into the cave over there right after lunch. All three crept into
the cave - no Chinese guy. It was pretty dark in there, but they kept
going
further and further. Still no Chinese guy. They had about decided to
leave
when the Chinese guy jumped out and stooped down with his hands in the air,
and yelled "SUPPLIES"!!!!!!!!!!
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