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Jul31
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At a Santa Fe gas station: We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.
In a New York restaurant: Customers who consider our waitresses uncivil ought to see the manager.
On the wall of a Baltimore estate: Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. --Sisters of Mercy
On a long-established New Mexico dry cleaners: 38 years on the same spot.
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Jul31
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An unidentified woman, according to the San Jose Mercury news was climbing into the bathtub one afternoon when she remembered she had left some muffins in the oven. Naked, she dashed downstairs and was removing the muffins when she heard a noise at...
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My wife and I live in a small matchbox in Silicon Valley that cost enough to buy my sister's whole street in Nowhere Indiana. We have friends who live in Santa Clara and Palo Alto whose houses are no doubt...
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A marriage counselor was running out of ways to advise his patients so he decided to ask some young kids for their advice on how he should respond to frequent questions. He asked - "WHAT ARE THE PERSONAL QUALITIES...
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Bob Dole agreed to do a tv commercial ad for a credit card company after he lost the 1996 presidential election. When asked why, he replied - "It's a nice break from working on my inaugural address." And it beats...
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Jul30
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Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has a distorted display. What should I do?A: Pick it up and shake it. Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has these funny little lines all over the screen.A: Pick it up and shake it. Q: How do I turn my Etch-A-Sketch off?A:...
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A couple was delighted when finally their long wait to adopt a baby came to an end. The Adoption Agency called and told them they had a wonderful Chinese baby girl, and the couple took her without hesitation. On the way home from the adoption...
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A man goes to his dentist because he feels something wrong in hismouth. The dentist examines him and says, "that new upper plate I put in for you six months ago is eroding. What have you been eating?" The man...
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In a Rome laundry: "Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time." In an Acapulco hotel: "The manager has personally passed all the water served here." From a brochure of a Tokyo car-rental company: "When...
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Jul29
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A young executive of ebay EBAY was leaving the office at 6pm when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in hand. "Listen," said the CEO, "this is important, and my secretary has left. Can...
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A blind man and his seeing eye dog walked into an Apple Bees APPPB. The man picked up his dog by the tail and starting swinging him around over his head. The bartender rushed over and asked, "Can I help you, sir?". ...
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Two rich men were talking over coffee one day and one of them said to the other: "Hey I tell you my driver is really stupid... You don't believe? Let me show you." and he called his driver Ah Beng...
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A guy dials his home phone number from work. A strange woman answers. The guy says, "Who is this?" "This is the maid.", answered the woman. "We don't have a maid!" "I was just hired this morning by the lady...
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A guy goes to a psychiatrist. "Doc, I keep having these alternating recurring dreams. First I'm a teepee; then I'm a wigwam; then I'm a teepee; then I'm a wigwam. It's driving me crazy. What's wrong with me?" The doctor...
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Jul28
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A marriage counselor was running out of ways to advise his patients so he decided to ask some young kids for their advice on how he should respond to frequent questions. He asked - "IS THERE A SUREFIRE...
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My wife and I live in a small matchbox in Silicon Valley that cost enough to buy my sister's whole street in Nowhere Indiana. We have friends who live in Santa Clara and Palo Alto whose houses are no doubt...
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Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect. Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect. Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failureare inherited things. Aussies: Seem to think that none of this...
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Ford Motor Co. moved the horn from the turn signal lever to the steering wheen on many 1984 models. When asked why, Louis Lataif, a Ford Division General Manager explained - "It's where dealers tell us God intended the horn...
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Jul27
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A doctor made it his regular habit to stop off at a bar for a hazelnut daiquiri on his way home. The bartender knew of his habit, and would always have the drink waiting at precisely 5:03 p.m. One afternoon,...
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"Out of my mind. Back in five minutes." "When you do a good deed, get a receipt, in case heaven is like the IRS. "I took an IQ test and the results were negative." "Time is the best teacher; Unfortunately it kills...
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A traveler became lost in the desert region of Algeria. Realizing his only chance for survival was to find civilization, he began walking. Time passed, and he became thirsty. More time passed, and he began feeling faint. Reduced to crawling,...
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Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on anisland. Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island. Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquorin a backwards country. Canadians:...
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Executive Casey Hughes of computer distributorship Merisel weighed in on the affects of Intel's Pentium chip crisis in 1995. "It's such a very small percent of total users that would be impacted in any way as to be nonimpactful." Let's...
