I saw a picture on the internet of a tongue lolling greyhound who had been labelled “Jerry from HR” in the staff profiles of a particular group – and that started me thinking. That’s it! Dogs would be great as...
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A Shorten Humorless lunchtime interview with Mr Cryptic, a well known business tycoon famous for his economical use of food, money and words. SH: Welcome Mr Cryptic. I’d like to ask you a few questions about how you...
They have read the books and done the “Good to Great” training seminars but somehow greatness slips through their fingers and dribbles into the kitchen sink.
“The limpid waters of Lake Owatawetness ….. abound with every known variety of fish. Near to its surface, so close that the angler may reach out his hand and stroke them, schools of pike, pickerel, mackerel, doggerel, and...
“The landlady of a boarding house is a parallelogram – that is an oblong angular figure which cannot be described but which is equal to anything” (from “Boarding House Geometry” by Stephen Leacock in...
“Her description of her father, the old earl, touched something romantic in Edwin’s generous heart. He was never tired of asking how old he was, was he robust, did a shock, a sudden shock, affect him much? And so on...
Organising the teams for table tennis is always a problem. There are the good players, the really good players and the really bad players like me who are there to make all the other players feel good about themselves. The...
Scene: A friend demonstrating a card trick. “…Here, try again. Pick a card.” “All right, I’ve got it.” “Put it back in the pack. Thanks. (Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle—flip)—There, is...