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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edwarda who wrote (12735)	12/5/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62562

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.]