Odds and Sods

Canadian Mint is checking out the 5 dollar coin again and scrapping the penny – there going to do this – but they need a name for this coin – Top 6 rejected names for the 5 dollar coin.
6 The Big Nickel – that’s pretty lame
5 The Quintooney
4 3.98 American
3 The Tin Fin
2 The Back Breaker – like that one
And the Number One rejected Name for the 5 dollar coin ---- two toonies, a loney and a piece of fluff

Out of the Mouths of Babes – great thoughts from Wee Little Kids …

• “When I go to heaven, I want to see my grandpa again. But he better have lost the nose hair and the old-man smell.”
• “I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don’t have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?”• “If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how quiet it would be until the looting started.”
• “As you make your way through life, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you’ll have a couple of days saved up.”
• “Think of the biggest number you can. Now add 5. Then, imagine if you had that many donuts”• “I once heard the voice of God. It said ‘Vrrrrmmmmm’. Unless that was just a lawnmower.”

TIM MCGRAW’s first cologne, McGraw By Tim McGraw, will be out in August. The scent is described as spicy and woody and contains elements of lavender, sandlewood, nutmeg and aged whiskey. He will appear in print and television ads to promote its release.

TRISHA YEARWOOD’s new cookbook, Georgia Cooking In An Oklahoma Kitchen, debuts at #3 on this week’s New York Times Best Sellers Hardback list.

On TV yesterday: Yoga classes for pets are now popular. Experts say you can teach your pet to meditate. Gee, I’m not so sure. My cat sleeps 20 hours a day -- eats one hour a day -- licks himself three hours a day. Trying to squeeze meditation into his busy schedule might just cause a lot of stress.

YOUR TEEN SON IS BUSY STARTING TODAY _ What will your teen son be doing this week and weekend? One of two things, or both: playing Grand Theft Auto IV, which is out today (April 29), or watching Iron Man, which hits theaters Friday. Analysts predict GTA IV will easily top last year's record-breaking $300 million first-week sales of Halo 3.

Scientists in the UK are seeking 150 women to eat chocolate every day for a year for the cause of medical research. [So far three and a half billion women have applied.]

Imports of Barbie dolls and other Western toys will have destructive cultural and social consequences in Iran, the Islamic Republic's top prosecutor was quoted as saying. [I agree. The last thing Iran needs is millions of little girls who think they can do what they want.]

Modesto, California, police are blaming a scratching cat for an accident that toppled a power pole and shut down a street for nearly an hour. A police spokesman that a woman was driving with a cat in her lap. The animal scratched her, and she drove into the pole. The woman suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. The cat was taken to a vet to treat an injured eye.Police say a 7-year-old South Florida boy faces grand theft auto charges after taking his grandmother's Dodge Durango for a joyride. The eight minute trek left a swath of damage in his neighborhood Friday. The boy smashed mailboxes, hit parked cars and signposts. Luckily he was unhurt. Police said he literally drove until a wheel fell off. The right front wheel, to be exact, which broke off after the boy hit a sign.

-- Bill

Administrative Professionals Day- aka - Happy Secretaries Week

THE SECRETARY'S CREED: In honor of “Administrative Professionals Day” ...

• Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4 pm. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.• If it's really a ‘rush job’, run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps.• Always leave without telling anyone where you're going. It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where you are.• If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me which is the priority. Let me guess.• Do your best to keep me late. I like the office and really have nowhere to go or anything to do.• If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. Leaks like that could cost me a promotion.• If you don't like my work, tell everyone. I like my name to be popular in conversation.• If you have special instructions for a job, don't write them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done.• Be nice to me only when the job I'm doing for you could really change your life.

Is that secretary calling ….. TOP FIVE SIGNS YOU'RE REALLY LATE FOR WORK
5 You bump into a supervisor as he's heading home
4 Wait a second! The sun is going down!
3 All the traffic is heading the other way
2 You hear people mutter "Why even bother?" as you walk in

And the Number One Sign you’re really late for work … You sit down for your weekly Tuesday meeting. It was yesterday.

PEEVE: For Administrative Professional’s Day here are the top five biggest pet peeves of administrative professional’s everywhere:

5...constantly being lumped into the same group as no talent receptionists
4...you leave home for a career and you end up being a mother all day anyway for a bunch of useless sales people
3...the boss makes ten times as much as you and he doesn’t even know how to turn a computer on
2...those wrist bandages you have to wear for your carpal tunnel syndrome don’t go with anything.
1...the boss thinks he runs the company and he gets a big office.....you actually run the company and all they can afford for you is a cubicle with some fake walls.

BOOK: Today is the 13th annual Canada Book Day and here are the top five truly Canadian book titles:
5…The Maple Syrup Murders
4…Ski-Dooing in July and Other Things You Shouldn’t Try
3…The Perma-Frost Affair
2…101 Ways to Stay Warm
1....In Gretzky We Trust

SECRETARY, AGAIN: Here are the top five best things about going to lunch with the boss for Administrative Professional’s Day:
5...you find out what the boss thinks of you if you end up at a chip truck
4...you can make the boss sweat by asking the waiter all kinds of questions about the Lobster
3...it makes you realize how enjoyable lunches with your friends really are
2...you end up with a bunch of good “boy are they an idiot” stories to tell co-workers
1...you can gouge the boss for a lot more money than if you just get the customary flowers

SEC: Today is Administrative Professional’s Day..... and here are some reasons it’s great to be a male administrative professional:
-no one expects very much
-in a lot of cases it’s easier to impersonate the boss on the phone to get things done
-the boss doesn’t think you’ll like flowers so you get cash on Administrative Professional’s Day

TYPE: Today in Springfield, Missouri it’s the 18th annual KGBX Typewriter Toss .... it’s to celebrate Secretary’s Day and has gotten easier for the radio station.... as they now have their pick of typewriters to toss and they don’t cost anything because they’re all obsolete anyway
NOTE: Today is Administrative Professional’s Day, but remember, tomorrow they’ll want to be referred to as……… executive assistants once again

-- Bill (have a good day Darlene)