It was about a month ago that I was at the Columbus Zoo with the the family. It was a warmish day and I decided after seeing several regions of the world and their animals that I’d take a rest in Australia. I opted to sit on a bench in the shade at the Koala
So I’m the new sales guy at Varian Associates making my first sales trip to visit the DSS (Department of Supply and Services) in Ottawa. In those years the section of the DSS that I visited was in some second world war temporary buildings in Ottawa, I seem to recall these buildings were on Wellington
I checked with Wikipedia and they list the Law of Unintended Consequences as “an adage or idiom that can be stated as follows: ‘Any intervention in a complex system may or may not have the intended result, but will inevitably create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes’. In common usage, it is a wry or humorous
Typically, I don’t like ethnic jokes as they tend to disparage different religions, races, creeds, nationalities etc. and that simply is not PC. I’ve tried in the following to take away ethnicity while maintaining the humor. I hate prejudiced people. You see, there were these three ethnic people. (Many jokes begin with You see…) Ethnic
Let me start with: During a company’s recent password audit, it was found that a blonde employee was using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento” When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital. It was
It sickens me that there are so many selfish people who would prefer to let those less fortunate than themselves suffer with injury and disease. I grew up in a family where it was believed that we should help our fellow man and lend a hand when needed. I don’t see this as a political
Another email from a friend… Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; it’s Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, no other word, and no other language, can do it justice. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words but sometimes a word is worth a thousand words …
Saturday, May 13th 1995 was fast approaching and I was running out of time. I had a deadline! My daughter Amy’s best friend Joanne was getting married in Alliston Ontario on that day and I needed to prepare a speech to help the couple to be launch a successful marriage. I was stumped for words
Jim, a friend of mine went recently to his doctor. Jim’s doctor is of Chinese descent and talks with an amusing accent. Jim was complaining that recently, some of his friends were laughing at him, saying that he was becoming ugly. He was not amused and sought medical advice as he was noticing some major changes in his
In the early eighties when the Cane family was living in Utah, Amy was about 8 years of age. She was inquisitive and was determined to be an archeologist when she grew up. Since learning to read and perhaps before, she showed a remarkable aptitude for things prehistoric. She knew the names of all the