[2607] in Humor
HUMOR: Dumb as a box of hair
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Thu Jan 7 15:23:04 1999
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 15:19:53 -0500
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>From: Jane Branden <JBranden@STSresearch.com>
>To: "'Shirley Branden'" <Shirley.Branden@mvs.udel.edu>,
> "'Sharalee Field'"
> <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>,
> "'Denis Meadows'" <dem231b@mail.smsu.edu>,
> "'Kathryn Flynn'" <Kathryn_Flynn@monitor.com>,
> "'Margaret Welshmer'"
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> "'Stephen Love'" <slove@fas.harvard.edu>,
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>Subject: FW: Idiots
>Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:53:58 -0500
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>
>This is a good one.
>
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>>
>> IDIOTS IN THE STORE
>> I was signing the receipt for my credit card purchase when the
>> clerk noticed that I had never signed my name on the back of the
credit
>> card. She informed me that she could not complete the transaction
unless
>> the card was signed. When asked why, she explained that it was
>> necessary to compare the signature on the credit card with the
signature
>> I just signed on the receipt. So I signed the credit card in front of
>> her. She carefully compared that signature to the one I signed on
the
>> receipt. As luck would have it, they matched.
>>
>> IDIOTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
>> I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call
>> the local township administrative office to request the removal of the
>> Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: Many deer were being hit
>> by cars and he no longer wanted them to cross there.
>>
>> IDIOTS & COMPUTERS
>> My neighbor works in the operations department in the central
>> office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they
>> have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a
>> woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got
>> smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a
>> fire downtown?"
>>
>> IDIOTS ARE EASY TO PLEASE
>> I was sitting in my science class, when the teacher commented that
>> the next day would be the shortest day of the year. My lab partner
>> became visibly excited, cheering and clapping. I explained to her
>> that the amount of daylight changes, not the actual amount of time.
>> Needless to say, she was very disappointed.
>>
>> IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE
>> My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She
>> asked the individual behind the counter for "minimal lettuce." He said
>> he was sorry, but they only had iceberg.
>>
>> AN IDIOT'S IDIOT
>> Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing
>> a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a
>> photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in thecopier,
>> and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the
>> suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was
>> working, the suspect confessed.
>>
>> AND, FINALLY
>> Sign in a gas station: Coke -- 49 cents. Two for a dollar.
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________________
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Sharalee M. Field, Planning Analyst
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Planning Office
Harvard University
Ph: 617.495.8257 Fax: 617.495.7881
