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Friday Follies -- government efficiency

Feb 5, 2004 9:35PM PST

A passerby noticed a couple of state road workers working along the city sidewalks. The man was quite impressed with their hard work, but he couldn't understand what they were doing.

Finally, he approached the workers and asked, "I appreciate how hard you're both working, but what the heck are you doing? It seems that one of you digs a hole, and then the other guy immediately fills it back up again."

One of the state road workers explained, "The third guy who plants the trees is off sick today."

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Re: I don't know why your joke brought this to mind
Feb 5, 2004 9:44PM PST

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.

The Russians used a pencil.

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$12 billion??????????? and we thought those $300 toilet seats were bad.
Feb 6, 2004 4:28AM PST

So much for Yankee ingenuity.

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Makes a nice story.
Feb 6, 2004 4:51AM PST