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Humourous articles and classic jokes
Once upon a time, in a Canadian town, a man appeared and announced to the town folks that he would buy beavers for $10 each. The Canucks seeing that there were many beavers around, went out to the nearby ponds and forest, and started trapping them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as…
Admittedly, we too got caught up in the 30-minute-Twitter-frenzy following Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s press conference late afternoon yesterday. Here are 10 of the more colourful tweets from the @ByGeorgeJournal feed. @splomgirl – I felt like my eyes were going to roll out of my head while scrolling through my twitterfeed of Rob Ford’s transcript….
Here are a few one-liners, puns and jokes relating to social media to insert in your next presentation – or in your next conversation with a tech-fearing person. You just might be addicted to Social Media if you have more facebook friends than in real life… or if you tweet more than you talk when…
Here’s the story. Can you imagine running a country with these numbers? U.S. Tax Revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Federal Budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New Debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National Debt: $16,271,000,000,000 Recent Budget Cut: $ 38,500,000,000 It this hard to factor? Well, remove a total of eight zeros and pretend it’s a household budget. Annual Family Income: $21,700 Money Family…
Here are a few facts that can be used as great conversation-starters in the office, or at your next social function. Did you know…? In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand. Guinness Book of Records…
If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong. I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you. Some people cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. You’re never too old to learn something stupid. A bus station…
What is happening in the United States and Europe is enough to drive you to drink… Helga is the proprietor of a bar. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem she comes up with a new…
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos…then you probably haven’t completely understood the seriousness of the situation. Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job…
These humourous zingers are to be said with attitude: Everyone’s entitled to be stupid but you are abusing the privilege. I can only please one person per day so today is not your day and tomorrow doesn’t look good either. Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths? The tongue weighs practically nothing….but few…
Sarcasm is just one more service we offer. This isn’t an office – it’s Hell with fluorescent lighting. Yes, he’s a PBS mind in an MTV world. Does your train of thought have a caboose? Not the brightest crayon/tool in the box now, are we? Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it? I’m trying to…
Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. – William Dean Howells Don’t look now, but there’s one too many in this room and I think it’s you. – Groucho Marx Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. – Winston Churchill I’ve had a perfectly wonderful…
Here are 10 tell-tale signs that your public relations career is coming to an end – and that you should be turning your thoughts to retirement. You not only know what a type writer is, you can remember how to change the ribbon. You cherish the memory of not having a cell phone, and still being…
Here’s an example of how our governments’ stimulus packages have helped us. On a cold day in a small town of in southwestern Ontario, the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A politician comes to town and lays a $100 bill on…
We received this e-mail yesterday – leaving us muttering aloud if this is actually the case… Can you imagine running the country with these numbers? United States Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 Now, remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget. Annual…
The Eagle and the Rabbit An eagle was sitting in a tree resting, doing nothing….. A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, ‘Can I also sit like you and do nothing?’ The eagle answered: ‘Sure, why not.’ So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a…
A Washington DC airport ticket agent offers us a glimpse of some of the astoundingly ignorant public she is required to service. These exchanges would be hilarious – if they weren’t true. A Kansas Congressman’s staffer called wanting to go to Cape Town. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport…