Archive for June, 2011

How the word “Boob” was created/invented (by an engineer):

boob from engineers point of view
Boobs from an engineers perspective

The Frozen Skunk

A man and his wife were driving home one very cold night when the wife asks her husband to stop the car. There was a baby skunk lying at the side of the road, and she got out to see if it was still alive.

It was, and she said to her husband, “It’s nearly frozen to death. Can we take it with us, get it warm, and let it go in the morning?”

He says, “O.K. Get in the car with it.”

“Where shall I put it to get it warm?”

He says, “Put it in between your legs. It’s nice and warm there.”

“But what about the smell?”

“Just hold its little nose.”

The man is expected to recover, but the skunk she used to beat him with died at the scene.

Hunting Flies

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her
Husband stalking around with a fly swatter

“What are you doing?”
She asked.

“Hunting Flies”
He responded.

“Oh. ! Killing any?”
She asked.

“Yep, 3 males, 2 Females,” he replied.

Intrigued, she asked.
“How can you tell them apart?”

He responded,
“3 were on a beer can,
2 were on the phone.

Meeting President Clinton

A true story. A few years ago, Japanese Prime Minister Mori was
given some basic English conversation training before he visited
Washington and met President Bill Clinton. The instructor told
Prime Minister Mori, “When you shake hands with President Clinton,
please say ‘How are you?’ Then Mr. Clinton will say, ‘I am fine,
and you?’ Then you should say ‘Me too.’ Afterwards we, translators,
will do the work for you.” It looks quite simple, but the truth is
when Mori met Clinton, he mistakenly said “Who are you?” instead of
“How are you?” Mr.
Clinton was a bit shocked but still managed to react with humor,
“Well, I’m Hillary’s husband, ha-ha…” And Mori replied, “Me too,
ha-
ha…” Then there was a long silence in the meeting room.

NORWEGIAN FIRE DEPARTMENT

One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota , a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.

When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, “All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact.”

But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.

Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company’s secret files.

From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone’s amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant.

Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before.

Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters.

The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, “What are you going to do with all that money?”

“Vell,” said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, “Da first thing ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking truck!”

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