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Monday, January 14, 2013



What do these again meanS?


We're going to have to watch that with a fine-tooth comb.

..that's what really separates the wheat from the sheep.

He's not the brightest brick in the basket.

Don't worry; I've got an ace up my hole.

He's not the brightest cookie in the lamp.

You planted the seed, and I ran with it.

I swear on my dog's breakfast!

If there was a rainbow at night, how would you know it was there?

Just because he's our landlord doesn't mean he owns the place.

Like a cat on a hot tin can.

All old people should be shot at birth.

I know that area of town like the back of my head.

That's the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

Vision is in the eyes of the beholder.

Eventually, I want it now.

In the last year, you've turned around 150%.

It was a huge incontinence for me.

I was already squeezing the buffalo.

I think we're on the same page here, just different parts of the page.

I think you might have hit the nail on the button.

I'm caught between a rock and a wet spot.

I was thinking about you in the shower this morning and I thought of a name for you.

If you have that, the world is your walrus.

It was jumping up and down like a sieve.

I've got ears like a hawk.

This guy's sharp as a cookie.

I had too many hands in the fire.

He's between a rock and a hotplate.

It depends whether you are drinking from the side of the glass that is half-full or half-empty.

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines!

It's like the blind talking to the blind!

She's not the brightest tree in the forest.

I need a trash compactor because my garbage is too heavy to carry up the driveway.

Cut the cake a different way and go for the lowest hanging fruit.

Now, I do not want to toot my own wagon.

He's not the brightest cookie in the lamp.

We'd be biting off a new can of worms.

Well, it's no skin off my teeth!

That's just cutting your throat to spite your face.

Remember! There is no 'I' in 'Team Spirit'!

If you can't finish the
job on time, that'll really put a wrinkle in your feather.

'Usually' only counts in horseshoes.

I wouldn't trust them with a nine foot pole.

Everything has been peaches and gravy.

You're getting too clever for your own boots!

Then I figured that something was rotten in Denver.
If you play with matches, you're going to get fired. 

I'll be straight as a doorknob with you.

Open your mouth and shut your ears when I'm talking to you.

He couldn't find his way out of a paper bag if it bit him.

They dropped the apple cart, now it's up to us to get it back on the tracks.

We'll be done by the schedule date, maybe later.

We are going to have to put all our oars in the fire for this project.

That really throws a monkey at the wrench.

She's totally green under the collar.

You don't want me down here breathing down your throats.

I didn't think it would be a good idea to rattle the barrel.

That floor is so clean you could comb your hair off of it.

He is always robbing Peter Paul to pay Mary.

It's good to get a taste of someone else's moccasins!

There are too many ducks in the soup. 

This is for your FYI.

We definitely don't want to nail ourselves into a corner.

I'm not the brightest bean in the hole.

I want quality, not quantity; but lots of it.

Don't look for a gift in the horse's mouth.

I'm doing this just to break up the mahogany.

We need to iron out our bread and butter.

I think we should go for the whole ball of wood.

Each of you pitched a home run today!

I usually dealt with him using felt-tipped gloves.

It's an exercise in fertility.

Hindsight is 50-50.

You are never going to fail unless you try.

We're scraping the bottom of the iceberg.

Today is like the day
Rome was built in. We can't afford to have any fiddlers.

He might be barking at a red herring.

He was smoking like a
fish.

He's as deaf as a bat.

We don't want to stick our necks out and get our asses chopped off.

I didn't have two dimes to pee on.

I gave him a real mouthful.

I really took the bull by the hands.

He doesn't know his hole from an ass in the ground.

I can't remember but it's right on the tip of my head!

You can lead a pig to pearls...

The skeleton is there. You just have to sharpen it and put the decorations on the tree.

He would give you the
shoes off his back.

That question was so easy I could have answered it blindfolded.

We're going to clean the competition's lunch.

We've baked our cake, now we have to eat it.

That's the
pot calling the kettle "Bob".

I want 24 x 7 availability, 5 days a week.

The phone was ringing off its hinges.

