No respect

[Roger Baker]

Its important not to let appearances to get in the way of legitimate 
inquiry and goals.

Like just because somebody is working on a nuclear shoe it doesn't mean 
that
he or she is necessarily a terrorist no matter how quick the infidel 
police might
be tempted to jump to that conclusion.

Likewise one time when I organized the Society for the Massacre of Small 
Children,
most of the potential members were somehow put off by just the name, and 
never even
bothered to try to understand the intent, to say nothing of actually 
reading the bylaws
explaining the goals -- with which no solid citizen would probably 
disagree.

Misunderstood, Roger

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Forwarded from Tim Jones

Ironic Riddles

1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, 
does he
become disoriented?

2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland
called Holes?

3. Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack?

4. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

5. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

6. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

7. When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts" and you put your 
two
cents in . . .what happens to the other penny?

8. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

9. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale 
bread
to begin with?

10. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

11. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who
drives a race car not called a racist?

12. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

13. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

14. "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language.
Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

15. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow 
that
electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, 
models
deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

16. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP

17. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?

18. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

19. If the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the "Jags" and the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers are known as the"Bucs", what does that make the Tennessee 
Titans?

20. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea...does that mean that one
enjoys it?

21. Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?