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Norwican

Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 06:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Rollerboy

Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 07:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Excellent Norwican:). All Hail Duct Tape!

Max

Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP

"Modern young women...show a strong hostility to the word 'feminism,' and all which they imagine it to connote. They are, nevertheless, themselves the products of the women's movement."
-- Ray ("Rachel") Strachey, English suffragist, who so opined--no not yesterday--in 1946

Taken from a Wild Women page-a-day calendar I got for Christmas from a friend.

Grooch

Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 12:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Signs that you've had enough of the “New Economy”:
1. You try to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 4.
4. You e-mail your buddy who works at the desk next to you to ask:
"Do you wanna go get a beer?" and he replies:
"Yeah, give me five minutes".
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South America, but you haven't spoken to your next-door neighbor yet this year.
6. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date.
7. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not
have e-mail addresses.
8. You consider the U.S. Mail painfully slow and/or call it "snail mail."
9. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.
10. You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.
11. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
12. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
13. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
14. Your company's welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
15. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
16. You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise.
17. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
18. Your biggest loss from a system crash was when you lost all of your best jokes.
19. Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.
20. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
21. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
22. It's dark when you drive to and from work, even in the summer.
23. You know exactly how many days you've got left until you retire.
24. Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
25. You see a good looking, smart person and you know it must be a visitor.
26. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
27. Your supervisor gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the latest features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours boots up.
28. Being sick is defined as: you can't walk or you're in hospital.
29. You're already late on the assignment you just got.
30. There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department is short of, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.
31. Your boss's favorite lines are:
When you've got a few minutes…
Could you fit this in…
in your spare time…
when you've got a moment…
I know you're busy but...
I have an opportunity for you…
32. Vacation time is something you roll over to next year.
33. Every week another brown collection envelope comes around because someone you DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WORKED THERE is leaving.
34. You wonder who's going to be left to put into your leaving collection.
35. Your relatives and family describe your job as, "works with computers."
36. The only reason you recognize your kids is because their pictures are on your desk.
37. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
38. You read this entire list, kept nodding and smiling.
39. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it via e-mail to your ‘friends’ group.
40. It crosses your mind that your jokes group may have seen this list already, but you don't have time to check so you forward it anyway.

Max

Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 01:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

LOL Grooch!
Unfortunately, I find myself agreeing with all but 14 of these points and one of those is only because I don't have any kids. How sad is that?!!



"Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed." --Martina Navratilova

Willi

Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 05:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I need an intervention quick...Someone drag me out of this house!!!

:)

Fruitbat

Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 06:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
huuuuuuuuuuuhu ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, stop fighting me.......oooooooofffffffff.......stand up.......there that is better...........eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhiiiii .....put one leg in front of the other..........ahhhhh.......atta girl! see, were are moving now.......get your coat.........oh oh no don't stop now, keep going, we are almost to the door..........aaaaaacccccckkkkkkk..let go of the door frame..........ooofffff.........phew, good, we are out. That wasn't so bad, was it?

Willi

Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 07:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Much better!


LOL HRH.

I have been putting in 10-12 hour days trying to get Fresh Joe's new Web site ready to publish.

My husband dragged me out of here this evening. It took my eyes awhile to adjust! :)

Fruitbat

Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Is Fresh Joe your business? I have seen reference to it but I don't read every thread so I am not up to speed.

Willi

Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Fresh Joe is the "coffee guy." I am his Web person. I have been actively developing & overseeing the re-do of his Web site. It's nearly done. Well, done enough to publish but I'll be constantly adding new things.

Nancy091158

Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 06:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve
learned about life. It goes on.

Grooch

Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 07:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
STRESSED SPELLED BACKWARDS IS "DESSERTS"

Guruchaz

Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 08:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Grooch spelled backwards is Hcoorg!

Wink

Friday, March 30, 2001 - 06:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"Good friends are like good windows - they let in the light and keep out the rain."

"While polishing my memories, I discovered those shared with friends are among my most treasured keepsakes."

It's good to be home.

Rollerboy

Friday, March 30, 2001 - 07:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself

Norwican

Friday, March 30, 2001 - 07:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Never test the depth of the water with both feet

Nancy091158

Sunday, April 01, 2001 - 06:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"A passionate interest in what you do is the secret to
enjoying life, perhaps the secret of a long life."
-- Julia Child

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it
will never begin."
-- Grace Hansen

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed
often, and loved much."
-- Bessie Anderson Stanley

"One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one
knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes,
a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love
of work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is
no vague dream, of that I now feel certain."
-- George Sand

Noslonna

Sunday, April 01, 2001 - 08:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

Norwican

Monday, April 02, 2001 - 08:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Flint

Monday, April 02, 2001 - 11:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom.

-confucius

Elitist

Monday, April 02, 2001 - 12:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
To know that you know, and to know that you don't know that you know, and to not know that you know that you don't know...

Where the hell are those keys?

-Confused

Wink

Monday, April 02, 2001 - 12:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Right where you left them.

-More Confuseddddd

Admin

Monday, April 02, 2001 - 12:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Smart people learn from their own mistakes,

Wise people learn from the mistakes of others.

Max

Monday, April 02, 2001 - 02:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Elitist,
Wherever they are, rest assured that those keys will be found in the very last place you look!

Elitist

Monday, April 02, 2001 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Max.

I found the keys, now I have to find my balls. My son and I are going golfing.