Things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down
and published by court reporters...
Q: Are you
sexually active? A: No, I just lie there.
Q: What gear
were you in at the moment of the impact? A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
Q: How old is
your son, the one living with you? A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I
can't remember which. Q: How long has he lived with you? A: Forty-five
years.
Q: What was
the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?" - Q: And why did that upset you? A: My
name is Susan.
Q: Now
doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't
know about it until the next morning?
Q: How was
your first marriage terminated? A: By death. Q: And by whose death was
it terminated?
Q: Can you
describe the individual? A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, or a female?
Q: Is your
appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I
sent to your attorney? A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
Q: Doctor,
how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? A: All my
autopsies are performed on dead people.
Q: All your
responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to? A: Oral.
Q: Doctor,
before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? A: No. Q:
Did you check for blood pressure? A: No. Q: Did you check for
breathing? A: No. Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive
when you began the autopsy? A: No. Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: Do you recall what time you
examined the body? A: the autopsy started around 8.30pm. Q: And Mr
Dennington was dead at the time? A: No, he was sitting on the table
wondering why I was doing an autopsy.
Q: Is your appearance here this
morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
Q: She had three children,
right? A: Yes. Q: How many were boys? A: None. Q: Were there any girls?
Q: So the date of conception of
the baby was August 8th? A: Yes. Q: And what were you doing at that
time?
Q: Do you know if your daughter
has ever been involved in voodoo or the occult? A: We both do. Q:
Voodoo? A: We do. Q: You do? A: Yes, voodoo.
Q: This myasthenia gravis, does
it affect
your memory at all? A: Yes. Q: And in what ways does it affect your
memory? A: I forget. Q: You forget. Can you give us an example of
something you've forgotten?
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
Remember these:
Lesson One
An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing. A small rabbit
saw the eagle and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing?"
The eagle answered: "Sure, why
not."
So, the rabbit sat on the
ground below the eagle, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared,
jumped on the rabbit and ate it.
Management Lesson - To be
sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
Lesson Two
A turkey was chatting with a
bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed
the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."
"Well, why don't you nibble on
some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with
nutrients."
The turkey pecked at a lump of
dung, found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest
branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he
reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, he was proudly
perched at the top of the tree. Soon, he was spotted by a farmer, who
shot the turkey out of the tree.
Management Lesson - Bullshit
might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.
Lessons Three
- Five
A little bird was flying south
for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground in
a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some
dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it
began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him
out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A
passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following
the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and
promptly dug him out and ate him.
Management Lessons - (1) Not
everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
(2) Not everyone who gets you
out of shit is your friend.
(3) And when you're in deep
shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
It's
the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If
John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely
different.
What
does a squirrel do in the summer? It buries nuts. Why? Cos then in
winter time he's got something to eat and he won't die. So, collecting
nuts in the summer is worthwhile work. Every task you do at work think,
would
a squirrel do that? Think squirrels. Think nuts.
When confronted by a
difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
Show me a good loser and
I'll show you a LOSER!
If you can keep your
head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't
understood the seriousness of the situation.
You don't have to be mad
to work here, in fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to
ensure that you are not.
If you treat the people
around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're
trying to get them sacked.
If at first you don't
succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried. You have to be 100% behind
someone, before you can stab them in the back.
If work was so good,
the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Those of you who think
you know everything are annoying to those of us who do.
If your boss is getting
you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in
jail.
There's no 'I' in
'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either.
And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure. There may be
no 'I' in team, but there's a 'ME' if you look hard enough.
Process and Procedure
are the last hiding place of people without the wit and wisdom to do
their job properly.
Accept that some days
you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue Know your
limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in
promotion to a job you can't do.
Make good use of your
cylindrical filing unit, the one you mainly keep under your desk.
Remember that age and
treachery will always triumph over youth and ability.
Never do today that
which will become someone else's responsibility tomorrow.
Quitters never win,
winners never quit. But those who never win and never quit are idiots.
If you're gonna be
late, then be late and not just 2 minutes - make it an hour and enjoy
your breakfast.
Remember the 3 golden
rules: 1. It was like that when I got here. 2. I didn't do it. 3. (To
your Boss) I like your style.
The office is like an
army, and I'm the field general. You're my foot soldiers and customer
quality is the WAR !!!
Set out to leave the
first vapour trail in the blue-sky scenario.
Statistics are like a
lamp-post to a drunken man - more for leaning on than illumination.
A problem shared is a
problem halved, so is your problem really yours or just half of someone
else's?
Is your work done? Are
all pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?....
You don't have to be
mad to work here, but you do have to be on time, well presented, a team
player, customer service focused and sober!!
I thought I could see
the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a
torch, bringing me more work.
Avoid employing unlucky
people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
Put the key of despair
into the lock of apathy. Turn the knob of mediocrity slowly and open
the gates of despondency - welcome to a day in the average office.
