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An Alberta cowboy was
over seeing his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a BMW advanced out of a
cloud of dust towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes and Ray Ban sunglasses, leans
out the window and asks the cowboy 'If I tell you how many cows and calves you
have in your herd, will you give me a calf?'
The cowboy looks at the
man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly
answers, 'Sure, why not?'
The yuppie parks his car,
whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell
phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS
satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location, which he then
feeds to another NASA Satellite that scans the area in an
ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in
Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg
Germany .
Within seconds, he
retrieves an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the
data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODCB connected
Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes,
receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a
report on his high-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to
the cowboy and says, 'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.' 'That's
right. Well I guess you can take one of my calves,' says
the cowboy.
He watches the young man
select one of the animals and looks on in amusement as the young man prepares
to stuff it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to
the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you
give me back my calf?'
The young man thinks
about it for a second, and then says, 'Okay, why not?'
'You work for the
Canadian Government,' says the cowboy.
'Wow! That's correct,'
says the young man, 'but how did you guess that?'
'No guessing required,'
answered the cowboy. 'You showed up here, even though nobody called you; you
want to get paid for giving me an answer I already knew, to a question I never
asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't
know a thing about cows.
This is a herd of
sheep. Now give me back my dog.
Another blonde
joke
A blonde, wanting
to earn some extra
money, decided to hire herself out as a "handy-woman" and started
canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighborhood. She went to the front door of the
first house, and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her to
do.
"Well, I guess I could
use somebody to paint my porch," he said, "How much will you charge me?"
The blonde quickly responded, "How about $50?" The man agreed and told her
that the paint and everything she would need was in the garage. The man's
wife, hearing the conversation, said to her husband, "Does she realize
that our porch goes all the way around the house?
"He
responded, "That's a bit cynical, isn't it?" "The wife replied, "You're
right. I guess I'm starting to believe all those dumb blonde jokes we've been getting by e-mail
lately." A short time later, the blonde came to the door to
collect her money. "You're finished already?" the husband asked. "Yes," the
blonde replied, "and I had paint left over, so I gave it two coats."
Impressed, the man reached into his pocket for the $50.00 and handed it
to her. "And by the way," the blonde added, "It's not a Porche,
it's a Lexus."
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Installing LOVE
Small splasher Apr 7th 2005
HOW odd of Og to have no dog— Well, he did once have a terrier To make the household merrier. But mostly he was pugless, We're told by Parker—not Dorothy but Douglas. Actually, we're not: This aperçu May not be true.
He had a fairly quiet life, Two lovely girls, a lovely wife, And lived a while in Baltimore, Which wasn't all his fault, for sure.
He didn't go in much for travel: The thought of flight made him unravel. So, no, he never saw Majorca, But wrote a lot for the New Yorker.
He was a most delightful man, with many a charming idiosyncrasy— And his great-great-great-uncle, a general, gave his name to Nashville in Tennasy. But, more to the point, he had a gift for writing a versicle, And a wit that was both wry and rather perversical. Only with cocktails did he like to make a splash, That Ogden Nash.
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Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready to
install it now. What do I do first?
Tech Support: The first step is to open your HEART. Have you
located your HEART, ma'am?
Customer: Yes, I have, but there are several other programs
running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running?
Tech Support: What programs are running, ma'am?
Customer: Let's see... I have PAST-HURT.EXE, LOW-ESTEEM.EXE,
GRUDGE.EXE, and RESENTMENT.COM running now.
Tech Support: No problem. LOVE will gradually erase PAST-HURT.EXE
from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent
memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. LOVE will eventually
overwrite LOW-ESTEEM.EXE with a module of its own called HIGH-ESTEEM.EXE.
However, you have to completely turn off GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM.
Those programs prevent LOVE from being properly installed. Can you turn
those off, ma'am?
Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me
how?
Tech Support: My pleasure. Go to your Start menu and invoke
FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as necessary until it's erased the
programs you don't want.
Customer: Okay, now LOVE has started installing itself
automatically. Is that normal?
Tech Support: Yes. You should receive a message that says it will
reinstall for the life of your HEART. Do you see that message?
Customer: Yes, I do. Is it completely installed?
Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base
program. You need to begin connecting to other HEARTs in order to get
the upgrades.
Customer: Oops. I have an error message already. What should I
do?
Tech Support: What does the message say?
