It's days from Friday, but I have to comment. Like a puzzle for my granddaughter: which question is not (stupid) like the others? As if it were imponderable and unanswerable outside the realm of fancy: why are tennis balls fuzzy? The answer is that they were originally smooth and fast and very bouncy. The bounce and speed were a challenge for players but made for lousy spectating because rallies were swift and short. Fairly boring to watch. The solution was to fuzz up the balls in order to slow them down so that rallies would last long enough to evoke the oohs and ahs that we engage in today.
What's stupider than a stupid question? A stupid questioner. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: zMan <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 01/21/2014 01:38 PM Subject: Re: OT: Humor? Stupid questions from a job interviewer. Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> No worries, I was trying to be funny! On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: > My bad. I paraphrased something that I had seen a few weeks ago [1] but I > had not yet read zMan's posting of the same joke before I posted it. > Bill Fairchild > > [1] And what I saw a few weeks ago might even have been a zMan post. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "DASDBILL2" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:30:24 PM > Subject: Re: OT: Humor? Stupid questions from a job interviewer. > > Speaking of job interviews, here's one possible reason why old guys do not > do well in interviews: > > > > Interviewer: "What would you say is your worst shortcoming?" > > Old guy: "My honesty." > > Interviewer: "I don't think that honesty is necessarily a shortcoming." > > Old guy: "I really don't give a sh*t what you think." > > End of interview. > > > > Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
