Bill and Nga rented a boat and fished most every day. One day they caught lots of fish. Bill said to his friend Nga, "Mark this spot so that we can come back here again tomorrow."
The next day, when they were driving to rent the boat, Bill asked Nga, "Did you mark that spot?" Nga replied, "Yeah, I painted a big 'X' on the bottom of the boat."
Bill said, "Nga, you idiot! What if we don't get the same boat?
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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
A curved stick.
It's wise to remember how easily this wonderful technology can be misused, sometimes unintentionally, with serious consequences. Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a holiday in the South Pacific. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
PS. Sure is hot down here.