I didn't want to stir the apple cart.

It was so quiet you could hear a needle drop in a haystack.

I don't put my chickens before the horse.

It was time to get the train out of the harbor.

I didn't have many bullets left in the tank.

I was shooting at straws.

I was running on exhaustion fumes.

I was looking for a seed that would get it over the hump.

I didn't want to sit in the hotbox with my fingers in my ears.

It's water under the dam now.

I put the ball in the other shoe.

That took the steam out of my sails.

No point in making a molehill out of an elephant!

You can try, but it's like waiting for toast to boil.

Cut off your face in spite of your nose.

You have a better chance of winning the lotto if you don't play.

Can you tell me when my past due amount is due?

Eventually the penny will come home to roost.

You are the wind beneath my cheeks.


Wit and Wisdom



It's really difficult to find what you want on eBay. I was searching for cigarette lighters and found over 15,000 matches.

Do you know what really makes me smile? Facial muscles.

Is it just me, or does anybody else find pressing F5 refreshing?

I woke up this morning and forgot which side the sun rises from. Then it dawned on me.

In high school, I was in the French club. All we would do is occasionally surrender to the German club.

The worst bar I've ever been to was called The Fiddle. It really was a vile
inn.

I just want to thank the girl who ran with me for the last few thousand feet in the marathon yesterday, not wearing a sports bra. Your lack of support got me through.

A farmer is in his big machinery barn one day doing a striptease when the farmhand walks in catching him in the act. "What the heck!?" exclaims the farmhand. "Oh!" replies the farmer, looking quite embarrassed. "Thing is, Mrs Farmer and I haven't been getting on recently so my therapist advised I should do something sexy to a tractor."

Shouldn't the Air and
Space Museum be empty?

Somebody called me 'pretentious' the other day. I nearly choked on my latte.

I spent some time at my wife's grave earlier. She's not dead - she thinks I'm digging a pond.

What do houseflies and Mac users have in common? Neither of them understand how Windows work.

92% of cross-eyed teachers have difficulty controlling their pupils.

I used to be quite good at wordplay. Once a pun a time.

Everything is easier said than done. Except for talking, that's about the same.

Don't worry about infringing on corporate trademarks, Just Do It.

I told my buddy that, in order to get laid, I'd promised my girlfriend that I'd marry her in the summer. He said, "July?" I said, "Of course I did."

Failure is at the end of the path of least persistence.

I lost my watch earlier. I would have looked for it but I didn't have the time.

The day that Microsoft creates a product that doesn't suck is the day that they venture into the vacuum cleaner industry.

I see boomerangs are making a comeback.

I woke up this morning and there was a bloke stealing my gate. I didn't want to say anything in case he took a fence.

I'm reading a book about the Titanic at the moment, and the experts speculate that the designer of the Titanic had a lisp. That's unthinkable!

If you were lost in fog, would you be mist?

As a child I enjoyed reading "Spot The Dog". They were a lot easier than "Where's Waldo".

A Freudian slip is one where you say one thing but mean a mother.

Sometimes it's the smallest things that take up the most room in your heart. Like blood clots.

I banged my head on a low bridge. I would have been okay if viaduct.

Now matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

I recently bought a second keyboard, so I can indulge in some stereotyping.

You can't have manslaughter without laughter.

LeAnn Rimes. No it doesn't.

Death - a once in a lifetime experience.

I'm considering becoming a mind reader. What are your thoughts?

I had to do a presentation on children's playground equipment. So I did a slide show.

After 2 hours of wandering around CVS, I eventually found the disposable contact lenses. Aisle C.

As the circus manager I had to tell an acrobat he was sacked yesterday. He wasn't happy, he flipped. Tomorrow I'm going to fire the human cannonball.
I've been searching all day for a word that looks like it's a mock dinosaur's name. But I'm having no joy so far with the thesaurus.

In an effort to defeat Superman, I've joined a street gang. Superman won't stand a chance once I turn into a Crip tonight.

I'm a philosopher. I think.

A rule of grammar: double negatives are a no-no.