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Jul26
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A resident of Trump Towers offered some inside information on the mischief that goes on in the building. "There are workaholics who spend most of the night in these boardrooms. You see who's bleeping whom, and I don't mean just...
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It was a stifling hot day and a man fainted in the middle of a busy intersection. Traffic quickly piled up in all directions while a woman rushed to help him. When she knelt down to loosen his collar, a...
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There was once a couple named Nancy and Mike Tate, and it was theirlife's dream to have a compass company. They finally saved enough money and started the Tate's Compass Company. Luck was with them, for the first contract they...
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At a Walgreens pharmacy, a woman asked to use the infant scale to weigh the baby she held in her arms. The clerk explained that the device was out for repairs, but said that she would figure the infant's weight by...
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Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box. Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels. Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels. Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one...
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Jul25
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In a Vienna hotel: "In case of fire, do your best to alarm the hotelporter." In a Yugoslavian hotel: "The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid." Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: "Dresses for street...
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Lee Iacocca, chairman of Chrysler received $20 million in total compensation while the firm was cutting employee merit pay - "That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is...
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A marriage counselor was running out of ways to advise his patients so he decided to ask some young kids for their advice on how he should respond to frequent questions. He asked - "IS THERE A SUREFIRE...
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My wife and I live in a small matchbox in Silicon Valley that cost enough to buy my sister's whole street in Nowhere Indiana. We have friends who live in Santa Clara and Palo Alto whose houses are no doubt...
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Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer. Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to the point of blindness. Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them. Brits: Do not sing at all...
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Jul24
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I remember the night I was working as a flight attendant at Korean Air on the red-eye to Manila. A water leak developed in the galley, which eventually soaked the carpet throughout the aft cabin of our 747. A very sleepy woman who had...
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Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad. Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad. Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad. Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad....
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Sidney Homer of Salomon Brothers is an analyst. "$1000 left to earn interest at 8 percent will grow to $43 quadrillion in 400 years, but the first 100 years are the hardest." Well, I reckon I'd better get started if...
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Jul23
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Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of...
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Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates. Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belongto your club. Americans: Believe that people should look out for & take care ofthemselves. Canadians: Believe that that's the...
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Jul22
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A marriage counselor was running out of ways to advise his patients so he decided to ask some young kids for their advice on how he should respond to frequent questions. He asked - "IS THERE A SUREFIRE...
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A cop pulls over a car load of nuns.... Cop: "Sister, this is a 65 MPH highway -- why are you going so slow?" Sister: "Sir, I saw a lot of signs that said 22, not 65." Cop: "Oh sister, that's...
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My wife and I live in a small matchbox in Silicon Valley that cost enough to buy my sister's whole street in Nowhere Indiana. We have friends who live in Santa Clara and Palo Alto whose houses are no doubt...
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Mr. Toyota doesn't always go for a drink after work, sometimes he plays tennis with his old friend Mr Honda. One day they are playing again after a long day at work. At one point, the ball rolls into some bushes and, when...
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Jul21
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In a zoology lab, the professor gives his teaching assistant a bird's foot and tells him: By visual examination of this extremity, you must tell me the family, genus, and species of the animal as well as its migratory habits and the number...
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Four business men were walking down the street: a Saudi, a Russian, aNorth Korean, and a New Yorker. A reporter comes running up andsays, "Excuse me,what is your opinion about the meat shortage?" The Saudi says, "Excuse me, what's a shortage?"...
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Former Treasure Secretary William E. Simon had to go to extremes to make a point - heart surgery. "It proved that I had a heart, which surprised a lot of people". But, what would he do if somebody said he...
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This woman goes into a funeral home to make arrangements for her husband's funeral. She tells the director that she wants her husband to be buried in a T-shirt and a pair of shorts. He asks, "Wouldn't it just be...
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Jul20
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Thomas Ferraro was president of a new security firm founded by Watergate's G. Gordon Liddy. He shared his strategy for attracting business - "We hope Mr. Liddy's infamy will work in reverse." It worked for Martha Stewart, didn't it?...
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A young man who was also an avid golfer found himself with a few hours to spare one afternoon. He figured if he hurried and played very fast, he could get in 9 holes before he had to head home. ...
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Tony the juggler was driving to his next performance one day, was stopped by the police. "What are those knives doing in your car?" asked the officer. "I juggle them in my act." "Oh yeah. let me see." So the...
