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    K.I.S.S.

    You don't have to be an engineer to appreciate this story.

    A toothpaste factory had a problem: they sometimes shipped empty boxes,
    without the tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was set
    up, and people with experience in designing production lines will tell you
    how difficult it is to have everything happen with timings so precise that
    every single unit coming out of it is perfect 100% of the time.

    Understanding how important that was, the CEO of the toothpaste factory got
    the top people in the company together and they decided to start a new
    project, in which they would hire an external engineering company to solve
    their empty boxes problem, as their engineering department was already too
    stretched to take on any extra effort.

    The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor
    allocated, RFP, third-parties selected, and six months (and $8 million)
    later they had a fantastic solution. They solved the problem by using
    high-tech precision scales that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever
    a toothpaste box would weigh less than it should. The line would stop,
    someone would walk over and yank the defective box out of it, pressing
    another button when done to re-start the line.

    A while later, the CEO decides to have a look at the ROI of the project:
    amazing results! No empty boxes ever shipped out of the factory after the
    scales were put in place. Very few customer complaints, and they were
    gaining market share. "That's some money well spent!" - he says, before
    looking closely at the other statistics in the report.

    It turns out, the number of defects picked up by the scales was 0 after
    three weeks of production use. It should've been picking up at least a dozen
    a day, so maybe there was something wrong with the report. He filed a bug
    against it, and after some investigation, the engineers come back saying the
    report was actually correct. The scales really weren't picking up any
    defects, because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were
    good.

    Puzzled, the CEO travelled down to the factory, and walked up to the part of
    the line where the precision scales were installed.

    A few feet before the scale, there was a $20 desk fan, blowing the empty
    boxes out of the belt and into a bin.


    "Oh, that," says one of the workers - "one of the guys put it there 'cause
    he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang".

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    From Thomas Cook Holidays - listing some of the guests'


    1. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."

    2. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time - this should be banned

    3. "On my holiday to Goa in India , I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food at all."

    4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels."

    5. A tourist at a top African game lodge over looking a water hole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel "inadequate".

    6. A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she'd been locked in by staff. When in fact, she had mistaken the "do not disturb" sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.

    7. "The beach was too sandy."

    8. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white."

    9. A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.

    10. "Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."

    11. "We bought' Ray-Ban' sunglasses for five Euros from a street trader, only to find out they were fake."

    12. "No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."

    13. "There was no egg slicer in the apartment..."

    14. "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish..."

    15. "The roads were uneven.

    16. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home."

    17. "I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends' three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller."

    18. "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation. We are trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying there?"

    19. "There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners now live abroad'"

    20. "We had to queue outside with no air conditioning."

    21. "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

    22. "I was bitten by a mosquito - no-one said they could bite."

    23. "My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."




















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    Tony Abbott was seated next to a little girl on an aeroplane so he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."

    The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"

    "Oh, I don't know," said Tony. "How about boat people, health care, or stimulus packages?" as he smiled smugly.

    "OK," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns
    out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"

    Tony, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."

    To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss refugees, health care, or the economy, when you don't know ****?" And then she went back to reading her book.

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    George Michael has sympathised with the captain of the sticken Italian liner saying....
    I'm often left abandoned lying on my side....
    with a badly damaged bottom after a nights cruising.

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    Chinese man decides to move to Australia after 50 years of living in Shanghai. He buys a small piece of land near to Mt Isa. A few days after moving in the friendly Aussie Neighbour decides to go across and welcome the new guy to the region. So he goes next door but on his way up the drive-way he sees the Chinese man running around his front yard chasing about 10 hens. Not wanting to interrupt these 'Chinese customs', he decides to put the welcome on hold for the day.
    The next day, he decides to try again, but just as he is about to knock on the front door, he looks through the window and sees the Chinese man urinate into a glass and then drink it. Not wanting to interrupt another 'Chinese Custom, he decides to put the welcome on hold for yet another day. A day later he decides to give it one last go, but on his way next door, he sees the Chinese man leading a bull down the drive-way, pause, and then put his head next to the bull's bum.
    The Aussie bloke can't handle this, so he goes up to the Chinese man and says 'Jeez Mate, what the hell is it with your Chinese customs ? I come over to welcome you to the neighbourhood, and see you running around the yard after hens. The next day you are ****ing in a glass, and drinking it, and then today you have your head so close to that bull's' bum, it could just about **** on you.
    The Chinese man is very taken back and says 'Sorry sir, you no understand, these no Chinese customs I doing, these Australian Customs.' 'What do you mean mate' says the Aussie, 'Those aren't Australian customs.'

    'Yes they are. Man at travel agent tell me, replied the Chinese man,' He say to become true Australian, I learn to chase chicks, drink ****, and listen to bull-****'

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    A group of bikers were riding when they saw a woman about to jump off a bridge, so they stopped. The leader, a big burly man, gets off his bike and says, "What are you doing?"

    "I'm going to commit suicide," she says.

    While he didn't want to appear insensitive, he didn't want to miss an opportunity either, so he asked... "Well, beforeyou jump, why don't you give me a kiss?"