Customer: It says "ERROR 412-PROGRAM NOT RUN ON INTERNAL
COMPONENTS." What does that mean?
Tech Support: Don't worry, ma'am, that's a common problem. It
means that the LOVE program is set up to run on external HEARTs but has
not yet been run on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming
things, but in non-technical terms it means you have to "LOVE" your own
machine before it can "LOVE" others.
Customer: So what should I do?
Tech Support: Can you pull down the directory called
"SELF-ACCEPTANCE"?
Customer: Yes, I have it.
Tech Support: Excellent. You're getting good at this. Now,
click on the following files and then copy them to the "MYHEART" directory:
FORGIVE-SELF.DOC, REALIZE-WORTH.TXT, and ACKNOWLEDGE-LIMITATIONS.DOC.
The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any
faulty programming. Also, you need to delete SELF-CRITIC.EXE from all
directories, and then empty your recycle bin afterwards to make sure it is completely
gone and never comes back.
Customer: Got it. Hey! My HEART is filling up with new files.
SMILE.MPG is playing on my monitor right now and it shows that
PEACE.EXE, and CONTENTMENT.COM are copying themselves all over my HEART. Is this
normal?
Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes a while, but
eventually everything gets downloaded at the proper time. So, LOVE is
installed and running. You should be able to handle it from here. Ah,
one more thing.
Customer: Yes?
Tech Support: LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it and its
various modules to everybody you meet. They will in turn share it with other
people and they will return some similarly cool modules back to you.
Customer: I will! Thanks for your help!
Remember, LOVE is Freeware!
PASS IT ON!!!
thanks to Marc Nicholson
The Geography of a Woman:-
Between the ages of 18 - 21 a woman is like Africa or Australia.
She is half discovered, half wild and naturally beautiful with
bushland around the fertile deltas.
Between the ages of 21 - 30 a woman is like America or Japan.
Completely discovered, very well developed and open to trade
especially with countries with cash or cars.
Between the ages of 30 - 35, she is like India or Spain.
Very hot, relaxed and convinced of its own beauty.
Between the ages of 35 - 40 a woman is like France or Argentina.
She may have been half destroyed during the war but can still be a
warm and desirable place to visit.
Between the ages of 40 - 50 she is like Yugoslavia or Iraq.
She lost the war and is haunted by past mistakes. Massive
reconstruction is now necessary.
Between the ages of 50 - 60 she is like Russia or Canada.
Very wide, quiet and the borders are practically unpatrolled but
the frigid climate keeps people away.
Between the ages of 60 - 70 a woman is like England or Mongolia.
With a glorious and all conquering past but alas no future.
After 70, they become Albania or Afghanistan.
Everyone knows where it is, but no one wants to go there.
The Geography of a Man :-
Between the ages of 15 - 70 a man is like Zimbabwe - ruled by a
dick.
thanks to Marc Nicholson
cannibals
Five cannibals get appointed as translators at IATA. During the welcoming, the boss says "You're all part of our team now. You can earn good money here and you can go to the company canteen for something to eat - so don't trouble the other employees". The cannibals promise not to bother the other employees.
Four weeks later the boss returns and says " You're all working very hard and I'm very satisfied with all of you. One of our cleaners has disappeared however. Do any of you know what happened to her ?"
The cannibals disavow all knowledge of the missing cleaner.
After the boss has left, the leader of the cannibals
says to the others; "Which of you idiots ate the cleaner ?" A hand raises hesitantly to which the leader of the cannibals says "You fool !! For four weeks we've been eating Team Leaders, Managers and
Project Managers so no-one would notice anything and
you have to go and eat the cleaner !!".
The 2 cows story - directly from China
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. Both are mad.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
A HINDU CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No
balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.
From: Edith Breiner
Subject: Fw: The Ant and The Grasshopper
CLASSIC VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no
food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well
fed while others less fortunate are cold and starving.
CBC shows up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
a table filled with food.
Canadians are stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that
in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer
so?
The NDP and the CAW stage a demonstration in front of the ant's
house, where the news stations film the group singing "We Shall
Overcome."
Bob Rae exclaims in an interview with Pamela Wallin that the ant
hasgotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an
immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share".
Finally, the Liberal Government drafts the Economic Equity and Anti
Grasshopper Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire green bugs for help and,
having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home
is confiscated by the government.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits
of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just
happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the
house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who
terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
thanks to Alex Weinstein
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