How do you make teenage boys more interested in history? Teach them how to delete it.

The price of owning a faulty jetpack is going through the roof.

My first erotic fantasy was because of a picture of a mermaid. Since then, I've always been drawn to scale.

Cashiers are always checking me out.

I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.

Stonehenge Rocks!

I'm great at making balloon animals, if all you want are snakes.

Did you know that the average married couple argue 412 times a year? Well 415 actually, but try telling her that!

How subtle is the b in subtle?

As a pyromaniac, I must say I found
Match.com to be incredibly disappointing.

I looked up 'opaque' in the dictionary today. The definition was not very clear.

On reflection, vampires aren't that scary.

I thought I'd found the perfect website to help me overcome my fear of flying until it crashed.

I am married to two women. After years of deceit I owned up to both of them. I thought that was big of me.

Today, I shall rewrite hostiry.

I have no beef with vegetarians.

Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.

Big noses run in my family.

It's weird that the words 'finger puppets' sound okay as a noun.

I opened the mail this morning. Nothing exciting, it was mostly bills. He's gonna be so pissed off when he finds out.

What are the chances of me allowing my wife to choose which TV channel we watch tonight? Remote.

Integers are pointless.

Boxing. What's that, a bout?

I deserted my wife last night. I gave her a big bowl of chocolate pudding.

Due to inflation, balloons are going up.

My ex girlfriend texted me to say that she'd made a voodoo doll of me. I think she's pulling my leg.

I don't know why the word "purposeless" is in the English language. My dictionary says it has no meaning.

My wife's got this weird fetish for sleeping with boxing gloves on. Her doctor thinks it's just the
menopause setting in but I just think she's going through a rocky patch.

There was a kidnapping in my town today. She slept for 4 hours.

I'm having trouble accessing the Glade website. It keeps telling me to get some sort of plug-in.

I went to get my palm read the other day, but as I was sitting down at the table I managed to knock over her crystal ball. Ended up costing me a fortune.

I just bought some second hand binoculars fo $200. The guy must have seen me coming from a mile away.

I saw my friend floating about
4 feet off the ground yesterday. He didn't seem the slightest bit bothered. He obviously didn't understand the gravity of the situation.

I'm a pretty good Ventriloquist. Even though I say so myself.

I just saw a large area of ground with 10,000 car parking spaces on it. I thought: "That's a lot".
It is the largest ocean on the planet. It covers 46% of the worlds water surface. The equator divides it into the North and South. It's Latin name 'Mare Pacificum' means peaceful sea. Sorry, I'm being very Pacific.

I remember when I was diagnosed as colorblind, it was completely unexpected, out of the purple.

I can't remember the last time I got really drunk.

I will never forget my childhood summers, when we would climb into old tires and roll down the hills. They were Goodyears.

I'm a cosmetic surgeon and just had to sue a woman over incomplete payment of an invoice. Her nose
job was fine, but her breasts were outstanding.

If sex with 3 people is called a threesome, and sex with 2 people is called a twosome, now I understand why they call you handsome.

I recently wrote a book about how to deal with being an orphan. It's nothing to write home about.

My wife said, "I don't understand double entendres, can you please fill me in?"

I saw Bruce Lee's old man at the bar last night. I was giving him crap about his son and he kicked my ass. From now on I'll respect the elder Lee.

My wife has asked me to "stop always getting the last word in". I'm doing quite well, but now none of my sentences make any.

I'll be ill if you remove the apostrophe.

I failed my English literature exam. Apparently, the answer to question 2b) was not 'or not 2b).'

This is just how messed up the English language is:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) There is no time like the present, he said it was time to present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I will read what I have read already.

I say tomato you say tomato.
Doesn't quite have the same effect online.

Thursday, December 6, 2012



The Top 16 Worst Excuses for Being Late for Work


16. "Actually, I've been here for over 20 minutes, big guy -- I was just out chillin' in the van waiting for the end of the live version of 'Freebird'."

15. "I keep forgetting which side of the International Date Line you're on."

14. "We're *open* on Tuesdays?!?"

