Ask Jeeves, Ship Movie, Reading Problem

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260509Ask Jeeves

My 50-something friend Nancy and I decided to introduce her mother to the magic of the Internet.  Our first move was to access the popular “Ask Jeeves” site, and we told her it could answer any question she had.

Nancy’s mother was very skeptical until Nancy said, “It’s true, Mom. Think of something to ask it.”

As I sat with fingers poised over the keyboard, Nancy’s mother thought a minute, then responded, “How is Aunt Helen feeling?”

Ship Movie

On many U.S. Navy ships the movie screen is suspended amid-ship so that it can be viewed from both sides. This procedure makes it available to larger crowds at popular movies, but usually the junior officers get a reverse image from ‘the wrong side of the screen.’

One evening at dinnertime an enterprising young ensign passed the following word over the officers’ IMC circuit: “The movie to be shown in the wardroom tonight for the senior officers is on the right side of the screen – The Right-Handed Gun, starring Paul Newman.”

“For the junior officers on the wrong side of the screen – The Left-Handed Gun, starring Namwen Luap.”

Reading Problem

A patient came to me to discuss her nine year old son who was having difficulty reading. The mother was worried that her son was, as she said, “lysdexic”.

“Yes”, I answered, “and it tends to run in families”.

“No one else has it” she replied.

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