Your wife decides to go out with her friends drinking and dancing….You’re okay with it, because you get to watch sports and play on the Internet all night…
You hear her stumble into bed around 4 and laugh knowing she’s going to have a monster hangover….
You wake up next morning and go outside to the family Volvo, which she used last night….
You sigh in relief because it’s all in one piece….
You circle the car looking for dents and find none….
But …. Wait a minute….
[obviously a role reversal here would be more credible!]
Letting Steam Off
Mugabe, the great Leader
Robert Mugabe goes on a state visit to Israel. While he is on a tour of Jerusalem he suffers a heart attack and passes away. The undertaker tells the accompanying people, ‘You can have him shipped home for US$ 500,000 – or you can bury him here, in the Holy Land, for just US$ 100. The Zimbabweans go into a corner and discuss for a minute.
They come back to the undertaker and tell him they want Mugabe shipped home.
The undertaker is puzzled and asks, ‘Why would you spend $500,000 to ship him home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only$100? With the money you save you could buy enough diesel for a year, buy enough medicines to wipe out cholera, buy enough generators to never have blackouts again.’
The Zimbabweans replied, ‘A long time ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead…
[Hopefully he does soon visit Jerusalem]
Are you Generation Y?
I’ve always wondered about this myself. Now I know.
– The Silent generation, people born before 1946.
– The Baby Boomers, people born between 1946 and 1959. (is this why I boom boom a lot?)
– Generation X , people born between 1960 and 1979.
– Generation Y, people born between 1980 and 2008.
Why do we call the last one Generation Y?
I did not know, but a caricaturist explains it eloquently below…
Learned something new!
Who brought that plane down in the Hudson?
After checking the black box of the plane, analyzing radar evidence and FBI video footage, the flock of birds that brought down the plane has been identified. See here the culprits before their suicide mission into the jet engines.
Eye Exam and CCTV gaffe
Can you spot the 44th president of the U.S. in the chart below?
Then we have the gaffe of CCTV (what else can you call that? those guys are really not clever):
CCTV censors Obama speech
22 January 2009
Chinese translations of US President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech broadcast on CCTV and printed on various websites deleted references to “communism,” the New York Times and IHT reported. The offending comment in Obama’s speech was: “recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.” During the live CCTV broadcast, audio faded after Obama said “communism,” although his lips continued to move. The broadcast cut abruptly to an interview with a startled analyst about the economic challenges Obama faces. The reference to communism was also removed from prominent Chinese websites. The government did allow the full English text of the speech to be published online.
Now of course the whole world talks about it while otherwise nobody would have paid attention. Censorship does not work!