The Occasional Joke


Nurse: Patient's name?

Centurion: Marcus Licinius Crassus

Nurse: And his date of birth?

Centurion: 115 BC.

Nurse: All right. And what is he here for?

Centurion: Cataphract surgery.


Saturday, April 4, 2009

Just in time for father's day


As another blogger noted, writing about a strange sole-source deal to supply Iraq with Russian helicopters, sole-sourcing seems odd when, as he put it, you can just about buy 'em on-line.

Can you see one of these, converted to a camper?

Monday, March 30, 2009

Three down

In what has to be a resume' negative for him, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner was fired by the US government. "Reason for leaving last position? ... well, um ..."

Two down

The Ann Arbor News is folding. The most poignant, to the point comment on the demise of this bastion of journalistic excellence was provided by one of the many people who posted comments on the on-line edition, reproduced here just about verbatim, including punctuation and capitalization:

"What about the COUPONS??!???!!!"