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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Everyone has some sort of general perspective on the world, be it gloom, doom and kaboom or sugar and spice and all things nice. It all depends on who you ask. So I trolled around for an interesting bunch of people and I...
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...
Alfredo, the Formula 1 racecar driver, realised he needed help. He had lost his will to win, his need for speed and his F1 car keys had gone missing. Each morning when he woke up, he didn’t know if he would feel as fiery as...
Recently my colleague John “Jokie” Jokeson came over to brainstorm ideas for a short comedy film he is hoping to produce. It went like this: Shorten Humourless (SH): Hi Jokie, what’s new? JJ: Good to see you...
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge” – Bertrand Russell “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays” (1935) “Well, Bonzo” said his mother,”Today is a big day for you” “Why Mum...
They know if they miss buying some now, they will have to suffer eating supermarket doughnuts that are as cold, rubbery and unappetising as a dog’s chew toy. So they buy the fresh warm doughnuts in front of them. And a box...
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.
I loved my primary school library collection of Richmal Crompton’s “Just William” stories written in the 1920s to 1960s. William’s adventures were set in a well-off English village, which was close enough to London for...
Eureka moments, sudden realisations that change you forever, revelations of great truths. They are all epiphanies. I had a self epiphany at my first school cricket match. When I walked in to bat, the opposing team as a man moved...