14
Sep

A short dictionary of construction terminology

Found posted in the Physical Planning Office at the Indiana University
of Pennsylvania. Author unknown.

Contractor – A gambler who never gets to shuffle, cut or deal.

Bid Opening – A poker game in which the losing hand wins.

Bid – A wild guess carried out to two decimal places.

Low Bidder – A contractor who is wondering what he left out.

Engineers Estimate – The cost of construction in heaven.

Project Manager – The conductor of an orchestra in which every musician
is in a different union.

Critical Path Method – A management technique for losing your shirt
under perfect control.

OSHA – A protective coating made by half-baking a mixture of fine print,
red tape, split hairs and baloney–usually applied at
random with a shotgun.

Strike – An effort to increase egg production by strangling the chicken.

Delayed Payment – A tourniquet applied at the pockets.

Completion Date – The point at which liquidated damages begin.

Liquidated Damages – A penalty for failing to achieve the impossible.

Auditor – Person who goes in after the war is lost and bayonets the
wounded.

Lawyer – Person who goes in after the auditors to strip the bodies.

14
Sep

50 ways to annoy osama bin laden…

50 Ways To Annoy Osama bin Laden…

Fifty Ways To Annoy Osama bin Laden If Youre Invited To A Dinner Party At His Secret Afghan Lair, by Alan Meiss

Point out the lice in his beard to make him feel self-conscious.

Pause for a moment, listen carefully, and say, Doesnt that sound a lot like a B-52?

Ask him if hes looking forward to replacing Hitler as Satans favorite chew toy in the lowest inferno of Hell.

Tell him all about your great vacation to Saudi Arabia, where you went absolutely everywhere and did everything, just stomped all over the place.

Use his satellite phone to call the time and weather line in Buenos Aires and leave it off the hook.

Tell him how much less you paid for your Kalashnikov rifle.

Now that you know the address of his secret cave hideout, fill out magazine subscription cards for him for the Wine Spectator and Penthouse. But do not, under any circumstances, send him Popular Mechanics.

Order him ten Dominos pizzas with extra ham topping.

Correct him when he ends a sentence with a preposition.

Ask whether the Taliban gets cable, because you havent seen Sex and the City for weeks.

Yank the end of his turban really hard to make him spin around like a top.

Switch all the CDs in the jewel boxes in his CD collection, so that when he reaches for Michael Bolton, hell actually get the Oak Ridge Boys.

Mine his bathroom.

Use your dinner fork for your salad, and, if questioned by your host, mutter something about spots.

Leave business cards for the Israeli Mossad in his Rolodex.

Take pictures of all his wives and post them on www.amihotornot.com.

Ask him if he wears boxers or briefs. Check. Take pictures. Again, post these on www.amihotornot.com.

Give him a Hot Chicks of Palestine calendar.

Ask him if Paradise is different for each person, and whether in your own paradise youll get to, kick his ass every day for eternity.

Reset his VCR and leave it blinking 12:00.

Refer to him as Osama-osama-fee-fi-fo-fama bin Laden.

Ask whether suicide bombers have to pay union dues.

Tell him its lovely what hes done with his cave, but that itd look much nicer covered with huge, smoking craters.

At dinner, imply that the Northern Alliance has much prettier place settings.

Claim you once saw him at a Hooters in Muncie wearing a yarmulke.

Ask him if he wouldnt mind if you opened the door and shined your laser pointer on his forehead for a few minutes.

Tell him that this is the worst pajama party youve ever attended.

Ask for some pork rinds and a good brew to wash them down.

Mix up his Rubiks Cube.

Ask him if he provides his employees with a 401K plan.

Compliment him on all his poppies outside, but mention that a few day lilies would be a nice accent.

Run your finger along his credenza, and say, tsk, tsk if theres dust.

Ask whether the Taliban is hoping to be bombed ahead into the Stone Age, or perhaps the Iron Age if enough shell casings survive.

Explain that America is a land of freedom and opportunity, filled with people of every race, religion, and background, including millions of women strong enough to knock the crap out of him.

Claim that they serve much better falafel at the public executions in Sudan.

Ask him if hes pursuing the Lesser Jihad, the Greater Jihad, or the Completely Whacked Out of his Freaking Gourd Jihad.

