BUZZURRO

• One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at once (it’s called Stallone’s Law).
• If being chased through a city you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick’s Day parade - at any time of the year.
• It is always possible to find a parking spot directly outside or opposite the building you are visiting.
• All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red digital displays so you know exactly when they are going to explode.
• Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment it’s aired.
• Any police officer about to retire from the force will more often than not die on their last day (especially if their family have planned a party).
• The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. Nobody will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.
• During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
• Prostitutes always look like Julia Roberts or Jamie Lee Curtis. They have expensive clothes and nice apartments but no pimps. They are friendly with the shopkeepers in their neighbourhood who don’t mind at all what the girl does for a living.
• When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in you room will still be visible, just slightly bluish.
• Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their enemies with complicated devices incorporating fuses, pulleys, deadly gases, lasers and man-eating sharks.

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(Via Kottke.)

My Personal New Year’s Resolutions are to:

1. Be a loving wife to my dear husband
2. Find a job
3. Find a better job if necessary
4. Lose some weight-either by dieting, joining a gym or most likely both
5. Be a good daughter for my parents
6. Be a good aunt to my niece who is only 10 months old but has never even seen me before
7. Have a child (or children)
8. Enjoy the beauty of life
9. Have just enough money to not be dirt poor, or filthy rich, but enough to live comfortable
10. Be helpful to others

Happy 2006 to all our Readers !

Today I read Yahoo.com for some news.

Palestinian Security Forces are negotiating for the release of the 3 British hostages that were captured in Gaza yesterday.

Makes sense to me.

“This is part of a new fad of kidnapping for extortion and seeking jobs,” Abu Khoussa said. He would not say whether negotiations were taking place.

What ? Jobseekers kidnap other people to find jobs? Isn’t it a little easier to just fax a resume to several businesses ? Pick up a Help Wanted section of a newspaper ? Go to a job agency perhaps ?

In most cases, the kidnappers have sought jobs in the Palestinian Security Forces, the release of imprisoned relatives or other personal matters. In all cases, the victims have been released safely.

Does it work ? Do people actually get jobs kidnapping other people ? And with the Palestinian Security Forces which is supposed to act like a police force too !

Abbas’ critics have accused him of giving in to kidnappers’ demands, thereby encouraging more abductions.

Sounds like it does work.

You can read the rest of the article here >>

And I’ve been unemployed for so many months in Italy ! Maybe because I stay within the law.