There is a new virus. I think I am infected.
The code name is "WORK".
If you receive WORK from your colleagues, your boss, via e-mail, or from
anyone else, do not touch it under any circumstances.
This virus wipes out your private life completely. If you should happen to
come in contact with thi
Today is Tax Freedom Day in the UK.
Today is the first day, for the average UK taxpayer, when you can keep the
money you earn - every penny you've earned up to yesterday has been paid to
the government as tax.
Tax Freedom Day this year is three days later than it was last year.
Tax Freedom Day t
Got the following from a Polish "source"; if it sounds a bit awkward,
it's due to my translation. If there's a moral to the story, it's not
likely to be amusing to the majority of readers (women), I'm afraid :)
From: J.B.
God says: "Which car you'll drive in Heaven depends on whether you've
bee
Hi to everyone who helped me with this verse. My Daughter sent me this today
so I thought I would share with you all.
Shirl.in Corio Oz.
EGG-SHELLS
By Elizabeth Fleming
Oh, never leave your egg-shells unbroken in the cup;
Think of us poor sailor- men and always smash them
>3. Rub knives from side to side on a knife-board sprinkled with
bathbrick.
>Then rub back of knife and clean shoulders of knife with a cork dipped in
>bathbrick.
All you have to do is find a bathbrick...:-) What is it???
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne. Just seen Tais-toi at the cinema and
th
I was once giving a final exam in the 1970s at the University of
Michigan in Spanish, when the building was evacuated because of a
bomb scare, and I think I recall another one a couple of years ago at
the community college here, where I was taking a class at the time.
No one anywhere is safe fr
>I've just received a letter from the Lace Guild telling me
>that one of my entries for "Myth or Mystery" - a miniature sampler
>roseground book based on the nursery rhyme "Ring a Ring o' Roses" - has
>won a Medal of Excellence and the Ann Collier trophy for miniature lace.
Well done, Sue!! I
Today is the first day, for the average UK taxpayer, when you can keep
the
money you earn - every penny you've earned up to yesterday has been
paid to
the government as tax.
You mean, for *5 full months* you've been working for the government? I
knew that Brit taxes were ridiculous, but didn't k
M, not sure about its veracity, but I thought it was a good story. And
it definitely *could* happen in Australia...
The Hitchhiker :
This story happened about a month ago, in a little town in Victoria
(Australia), and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's
real.
Thi
