More on mouse disposal
"Early on in my working life my boss asked me to come into his office and quietly pull the rubbish bin away from a corner of his room. I didn't know why but I duly obliged. Crouching behind the bin was a mouse. Next thing my boss threw his Steel Designers Manual (a hard cover book of well over 1000 pages) down on top of the mouse, killing it outright. Picking the book up we could see blood had come out of the mouse's mouth and gone over the back cover of the book and on the carpet. My boss wasn't unduly perturbed and cleaned up the blood, but it certainly put me off my lunch that day."
Ford car lovers and ageing women find common ground ... sort of
Rob writes: "A female friend who in their professional life helped people deal with the consequences of menopause spotted a group of young lads in a battered car with the plate HRTSUX and was somewhat puzzled as to what these young lads would know about Hormone Replacement Therapy, but agreed regardless that it did suck. She was somewhat embarrassed subsequently to be informed that the car in question was a Ford and the HRT stood for Holden Racing Team."
Confusion on a plate
"A local personalised plate had me confused too, confesses another reader. "WEDLVR was ahead of me and all I could think of was 'Wed Lover' or 'Weird Lover' etc. It was only when I drew alongside the vehicle and saw the New World logo that I realised it was actually "We Deliver".
Picture this: Douglas photographed this in the Sunday school corner of Culross Abbey in Scotland. "Works for me, certainly trumps intelligent design," he says.
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