OCTOBER 31, 1517
Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light,
the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg,
under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther,
Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in
Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that
those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us,
may do so by letter.In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
What’s the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
When I used to work for dad we frequented a little chinese buffett near his office. The staff in there new us by sight; we’d go right to the buffett and then head to our usual table to find two sweet teas waiting.
I was hired at H.O. Systems (which was purchased by VeriSign later) the December before I was married. About a year after the wedding dad and I went to lunch at that same Chinese place, and the same staff was there. When we were leaving, the gal made some small talk, then said “You’ve gained weight.”
I have a friend who, when I relayed this story, said that I was like her husband, who needed to put on some weight. And that’s what that gal meant — or so she said. But I have to think that, when the waitress who doesn’t even know your name comments on it, you’ve put one some pounds.
where, oh where have I heard this story before?
Amazingly, once the “Windows conversion” project was over, their software actually worked in Windows. It looked terrible and ran incredibly slow, but it worked. The company was able to keep its entire floor of COBOL programmers working on the System/3-COBOL-translated-to-C-rendered-in-Windows application and things have remained the same ever since. After all, they found a formula that worked and there was no need to change it.
Socialist Sushi is the homepage of Bryan L. Fordham.
I’m 30, married, and live in Richmond Hill, Ga.
