Wish I could convince my boss to arrange the department's seating chart according to verbal tics ( Read more... )

"At least [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is against the NWO."

*blinks*

I suppose I should be thankful that she didn't say "ZOG."

If you feel compelled to hang signs above each of the urinals in your back (i.e., not accessible by the public) office's men's restroom that state: "PLEASE FLUSH AFTER USE. THANK YOU".....you've probably already lost the battle.

*pauseI'm just waiting for some environmentalist jackhole to say, "Hey, man: if it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's ( Read more... )

2012 may or may not see the immanentizing of the eschaton (I'm betting not, but I've been accused of being a godless heathen before), but it sure has proven replete with milestones thus far ( Read more... )

I reached a tipping point with a cussing kerfuffle at work last Friday, 25 May. Let me explain ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the last day before her vacation of someone who works in my division; she's flying back to the Philippines to visit family ( Read more... )

My flaky boss presented everyone in her department with unwrapped Christmas presents yesterday (Wed., 30 Nov.): thermal tumblers, all with their price tags still affixed ($12.99 from Kohl's, if it matters ( Read more... )

Every December, some of my co-workers pass out Christmas cards; as I've never done this, the number of cards that I get has steadily fallen off, which is fine by me. By unspoken agreement, we're supposed to tack or tape these cards to a wall of our cubicles for all passerby (but primarily the people in our department) to stop and admire ( Read more... )

Editorial cartoon by Gary Varvel of the Indianapolis Star (and, if I'm reading his signature a'right, USA Today), reprinted in the Sunday Detroit Free Press (today: 22 March 2009):

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I've finally experienced a circumstance in which I could see myself wearing a pair of Birkenstocks:

I broke my little toe on Election Day. By kicking the fridge.

No, I wasn't trying to kick the fridge; it just sort of happened while I was flailing to recover my balance after being tripped by one of my cats ( Read more... )