Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Job Satisfaction and Other Shorts

Job Satisfaction IN THE NAVY!
(Binary Scale)

Find pleasure: 1
Search the world for treasure: 0
Learn science technology: 1
Begin to make my dreams all come true, on the land or on the sea: 0
Learn to fly: 0
Play in sports: 0
Skin dive: 0
Study oceanography: 1
Sign up for the big band: 0
Sit in the grandstand when your team and others meet: 0
Sail the seven seas: 0
Put my mind at ease: 0
Make a stand: 1
Protect the motherland: 0 (training commands to date)
Join your fellow man: 1

The perks of my job are apparently highly exaggerated.

This next generation of Americans will be one of selectively excellent spellers. Specifically, every female will be able to spell the words "bananas," "delicious," "tastey" (sic), "Fergie," and "glamorous." This phenomenon recalls an earlier generation that was able to spell the words "some," "pig," "terrific," "radiant," and "humble." If the wisdom of the ages were collated, the sentence "Some terrific, delicious, tastey, glamorous, radiant, bananas, humble pig Fergie" would be flawless except for want of a predicate.

Seriously, did no one think to spell out "laodicean" in a pop song? The Scripps spelling bee could've gone so much further.

1 comment:

Mithun said...

I'm always amazed at my parent's ability to spell "Respect."