Ouch!

A CROSS LADY’S COMPLAINT!

I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST.

I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME. SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 40-ODD YEARS AGO.

COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN?

UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT.

THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE. Continue reading “Ouch!”

Ambling armadillo

 

Are you a 'Sluggish snail?'

 

I’m told that this can be rather addictive, it took me 4 goes just to get a score (perhaps my mouse is too sensitive for the BBC 😉 )

My mate, who sent the link to me tells me that he can’t get past Bobbing bobcat, good for him!

Do we have any Rocketing rabbits here, or perhaps even a Turbo-charged cheetah!

Go on, don’t be sheepish, click one of the three links, you can even give you’re family and mates a try but be warned you might not get your mouse back!

Feel free to record your scores below, don’t be embarrassed I’ve made my score the post title.

My quickest reaction time? 0.252 sec.

Student Tuition – Lord Browne’s proposals

It is long overdue that tuition fees were allowed to function as part of the free market.
That students are given a loan at all to pay them is a concession to those who could not otherwise attend university. That they need to be earning more than £21K before repayments commence is a further concession, as is not having to repay them if they do not obtain gainful employment, or are in poorly paid employment.
The economists tell us that a graduate can expect to earn approximately £100,000 more over his working life than a non-graduate. If taking on a mortgage-sized loan to pay for tertiary education wipes out £80,000 of this theoretical gain, many more may question the wisdom of chasing the university-degree-for-all dream, and we may return to a situation where degrees may mean something once more, and the percentage of the population with degrees in particular subjects is more closely matched to the jobs available which require those degrees.
Academically poor universities should certainly be allowed to fail; the many whose degrees aren’t worth the paper they are printed on, will either need to buck up or bail out. HR departments already know which these are – it is their graduates who don’t seem to realize why their job applications don’t even receive the courtesy of a reply.
Our best universities will be able to charge premium rates as do their American cousins, and their degrees will continue to be valued accordingly, with none of this envy-driven Stalinist meddling with positive discrimination forcing the Oxfords and Cambridges to take on so many students whose pre-entry results already highlight their likely incapacity in coping with the intellectual workload. That they are failures of the state education system is no reason to foist them onto the few worldclass universities we have.

Corny one

Moshe, a Jewish visitor to India , asks the waiter in the restaurant:

– ‘Are there any Indian Jews?’

The waiter said,

– ‘I won’t be knowing, but I will ask the Chef.

After he returned from the kitchen a few minutes later:

– ‘No sir, no Indian Jews.’

The jew wasn’t really satisfied with that and asked,

– ‘Are you absolutely sure?’ Continue reading “Corny one”