Monday, December 10, 2012

Good morning crew,

As it turned out, the wife did have a very nice surprise for me Saturday night. She took me to dinner at my favorite steak house and then produced tickets for a live, stage performance of one of my favorite, old musicals, "Singin' in the Rain."

And just for the fun of it she dragged her parents along for the entire evening as sort of a Christmas gift (for them, not for me). But they are pretty good company when you get a couple drinks in 'em, so it didn't take long before they were leg-pullin' and telling dirty jokes.

The musical was pretty good, too. I imagined "Singin' in the Rain" would be kind of a difficult piece to pull off on the stage, but they arranged it very cleverly. The dancing was competent, and they even rigged sprinklers over the stage so when the title song came on they flooded the stage with rain. We were a little far back to be affected by that, but the people in the first two rows finally learned why they were given rain ponchos as they entered.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"Apple CEO Tim Cook says they will begin moving production of some Mac computers. They are going to build Apple products right here at home. So you kids 10 and under, get those resumes ready." -Jay Leno

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A co-worker was telling us about her sister who was coming to visit her for the holidays. Someone asked how old her sister was, at which she paused, thought for a bit, and then answered, "She's half as old as I am, that's how I always remember."

So someone else (okay, it was me) said, "That's neat... So every year that you age, she only ages half a year?" My co-worker thought about that, and then said, "Oh, yeah, I guess it only works on even years."


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I walked into a coffee shop on Halloween to find the woman behind the counter with a bunch of sponges pinned to her uniform.

"I'm assuming this is a costume, but just what are you supposed to be?" I asked.

The waitress responded proudly, "I'm self-absorbed."