This just in : NEW VIRUS WARNING

If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of “Badtimes,” delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous Email virus yet.

It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator’s coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and milk curdles . It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.

It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table when there’s company coming over.

It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic.

Badtimes will make you fall in love with a hardened pedophile. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.

It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Badtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.

Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up and leave the hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will wantonly remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and refill your skim milk with whole. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

What are the three questions most commonly asked by lawyers?

1. How much money do you have?

2. Where can you get more?

3. Do you have anything you can sell?
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Q: How many lawyer jokes are there?

A: Only three. The balance are documented case histories.

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There’s an interesting new novel about two ex-convicts. One of them studies to become a lawyer, the other decides to go straight.

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Lawyers are safe from the threat of automation taking over their professions. No one would build a robot to do nothing.

Approval Seeker’s Law: Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least. – Washington writer Rozanne Weissman

The Aquinas Axiom: What the gods get away with, the cows don’t.

Army Axiom: Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood.

Arnold’s Laws of Documentation: (1) If it should exist, it doesn’t. (2) If it does exist, it’s out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.

Astrology Laws: It’s always the wrong time of the month. – Rozanne Weissman

Avery’s Rule of Three: Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job – it’s the start of a brand new series of three.

Baer’s Quartet: What’s good politics is bad economics; what’s bad politics is good economics; what’s good economics is bad politics; what’s bad economics is good politics. – Eugene Baer (Baer also allows that it can be restated somewhat more compactly as “What’s good politics is bad economics and vice versa, vice versa.”)

Bagdikian’s Observation: Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” on a ukelele.

Baker’s First Law of Federal Geometry: A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors.

Signs Your Car Might Be A Lemon

Motor Trend never mentioned a “Chevrolet Caca.”

Manufactured in Zchkynk, Crzyktjkystan.

Passenger-side “airbag” is actually Rush Limbaugh crammed inside your glove box.

Two Words: Pontiac Sunkist

Changing the pre-set radio stations voids the warranty.

Oil spills on your driveway prompt a visit from Greenpeace.

Car has spent more time on “60 Minutes” than on the road.

Disqualified from Soapbox Derby for lack of structural integrity.

Turn on the wipers and two guys climb out of the trunk with squeegees.

Disqualified from Soapbox Derby for lack of structural integrity.

Bicycle pump required to inflate airbags.

“Jaws of Life” in trunk.

The hood ornament? An ostrich with its head in the sand.

When you sit behind the wheel, a nerdy billionaire voice asks, “Where do you want to go today?”

You realize too late that it *is* your father’s Oldsmobile.

Ralph Nader’s home phone number written on dashboard.

The telltale green-and-yellow-make-blue Zip-Lok seals on your air bags.

Tech Support: “I need you to right-click on the Desktop.”

Customer: “Ok.”

Tech Support: “Did you get a pop-up menu?”

Customer: “No.”

Tech Support: “Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?”

Customer: “No.”

Tech Support: “Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?”

Customer: “Sure, you told me to write ‘click’ and I wrote click’.”