Picoftheweek

Picoftheweek
Waaaaaaaay too many to count...

My Statement

"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman

Quote of Note

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields

"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling

"Common sense is not so common. " -Voltaire

“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman


"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid

"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein

"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown

"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman

Thursday, March 11, 2010

A Scam...

A tidbit more on the Oscars:  Isn't bizarre that the Academy messed up by not including some in the "parade" of stars that have passed.  I guess I really don't understand.  Their excuse for leaving out Farrah ... was that they were mostly TV and including Michael Jackson because he made a movie or two just doesn't make sense.  I would assume if the people that passed were MEMBERS of the the Academy, they should be honored- even if they are writers or photographers.  This concludes, in my mind anyway, that the whole Oscars mess is a political scam.  It would be hard to prove true, but probably just as hard to prove false.  Has anyone ever seen published the criteria used for determining Best Actor or Best Movie ?  I rest my case.

So a week ago Wednesday, my wife was throwing a Bunco party for eleven other women.  I brought in the card tables and chairs and tried to be as helpful as I could before my self-banishment to the bedroom.  I was sent to the fridge in the garage to get some appetizers that my wife bought that day at Trader Joe's.  They were Mexican style "something-or-others" and were supposed to be accompanied by guacamole, which she also purchased.  Well, when she came home, she must have had a lot in her hands that was to go in that fridge, because I couldn't find the guacamole. 
Now being a "blind" man that couldn't find my way out of a paper bag, she accompanied me to the garage and the guacamole was nowhere to be found in the fridge.  I suggested that we look in the car, since maybe it was overlooked and not put away, but it wasn't there.  It was about 5:30 and people were coming at 6:30, so the race was on.  I offered to drive to Trader Joe's and fetch replacement guac, but first we had to look at the receipt.  It clearly showed that she had paid for it, but where was it.  She called Trader Joe's and the manager said that this happens occasionally and he would send someone over with a couple of packages, right away.

So, over a week later, I go into the freezer in the garage and what do I find, buried by other frozen stuff, is the guac!.  We feel embarrassed, but it is REALLY good to know that Trader Joe's can make up for our memories as we grow old and forget where things are!


Two bored casino dealers are waiting at a craps table. A very attractive brunette comes in and wants to bet ten thousand dollars on a single roll of the dice. She says, "I hope you don't mind, but I feel much luckier when I'm not wearing a top."

With that said she pulls off her top and rolls the dice while screaming, "Momma needs a new blouse." She then begins jumping up and down and hugging each of the dealers.

"YES! I win - I win." She grabs up her money and top and quickly leaves the table.

The dealers just stare at each other dumbfounded. Finally one of them asks, "What did she roll anyway?"

The other answers, "I thought you were watching!"




A man is driving down a deserted stretch of highway, when he notices a sign out of the corner of his eye. It says Sisters of Mercy House of Prostitution 10 Miles. He thinks it was just a figment of his imagination and drives on without a second thought. Soon, he sees another sign which says Sisters of Mercy House of Prostitution 5 Miles and realizes that these signs are for real. When he drives past a third sign saying Sisters of Mercy House of Prostitution Next Right, his curiosity gets the best of him and he pulls into the drive.

On the far side of the parking lot is a somber stone building with a small sign next to the door reading SISTERS OF MERCY. He climbs the steps and rings the bell. The door is answered by a nun in a long black habit who asks "What may we do for you, my son?" He answers "I saw your signs along the highway, and was interested in possibly doing business."

"Very well, my son. Please follow me." He is led through many winding passages and is soon quite disoriented. The nun stops at a closed door,and tells the man "Please knock on this door." He does as he is told and this door is answered by another nun in a long habit and holding a tin cup.This nun instructs "Please place $50 in the cup, then go through the large wooden door at the end of this hallway." He gets $50 out of his wallet and places it in the second nun's cup.

He trots eagerly down the hall and slips through the door, pulling it shut behind him. As the door locks behind him, he finds himself back in the parking lot, facing another small sign:

Go in Peace, You Have Just Been Screwed by the Sisters of Mercy.


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