13. "It took this long to get the ol' blood alcohol level down to the legal driving limit."

12. "I had to take extra time this morning to wrestle with overwhelming aggressive impulsies by reassuring myself that nothing would happen today that would push me over the edge."

11. "My proctologist got stuck."

10. "It was Senator Kennedy's turn to drive today, so I've spent the last hour swimming."

9. "I'm late because I was on the phone trying to get *your* lousy shipping department to send the company's office supplies directly to the winner of my eBay auction."

8. "Hey, time becomes meaningless when you're as strung out on high as I am."

7. "Sorry, sir.  I overslept and dreamt I had a dead-end job, a windowless office and a humorless baboon for a boss."

6. "Heidi Klum refused to untie me."

5. "On the second Tuesday of the month, the Campho-Phenique man comes by to fill the drum for my home supply of industrial-strength anti-sensitive sore gel."

4. "I'm sorry, boss, but I had to stop to get you -- uh -- this box of ten donuts."

3. "It took me a little longer than normal to hide my disdain this morning...  Sir."

2. "My dog ate my presentation, sir.  And by 'my dog' I mean your wife, and by 'ate my presentation' I mean 'was boinking me'."

1. "These are not the 'droids you're looking for."


Top 25 Engineers' Terms and Expressions


What they say versus what they mean... 

1. A number of different approaches are being tried. (We are still guessing at this point.) 

2. Close project coordination. (We sat down and had coffee together.) 

3. An extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach. (We just hired three punk kids out of school.) 

4. Major technological breakthrough! (It works OK; but looks very hi-tech!) 

5. Customer satisfaction is believed assured. (We are so far behind schedule, that the customer will take anything.) 

6. Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive. (The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.)

7. Test results were extremely gratifying! (Unbelievable, it actually worked!) 

8. The entire concept will have to be abandoned. (The only guy who understood the thing quit.) 

9. It is in process. (It is so wrapped in red tape that the situation is completely hopeless.) 

10. We will look into it. (Forget it! We have enough problems already.) 

11. Please note and initial. (Let's spread the responsibility for this.) 

12. Give us the benefit of your thinking. (We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with what we have already done or with what we are going to do.) 

13. Give us your interpretation. (We can't wait to hear your baloney.) 

14. See me or let's discuss. (Come to my office, I've screwed up again.) 

15. All new. (Parts are not interchangeable with previous design.) 

16. Rugged. (Don't plan to lift it without major equipment.) 

17. Robust! (Rugged, but more so) 

18. Light weight. (Slightly lighter than rugged) 

19. Years of development. (One finally worked) 

20. Energy saving. (Achieved when the power switch is off.) 

21. No maintenance. (Impossible to fix) 

22. Low maintenance. (Nearly impossible to fix) 

23. Fax me the data. (I'm too lazy to write it down.) 

24. We are following the standard! (That's the way we have always done it!) 

25. I didn't get your e-mail.

The Office Diet


How to Lose Weight at Work Without Doing 

Much Here's the guide to calorie-burning activities and the number of calories per hour they consume.

Beating around the bush. . . . . . . . .75 

Jumping to conclusions . . . . . . . . 100 

Climbing the walls . . . . . . . . . . 150 

Swallowing your pride. . . . . . . . . .50 

Passing the buck . . . . . . . . . . . .25 

Throwing your weight around (depending on your weight). ..50-300

Dragging your heels. . . . . . . . . . 100 

Pushing your luck. . . . . . . . . . . 250 

Making mountains out of molehills. . . 500 

Hitting the nail on the head . . . . . .50 

Wading through paperwork . . . . . . . 300 

Bending over backwards . . . . . . . . 75 

Jumping on the bandwagon . . . . . . . 200 

Balancing the books. . . . . . . . . . .25 

Running around in circles. . . . . . . 350 

Eating crow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 

Tooting your own horn. . . . . . . . . .25 

Climbing the ladder of success . . . . 750 

Pulling out the stops. . . . . . . . . .75 

Adding fuel to the fire. . . . . . . . 160 

Wrapping it up at the day's end. . . . .12 

To which you may want to add your own favorite activities, including: 

Opening a can of worms . . . . . . . . .50 

Putting your foot in your mouth. . . . 300 

Starting the ball rolling. . . . . . . .90 

Going over the edge. . . . . . . . . . .25 

Picking up the pieces after. . . . . . 350 

Counting eggs before they hatch. . . . .

