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My data entry assistant could often be heard offering encouragement to her computer. "You can do it, big guy!" she would say. "Good boy! Nice job, fella." After one particularly lengthy pep talk to the machine, I asked, "How do you know your computer's male?"
"Because," she said, "you have to tell it what to do."
On a family holiday, my father was very eager to go deep-sea fishing, something he'd never tried before. Aboard the fishing boat, the young skipper was more than happy to help me bait my line and cast it out. Each time we did, we caught a fish. However, my father, left to fend for himself, had no luck. Returning to the hotel, Dad carried my haul of fish into the lobby. Impressed, a hotel employee asked Dad what he had used for bait. My disheartened father answered, "A daughter."
Dolphins are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them fish three times a day.
At a women's meeting we were discussing philosophy, and someone read this definition: "A philosopher is a person who talks about something he doesn't understand, and makes you think it's you fault." The woman next to me turned and whispered, "I thought that was a husband."
A young woman brought her fiance home to meet her parents. After dinner, her father took the fiance aside for a chat. "So what are your plans?" he began.
"I'm a theology scholar," the man replied.
"Admirable," the father said, "but what will you do to provide a good home for my daughter?"
"I will study and God will provide," he explained.
"And how will you afford to raise children?"
"God will provide," was the reply.
Later, the mother asked her husband, "How did it go?"
"He has no money or employment plans," the father said. "But on the other hand, he thinks I'm God." |
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