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Do You Qualify To Be A Professional?

18 Mar

The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you whether
you are qualified to be a professional.

1.  How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?

The correct answer is:  Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and
close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things
in an overly complicated way.

2.  How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the
refrigerator?

Wrong Answer.

Correct Answer:  Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the
elephant and close the door.  This tests your ability to think through
the repercussions of your previous actions.

3.  The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals
attend… except one. Which animal does not attend?

Correct Answer:  The Elephant.     The elephant is in the refrigerator.
You just put him in there.  This tests your memory.  Okay, even if you
did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one
more chance to show your true abilities.

4.  There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and
you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?

Correct Answer:  You jump into the river and swim across.

Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal
Conference. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.
According to a Worldwide Consulting Company, around 90% of the
professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers
got several correct answers. The Consulting Company says this conclusively
disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a
four-year-old.

Doctor’s Office

18 Mar

There’s nothing worse than a doctor’s receptionist who insists you tell her
what is wrong in a room full of other patients.

I know most of us have experienced this, and I love the way this senior
citizen handled it.

An 86 year old man walked into a crowded doctor’s office. As he approached
the desk, the receptionist said, “Yes sir, what are you seeing the doctor
for today?”

“There’s something wrong with my dick,” he replied.

The receptionist became irritated and said, “You shouldn’t come into a
crowded office and say things like that.”

“Why not? You asked me what was wrong and I told you,” he said.

The receptionist replied, “You’ve obviously caused some embarrassment in
this roomful of people. You should have said there is something wrong with
your ear or something and then discussed the problem further with the
doctor in private.”

The man replied, “You shouldn’t ask people things in a room full of others,
if the answer could embarrass anyone.” The man walked out, waited several
minutes and then re-entered.

The receptionist smiled smugly and asked, “Yes?”

“There’s something wrong with my ear,” he stated.

The receptionist nodded approvingly and smiled, knowing he had taken her
advice. “And what is wrong with your ear, sir?”

“I can’t piss out of it,” the man replied.

The doctor’s office erupted in laughter.

Classic Quotes by Grover Cleveland

18 Mar

Classic Quotes by Grover Cleveland

1837-1908

American President

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Honor lies in honest toil.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

It is a condition which confronts us – not a theory.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned
long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
  

Notable Birthdays For March 18

18 Mar

Those born on this date include:
- John C. Calhoun, the first U.S. vice president to resign that office, in 1782
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States, in 1837
- Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1844
- German engineer Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the engine that bears his name, in 1858
- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1869
- Clairvoyant and therapist Edgar Cayce in 1877
- Actor Edward Everett Horton in 1886
- Auto race promoter Andy Granatelli in 1923 (age 87)
- Actor Peter Graves in 1926 (age 84)
- Author George Plimpton in 1927
- Author John Updike in 1932
- Former South African President F.W. de Klerk in 1936 (age 74)
- Country singer Charley Pride in 1938 (age 72)
- Singer/songwriter Wilson Pickett in 1941
- Singer Irene Cara in 1959 (age 51)
- Actress/singer Vanessa Williams in 1963 (age 47)
- Olympic skater Bonnie Blair in 1964 (age 46)
- Rapper/actress Queen Latifah in 1970 (age 40)

This Day In History: March 18

18 Mar

In 1766, the British government repealed the Stamp Act.

In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience against the British rulers of India.

In 1926, the worst tornado in U.S. history roared through eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana, killing 695 people, injuring some
13,000 others and causing $17 million in property damage.

In 1931, the first electric razor was marketed by Schick, Inc.

In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a public school in New London, Texas, killed 410 people, most of them children.

In 1962, France and Algeria signed a cease-fire agreement ending a seven-year civil war and bringing independence to the North African country.

In 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexi Leonov became the first person to walk in space.

In 1989, the shuttle Discovery completed a five-day space mission, landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

In 1992, hotel queen and convicted tax cheat Leona Helmsley was sentenced to four years in prison.

In 1993, Contra rebels freed five hostages they held at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Costa Rica after the two sides agreed to begin talks to end the 10-day
siege.

In 1995, Michael Jordan announced he was returning to professional basketball and the Chicago Bulls after a 17-month break, during which he had tried a
baseball career.

In 1997, Zaire’s parliament fired Premier Leon Kengo wa Dondo and opened negotiations with rebel leader Laurent Kabila.

In 2000, opposition candidate Chen Shui-bian was elected president of Taiwan, ending more than 50 years of Nationalist Party rule.

In 2003, on the eve of war with Iraq, the U.S. State Department listed 30 countries as members of a “coalition of the willing” supporting military intervention
but only the United States, Britain and Australia were known to be providing troops.

In 2004, a top U.S. scientist told lawmakers that all bovines slated for consumption should be tested for mad cow disease which he called “the greatest
threat to the safety of the human food supply in modern times.”

In 2005, doctors removed the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive after a wide-ranging fight over the brain-damaged Florida woman’s care that involved
U.S. President Bush and Congress.

Also in 2005, news reports said Ukraine admitted to exporting missiles, designed to carry nuclear warheads, to Iran and China.

In 2006, an estimated 500,000 people took to the streets in French cities and towns for the largest protest so far against a new labor law. It allows employers
to dismiss workers under the age of 26 for any reason during the first two years on the job.

In 2007, the U.S military placed the American combat death toll in the Iraq war at 3,211.

Also in 2007, Israel’s Cabinet voted unanimously to boycott the new Hamas-dominated Palestinian unity government.

Ezzy’s Joke of the Day: Jenny Craig For Men

18 Mar

A guy calls a company and orders their 5-day, 10 lb. weight loss program..

The next day, there’s a knock on the door and there stands before him a voluptuous,
athletic, 19 year old babe dressed in nothing but a pair of Nike running shoes and a sign
around her neck.

She introduces herself as a representative of the weight loss company.
The sign reads, ‘If you can catch me, you can have me.’
Without a second thought, he takes off after her. A few miles later huffing and puffing,
he finally gives up..

The same girl shows up for the next four days and the same thing happens.
On the fifth day, he weighs himself and is delighted to find he has lost 10 lbs. as promised.
He calls the company and orders their 5-day/20 pound program.
The next day there’s a knock at the door and there stands the most stunning,
beautiful, sexy woman he has ever seen in his life.. She is wearing nothing but
Reebok running shoes and a sign around her neck that reads, ‘If you catch me you
can have me’.

Well, he’s out the door after her like a shot. This girl is in excellent shape and he
does his best, but no such luck. So for the next four days, the same routine happens
with him gradually getting in better and better shape.

Much to his delight on the fifth day when he weighs himself, he discovers that he
has lost another 20 lbs. as promised. He decides to go for broke and calls the company
to order the 7-day/50 pound program

‘Are you sure?’ asks the representative on the phone… ‘This is our most rigorous program.’

‘Absolutely,’ he replies, ‘I haven’t felt this good in years.’

The next day there’s a knock at the door; and when he opens it he finds a huge muscular
guy standing there wearing nothing but pink running shoes and a sign around his neck
that reads, ‘If I catch you, you’re mine.’

He lost 63 pounds that week.

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