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Mr. and Mrs. Toyota had happily lived together for nearly forty years. The only frictions in their marriage were caused by the husband's habit of coming home late and drunk after work almost every night, and breaking wind nearly every morning...
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Jul19
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A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning at the third tee (par 3, 185 yards, slight dog leg to left, water hazard on the right) while a particularly slow group of golfers were flailing awayahead of...
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A marriage counselor was running out of ways to advise his patients so he decided to ask some young kids for their advice on how he should respond to frequent questions. He asked - "IS THERE A SUREFIRE...
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Almost everyday at my lunch break I go to the Starbucks right down the street from my office, which is also about a hop, skip and a jump from the headquarter of ebay. I hence made several friends from...
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My wife and I live in a small matchbox in Silicon Valley that cost enough to buy my sister's whole street in Nowhere Indiana. We have friends who live in Santa Clara and Palo Alto whose houses are no doubt...
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The US Postmaster General Anthony Frank almost reduced the size of the Postal Service's annual deficit - "I never thought I'd see the day I would be bragging about potentially losing 'only' a billion dollars, but i guess that day...
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Jul18
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Almost everyday at my lunch break I go to the Starbucks right down the street from my office, which is also about a hop, skip and a jump from the headquarter of ebay. I hence made several friends from...
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A marriage counselor was running out of ways to advise his patients so he decided to ask some young kids for their advice on how he should respond to frequent questions. He asked - "WHY DO LOVERS OFTEN...
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Alex Trotman, former chairman of Ford Motor Co. "We're always concerned about what's going to happen, because we're almost always wrong about the future." And Ford Motor Co. is STILL wrong........
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Jul17
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A man goes to a busy restaurant and sits down at the only empty table. As he sits down, he accidentally knocks the spoon off the table with his elbow. The waiter immediately takes a spoon from his pocket and...
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Almost everyday at my lunch break I go to the Starbucks right down the street from my office, which is also about a hop, skip and a jump from the headquarter of ebay. I hence made several friends from...
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Both my wife and I use to teach at a private school. The following is a partial list of actual written excuses given to us by parents of students: - Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We...
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Othal Brand was a board member of the Texas pesiticide regulatory board. This is what he had to say about Chlordane. "Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway." So,...
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Jul16
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My wife and I live in a small matchbox in Silicon Valley that cost enough to buy my sister's whole street in Nowhere Indiana. We have friends who live in Santa Clara and Palo Alto whose houses are no doubt...
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Two men in a pickup truck drove into The Home Depot. One of the men walked in the office and said, "We need some four-by-twos." The clerk said, "You mean two-by-fours, don't you?" The man said, "I'll go check," and went...
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Sam and Dave work at the same office, and they both like camping in the wilderness. Once when they are camping at Rancho San Antonio, Sam turns and notices a bear about a mile behind them. They decide to pick up...
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Bill is on a short business trip to San Francisco. While waiting for his flight which leaves a 6:00 at the Cincinnati Airport, he relizes that he has forgotten his watch, so he looks for someone to ask the time. He spots...
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Jul15
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Bob had a terrible stuttering problem and was starting to get depressed about it. His therapist told him to do something exciting to get his mind off of his problem. The therapist recommended sky-diving. One day Bob went up with...
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An LAPD police officer. who was "sitting" at a stop sign, watched a man roll through the intersection without stopping. He pulled the driver over and requested to see the driver's licenseand registration. The driver asked, "But officer, why'd you stop...
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Jul14
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Almost everyday at my lunch break I go to the Starbucks right down the street from my office, which is also about a hop, skip and a jump from the headquarter of ebay. I hence made several friends from...
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Both my wife and I use to teach at a private school. The following is a partial list of actual written excuses given to us by parents of students: - Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust. - I...
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President JFK had a showdown in 1962 with US Steel over price hikes. "My father always told me that all businessmen are sons of bitches, but I never believed it until now." And to think, that's just their mothers that...
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Jul13
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George Schwartz, owner of a factory in Providence, R.I., narrowly escaped death when a 1983 blast flattened his factory except for one wall. After treatment for minor injuries, he returned to the scene tosearch for files. The remaining wall then...
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Both my wife and I use to teach at a private school. The following is a partial list of actual written excuses given to us by parents of students: - Please excuse Pedro from being absent yesterday. He had diah(*crossed out*), diahoah(*crossed...
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