Calling it quits . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Realtor Doubletalk


Ever read realty ads and see all the nice things they say about the homes for sale - but read between the lines to find out what the ads are really describing:

Handyman's Delight - Really a handyman's nightmare! Better tear the place down and re-build from scratch.

Great neighborhood near conveniences - on a noisy, busy street.

Near playground where street gangs congregate at night. Houses are so close you can hear your neighbors breathing.


Acerage included - High taxes, high taxes, high taxes!

With a little imagination, this could be your dream house - see Handyman's delight

Income potential - If you want to invest a Donald Trump sized bank account, you can convert this into rental property. Good luck trying to collect from your deadbeat tenants.

Appliances included - but they don't work. You'll have to buy new ones anyway and be burdened with disposing of the old ones

Nobody gives up a good freezer, stove, washer or refrigerator.


Excellent starter home - it's so small (how small is it?) you'll break the back window when you put the key in the front door.

Extensive deferred maintenance throughout - see handyman's delight.

Custom design - see entropy at work. This has a sunken living room - literally. 

The kitchen had slid 50 feet down the hillside after the last heavy rainfall. 

Skylights are really holes in theroof left by a hurricane. Heated pool in cellar is created bythe leaking water heater.

For the discriminating buyer - You must have Bill Gates' income.

Has floors, roof and windows - Wow! I always wanted those ammenities.

Has possibilities - see handyman's delight.

Peace and privacy - A hundred miles from anywhere. No electricity, indoor plumbing or central heat. Chipmunks, mosquitoes and bears are your closest neighbors.

Spacious, with catherdral ceiling - Think about fuel bills when trying to heat this monstrosity!

On corner lot - Pedestrians, bikers and vehicular traffic make short-cuts across your front lawn.

A great fixer-upper - Ever see the movie "The Money Pit"?

Be the frist to see this one - It's been on the market six years without an offer.

Has the elegance and charm of yesteryear - see Peace and Privacy & Handyman's Delight.

Monday, July 16, 2012


Letter from College


Dear Mom and Dad:
It has been four months since I left for college. I have been remiss in writing and am very sorry for my thoughtlessness. I will bring you up to date now, but before you read on, please sit down. Don't read any further unless you are sitting down ...

OK?

Good. I am getting along pretty well now. The skull fracture and the concussion I got from jumping out of the window of my dormitory when it caught fire, shortly after my arrival, are pretty well healed now. I only spent two weeks in the hospital and now I can see almost normally and only get three headaches a day.

Fortunately, the fire in the dormitory and my jump were witnessed by an attendant at a nearby gas station, and he was able to call the Fire Department and the ambulance. He also visited me at the hospital and since I had nowhere to live because of the burnt-out dorm, he was kind enough to invite me to share his apartment with him. It's really a basement room, but it is kind of cute. He is a very fine boy and we have fallen deeply in love and are planning to get married. We haven't set the exact date yet, but I'm sure it will be before I start to show.

Yes, Mom and Dad, I am pregnant. I know how much you are looking forward to being grandparents, and I know you will give the baby the same love and devotion and tender care you gave me when I was a child. The reason for the delay in our marriage is that my boyfriend has some minor infection which prevents us from passing our premarital blood tests, and I carelessly caught it from him. This will soon clear up, thanks tomy daily penicillin injections. I know you will welcome him into our family with open arms. He is kind, and although not well educated, he is ambitious Also, he is of a different race and religion than ours, but I know, after all your years of teaching me tolerance, that you won't mind the fact that heis somewhat darker than we are. I am sure you will love him as I do.

His family background is good, too; I am told that his father is an important gunbearer in his native African village.

