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Short Stories, Humour, Music and Entertainment! Occasional HOT TOPICs with a unique perspective.. It's Christmas! When a man politely opens the door of the car for his wife,  you can be sure of one thing: Either the car is new or the wife is! What's the difference between stress, tension and panic? Stress is when wife is pregnant; Tension is when girlfriend is pregnant; Panic is when both are pregnant! Grammar Teacher: Do you know the importance of a period? Kid: "Yeah, once my sister said she had missed one, my mom fainted, dad got a heart attack and our driver ran away!" A young boy asks his Dad: "What is the difference between confident and confidential? Dad says: "You are my son, ..I'm confident about that. Your friend over there,  is also my son,  that, is confidential!" A bookseller conducting a market survey asked a woman: “Which book has helped you most in ...

Educating, Entertaining and Informing with Short Stories and Humour! Are You Working for a Tyrannical Bully? I have been lucky. Most of my working life, I can honestly say, I've had good bosses. Honest, hardworking and dedicated individuals who took their roles seriously.   The great ones were always courteous, kind and helpful, inspiring the workforce to higher levels of productivity.  These traits created a comfortably great atmosphere at work and the staff were always happy to go the extra mile because we had a great boss. The only place I ever worked where the boss was a tyrant and bully, on my first day there, I noticed pinned on to the wall behind someone's desk, the following: How The Asshole Became Boss One day, all the organs of the body had a meeting to decide who would be boss. "I should be in charge," said the Brain, "I run everything and work out all solutions."  "Oh no," said the Stomach, "I proces...

Short Stories, Humour, Music and Entertainment. Just Good Fun. If there's anything to worry about, it's about not having fun! A Short Story With Some Reviews Stories are all works of fiction. Names, characters, place and events are the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events and places is totally coincidental Camden It was around that time in the early evening when the sun was just about to disappear beneath the horizon. The sky had that fading orange hue. I'd missed several buses going home. Now that I was in my neighbourhood of Camden town, I wasn't in any particular hurry to get to my house. I was looking across the road, checking to see if the musical instrument shop on Chalk Farm Road was still open. Without paying attention to where I was going, I walked into what seemed to be a brick wall. In fact, I'd bumped into a man. My face was inches from his lower chest. The guy was h...

Don't Relax Your Vigilance On-line This is a reminder to the many people who use the internet to search for products and services on-line, to be careful and not get conned or scammed. The internet is a great tool to access information, a great medium, enabling the world to become a more intimate, caring, secure and enlightened global village. Amongst all the benefits and the good it can do for us, there also exists, the very bad. True, on-line is where many of us are guaranteed the best prices and some fantastic deals, but it also has a higher risk factor, with a lot of scammers and con men poised to bilk us of our hard earned cash.  There are a lot of scam artists out there and they are usually very good at snaring their victims. Their methods are getting more and more sophisticated, so watch out. Many victims of scams, are intelligent people. They are so embarrassed at their own perceived stupidity, they keep quiet about it. Big mistake! Shout about it from the roo...