No Eared Interview

A guy walks in for his interview. The man who’s interviewing him has no ears.

The interviewer asks, “Whats the first thing you notice about me?”

The guy responds, “Why, You don’t have any ears.”

Interviewer: “Get out! Send in the next guy.”

2nd guy walks in for his interview.

The interviewer asks, “Whats the first thing you notice about me?”

The guy responds, “Why, You don’t have any ears.”

Interviewer: “Get out! Send in the next guy.”

This guy on the way out says to the 3rd guy “Whatever you do, don’t say anything about his not having any ears. He’ll kick you right out.”

3rd guy walks in for his interview.

The interviewer asks, “Whats the first thing you notice about me?”

The guy looks at the interviewer intently for a few seconds and responds, “Why, you wear contact lenses don’t you.”

The interviewer says, “That’s impressive that you’re so observant. How could you tell I wear contact lenses?”

3rd guy “Because you don’t have any ears to hang glasses on.”

Getting the real story in Gaza

The biggest spectacle of the week was the “breakout” from Gaza of several hundred thousand Palestinians, after Hamas agents took out much of the high wall that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt, in a series of explosions after months of undermining the structure with acetylene torches and similar labour-intensive tools.

The media accounts of this event were incoherent, and understandably so. For even people in the Bush administration were puzzled, and I found myself being asked if I could explain it to more than one of them. When the people who supposedly control the CIA and the State Department are reduced to asking armchair journalists to explain breaking news, well: the world is in a fine state, isn’t it?

My first comment, at least to them, had to be: “So why did you fire all your neoconservatives?”

Bondholders have no case, BCE asserts

MONTREAL–Disgruntled bondholders have entered unchartered waters with their lawsuits against the $52 billion sale of telecom giant BCE Inc., a Quebec court was told yesterday.

“The oppression claims of the bondholders are completely without merit. They rest on a foundation of sand,” Kent Thomson, a lawyer for BCE, told Quebec Superior Court Justice Joel Silcoff.

The bondholders, who claim the sale of the Bell Canada parent is unfair to them, said they will lose money under terms of Bell’s $52-billion takeover by a consortium led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, while shareholders make a premium.