Billions of words have been written on
how to save a marriage or make a relationship work better. That's
easy stuff--writing all those words. The Department of
Pathological Social and International Relations of the General
Delivery University has recently completed the definitive study
of how to make relationships fail, whether interpersonal or
international. The same rules apply to both. Herewith are
excerpts from that GDU report:
1. Always try and read the other person's
mind. Never wait until the other person (or country) explains
itself. For example, your spouse could be thinking the weather is
nice today. Or she could be thinking you are dirt. Or the Chinese
could be thinking about improving their human relations record,
or they could be thinking about where to build a new prison for
dissidents. Assume you know how they are thinking, and act
accordingly.CONTINUED INSIDE
| WALL STREET
CELEBRATES HALLOWEEN EARLY |
Wall Street celebrated Halloween on Monday as the Dow Jones
stock index plunged 554 points--one of the largest declines in history. "I guess you could
say the DJ index said BOOOO!" observed Bandersnatch financial analyst Carlo Ponzi, head of the
General Delivery University Ponzi School of Business and Finance.
Fortunately for pedestrians in lower Manhattan, stock brokers could not jump out
their windows as the buildings are environmentally controlled and the windows don't open.
One theory for the sudden decline in stock prices is that the fires in Indonesia have
set off a decline in Asian stock markets, which has now spread to the US in the wake of fears about
El Nino. "You can blame El Nino for just about anything," Ponzi added.
| SPOOKS SIGHTED IN WASHINGTON
|
Thousands of spooks were sighted in a suburb of Washington D.C.
recently. "The gathering of spooks was discovered in Virginia at a place locally
known as the Central Intelligence Agency," noted Joe Sam, TFB foreign correspondant
and statutory agent.
The newly discovered spooks are not transparent, as are their spectral counterparts, but they
do go bump in the night.
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