"Tag"line

Shady deals are made under parasols.

Bumper Sticker

[I saw this one earlier today]

(with the US Coast Guard logo)
Support Search & Rescue--Get Lost

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Love is a child's kiss.

Witty Sayings in Business

[Witty, but essentially meaningless! swiped from Bob Lewis' email again.]

"We don't want to suffer from analysis paralysis."

"By the time we make a decision the Cubs will have won a World Series."

"Don't talk. Do."

"We don't have time to dance around the pyramid, holding hands and singing Kumbaya."

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Candy kisses are for chocolate lovers.

Management Speak

[taken from Bob Lewis' email newletter "Keeping the Joint Running" available from http://www.issurvivor.com]

ManagementSpeak: I don't care who does it, as long as it gets done.
Translation: I don't care who does it, as long as it's not me.
KJR Club member Brett Richard got it done; it being sending in an excellent translation.

"Tag"line

An egomaniac is someone who's hard of listening.

DIY Banana Phone (link)

[just for Stephen]

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/diy_banana_phone.html

"Tag"line

Children often make parents feel old and grandparents feel young.

Quote

"an honest word is an honest word, and its acquaintance can only be made by meeting it in a right context. A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one"
--J.R.R. Tolkien (Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp.298-9)

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Old fools are the biggest fools; they've had more practice.

Lego Pictures (link)

An incredible number of bricks were used to make these. And the photography is really nice too. It looks real! (Or at least Photoshopped by a pro.)
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=102673>
My favorite is probably this one:
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=960135>
Lego pigeons!

Seen "In the Wild"

[from a mailing list I'm subscribed to; both comments to someone else's post:]

>Two squads of elite English majors have just surrounded Gary's and Dave's houses...

I think they must be Russian English majors. I just heard one address his comrade as "comma czar."

Great Podcast

As many of you know, I listen to podcasts; mostly techie, but plenty of them. Today I listened to one that should be of interest to a much broader audience. I think it's worth a look:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1332.html

Another Start

Well folks, this is a new attempt at sharing jokes and other fun stuff.
I hope you like this format. I will continue to send out emails too, but you can come here or even subscribe to the RSS feed.
Enjoy,
John