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
The
Best Patients Five surgeons are discussing who
makes the best patients to operate on.
The first surgeon says, "I like to see accountants
on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside
is numbered."
The second responds, "Yeah, but you should try
electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."
The third surgeon says, "No, I really think
librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical
order."
The fourth surgeon chimes in: "You know, I like
construction workers...those guys always understand when you have a few
parts left over at the end, and when the job takes longer than you said
it would."
But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he
observed: "You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on.
There's no guts, no heart, and no spine, and the head and ass are
interchangeable."
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
Subject:
Mensa Test Exercise of the brain is as important as
exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important that we keep
mentally alert. The saying: "If you don't use it, you will lose it"
also applies to the brain, so...
Below is a very private way to gauge your loss or
non-loss of intelligence. So take the following test presented here and
determine if you are losing it or still a MENSA candidate.
Ok, relax... clear your mind, and begin.
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Q: What do you put in a toaster?
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*
*
A: The answer is bread. If you said "toast," then
give up now and go do something else before you hurt yourself. If you
said "bread", go to the next question.
*
Q: Say "silk" five times. Now, spell "silk." What
do cows drink?
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A: Cows drink water. If you said "milk", please do
not attempt the next question. Your brain is obviously overstressed and
may even overheat. It may be that you need to content yourself with
reading something more appropriate such as "Children's World." If you
said "water", then proceed to the next question.
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Q: If a red house is made with red bricks, a blue
house is made with blue bricks, a pink house is made with pink bricks,
a black house is made with black bricks, what is a greenhouse made
with?
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A: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said
"green bricks," what the heck are you still doing here reading these
questions??? Dang!!... If you said "glass", then go on to the next
question.
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Q: Twenty years ago, a plane is flying at 20,000
feet over Germany. If you will recall, Germany at the time was
politically divided into West Germany and East Germany. Anyway, during
the flight, TWO of the the engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the
last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing
procedure. Unfortunately, the engine fails before he has time and the
plane crashes smack in the middle of "no-man's-land" between East
Germany and West Germany. Where would you bury the survivors - East
Germany or West Germany or in "no-man's-land?"
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A: You don't, of course, bury the survivors. If you
said ANYTHING else, you are a real dunce and you must NEVER try to
rescue anyone from a plane crash. Your efforts would not be
appreciated... If you said, "Don't bury the survivors" then proceed to
the next question.
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Q: If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a
degree every minute, then how many degrees will the hour hand move in
one hour?
*
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A: One degree. If you said "360 degrees" or
anything else other than "one degree", you are to be congratulated on
getting this far, but you are obviously out of your league. Turn your
pencil in and exit the room. Everyone else proceed to the final
question.
*
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Q: Without using a calculator - You are driving a
bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on
the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on.
In Swindon, two people get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people
geto off and 16 people get on. In Swansea, three people get off and
five people get on. In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on.
You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the name of the bus driver?
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A: Oh, for Heaven's sake... It was you!
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
Actual Newspaper Headlines
(collected by journalists)
===========================================
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted
Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents
Farmer Bill Dies in House
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms
Eye Drops off Shelf
Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim
Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66
Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Axe
Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash
Probe Told Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
Stolen Painting Found by Tree
Two Soviet Ships Collide, One Dies
Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter
Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
Drunken Drivers Paid £1000 in '84
War Dims Hope for Peace
If Strike isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge
Deer Kill 17,000
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy
Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts
Fire British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply
Ban On Soliciting Dead in Trotwood
Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half New
Vaccine May Contain Rabies
Man Minus Ear Waives Hearing Deaf
College Opens Doors to Hearing
Air Head Fired Steals Clock, Faces Time
Old School Pillars are Replaced by Alumni
Bank Drive-in Window Blocked by Board
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Include your Children When Baking Cookies
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
In Passing
Over the weekend, I left Mumbai on Western Express Highway heading
towards Pune, when I decided to stop at a comfort station. The first
toilet was occupied, so I went into the second one. I was no sooner
seated than I heard a voice from the next toilet: "Hi, how are you
doing?" Well, I am not the type to chat with strangers in highway
comfort stations, and I really don't know quite what possessed me, but
anyway, I answered, a little embarrassed: "Not bad." And the stranger
said: "And, what are you up to?" Talk about your dumb questions! I was
really beginning to think this was too weird! So I said: "Well, just
like you I am driving to Pune?" Then, I heard the stranger, all upset,
say: "Look, I'll call you right back, there is some idiot in the next
toilet answering all the questions I am asking you. Bye!"
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
These are entries to a competition asking for a rhyme with the
most romantic first line but least romantic second
line:
Love may be beautiful, Love may be bliss
but I only slept with you, because I was pissed
I thought that I could love no other
Until, that is, I met your brother
Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are
you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar
bowl's
empty and so is your head.
Of loving beauty you float with grace
If only you could hide your face
Kind, intelligent, loving and hot
This describes everything you are not
I want to feel your sweet embrace
But don't take that paper bag off of your face
I love your smile, your face, and your eyes-
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!
