Unclear instructions
Mr. Glass was terribly overweight, so his doctor puts him on a diet. “I want you to eat normally for two days, then skip a day,” the physician says, “Repeat this procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you should be down five pounds.”
When Mr. Glass returns, the doctor is delighted with his rapid weight loss. “You look great. Did you do this just by following my instructions?”
Glass nodded. “I’ll tell you though, I thought I was going to drop dead on the third day.”
“From hunger?”
“No,” replies Glass, “From all the skipping.”
Facts
Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what the people considered to be important. To obtain information they sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs and bars.
They were told to ‘go sip’ some Ale and listen to people’s conversations and political concerns. Many assistants were dispatched at different time. “You go sip here, and you go sip there.”
The two words ‘go sip’ were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion, and thus the term ‘gossip’ came about.
Group success
A woman tells her friend that she has been a member of a support group for procrastinators for about a year.
Her friend asks, “What do you do at the meetings?”
The woman responds, “I don’t know. We haven’t met yet.”
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