Indeed. Pretty much in the same rank. Pun intended! ;-)
Darryl
On 2/3/2011 5:18 PM, de Bivort Lawrence wrote:
Hehehe. Good ones!
I heard a couple of these some time ago, aimed at lawyers.
Many years ago I was Director of Corporate Development and Senior
Scientist of a multi-national research company and had often daily
contacts with lawyers from companies that we were acquiring. (See your
third joke.) They would send me documents with a lot of (very) fine
print, evidently in the hope that I would skip over it.
I took to writing letters and documents back to them entirely in the
tiniest font I could find, and in unchangeable PDF format. Eventually
the smarter lawyers got it and sent even their fine print in regular
font sizes.
The other thing I learnt about lawyers was NEVER to bring them into
strategic discussions, and only involve them when it came time to
draft formal agreements after all the key substantive points of the
deal had been agreed to by the 'real people' in the companies.
Cheers,
Lawry
On Feb 3, 2011, at 4:02 PM, D and N wrote:
*Banker jokes
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/30/jokes-about-bankers?CMP=EMCGT_310111&;>
*
*Guardian, UK - *What's the difference between a dead cat on the
motorway and a dead banker on the motorway? There are skidmarks
around the cat.
A man is stuck in traffic. He asks a police officer about the hold-up
and he replies: "The head of the Bank Of England is so depressed
about the economy he's stopped his car and is threatening to douse
himself with petrol and set himself on fire. So we're taking up a
collection for him." The man asks: "How much have you got so far?"
The policeman replies: "About 40 gallons, but a lot of people are
still siphoning."
A man visits his bank manager and says, "How do I start a small
business?" The manager replies, "Start a large one and wait six months.
Why don't sharks attack bankers? Professional courtesy.
And finally: What's the problem with banker jokes? Bankers don't
think they're funny, normal people don't think they're jokes.
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