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...some minds that equates to us being fresh meat. Every day, she’s offered a place in a truck on its way to Canada, and I’m offered some guy’s phone number or a trip to his house—sometimes jokingly, and sometimes not. (So far, Lisa’s always been asked to Canada and I’ve been asked to go home with them. Go figure.) Every day, we commiserate that in order to earn a decent wage we need to chuckle and pour coffee to men who joke...
Management's ultimate goal is to become one of the world's top five automakers. That will require finding another gear. But the joke quotient is certainly down, and as O'Neill points out, "that's a pretty good index of our progress...
There's an old joke in Brazil that it is the nation of the future--and always will be. For decades the same has been said of the renewable-energy industry. Someday soon, its promoters kept promising, solar cells and wind turbines would produce electricity more cheaply than would traditional plants burning coal and oil and natural gas. There have been many false dawns, as fossil-fuel prices soared and then swooned. But the promised day appears finally to have arrived at, among other places, windswept hilltops in Texas and Colorado. On King Mountain, near McCamey, Texas, Renewable Energy Systems...
...pushed a button on the outside of it, it made a whirring sound, a lid opened, a small plastic hand reached out of the box, and pushed the button again....The hand withdrew, the box lid closed, and all was silence again. A battery-operated metaphysical joke...
...months' jail time for the DWI conviction. In 1966 he died of a heart attack. He was just 50. (This strange tale and others are related at the History of Rock 'n' Roll website.) In the lore of Philly kids - not a sentimental lot - Horn was memorialized with a joke. What's Bob Horn's license plate...