Dr Wingnut

Month: May 2005

  • Good friends

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    During a good manners and etiquette class, the teacher says to her students: If you were courting a well educated young girl from a prominent family and during a dinner for two you needed to go to the toilet, what would you say to her?”Mike replies: Wait a minute; I’m going for a piss.The teacher…

  • Good marketing

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    Apparently, if you don’t send a steady influx of cash to Redmond, you are a dinosaur and should be extinct.  No matter that the version of MS-Office that you have has more features than you will ever use.  Here are your marching orders; upgrade or become extinct.  What a great message to send to customers! …

  • No resolution

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    America has been divided for over a century on what to call a carbonated flavored beverage.  Now there is a web site devoted to the debate.

  • Vision

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    What an elder sees sitting, the young can’t see standing.Ibo proverb

  • Change

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    Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle

  • It’s Hard to Beat a Texan

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    A man from Texas, driving a Volkswagen Beetle, pulls up next to a guy in a Rolls Royce at a traffic light.  Their windows are open and he yells at the guy in the Rolls, “Hey, you got a telephone in that Rolls?”The guy in the Rolls says, “Yes, of course I do.”“I got one…

  • Little Sisters of the Grassland

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    I only have a bad copy on tape of this vinyl album.  Wish there was a CD issue of:Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wu Tsu-Chiang composer, Concerto for Pipa & Orchestra “Little Sisters of the Grassland”, Ozawa (Liu Teh-hai) [1979]Philips 9500 692 S Wu: Little Sisters of the Grassland (LIU TEH-HAI, pipa); Liszt: Concerto #1 (LIU SHIH-KUN,…