After wasting more than an hour looking for good Saint Patrick’s jokes I decided I already used the best ones a few years ago.
What I did find was a 1949 Noveltoon called Leprechaun’s Gold that, to my mind, has both political and business parables applicable today. What about you?
Irish or not, I wish you sunshine, shamrocks, and rainbows.
A lot of stuff circulates on the internet and by email and I normally don’t use anything I’m pretty sure is copyrighted, but being as weak as the next guy I’ve occasionally given in to the urge—as I have today.
This is great innovation and a terrific solution to the bane of most people’s existence, but considering it’s 2012 there should be an app for that!
Bats and witches and pumpkins, oh my,
bailouts and options and fat cats who sigh;
a Treasury Secretary deep in the fold
and stock that reeks like decades old mold.
For Halloween you want a costume that scares, (more…)
Today isn’t really wordless, if it was you would miss all the fun.
I’m sure you notice all the studies being done and, if you are anything like me, wondered about their obviousness (healthy calories cost more, who knew?), let alone the stupidity of some studies and their results.
Today I’m going to share what has to be the stupidest I’ve seen in years.
Since I can’t send gifts to each of you, I thought I’d offer up a video of me dancing along with one of my infamous rhymes—what more could anyone want?
Christmas comes just once a year
as does its spirit, too, I fear.
It would be nice to keep peace and goodwill,
but after the First it’s all downhill.
Perhaps this year we could arrange
for each of us to make a change;
revamp our MAP and maybe then
we can leave closed minds in 2010.
No post today, just all my best wishes for a wonderful holiday.
Drive carefully, travel safely, love everyone.
Eat, drink, be merry and don’t drive if you do them in excess.
Finally, save the image, print it and let the kids color it. It should be good for at least ten minutes of peace.
And in case no one has sent you the Thanksgiving Internet rhyme, here is it…
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey be plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
Image credit: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/943263
Happy Thanksgiving!
No post today, just all my best wishes for a wonderful holiday.
Drive carefully, travel safely, love everyone.
Eat, drink, be merry and don’t drive if you do them in excess.
Finally, save the image, print it and let the kids color it. It should be good for at least ten minutes of peace.
And in case no one has sent you the Thanksgiving Internet rhyme, here is it…
Sometimes good things arrive in my inbox amidst the silly videos and spam.
And so it was yesterday; I was thinking about what to write when this arrived and it seemed the perfect answer—assuming, that is, that you are as tired as I am of the rising tide of hit pieces so prevalent this election.
Fable of the Porcupine It was the coldest winter ever and many animals were dying because of the cold.
The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together.
This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions, even though they gave heat to each other.
After awhile they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen.
So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth.
Wisely, they decided to go back to being together.
This way they learned to live with the little wounds that were caused by the close relationships with their companions, but the most important part of it was the heat that came from the others.
In this way they were able to survive.
Moral of the story:
The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people.
The best relationship is when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others as opposed to dying alone in the cold.
What do you think? Will humans live up to the example of porcupines or die alone in the cold?
My attitude is perverse—it’s usually a lucky or, at the least, neutral day for me.
My sister says I was born perverse (as in contrary), which I cannot deny. It’s not intentional; I don’t think about it; it’s just the way I am.
For the heck of it I looked Friday the 13th up on Wikipedia and learned that it’s relatively modern, with no references before the 1800s, in spite of what you saw in The Da Vinci Code.
Did you know that if the first day of a month falls on Sunday it will contain a Friday the 13th?
Good things happen to me on Friday the 13th; for instance,
I closed the three largest deals I’ve ever done on Friday the 13th in two different years of a previous 13 year career.
I found two of the three houses I’ve owned on Friday the 13th.
It’s Halloween 2011
Just think, a 
What’s your attitude to Friday the 13th?
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