    So she does... And it was a long, deep, lingering kiss.

    After she's finished, the biker says, "Wow! That was the best kiss I've ever had! That's a real talent you are wasting. You could be famous. Why in the world would you want to commit suicide?"

    "My parents don't like me dressing up like a girl........".

    The authorities think she may have been pushed

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    A hungry but penniless bloke walks into a seedy cafe in Glasgow. He sits at the counter and notices Jock with his arms folded staring blankly at a bowl of chilli. After fifteen minutes of just sitting there staring at it, the hungry bloke bravely asks, "If you aren't going to eat that, mind if I do?" The old Jock slowly turns his head toward the young bloke and says, "Aye, ye can gae right aheid." Eagerly, the young bloke reaches over and slides the bowl over to his place and starts spooning it in with delight. He gets nearly down to the bottom and notices a dead mouse in the chilli. The sight was shocking and he immediately pukes up the chilli back into the bowl.

    The old Jock says, "Aye, that's as far as I got too."

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    Two drums and a cymbal....

    My wife has been missing for two weeks. The police said to prepare for the worst. So, I went to the thrift shop to get all of her clothes back.


    I saw a poor old lady fall over today on the ice. At least I presume she was poor - she only had $1.20 in her purse.


    My girlfriend thinks that I'm a stalker. Well, she's not exactly my girlfriend, yet.


    Went for my routine checkup today and everything seemed to be going fine until he stuck his index finger up my bum. Do you think I should change dentists?


    A wife says to her husband, "you're always pushing me around and talking behind my back." He says "What do you expect? You're in a wheel chair."


    I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get reincarnated but must come back as a different creature. She said she would like to come back as a cow. I said, "You're obviously not listening."


    There's a new Muslim clothing shop opened in our shopping center, but I've been banned from it after asking to look at some of the new bomber jackets.


    You can say lots of bad things about pedophiles but at least they drive slowly past schools.


    A friend of mine has just told me he's getting it on with his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a mustache."


    I just put a deposit down on a brand new Porsche and mentioned on my Facebook page that, "I can't wait for the new 911 to arrive!" Next thing I know 4,000 Muslims have added me as a friend!


    Being a modest man, when I checked into my hotel on a recent trip, I said to the lady at the registration desk, "I hope the porn channel in my room is disabled." To which she replied, "No, it's regular porn, you sick man."


    The Red Cross just knocked at our door and asked if we could help towards the floods in Pakistan. I said we would love to, but our garden hose only reaches the driveway.

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    Jan, Sue, and Mary haven't seen each other since leaving School. They rediscover each other via Friends Reunited, and arrange to meet for lunch.

    Jan arrives first, wearing a beige Versace dress. She orders a bottle of Pinot Grigio.

    Sue arrives shortly afterwards, wearing a grey Chanel number. After the initial hugs and kisses she joins Jan in a glass of wine.

    Then Mary walks in, wearing a faded old tee-shirt, blue jeans and boots. She too shares the wine.

    Jan explains that after leaving school and attending Oxford University, she met and married Timothy, with whom she has a beautiful daughter. Timothy is a partner in one of London ’s leading law firms. They live in a 4000 sq ft apartment on Park Lane , where Susanna, the daughter, attends drama school. They have a second home in Portugal .

    Sue relates that she graduated from Cambridge University, studied to become a doctor and then became a surgeon. Her husband, Clive, is a leading financial investment banker in the City. They live in the Surrey stockbroker belt and have a second home in Italy .

    Mary explains that she after she left school at 17, she ran off with her boyfriend, Mark. They run a tropical bird park in Essex and grow their own vegetables. Mark can stand five parrots, side by side, on a certain appendage.

    Halfway down the third bottle of wine and several hours later, Jan bursts into tears and confesses that her husband is really a cashier at Tesco’s. They live in a small apartment in Bromley and have a caravan parked on the front drive.

    Sue, chastened and encouraged by her old friend's honesty, confesses that she and Clive are both care assistants in an old people’s home. They live in Peckham and take camping holidays in Kent .

    Mary admits that the fifth parrot has to stand on one leg

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    Three aussie blokes working up on an outback mobile phone tower:
    Mongrel, Coot and Bluey ..

    As they start their descent, Coot slips, falls off the tower and is killed instantly..
    As the ambulance takes the body away,
    Bluey says, 'Well, bugger me, someone's gotta go and tell Coot's wife.

    Mongrel says, 'OK, I'm pretty good at that sensitive stuff, I'll do it.'

    Two hours later, he comes back carrying a case of Beer!!

    Bluey says, 'Where'd you get the grog, Mongrel?'
    'Coot's wife gave it to me,' Mongrel replies.
    'That's unbelievable, you told the Missus her husband was dead and
    she gave you a case of beer?'

    'Well, not exactly', Mongrel says.

    'When she answered the door, I said to her, "you must be Coot's widow."

    She said, 'You must be mistaken.. I'm not a widow.'

    Then I said, 'I'll betcha a case of beer you are..'


    Aussies are good at that sensitive stuff.
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