The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been fielding phone calls and faxes asking what Senator John McCain meant when he said the fundamentals of our economy were sound while Rome burned around him. While it is not our job to interpret events, merely to point out the readily apparent, we can only […]
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When the day's news is all bad, immediately check your freezer. Locate the ice cream, eat some and you will soon feel much better. For severe mental trauma, apply chocolate syrup. A regular check on these emergency provisions is essential. Be prepared.
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If you want to know how somebody feels when something terrible happens to them or is done to them, just remember how you felt when bad things happened to you. That's how they feel. They might seem different to you, maybe they're the opposite sex, maybe their skin tone is different, or the clothes they
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"Full name?" "August Dumont Chucklebottom, the 4th." "Three other guys had that name? Jeeze…" "Excuse me?" "Sorry. Former Occupation?" "CEO, Megabank Worldstraddle." "Weekly salary?" "Weekly? How quaint. Let me see… hmm… approximately three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of bonus and stock options." "I said weekly, not the whole time you worked there." "My
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When a beautiful, sexy young woman marries a very old man, there has never been such a marriage in all history where the wrinkly old dude was poor.
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A couple of thirties guy were hanging around the park discussing the latest financial news. As far as I could tell their names were Bud and Mack. Here is their conversation: "It's those Wall Street swells again, Bud, playing fast and loose with other people's dough, I tell ya! Turn your back for eight years
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Until somebody comes up with a better idea, looks like we’re stuck with poodles. Perhaps a different haircut might ease the pain until a solution is found.
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There's a lot going on these days to be sure, stuff you can't help being concerned about. There's hurricanes drowning the South, gasoline eating your money, home foreclosures, global warming, war, recession, a stupid president and the Yankees' season is going nowhere. That's plenty enough n our plates right there. So a lot of stuff
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