I guess that's it. Now that I have brought you up to date, I want you to know ... There was no dormitory fire, I did not have a concussion or skull fracture, I was not in the hospital, I am not pregnant, I am not engaged, I do not have syphilis and there is no man of another race in my life.

However, I am getting a "D" in History and an "F" in Science, and I wanted you to see these marks in their proper perspective.

Your loving daughter,

Chelsea

P.S. Stanford is great...I love it, though I miss you both terribly...and Socks, too!

P.P.S Dad, please give my best to Monica & the others.




Erap To Internet


To My Countrymen

Dear peoples from di Phillipines,

As you are already informed via the internit, you should all be fully in awareness that I am going to be the next President of the Philippines. Now I know all the votes are not yet fully counted, but who cares about counting all the votes? You've seen one ballot, you've seen them all. Trust me, they all look the same.

I am in knowing that many of you peoples here have somethings in reserved against me, and also thats many of you often make fun of me. So plees, plees let me re-insure you that I am not the man you are thinking I am. Many of the mudslingings about me from my opposers are lies, or things that are in the past. And I am not as stoopid as you beleive. I know how to subtract 2 plus 2, I can spell english better than Dan Kwayl, I know about economics and the law of sublime and demand.

Underneath this barong, pantalon, and leopard briefs, is a man who knows what to do. You only need to ask the many women who have seen me and been with me naked to confirm this truth. I know what to do for our nation. I will do everything inhumanly possible to carry our nation into the dawn of the new century, the 2000th century. I want to make sure that when I am over my term, that the economy will have improved from all the money that I will have circulated into my pockets.

In conclustion, I would like to close by saying to you peoples, to please respect the will of the Philiphino voters, forget about parties and politics, and unite behind my back.

Thank you.

President-erect of the
Philippines,

Joseph "Erap" Estrada



The only problem with golf is that the slow people are always in front of you and the fast people always end up behind you.


LAW 1: No matter how bad your last shot was, the worst is yet to come. This law does not expire on the 18th hole, since it has the supernatural tendency to extend over the course of a tournament, a summer and, eventually, a lifetime.

LAW 2: Your best round of golf will be followed almost immediately by your worst round ever. The probability of the latter increases with the number of people you tell about the former.

LAW 3: Brand new golf balls are water-magnetic. Though this cannot be proven in the lab, it is a known fact that the more expensive the golf ball, the greater its attraction to water.

LAW 4: Golf balls never bounce off of trees back into play. If one does, the tree is breaking a law of the universe and should be cut down.

LAW 5: No matter what causes a golfer to muff a shot, all his playing partners must solemnly chant "You looked up," or invoke the wrath of the universe.

LAW 6: The higher a golfer's handicap, the more qualified he deems himself as an instructor.

LAW 7: Every par-three hole in the world has a secret desire to humiliate golfers. The shorter the hole, the greater its desire.

LAW 8: Topping a 3-iron is the most painful torture known to man.

LAW 9: Palm trees eat golf balls.

LAW 10: Sand is alive. If it isn't, how do you explain the way it works against you?

LAW 11: Golf carts always run out of juice at the farthest point from the clubhouse.

LAW 12: A golfer hitting into your group will always be bigger than anyone in your group. Likewise, a group you accidentally hit into will consist of a football player, a professional wrestler, a convicted murderer and an IRS agent -- or some similar combination.

LAW 13: All 3-woods are demon-possessed.

LAW 14: Golf balls from the same "sleeve" tend to follow one another, particularly out of bounds or into the water (See Law three).

LAW 15: A severe slice is a thing of awesome power and beauty.

LAW 16: "Nice lag" can usually be translated to "lousy putt." Similarly, "tough break" can usually be translated "way to miss an easy one, sucker."

LAW 17: The person you would most hate to lose to will always be the one who beats you.

LAW 18: The last three holes of a round will automatically adjust your score to what it really should be.

LAW 19: Golf should be given up at least twice per month.

LAW 20: All vows taken on a golf course shall be valid only until the sunset.