Went to see Dave Barry last night at GWU's Lisner Aud. His warm-up act, Big Al Goodwin, used almost that same toner joke: "What a week. Super Bowl Sunday, Super Tuesday, and Super Ash Wednesday, which is the day Jesus changed the toner cartridge." (and then he pantomimed accidentally smudging his forehead). FWIW, Big Al worked clean, used words like he was "blessed," & stated that he himself was a Christian. It didn't seem offensive in the auditorium, so apologies if it comes across that way to anyone.
Weingarten was in the audience, acknowledged by Dave Barry as his old boss/editor at the Miami Herald. Dave said he was the best, except his managerial skills were non-existent - missed meetings, etc. Told a hilarious story about an inspection by some new owners coming to all the department heads for a 5-minute brief on what each department did. Gene never read the memo, so when they showed up, he improvised, and had his writers tell the inspectors about a photo on hurricane chasers they'd been working on (with a guy hanging from a bar, wind in his face, then the photo turned sideways like he was hanging on for dear life as a hurricane was about to rip him lose from the bar). Gene said, "Hey, get the picture of that guy getting blown." The writers found it mildly funny, but Gene thought it was the funniest thing ever said in the history of mankind, and lost his composure, face down, cracking up. He gained it back, then lost it again (everyone else had turned to crickets). The fourth time he lost it, when he brought his head back up, the inspectors were gone. So that was his briefing. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Bradley Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [wc] Re: Happy Toner Wednesday That's...um...yeah. - Ray the Catholic --- In [email protected] <mailto:weingartenchatters%40yahoogroups.com> , "Daria Akers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Several years ago I was working as a computer help desk technician for a > small association. One day I saw a girl with a smudge on her forehead and I > told her she had toner on her forehead. She looked at me for a few seconds > then told me it was Ash Wednesday. The thought had never crossed my mind. > Now my husband and I refer to it as Toner Wednesday. >
