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Thread ID: 85432	2007-12-10 05:52:00	It's Just A Spoon, Silly!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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619863	2007-12-10 05:52:00	Last week, we took some friends to a new restaurant, "Steve's Place," and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I observed that he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter came back to serve our soup I inquired, "Why the spoon?" "Well, "he explained, "the restaurant's owner hired Anderson Consulting to revamp all of our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift." As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he replaced it with his spare. "I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now." I was impressed. I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly. Looking around, I saw that all of the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So, before he walked off, I asked the waiter, "Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?" "Oh, certainly!" Then he lowered his voice. "Not everyone is so observant. That consulting firm I mentioned also learned that we can save time in the restroom. By tying this string to the tip of our you-know-what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39%. I asked quietly, "After you get it out, how do you put it back?" "Well," he whispered, "I don't know about the others, ............but I use the spoon."	SurferJoe46 (51)
619864	2007-12-10 05:54:00	:lol: :lol:	wratterus (105)
619865	2007-12-10 05:57:00	Hahahaha, niceee.	--Wolf-- (128)
619866	2007-12-10 06:19:00	It was already late Fall and the Indians on a very remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming Winter was going to be cold or warm . Since he was a modern chief in a modern society, perhaps the old ways hadn't been instilled into him and just to be on the safe side, he told them that the Winter was going to be quite cold indeed . He told the village to prepare by collecting firewood . Being a very practical and modern Indian, he decided to call the National Weather Service and ask what the Winter was going to be like and they told him it was going to be a very cold Winter . The chief then went back to his people and told them again that they should gather a lot more firewood as the Winter might be severe and they needed to be prepared . Still a little less than confident, he called the US Weather Bureau and asked them what they thought about the Winter . . . would it be cold or mild? "Absolutely . . Yes! It's going to be a very cold Winter" The chief then went and warned all the tribe to collect every scrap of wood they could find . Just one more time, he now calls the South Dakota Weather Service Advisory Board and asks the same question: "Is this going to be a sever Winter?" The weather man answered that : "It looks like this is going to one of the most severe Winters in South Dakotas history . . . the Indians are gathering wood like crazy!"	SurferJoe46 (51)
619867	2007-12-10 06:22:00	Hard Case - Cool! - Better a spoon than a fork to put it back...	kahawai chaser (3545)
619868	2007-12-10 09:53:00	Nice.	limepile (96)
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