My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you screwed up the rest of my life
I see your face when I am dreaming
That's why I always wake up screaming
My love you take my breath away
What have you stepped in to smell this way
My feelings for you no words can tell
Except for maybe "go to hell"
What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
Time's
up
A married
couple is driving along a highway doing sixty mph, the wife behind the
wheel. Her husband suddenly looks over at her and says, "Honey, I know
we've been married for twenty years, but I want a divorce." The wife
says nothing but slowly increases speed to seventy mph. He then says,
"I don't want you to try to talk me out of it, because I've been having
an affair with your best friend, and she's a better lover than you
are." Again the wife stays quiet but speeds up as her anger increases.
"I want the house," he insists, pressing his luck. Again the wife
speeds up, to eighty mph. He says, "I want the car, too," but she just
drives faster and faster. By now she's up to ninety mph. "All right,"
he says, "I want the bank accounts, and all the credit cards, too." The
wife slowly starts to veer toward a bridge overpass piling. This makes
him a bit nervous, so he says, "Isn't there anything you want?" The
wife says, "No, I've got everything I need." "Oh, really," he says, "so
what have you got?" Right before they slam into the wall at a hundred
mph, the wife smiles and says, "The airbag."
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
Inner Strength
If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
If you can overlook when people take things out on you when, through no
fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
If you can do all these things,
Then you are probably the family dog.
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
True stories:
The
chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat
cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted
a
claim to his insurance company. The company, suspecting negligence,
sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the
machine out and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.
A man who shovelled snow for
an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago
returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space.
Understandably, he shot her.
After stopping for drinks at
an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental
patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Beltway had
escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a
nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then
delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that
the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The
deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
An American teenager was in
the hospital yesterday recovering from serious head wounds received
from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the
lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get
his head to a moving train before he was hit.
A man walked into a Louisiana
Circle-K, puts a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When
the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for
all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The
man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the
counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer? $15. (If
someone points a gun at you and gives you money, was a crime
committed?)
A thief burst into a Florida
bank one day wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun. Aiming his gun at
the guard, the thief yelled, "FREEZE, MOTHER-STICKERS, THIS IS A
****-UP!" For a moment, everyone was silent. Then the snickers started.
The guard completely lost it and doubled over laughing. It probably
saved his life, because he'd been about to draw his gun. He couldn't
have drawn and fired before the thief got him. The thief ran away and
is still at large. In memory of the event, the banker later put a
plaque on the wall engraved with the words, "Freeze, mother-stickers,
this is a ****-up!"
Seems this Arkansas guy wanted
some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinderblock
through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted
the cinderblock and heaved it over his head at the window. The
cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head,
knocking him unconscious. Seems the liquor store window was made of
Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
As a female shopper exited a
New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk
called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed
description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the
snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The
thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a
positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the
lady I stole the purse from."
The Ann Arbor News crime
column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti,
Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned
him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a
food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they
weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.
Kentucky: Two men tried to
pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine
to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel
off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck.
Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still
attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to the chain.
With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the bumper. They
were quickly arrested.
A 5-STAR STUPIDITY
AWARD WINNER! When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a
motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he
bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man
curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman
said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his
siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of
the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best
laugh he'd ever had.
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
More Kids!
1. You spend the first two
years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the
next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.
2. Grandchildren are God's
reward for not killing your own children.
3. Children seldom misquote
you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have
said.
4. The main purpose of
holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are
children more awful than your own.
ADVICE FOR THE DAY! Be nice
to your kids. They will choose your nursing home.
AND FINALLY: IF YOU HAVE A
LOT OF TENSION AND YOU GET A HEADACHE, DO WHAT IT SAYS ON THE ASPIRIN
BOTTLE:
"TAKE TWO ASPIRIN" AND "KEEP
AWAY FROM CHILDREN
~~~|H-n-T|~~~
6th grade science teacher,
Mrs. Parks, asked her class, "Which human body part increases
to ten times its size when stimulated?"
No one answered until little
Mary stood up, angry, and said, "You should not be asking
sixth-graders a question like that! I'm going to tell my
parents, and they will go and tell the principal, who will
then fire you!" With a sneer on her face, she then sat back
down.
Mrs. Parks ignored her and
asked the question again, "Which body part increases to 10
times its size when stimulated?"
Little Mary's mouth fell
open; then she said to those around her, "Boy, is she going
to get in big trouble!"
The teacher continued to
ignore her and said to the class, anybody?"
Finally, Billy
stood up, looked around nervously, and said, "The body part
that increases 10 times its size when stimulated is the pupil
of the eye."
Mrs. Parks said,
"Very good, Billy," then turned to Mary and
continued, "As for you, young lady, I have three things to
say:
One, you have a
dirty mind.
Two, you didn't
read your homework.
Three, one day you are going
to be very, very disappointed."
~ ~ ~ ~
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