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, September 23, 2010

"Don't leave home without it!"

I am aghast at an email I received today.  After making a 50% of the balance payment, my American Express card lowered the available balance by 50%.  What is the sense in that ?  What would be my incentive to make large payments if this is going to happen ?  When I asked, they said that if I pay it off in entirety, they will reinstate my credit.  I don't have any "guarantee" that that is true.  Okay, that doesn't make sense to me either.  Used to be you would be proud to carry an American Express card and you agreed with their ad that said "Don't leave home without it!".  Now, I'm not so sure.....




Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, 'How old was your husband?'
'98,' she replied, 'Two years older than me' 'So you're 96,' the undertaker commented. She responded , 'Hardly worth going home, is it? 





There was a mine in a small town that had completely collapsed.
One of the engineers who miraculously survived the disaster went
into the local watering hole. The bar was empty except for one
lonely soul at the other end of the bar.

"Hey bartender" said the Engineer, "I'll have a beer and pour
another one for my friend down at the end there."

The bartender responded, "I'm sorry sir but that guy's a Chinaman
and we don't serve his kind around here."

"Well, you'd better because if it weren't for that guy, I
wouldn't be here. You remember that mine that caved in, well I
was in that mine and so was that guy. When the last of us were
escaping, he held the roof of the mine up with his head! So get
him a beer and if you don't believe me, look at the top of his
head and you'll see that it's flat from holding the roof up."

The bartender skeptically served the Chinaman his beer and then
came back to talk to the Engineer:

"I saw the flat spot on his head but I also couldn't help
noticing all the bruising under his chin. What's that all about?"

The engineer responded:

"Oh... that's where we put the jack." 



Mildred was a 93-year-old woman who was particularly despondent
over the recent death of her husband, Earl. She decided that she
would just kill herself and join him in death.

Thinking that it would be best to get it over with quickly, she
took out Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to shoot
herself in the heart, since it was so badly broken in the first
place.

Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and
burden someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as to
just exactly where the heart would be on a woman.

The doctor said, "Your heart would be just below your left
breast."

Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a
gunshot wound to her knee..... 



It's time for tolerance!
I am appalled at all my friends who are so opposed to the Mosque near Ground Zero. To show our tolerance, we should let them build it. Then right across the street, someone should put in a topless bar, called “You Mecca Me Hot”! Next to that should be a gay bar, “The Turban Cowboy”! And then next door to the Mosque there should be a Pork & Ribs Restaurant, maybe called “Iraq o’ Ribs”? Then the Muslims could be allowed to show their tolerance. Problem solved.




Did you hit him with that golf club?
Police are called to an apartment and find a woman holding a bloody 5-iron standing over a lifeless man.
The detective asks, “Ma’am, is that your husband?”
“Yes” says the woman.
“Did you hit him with that golf club?”
“Yes, yes, I did.”
The woman begins to sob, drops the club, and puts her hands on face.
“How many times did you hit him?”
“I don’t know, five, six, Maybe seven times . Just put me down for a five.”
 

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