A few more hours of work still and then straight home to pack for a 7 week holiday! Dubai, Sweden and Lebanon are all on the menu and sure feels like it’s been too long since we were there last.
Family, friends and customs officials beware- we’re on our way.
The Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand recently undertook a study to find out what size breasts men liked best- small, medium or large. The findings were overwhelmingly in favour of...breasts!
The conclusion was that men simply like breasts and that size was of little importance. The way I see it, any simple heterosexual male could have told them that and saved them both the money and trouble. Then again, the actual study could have been interesting.
Last week a 26-year-old party-goer in Germany pushed his luck a bit too far. In between dancing ‘sessions’ the man decided he needed a bit of a ‘pick up’ and began lining up amphetamine on the roof of a car in a disco car park without checking the car first.
The local police spokesman referred to the man by simply stating that "He's got horrible luck".
Lesson to be learned here I think: before lining your stuff up on a car- always smash the window of the car to ensure it doesn’t have a police radio!!!
It’s a pretty well-known fact that I don’t like shopping at any time, but I particularly hate going on Saturdays which seems to be the particular time of the week when the entire population goes too.
So, I’ve been trying to figure out why the shoppers aren’t spread out more evenly over the remaining weekdays:
The standard office hours in Australia are 9.00 AM to 5.30 PM, which are also the opening hours for shops in all the malls. Since most people are working between those hours it’s clear to me that the shops must be open for another targeted group of shoppers other than the working Australians.
So who is group? The only people I can think of are retirees and unemployed people both whom from what I read in the media they barely have money to survive...or so they tell the Government. And although I haven’t double checked the latest statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, I think these two groups only make up for roughly 16% of the population.
So back to square one- who the hell are they open for?!?
I’m pretty sure that they would double their sales if they were open from say 10.00 AM to 6.30 PM instead!
I’d shop more.
Help wanted: registered voter with a conscience for position on the Chicago City Council. Salary $110,556 a year. Ex-felons need not apply.
Candidates should be registered voters, have lived in the ward for a least a year and provide three letters of recommendation attesting to their community involvement. No current politicians, tax delinquents or anyone convicted of any "infamous crime, bribery, perjury or other felony" need apply.
One vacancy was created when the previous office-holder pleaded guilty to illegally accepting favors from a developer.
The aldermanic appointments will be the mayor's 34th and 35th, and he has indicated he is fed up with the high rate of malfeasance in the council.
"You've got to start somewhere," Daley spokesman Lance Lewis said. "We want to encourage residents who are interested to apply."
As some of you may now it’s my birthday today- 36 years young! Or perhaps I should say 36 years old- at least if I was to listen to my wife. Last week when asked what I wanted for my birthday I quickly replied “Good kids and a happy ending”.
My wife shook her head and said that I was “now showing signs of old age”, and continued by asking if my life was really that hard.
Guess it’s true what they say- you enjoy the simple pleasures more the older you get.
As many of you are aware I’m a pretty keen reader, and I often seek out the slightly odd topics to read about. The other day whilst trolling through amazon.com I came across a book title that really got my attention, “Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing”.
My mind started racing thinking about the vast number of potential angles a book with that title could have- some, I’m sure, not exactly complimentary for the Church! For me, the number of comic alternatives seemed to dominate.
Of course I had to buy it- curiosity simply got the better of me!!!
