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According to inside contacts, the Japanese banking crisis shows no signs of ameliorating. If anything, it's getting worse. Following last week's news that Origami Bank had folded, we are hearing that Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank plans to cut back some of its branches. Karaoke Bank is up for sale and is going for a song. Business at the First Bank of Hiroshima has completely bombed, and the Okinawa Bank remains an island unto itself. Meanwhile, shares in Kamikaze Bank have nose-dived and...

The following is probably apocryphal, but so what? At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If General Motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response to Gates' comments, GM's Bill Welch issued a press release in reply, saying, If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with...

A doctor had the reputation of helping couples increase the joy in their sex life, but always promised not to take a case if he felt he could not help them. The Browns came to see the doctor, and he gave them thorough physical exams, psychological exams, and various tests. He then concluded, "Yes, I am happy to say that I believe I can help you. On your way home from my office stop at the grocery store and buy some grapes and some doughnuts. Go home, take off your clothes, and you, sir, roll the grapes...

"Got here early. You know me, how I take the bus down... Down from Long Island Shelter. Let me tell you, that place's bad news. I got to get outta there." The roaches they run for cover. My usual struggle to force the copy machine's door back on again, while she talks about her boyfriend. And how he's picked up. So there's a smile, "Well it's Friday. "You made it through another week." But really, just can't think of anything better to say. "You know that's right." Keeps shaking her head, "'Cause you...

Just another tell myself every time. Only a couple familiar Hebrew prayers are somewhat faintly comforting. Shivas are real disturbing with their covered mirrors, louds voices over plates of food and crashing dishes. And on the other side for my Italian relatives & world beyond; the many wakes. But usually they're these perfect strangers to me; going only to show respect. So I was surprised to see how much this man I never met - Looked like his brother my Italian grandfather, I never really knew. Too...

Couldn't think of anything to name their band, so they were driving him crazy. Maybe they could've found the answer in some poem, or a passage from A Separate Peace—But no, nothing inspired them. The twins were always bothering him like that, way back in the dark closet part of his mind. Only really like themselves, they arrived shortly after his tenth birthday. His room moved downstairs into Dad's old den, and the cribs took over. Came home from school to them standing up in their playpen. Clinging to...

He drives his battered '82 Renault up the newly smoothed dirt and gravel road and over the crest of the hill. The Ausauble Club lodge appears before him suddenly, massively. A giant old lodge for the rich and their exploits here in the heart of the Adiron-dacks for over a century, its whitewashed planks and forest green shutters seem to go on forever; a full six stories high in a land where height is not only horrendously expensive but also horrendously useless-and nearly two city blocks long (and over...

A horse and a chicken grew up together on the farm, and they were the best of friends. They went everywhere together. One day the horse waded into the pond to get a drink, and he realized that his feet were stuck in the mud and that he was sinking. He yelled for the chicken and said, "I'm stuck in the mud and sinking, go get help, go get the farmer!" The chicken ran to the house and, realizing the farmer wasn't home, grabbed the car keys, flapped to the garage, backed out the BMW, drove down by the...

Your Jedi might be a redneck if... he uses his lightsaber to cut the bottlecap off a beer he says, "These are not the beers you're looking for" that "Disturbance in the Force" was just last night's baked beans and spareribs the inside of the house looks more like Dagobah than the outside he calls his young apprentice, "Hoss" he ever uses telekinesis to pull his jeans up the Force isn't the only thing that runs in the family he calls Hank Williams "master" his landspeeder has a gun rack he constantly...

Sadie lost her husband almost four years ago and still has not gotten out of her depression, mourning as if it were only yesterday. Her daughter constantly is calling her and urging her to get back into the world. Finally, Sadie says she'd go out, but didn't know anyone. Her daughter immediately replies, "Mama! I have someone for you to meet." Well, it was an immediate hit. They took to one another and after dating for six weeks he asks her to join him for a weekend in the Catskills. And we know what...