Skip, Very interesting about the tennis balls. Stupid questions that's a big topic...depends on your definition of 'stupid' ..
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:40 PM, Skip Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's days from Friday, but I have to comment. Like a puzzle for my > granddaughter: which question is not (stupid) like the others? As if it > were imponderable and unanswerable outside the realm of fancy: why are > tennis balls fuzzy? The answer is that they were originally smooth and > fast and very bouncy. The bounce and speed were a challenge for players > but made for lousy spectating because rallies were swift and short. Fairly > boring to watch. The solution was to fuzz up the balls in order to slow > them down so that rallies would last long enough to evoke the oohs and ahs > that we engage in today. > > What's stupider than a stupid question? A stupid questioner. > > . > . > JO.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > [email protected] > > > > From: zMan <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 01/21/2014 01:38 PM > Subject: Re: OT: Humor? Stupid questions from a job interviewer. > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > No worries, I was trying to be funny! > > >> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My bad. I paraphrased something that I had seen a few weeks ago [1] but > I >> had not yet read zMan's posting of the same joke before I posted it. >> Bill Fairchild >> >> [1] And what I saw a few weeks ago might even have been a zMan post. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "DASDBILL2" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:30:24 PM >> Subject: Re: OT: Humor? Stupid questions from a job interviewer. >> >> Speaking of job interviews, here's one possible reason why old guys do > not >> do well in interviews: >> >> >> >> Interviewer: "What would you say is your worst shortcoming?" >> >> Old guy: "My honesty." >> >> Interviewer: "I don't think that honesty is necessarily a shortcoming." >> >> Old guy: "I really don't give a sh*t what you think." >> >> End of interview. >> >> >> >> Bill Fairchild > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
