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Graph(ic) Humour

Have you ever considered how much silliness can be accomplished with the use of graphs and charts? No, we don’t mean the quarterly sales projections.
Try some Pie Chart Humour if you wish to see Pac Man in a Pie Chart.
or
Check out Graph Jam for other sorts of graph-related silliness.
Now you can enjoy some seemingly […]

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Job Req: Library Frog I

Okay. This one requires a tiny bit of background information. Newark Public Library has a blog on which they recently posted a humorous epitaph for one of the frogs which had lived in their aquarium. In the course of the post, they mentioned that they hoped to find a replacement for the […]

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Top Ten Signs of Job Burn-Out

(Do you ever wonder if you might be suffering from job burn out? Well, this lovely e-mail that we found circling the internet might be able to give you a new perspective on your problem. Either that, or give you some scary ideas. A hat tip to Katie for sending this our […]

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The “Lost” Dr. Seuss Poem

(This slightly deranged poem was sent to our inbox recently by a certain MKEJenkins. We offer MKE a hat tip…and a sincere hope that her job isn’t quite this bad. Enjoy!)
The Lost Dr. Seuss Poem
I love my job, I love the pay!
I love it more and more each day.
I love my boss, he […]

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Inbox: New Words

(A Hat Tip to Dianne for sending us this roving e-mail of linguistic merit. We had encountered some of these words before, but others were new to us. They should come in handy for you in your office life.)
Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere):
1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing […]

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Inbox: Food For Thought

(A Hat Tip to Ellen for sending this mass of puns our way. We’ll bet that you can hear the groaning from there.)
Food for thought for the career minded!
My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned, couldn’t concentrate.
Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I […]

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Video: Jean Jean and The Evil Cat

Jean Jean and The Evil Cat is a film short that previously appeared in the Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation. It is just plain silly and random. Enjoy!

Jean Jean and The Evil Cat, Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation

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From the Inbox of Silliness.org as received in 4/4/2000
Biggest Drawbacks to Working in a Cubicle:
1) Being told to “Think Outside the Box” when I’m in the @#$%? box all day!
2) Not being able to check E-mail attachments without first seeing who is behind me.
3) Fabric cubicle walls do not offer much protection from any […]

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