A fleeing Taliban, desperate for water, was plodding through the Afghan desert when he saw something far off in the distance. Hoping to find water, he hurried toward the oasis, only to find a little old Jewish man at a …
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My favourite messages of the last 24 hours – my goodness, they could really make you rich
Those of you who cherish the out-pourings of the shit-for-brains creeps who infest cyberspace will like this. I think perhaps the most illiterate attempt ever to rip me off came half an hour ago. Even in its over-exploited genre it …
Read MoreDo you sincerely want to be rich? Then watch out for the three card trick
This is provoked by three things. First, the daily torrent of lies from people who claim in various ways that they think of nothing, night and day, but making me rich and successful – and I won’t have to pay …
Read More“It’s all our fault” … “Cool Britannia” … and other dumb ideas
A few things I wonder. Is it even remotely intelligent to go one of the most corrupt countries on earth where the man in charge is called Mr 110% (I wonder why?) and dish out oceans of cash that you …
Read MoreAt last! Miracle Vitamin Drayton
Remember the restaurant scene in When Harry met Sally when she says, “I’ll have what she’s having.” Well, every day kind people tell me they like my ramblings, but this from Ian Dunsford had me in stitches. “A lot of …
Read MoreHe was doing what he loved and hating every minute of it
I got a lot of comments about this when I sent it out to my list, so if you haven´t seen it, here it is: Maybe you sometimes think I’m talking piffle, but are too polite to say so. Thank …
Read MoreMy beautiful Thai mirror – and why the the size of your bottom makes a difference
I have a beautiful mirror from Thailand which was given to me as thank you by the Thai Management Association quite a few years ago, when I made an after dinner speech. At the dinner I sat next to the …
Read MoreA little wisdom from Dr. Mardy
Do you like quotations? I love and collect them. I can sit quite happily for hours reading any decent dictionary of them. Good ones are distilled wisdom. Of course, being pathetically vain and insecure I am always thrilled when someone …
Read MoreRandom thoughts of an idle fellow
I was walking briskly to the railway station this morning, as you do, and started thinking about the absolute essentials of communication, as you do. And why? Because I must have tried (with very mixed success) to write just about …
Read MoreHow to breed a nation of drones, cowards and weaklings
Yesterday Warren Cottis from Australia asked me what I study nowadays and I named some books. I read a while ago an excellent one about Alexander Pope, who wrote some 300 years ago that “The proper study of mankind is …
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