[Trimoon]

Primate Programming?

[CJ Swartz]

Very informative link, Steve! (Primate Programming)
I fear that this will result in the mass unemployment of current programmers.

I wonder if there is a Primate Retouchers organization?

Primate Programming Inc. is dedicated to the advancement and gainful employment of non-human great apes within the United States information technology sector. We are the pioneer in Primate Programming (PP) worldwide....

Costs for software maintenance and report writing start at 69 cents per hour. Software testing requires less skill and this service starts at 45 cents per hour.

[winwintoo]

Voice on telephone to man seated at his computer:

Thank you for calling the tech support hotline. If your
computer becomes obsolete while you're holding, press
1 to reach our sales department.

[TwinbNJ]

Very good !!!

I will remember that one.........

I think my computer was outdated before it was shipped.

[CJ Swartz]

This only takes a few seconds to attempt.
Sounds easy as you read it but just give it a try.
Good Luck.


While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot on the floor. While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction!!

[Leah]

CJ, Thanks for that! After freaking out my husband I have forwarded on to friends and relations. A very strange feeling to have your foot taking on a mind of its own...

[kathleen]

dogs everywhere (literate ones, anyway) ought to have a good laugh over this one . . .

[CJ Swartz]

A very strange feeling to have your foot taking on a mind of its own... - Leah

dogs everywhere (literate ones, anyway) ought to have a good laugh over this one . - Kathleen

It was sent to me in an e-mail -- don't know who gets the credit for its origination. I didn't think it would work -- until I tried it.

[DannyRaphael]

I think bug A is scratching bug B's back, ya think?

[Cheryl H]

CJ--I did the foot thing with my students the first day of school. Thirty kids making sitting sideways in their desks making circles with their feet and all reversing at the same time. It was a big hit. I did it at the end of class and they raced to their next class to pull it on the next teacher (biology). Thanks for sharing such a fun thing--my students and I both enjoyed it.

Danny--I don't know how to break this to you, but...I do believe they are scratching a different type of itch.

[CJ Swartz]

Thirty kids making sitting sideways in their desks making circles with their feet and all reversing at the same time.

That's a great mind image -- I'm glad you were a hit!

[winwintoo]

While attending a marriage seminar on communication, Bill and
his wife, Mary, listened to the instructor declare, "It is essential
that husbands and wives know the things that are important to
each other."

He addressed the men, "Can you describe your wife's favorite
flower?"

Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered,
"Pillsbury All-Purpose, isn't it?"

The rest of the story is not pleasant.

[winwintoo]

Thought this was interesting:

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have,
for instance.
-- Franklin P. Jones


Margaret

[DannyRaphael]

I recently read a column advising grandparents on the merits of applying a little "Tough Love" to misbehaving grandchildren, whose own parents let them run wild.

I have followed the advice,and am attaching a picture demonstrating my technique when my grandson just won't behave while I'm babysitting for his parents.

They have told me not to spank him, so I just take him for a ride. He usually calms down in short order.

Regards,

Tough Love Grandma

[LQQKER]

Danny,

And all this time I thought I was using an "original" technique.