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Thread ID: 83815	2007-10-14 18:06:00	Monday Laughs: Are you smarter than the average Pom?.......	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

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601306	2007-10-18 01:27:00	Cicero's post reminds me of one I may have posted before - not sure, so I'll post it anyway . . . . Here's a question for you . It's an imaginary situation, but it's fun to decide what you would do . The situation: There is a huge flood in progress . Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and infrastructure destroyed . You are a photographer out getting still photos for a news service, travelling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes . Suddenly, you stumble across a New Zealand Airforce helicopter crash . It's Helen Clark and she's struggling to keep from being swept away in a raging river and you have the choice of rescuing her or getting a Pulitzer prize-winning photograph of the death of a Prime Minister . (Scroll down) The Question is: What shutter speed would you use?	johcar (6283)
601307	2007-10-18 01:30:00	And maybe the NZ Rugby Board could take a lesson from this, although it applies to all areas of NZ business and government: RIDING A DEAD HORSE The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In modern education and government, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing riders. 3. Threatening the horse with termination. 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 5. Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses. 6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 7. Re-classifying the dead horse as "living impaired". 8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed. 10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance. 11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance. 12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses. 13. Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses. 14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position. 15. Upgrading the horse's software.	johcar (6283)
601308	2007-10-18 02:21:00	Helen Clark was out jogging one morning along a walkway when she tripped, fell over the bridge railing and landed in the creek below . :lol: :lol: :lol: Thats funny as is in so many ways! A politician jogging? :lol: :lol:	rob_on_guitar (4196)
601309	2007-10-18 02:38:00	John Howard, Nicolas Sarkozy and George Bush all jog. Whats new?	beeswax34 (63)
601310	2007-10-18 03:42:00	And maybe the NZ Rugby Board could take a lesson from this, although it applies to all areas of NZ business and government: RIDING A DEAD HORSE The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In modern education and government, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: Classic, how true is that? :lol: :lol: :lol:	B.M. (505)
601311	2007-10-18 08:00:00	John Howard, Nicolas Sarkozy and George Bush all jog. Whats new? Spoilsport:p	rob_on_guitar (4196)
601312	2007-10-18 19:39:00	Count every " F " in the following text: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS . . . (SEE BELOW) HOW MANY ? WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke . READ IT AGAIN ! Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down . The reasoning behind is further down . The brain cannot process "OF" .	Cicero (40)
601313	2007-10-19 00:34:00	Wow.... That's nuts. I did it twice, and only counted 3, until I read the reasoning!	mejobloggs (264)
601314	2007-10-19 00:35:00	That is really.... fascinating	mejobloggs (264)
601315	2007-10-19 00:54:00	John Howard, Nicolas Sarkozy and George Bush all jog. Whats new? They are all fellas H.C. is a...........oh you win!	bonzo29 (2348)
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