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Category: Work

February 8, 2010

Transferred to Detroit

(I was tempted to add the category "True Story", but....)

On a flight heading for Detroit, Jack was sitting reading the paper when he noticed the guy next to him.

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Category: Money & True Story & Urban Legend

February 5, 2010

Zero Gravity Bureaucracy -- the Real Story

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they knew ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity.

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Category: Men/Women & Sex

February 3, 2010

The Lonely Little Brain Cell

Once upon a time there was a female brain cell which, completely by mistake, happened to end up in a man's head.

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