Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-lymph!arndt From: arndt@lymph.DEC Newsgroups: net.flame,net.jokes Subject: Giggles from across the sea Message-ID: <3356@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 07:38:48 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3356 Posted: Wed Aug 15 07:38:48 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 00:05:13 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 26 Flash from the old world! Prof. Alistair Mant (from London) is in town (Boston) hawking his latest book, LEADERS WE DESERVE. The premise is that workers like those leaders who can laugh at the idea that work has any meaning, hence laugh at themselves (and the workers too it seems). It's all just a big joke! But by whom and on whom??? Anyway, it's the best stuff out of the old country since "I'm All Right Jack", staring Peter Sellers. Actually work in the non-market driven countries (you know who THEY are) IS a joke. The standard line there is, "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work". The problem is what happens when the joke gets stale? "Man cannot live by joke alone." Enter Brian hanging on the cross singing, "life is shitty" - another contribution from the other side. What's going ON over there? Hang tough America! The world's a stage as one of them once said and all the best clowns are across the water. Can't wait for the next act. It's a break from work. Regards, Ken Arndt