Dear Santa,
I’m sorry I chased the kitty-cat.
I won’t do it again!
I try hard to be a good — wait, there’s a cat crossing th
Stolen from an email I got today
Pumpkins
There were only 9 pumpkins entered in this year’s pumpkin carving contest. I think the cafeteria people need to promote the pumpkin contest a little more. The number of pumpkin entries has been going down each year.
This one with a “Don’t Drink and Drive” theme from the people down in 1West (Trauma) was the most elaborate one, and probably the one that will win first prize. I thought it was a pretty cool pumpkin.
What not to bring
One of the funnier commercials I’ve seen in a while
I especially like the last bit.
Language humour
The European Commission has just announced an agreement
whereby English will be the official language of the European
Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as
‘Euro-English’.In the first year, ‘s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be
dropped in favour of ‘k’.. This should klear up konfusion,
and keyboards kan have one less letter.There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year
when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with ‘f’.
This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes
are possible.Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters
which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent ‘e’ in
the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v’.During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be dropd from vords
kontaining ‘ou’ and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl
riten styl.Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it
ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil
finali kum tru.Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in
ze forst plas.If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
Saturday 6: Karma
Another interesting meme from Patrick.
1. What is the most unlucky thing that has happened to you all week?
The exposure meter I was trying to use to do some CT dosimetry flaked out on me. That was supposed to be the easy part of the testing. The phantom part that was supposed to be hard was easy. The dose part that was supposed to be easy was hard.
That means another 2 hour road trip next week.
2. Do bad things happen more often to good people or bad people?
I think bad things happen to people equally. Bad people usually complain about it more.
3. How much do you believe that you can improve your outlook in life (from a “fate” perspective) by doing good deeds and correcting past wrongs?
Doing good things almost always results in a positive outlook, so I believe in it strongly. Atoning for past misdeeds is a way of coming to terms with yourself and the other person/group and past actions. Most of the time that leads to good things.
4. Take the quiz: What will happen to you in the future?
Im sorry. I have some pretty bad news for you today. It seems like you are going to have some trouble here. You will have an average job and make average money, but remember that money is not EVERYTHING in life. You will marry, but you will marry an average (wo)man. (S)he will not be smart and will be very stupid. The college he or she went to was not famous. If you said that your husband or wife went to that college, theyll be like whats that college? I never heard of that. And in their minds theyll think that YOU and your husband or wife were REALLY stupid because you went to unknown colleges. Here comes the lovely good news. NOT. This is just something that everybody should have. In the future, you will have a lot of friends. WOW! They are all so stupid just like you. Mmmmthis is just another thing that a lot of Americans (or whatever your race is) do/has. They go to unknown colleges (or so stupid that everybody knows it), and ALL of their friends go there. Nowyou seethat my thoughts about good colleges and your thoughts about good colleges may not be the same. Im sorry. You might not just get this straight now. Maybe the college you went to was good, but I think it is bad. Take for instants (something you havent heard of) Tomball College. Some people may think its good, and some people may think it is bad (REALLY stupid people would think it was good) (sorry for the insult if you went there). Nowenough of thisIll stop talking about useless stuff. You WILL bald (if you are a boy. Just ignore this if you are a girl) when you are older. You will die of natural causes when you are 74. Thank you will reading this useless crap.
Honestly, I have no idea what the poll creator is babbling on about here.
(The terrible grammar belongs to the poll creator, not me)
5. Do you believe in fate, coincidence, or both?
Coincidence.
6. Overall, when “bad things” happen, how often do you believe the victim generally “had it coming?”
If they are self-induced bad things (brought on by the victim’s own stupidity, ignorance, etc) then I usually tend to think they had it coming. I like to think of it as a Darwin kind of thing.
Bad timing, wrong time/wrong place types of bad things I usually don’t think feel that way.