From buddy  Thu Oct 24 13:24:57 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:24:52 
Subject: True Tales 


      True Tales
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My friend called his car insurance company to tell them to
change his address from Texas to Vermont. The woman who took
the call asked where Vermont was.  As he tried to explain,
she interrupted and said, "Look, I'm not stupid or anything,
but what state is it in?"
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A co-worker was playing with an astronomy program called
'Distant Suns' when an Induhvidual walked by, noticed his
monitor and inquired what he was doing. He replied that he
was connected to the Hubbell telescope and was manipulating
its view from his keyboard over the Internet. He even let
this person take a try at moving our NASA's multi-million
dollar telescope himself, just by clicking the mouse and the
arrow keys! The person could not pry himself away, thinking
he was working with the Hubbell and could not wait to tell
his wife what he had done at work.
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A man in my office was having trouble with his e-mail. I
overheard him discussing the fact that people to whom he had
mailed things yesterday had not yet received the messages.
I asked about the e-mail "outbasket" and he replied that
there was nothing there because he had cleaned it all out
this morning. A stunned silence followed while I attempted
to not laugh, and then I asked him if he meant that he
deleted everything in the outbasket. Yup. Oops. It must be
rough being the new guy.
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Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift.
One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said,
"I'm almost out of typing paper.  What do I do?" "Just use
copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern
took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the
photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.
Hey, interns work free.
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I was in a car dealership a while ago when a large motor
home was towed into the garage.  The front of the vehicle
was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally
looked like an extra in "Twister."  I asked the manager what
had happened.  He told me that the driver had set the cruise
control, then went back to make a sandwich.