Swirl your drink thoughtfully and mention, Just think, in a few weeks you might fit in this glass!

Check to see if Saddam is on his speed-dial list.

They have to wait a few years to see current television shows in Afghanistan, so give away the secret of whos having a baby on Friends.

Warn him that youre in a New York state of mind.

Mention that his wives look quite fetching in their burkas, and ask whether theyve ever thought of modeling.

Ask him, Say, where do you keep all those Stinger missiles? just in case hell be caught off guard and answer correctly.

Give him a noogie or a wedgie. If theres actually still a flush toilet left in Afghanistan, give him a swirlie.*

Ask to borrow his hedge trimmer and never give it back.

Play a game of Monopoly with him. Make him play the thimble. See if he charges interest. Claim that his properties are your holy lands and blow up his hotels.

Fish out the secret toy surprises in all his cereal boxes.

Offer to take him clubbing in Tel Aviv with your friends Saul and Ivan.

Ask him which Ninja Turtle is his favorite.

Give him your cell phone as a gift and ask him to leave it on for a few days so your friends can call and say hi.

When you leave, wave and say, Shalom!

copyright 2001 by Alan Meiss

13
Sep

Superman and Wonderwoman

One day superman is flynig over a city and he sees Wonderwoman sleeping on top of a bulding nude. Superman says to himself Im faster than a speeding bullet i can do her like that! So he goes down and does her and then flys away. 5 minutes later Wonderwoman wakes up and says What happened? Invisible Boy says i dont know but my ass hurts

13
Sep

Latin Course To Be Canceled–No

Latin Course To Be Canceled–No Interest Among Students, Et Al.

Diaper Market Bottoms Out

Croupiers On Strike–Management: No Big Deal

Stadium Air Conditioning Fails–Fans Protest

Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped

13
Sep

A quote on marriage

Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever.

12
Sep

Question and answer Clinton joke

Q: What do call someone who sees the glass in front of him half full?
A: An optimist.

12
Sep

Q: How many Dario

Q: How many Dario Argento fans does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to change it and one to film the demise of the old one in explicit gorey detail, using obscure camera angles.

12
Sep

Cats Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas

And all through the house

Not a creature was stirring,

Not even a mouse.



Cuzz the cat had pounced on him

And tore him apart –

Ate his mouse intestines

And chewed up his heart.



Kitty thought he heard sleighbells,

Which made him take pause –

He stopped daintily licking

The blood from his claws.



Must be Santa, thought Kitty

(That quite clever cat)

Cuz nobody else climbs down

The chimney like that.



Indeed it was ol Santa

So jolly and fat

With a huge load of presents

And all for the cat!



Wow, the best Christmas ever!

Kitty thought with a purr,

Then he coughed up a hairball

And shed some more fur!


12
Sep

Terrible Addiction (adult)

A man went to his doctor, seeking help for his terrible addiction to cigars. The doctor was quite familiar with his very compulsive patient, so recommended an unusual and quite drastic form of aversion therapy.

When you go to bed tonight, take one of your cigars, unwrap it, and stick it completely up your butt. Then remove it, rewrap it, and place it back with all the others, in such a fashion as you cant tell which one it is. The aversion is obvious, you wont dare smoke any of them, not knowing which is the treated cigar.

Thanks doc, Ill try it. And he did. But three weeks later he came back and saw the doctor again.

What? My recommendation didnt work? It was supposed to be effective even in the most addictive of cases, such as yours is! answered the doctor.

Well, it kind of worked, doc. At least I was able to transfer my addiction, replied the patient.

What is that supposed to mean? demanded the doctor.

Well, I dont smoke cigars anymore, but now I cant go to sleep at night unless I have a cigar shoved up my butt.

12
Sep

Tee Shot

A guy stood over his tee shot for what seemed an eternity, looking up, looking down, measuring the distance, figuring the wind direction and speed. He was driving his partner nuts. Finally his exasperated partner says, "Whats taking so long? Hit the blasted ball!"The guy answers, "My wife is up there watching me from the clubhouse. I want to make this a perfect shot.""Forget it, man," said his partner, "you dont stand a snowballschance in hell of hitting her from here!"