I read an interesting comment about minimum wages, specifically in regard to the hospitality industry. Tips are common place in this industry, and so those of you that feel that $8 an hour (or whatever the minimum is where you live) is too low a wage to live on are missing a HUGE part of [...]
My eldest daughter Stephanie (oh no! I’m getting old! I have a 30 year old daughter!) told me about the Macy’s ad with Gabriel Aubry. He is the lucky so and so that Halle Berry is cozy with right now!! Sigh. Anyhow, I got a good laugh out of the ad. See it here.
I just went to do a search on Google, and when I clicked on their link in “My Favourites”, the page came up black, with white lettering. My first thought was, “What happened to my monitor”. Then I saw the reference to Earth Hour. Are you turning the lights off/down?
As previously mentioned at grandparichardspeaks.com/opinion/how-much-does-the-boss-make, I feel that some bosses make too much. A common argument is that they are a large part of why a company does well, and so should be rewarded.
Now that so many financial companies are doing so poorly, often because of bad decisions over subprime mortgages, the ugly truth comes [...]
Today is Pi day, named after the mathematically constant, Pi, which is approximately 3.14159. In celebration, one should share a pie with friends at exactly 1:59 on March 14. (3.14159 = [...]
Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, is serving six months’ unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car. Dawn was driving home from a birthday party thrown in her honour when she was caught. It was her 69th birthday.
Have you seen the trailers for that new movie where the young man is a numbers whiz. He is working in retail and a customer asks him to work up some numbers on a group of purchases and the kid does it standing there, without a calculator. The couple look stunned when he is done, [...]
Have You Ever Wondered Why?
When a woman wears a leather dress,
A man’s heart beats quicker,
And his throat gets dry,
He goes weak in the knees,
And he begins to think irrationally.
Ever wonder why?
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“Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell.” Ben Stein
(p.s. What is interesting about the above quote is the supposed source of the quote from a longer dialogue. Visit www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/benstein2.asp to read the rest of the piece and about some inaccurate portions [...]
What can two guys, who have never met and are over 30 years apart in age, have in common?
To explain the answer to this question I created a brand new website. Some would see this as foolish, but life is to be enjoyed, and this was fun!
Enjoy your moment of fame guys.
www.gerry-and-les.com/