The Job Interview

John went to interview for a job with the county.

The interviewer asked, “Are you allergic to anything?”

“Yes,” John replied. “Caffeine. I can’t drink coffee.”

“I see,” remarked the interviewer. “Well then, have you ever been in the military service before?”

“Yes,” John explained. “I was in Iraq for one tour.”

The interviewer noted, “That will give you 5 extra points towards employment. By the way, were you disabled in any way?”

John said, “Yes, a bomb exploded near me, and I lost both of my testicles.”

Upon hearing this, the interviewer grimaced and said “I’m sorry to hear that, but the good news is that you have enough points for me to hire you right now. Our normal hours are 8 am to 4 pm, but tell you what: You can start tomorrow at 10 am, and just plan on starting at 10 am every day.”

John was a bit dismayed by the unusual preferential treatment and remarked, “If the hours are from 8 am to 4 pm, then I want to do my part and come to work at the regular time.”

“I didn’t mean to offend you,” explained the interviewer. “You see, this is a government job. For the first two hours, we just stand around drinking coffee and scratching our balls. I just didn’t see any point in you coming in for that.”

Airsick

A little guy got on a plane and sat next to a window.

A few minutes later, a big, heavy, hulk of a guy plopped down next to him and immediately fell asleep.

After the plane took off, the little guy started to feel airsick, but didn’t want to wake the big guy to ask if he could let him out to go to the bathroom.

Suddenly, the plane hit an air pocket and an uncontrollable wave of nausea passed through the little guy. He could not hold it any longer and hurled all over the big guy’s chest.

The big guy woke up and looked down to see the vomit all over him.

Without hesitation, the little guy asked, “Are you feeling any better now?”

Sunday, February 9, 2020

A Brave Decision

I recently switched browsers. I originally was an IE user, but after I switched to Linux, I started using Firefox. Later on I discovered that Chrome worked better with many websites, so I’ve been using that for the past several years.

Recently all has not been well with the Chrome browser. My sync account hasn’t been syncing up lately, and a couple of websites wouldn’t load properly… I had to use Firefox to renew one of my domains!

Well this past week I finally did it. I switch to the “Brave” browser. It’s basically a Chrome knockoff, but those pages that didn’t work, now work just fine again. They also have some extra privacy voodoo going on, but it’s basically Chrome. You can even use the same webstore to install all your usual extensions.

So if you get a chance, check out Brave, or if you’re a Firefox lover, try Pale Moon.


Kudos

Thanks for the jokes this week, George and Glenn. If anyone has a joke to share please use our submission page or email it to flush2x@gmail.com.

“Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.” – Michael Pollan

Pax,

-f2x

Away in a Manger

The three wise men arrived to visit the child lying in the manger.

One of the wise men was exceptionally tall and hit his head on the low doorway as he entered the stable, and he shouted, “Jesus Christ!”

Joseph said, “Write that down, Mary! I like that name a lot better than Clyde!”

Shoe Repair

Tom was cleaning out the attic of the house he just moved into when he found a ticket from a local shoe repair shop. The date stamped on the ticket showed that it was well over twenty years old.

Being curious, Tom took the ticket to the shoe repair shop. With a straight face, he handed the ticket to an older gentleman behind the counter.

The man behind the counter said, “Just a minute. I’ll have to look for these,” as he disappeared into the back. A couple minutes later the man called out, “Here they are!”

Tom could hardly believe it!

The man came back to the counter, handed Tom the ticket, and said, “They’ll be ready next Thursday.”

Lobbyists at Lunch

After successfully swaying Congress to add certain line items to the budget, two lobbyists when out to lunch to celebrate.

One of them remarked, “It’s shame my great-grandchildren haven’t been born yet.”

“Why is that?” asked his colleague.

The lobbyist explained, “So they can see how the government is spending their money!”

Holocaust Humor

Moshe was a holocaust survivor who finally died of old age. When he got to heaven he was able to meet God, and the two of them had a nice long conversation.

At one point Moshe said, “Hey, I have a joke about the holocaust,” and then proceeded to tell it to God.

God listened to the joke and remarked, “You know, I don’t find that joke to be very funny.”

Moshe replied, “Well, I guess you had to be there.”

Sunday, February 2, 2020

Goodbye DMR5.com

So back when I signed up with SiteGround web hosting, they had this quirky way of doing things. You could set up multiple websites, but they had to be under a tertiary domain. So if you had both example.com and something.com, one of them would be the “master” account, let’s say example.com, and the other was a sub account like this: something.example.com, and then you could alias www.something.com to that… Simple, no?

Anyhoo, I didn’t want to use a website I already had as the master, so I registered a new domain, DMR5.com. So at that time you could go to flushtwice.dmr5.com and this site would show up just fine. Of course you could also go to www.flushtwice.com or just flushtwice.com, and they would forward to the flushtwice.dmr5.com in such a way that you would not see it in the address bar. Personally I thought it was stupid, but they did have very fast and responsive servers… Unlike the DSL connection to a Vic 20 you get when you sign up with Dreamhost. (We still have two years left with these clowns.)

So I kept DMR5.com around after switching to Dreamhost, even though I didn’t need it anymore. I kept thinking I would do something with it… and I never did. So yesterday, dmr5.com quietly expired… which is sad… because it’s a four character dot com! Those things aren’t easy to come by. But still, it’s better this way. I mean, what was I suppose to do with it?

My registrar will keep it on hold for a few months under the false assumption that I “forgot” to renew it. After that, it goes up for grabs on the open market. GoDaddy is probably already eyeing it for a spamvertisement-landing page. Whatever happens now is no longer my concern.


Kudos

Speaking of things that no longer concern me, this week’s jokes were sent in by George and Glenn. It great when the only thing I have to do is copy and paste. Of course if you submit a joke through our submission page, I won’t even have to do that. On the other hand, sending jokes to flush2x@gmail.com does require the ol’ ctrl-c/ctrl-v.

“Distracted from distraction by distraction” ― T.S. Eliot

Pax,

-f2x