Horror
"The number 1 movie at the box office this weekend was ‘Paranormal Activity.’ It’s a low-budget horror film about a couple that sets up a camera in their bedroom at night.
The horror comes when she keeps waking him up to talk about their relationship."
Temperature
In the office where I work, there is a constant battle between our technical-support director and customer-service personnel over the room temperature, which is usually too low.
The frustrated director, trying to get us to understand his position, announced one afternoon, "We need to keep the temperature below seventy-five degrees or the computers will overheat."
Thinking that this was just another excuse, one of my shivering colleagues retorted, "Yeah right. So how did they keep the computers from overheating before there was air conditioning?"
Measurement
A woman walked into my father’s carpet store. She’d just moved out of her parents’ home and needed something for her new living-room floor. "Do you know how big the room is?" Dad asked.
"Yes," she said. "It’s 22 flip-flops long by 18 flip-flops wide…and I wear a size 8."
