Never had the trouble with the Feminine Hygeine Products (FHP's). When
picking up a small box of 'em for my sister at a local 7-eleven store, the
clerk ringing me up asked "Do you need a bag?" to which I replied, "No
thanks, I'll eat them here!"
The face he made was priceless...
Z
>From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Welcome to a new year
>Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:07:00 -0500
>
>Natasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> attacked the fundamentals of modern manhood
>with,
>
> >Actually a late Fridays funnies.
> >
> >
> > (I'd like to dedicate this to my boyfriend, who is living proof that
> >uncontrollable compulsive
> > switching of TV channels with a remote control is a testosterone
> >influenced condition.)
> >
>
> >And never, under any circumstances, expect me to pick up
> > anything for which "feminine hygiene product" is a euphemism.
>
>I was cured of this. Many years ago, I had surgery for a pilonoidal
>cyst. Without getting into gory details, suffice it to say is that
>the normal recovery from this involves lots of bleeding, and the
>standard dressing is to tape ...ummm....feminine hygiene
>products...to the patient's posterior.
>
>About 3 weeks postoperatively, I hobbled to the local drugstore,
>supported by my first wife, to get more supplies. The clerk seemed a
>little surprised at the number of boxes, at which point my wife
>cheerfully chimed, in a trained singer's voice that carried
>throughout the establishment, "oh...those are for my husband."
>
>To this day, I tend to refer to "masculine napkins" while in her
>presence. I don't complain too much, because I may need her
>expertise on object oriented design.
>
>A couple of years later, I was implementing a WAN for the US
>Department of Labor, using state of the art 9600 BPS modems from
>Codex (now Motorola). We negotiated what I thought was a rather good
>price, but got a called from an irritated purchasing officer.
>
>"How can you possibly spend $30,000 on these? You'd fill up boxcars!
>What do you need with them in the network, anyway?"
>
>My colleagues, Gary Desler and Ed Peters (who went on to start
>Network Solutions), and I gazed at one another in utter puzzlement.
>Ten Codex model whatever modems. Then the light dawned.
>
>With a few clarifications, we established the purchasing department
>thought we were ordering $30,000 worth of Kotex Modesses.
> >---------
> > Because I'm a man,
> >
> > I think what you're wearing is fine. I thought what you were
> > wearing five minutes ago was fine, too. Either pair of shoes is fine.
> > With the belt or without it looks fine. Your hair is fine. You look
> > fine.
>
>The probability of a correct answer to such questions, much less "do
>I look fat" is approximately that of a single answer to the best way
>to solve any networking problem.
>
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