5/31/09 Great Want Ad

Not exactly a typical "quote" but I just loved this so much, I had to put it somewhere. My Girl Scout friend Hilary saw this, photographed it, and put it on her Facebook site. Gotta love it. :-)

Statistics

"Statistics are like a lamppost for a drunk man--more for support than illumination."

Donald J. Dessart as quoted by Ashley Montgomery, former statistics student of Dr. Dessart.

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Dr. Dessart served on Ashley's dissertation committee and joked that the only numbers in her dissertation were the page numbers.

thoughts on the metric system

If God had intended us to use the Metric system we would have been born with 10 fingers and 10 toes.
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LOL! I saw this in the signature line of a posting on a technical support bulletin board. Nothing else was bringing me much joy so I was doubly delighted to read this and have a very good laugh.

Dogs

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. ~Phil Pastoret

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That is soooo true! That quote was on the bottom of an email that contained this dog story that is equally fun:

An old, tired-looking dog wandered into the yard. I could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home. He followed me into the house, down the hall, and fell asleep in a corner.

An hour la ter, he went to the door, and I let him out. The next day he was back, resumed his position in the hall, and slept for an hour. This continued for several weeks. Curious, I pinned a note to his collar: "Every afternoon your dog comes to my house for a nap."

The next day he arrived with a different note pinned to his collar: "He lives in a home with ten children -- he's trying to catch up on his sleep. Can I come with him tomorrow?"