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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Edwarda who wrote (12735)12/5/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: E  Read Replies (2) of 62559
 
This list is scarily true.

Note the last item....

>Signs That You've Had Too Much Of The 90's:

> 1. You try to enter your password on the microwave.
> 2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in
years.
> 3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach
your family of 3.
> 4. You e-mail your colleague at the desk next to
you to ask "Do you wanna go out for lunch?" and he replies "Yeah, give me five minutes".
> 5. You chat several times a day with a stranger
from South America, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.
> 6. Your reason for not staying in touch with
friends is that they don't have e-mail.
> 7. Your idea of being organized is multicolored
post-its.
> 8. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead
of in person.
> 9. When you go home after a long day at the office
you still answer the phone in a business manner.
> 10.When you make calls from home, you automatically
dial "9" to get an outside line.
> 11.You've sat at the same desk for four years and
worked for three different companies.
> 12.You really get excited about a 1.7% pay raise.
> 13.Your biggest loss from a computer crash is all
of your jokes.
> 14. It's dark when you drive to and from work, even
in the summer.
> 15.You know exactly how many days you've got left
until retirement.
> 16.Interviewees, despite not having the knowledge
or experience, terminate the interview when told the starting salary.
> 17.When you see a good looking, smart person, you
know it must be a visitor.
18.Being sick is defined as not being able to walk or
being in thehospital
19.You're already late on the assignment you just
got.
> 20.Your boss' favorite lines are:
> When you've got a few minutes...
> Could you fit this in...?
> ...in your spare time...
> When you're free...
> I know you're busy but...
> 21.Every week another collection envelope comes
around because someone you didn't know had started and is leaving.
> 22.You wonder who's going to be left to put money
into your 'leaving' envelope.
> 23.Your family and friends describe your job as
"works with computers".
> 24.You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
> 25.You read this entire list, nodding and smiling.
> 26.As you read this list, you thought about forwarding it to your email friends you send jokes to.
> 27.It crosses your mind that your jokes group may
have seen this list already, but you can't be bothered to check, so you forward it anyway.

[Apologies if this is a re-run.]
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