Funny Pages

I inserted this section just to be funny.  There are several funny things I have here--feel free to e-mail me others.

Table of Contents

  1. Bill Gates' House

  2. Bumper Stickers Sighted Throughout The World

  3. Dihydrogen Monoxide

  4. EuroEnglish

  5. Some Blonde Jokes

  6. The Prize Parrot

  7. The Talking Frog

  8. The World's Smartest Man

  9. Where Will You Get a Lawyer

Bill Gates' House

Now that Bill Gates is moving into his new house the following is a conversation heard last week.

Bill: "There are a few issues we need to discuss."

Contractor: "Ah, you have our basic support option. Calls are free for the first 90 days and $75 a call thereafter. Okay?"

Bill: "Uh, yeah... the first issue is the living room. We think it's a little smaller than we anticipated."

Contractor: "Yeah. Some compromises were made to have it out by the release date."

Bill: "We won't be able to fit all our furniture in there."

Contractor: "Well, you have two options. You can purchase a new, larger living room; or you can use a Stacker."

Bill: "Stacker?"

Contractor: "Yeah, it allows you to fit twice as much furniture into the room. By stacking it, of course, you put the entertainment centre on the couch... the chairs on the table... etc. You leave an empty spot, so when you want to use some furniture you can unstack what you need and then put it back when you're done."

Bill: "Uh... I dunno... issue two. The second issue is the light fixtures. The bulbs we brought with us from our old home won't fit. The threads run the wrong way."

Contractor: "Oh! That's easy. Those bulbs aren't plug and play. You'll have to upgrade to the new bulbs."

Bill: "And the electrical outlets? The holes are round, not rectangular. How do I fix that?"

Contractor: "Just uninstall and reinstall the electrical system."

Bill: "You're kidding!?"

Contractor: "Nope. It's the only way."

Bill: "<sigh> Well... I have one last problem. Sometimes, when I have guests over, someone will flush the toilet and it won't stop. The water pressure drops so low that the showers don't work."

Contractor: "That's a resource leakage problem. One fixture is failing to terminate and is hogging the resources, preventing access from other fixtures."

Bill: "And how do I fix that?"

Contractor: "Well, after each flush, you all need to exit the house, turn off the water at the street, turn it back on, reenter the house and then you can get back to work."

Bill: "That's the last straw. What kind of product are you selling me?"

Contractor: "Hey, if you don't like, it nobody made you buy it."

Bill: "And when will this be fixed?"

Contractor: "Oh, in your next house-which will be ready to release sometime near the end of next year. Actually it was due out this year, but we've had some delays..."

Bumper Stickers Sighted Throughout The World

Dihydrogen Monoxide

The chemical dihydrogen monoxide is a major component of acid rain, causes erosion, and in its gaseous state burns severely. Inhalation can kill you; should we ban it?

Answer: of course, dihydrogen monoxide is simply water.  Somebody actually did a science project based on this, titled "How Gullible Are We." The conclusion must be pretty obvious, right?

EuroEnglish

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.  As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".  Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy.  Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k".  Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f".  This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.  Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.  Also, al wil agre what the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl.  Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

Some Blonde Jokes

The Prize Parrot

When Uncle Charlie died of old age, Bill inherited his uncle's prized Amazon parrot. This parrot was fully grown--with a bad attitude and a worse vocabulary. Every other word was an expletive. Those that weren't expletives were, to say the very least, extremely rude,Bill tried hard to change the bird's attitude and was constantly saying polite words, playing soft music--anything he could think of to try to set a good example...nothing worked, Exasperated, he yelled at the bird, but the bird just got louder, Then he shook the parrot, but the bird just got angrier and ruder. Finally in a moment of desperation, Bill put the parrot in the freezer. For a few moments her heard the bird squawking, kicking and screaming. Then suddenly, all was quiet. Bill was afraid that he might have hurt his dead uncle's prized parrot and quickly opened the freezer door.

The parrot calmly stepped out onto Bill's extended arm and said:"I am truly sorry that I might have offended you with my language and action, and I humbly askk your forgiveness. I will, from this day forth, endeavour to correct my behaviour so that such an ill-perceived outburst never occurs again."

Bill was completely astonished at the bird's change in attitude and was about to ask what had caused such a dramatic change, when the parrot continued: "May I ask what the chicken did?"

The Talking Frog

A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will tell everyone how smart and brave you are and how you are my hero" The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will be your loving companion for an entire week." The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.

The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for a year and do ANYTHING you want." Again the man took the frog out, smiled at it, and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, that I'll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"

The man said, "Look, I'm a computer programmer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is cool."

The World's Smartest Man

One night, a Delta twin-engine puddle jumper was flying somewhere above New Jersey.  There were five people on board: the pilot, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, the Dali Lama, and a hippie.  Suddenly, an illegal oxygen generator exploded loudly in the luggage compartment, and the passenger cabin began to fill with smoke.  The cockpit door opened, and the pilot burst into the compartment.

"Gentlemen," he began, "I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that we're about to crash in New Jersey.  The good news is that there are four parachutes, and I have one of them!" With that, the pilot threw open the door and jumped from the plane.

Michael Jordan was on his feet in a flash.  "Gentlemen," he said, "I am the world's greatest athlete.  The world needs great athletes.  I think the world's greatest athlete should have a parachute!" With these words, he grabbed one of the remaining parachutes, and hurtled through the door and into the night.

Bill Gates rose and said, "Gentlemen, I am the world's smartest man.  The world needs smart men.  I think the world's smartest man should have a parachute, too." He grabbed one, and out he jumped.

The Dali Lama and the hippie looked at one another.  Finally, the Dali Lama spoke.  "My son," he said, "I have lived a satisfying life and have known the bliss of True Enlightenment.  You have your life ahead of you, you take a parachute, and I will go down with the plane."

The hippie smiled slowly and said, "Hey, don't worry, pop.  The world's smartest man just jumped out wearing my backpack!!"

Where Will You Get a Lawyer?

An engineer died and presented himself at heaven's gates, where he was told that he had come to the wrong place.  He went down to hell and in no time, he had the place operating so efficiently and smoothly that God decided that they should have kept him.  But when God asked the devil to send the engineer back, the devil wanted to know what God would do if he refused. God said: "If you dont send him back, I'll sue you."  The devil laughed and said "Where will you get a lawyer?"