- BIG NEWS:
- Newspapers
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- Morning Joe
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- NBC
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- Today Show
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• Why do fast-food workers always sweep around you when you're eating?
• When they tell you at the doctor's office that he/she is running on time, you'll be waiting for at least 20 minutes, until you get in the small examining room - another 15 minutes.
• Boredom is an ADHD's chronic fear.
• The remedy for boredom is curiosity. There is no remedy for curiosity.
• You know you're a geezer when your druggist is on your speed dial.
• Tom Hanks is having Jimmy Stewart's career.
• 'More bars in more places' is more applicable to New Orleans' Bourbon Street than it is to AT&T.
• Content delivered without the right demeanor is like a hook without the bait.
• When did cashiers start returning change coins on top of paper bills so they slide off during the transfer to your hand?
• If Darwin had said we ASCENDED from apes, instead of DESCENDED from them, would there be so much controversy?
• Why do waiters ask "How is everything?" only when your mouth is full?
• Brad Pitt is having Robert Redford's career.
• The problem with egotists is NOT that they won't stop talking, it's that they wont let you stop listening.
• You know you're in L.A. when the first conversation at any off-site meeting is - "How'd you get here? What route did you take?"
• As seat space gets smaller, airlines now charge passengers additional fees for food and snacks, checking baggage, speaking to an actual reservation person on the phone, getting a seat assignment, re-banking frequent flyer miles. What's next: a dollar every time we use the call-button for a flight attendant? How about pay toilets?
• Does it bother you that no one actually talks to each other in a Saturday Night Live sketch? It's cue-card talking to cue-card.
• When a modern metro sexual hears '...don we now our gay apparel,' from "Deck the Halls, does he think Versace or Marc Jacobs?
• There are a lot of things more important than money. And they're all itemized on our credit cards.
• Japanese auto-maker Toyota released the break-through hybrid Prius in 1997. Ford put out the first American hybrid 7 years later. Any wonder why Detroit auto makers are losing?
• In Los Angeles, a pedestrian is someone who's just park their car.
• Lessons learned from computers: when life gets out-of-whack, re-boot.
• Hard to picture:
- the comedy stylings of Daniel Day-Lewis.
- Donald Trump's hair as he comes out of a pool.
- James Carvelle and Mary Matlin as a married couple.
- Wolf Blitzer playing Twister on the floor.
- Ann Coulter in a page-boy.
- Chicago without Italien beef sandwiches
- Radio without NPR
- Christmas without "It's a Wonderful Life."
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Yep. I have ADHD too.
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