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#007 — Verbal Warnings

Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. The highway department has taken to using large electronic signs to warn drivers about hazardous or difficult road conditions.  For example, you might see a sign flashing the message: “Road Construction Ahead – Delays Possible”.  This means, of course, that you will be [...]

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#006 — Credit Card (Dis)Services

Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. I was recently treated to a few minutes of humiliation by my credit card company.  “No charge,” they said.  “It’s just a courtesy service we provide.” Courtesy? That was like an angry cowboy mob telling a rustler “No charge for the noose.  It’s [...]

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#005 — Aliens Among Us

Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. Last week my son received a recruiting letter from Harvard.  This took me by surprise.  I had no idea that Ivy League schools were enrolling alien lifeforms now. He seemed normal enough when we brought him home from the hospital seventeen years ago; [...]

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#004 — Technolust

Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. I’ll never forget my first love; her pale beige skin nearly glowed and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on her full-sized keyboard.  More than anything, I wanted her to be mine. The relationship lasted about a year before I was bored [...]

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