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one day, harry came upon a big, long ladder that stretched into the clouds. he'd walked this way every day and this ladder was never there before. curious and brave, he began to climb. eventually, he climbed into the layer of clouds, and saw this rather large, homely woman lying here on a cloud.
she spoke, "take me now or climb the ladder to success!"
harry figured success had to be better than this, so he continued climbing. he came upon another level of clouds, and found a thinner, cuter woman than before.
she also spoke, "take me now or climb the ladder to success!"
harry saw that his luck was changing and so continued his climb. on another level of clouds, he found a rather attractive woman with not so bad of a figure.
she stated, "take me now or climb the ladder to success!"
harry really liked his advantage now! he climbed quickly and deftly, and sure enough, on the next level, he found a gorgeous, lithe, well-endowed woman lying seductively on the cloud.
"take me now or climb the ladder to success," she huskily whispered.
harry couldn't believe his eyes, but his greed got the best of him. he climbed to the next level, expecting aphrodite or similar. suddenly, the ladder ends, and a latch closes behind
him. he looks over to see a 400 pound, 6'8" hairy biker- looking guy with tattoos. the biker gets up and walks menacingly toward harry.
apprehensively, harry whispers, "who are you?"
the biker answers, "i'm cess."
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japan's space agency on monday completed the first successful test of a prototype jet that can fly at twice the speed of sound, three years after an earlier test ended in a fiery wreck in the australian outback, an official said.
kenichi saito, a spokesman for the japan aerospace exploration agency, or jaxa, said monday's unmanned test flight went "as planned."
"everything was very good and the aircraft landed ... normally," saito said in a telephone interview. "we are going to conduct the (data) analysis, but currently we think this flight was a success."
a breakthrough in supersonic flight could help japan leap ahead in the aerospace field. the country, which manufactures high-tech components for u.s.-based boeing co., has only a limited domestic airplane industry.
saito said the prototype 38-foot-long, arrow-shaped craft, developed by mitsubishi heavy industries ltd., was launched on a rocket and reached a flying altitude of 11 miles before floating back to earth by parachute.
the test follows a three-year hiatus after the first experimental flight of the unmanned aircraft separated prematurely from its booster rocket and crashed into the desert.
monday's $10 million experiment marked a crucial step in japan's plans to develop a larger supersonic aircraft that can carry 300 passengers between tokyo and los angeles in about four hours.
it also underpinned a june agreement between japan and france to jointly research a possible successor to the concorde over the next three years.
the concorde first flew in 1969 and became a symbol of french and european industrial prowess. in july 2000, a concorde crashed in flames after takeoff from charles de gaulle airport near paris, killing 109 people. the sleek but costly planes were retired from commercial service in 2003, never having recouped the billions of tax dollars invested in them.
japan hopes to have a successor making regular flights by around 2025, saito said.
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never walk down the hall without a document in your hands. people with documents in their hands look like hardworking employees heading for important meetings. people with nothing in their hands look like they're heading for the cafeteria.
people with the newspaper in their hands look like they're heading for the bathroom. above all, make sure you carry loads of stuff home with you at night, thus generating the false impression that you work longer hours than you do.
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use computers to look busy. any time you use a computer, it looks like work to the casual observer. you can send and receive personal e-mail, calculate your finances and generally have a blast without doing anything remotely related to work.
these aren't exactly the societal benefits that everybody from the computer revolution expected but they're not bad either. when you get caught by your boss--and you will get caught--your best defense is to claim you're teaching yourself to use the new software, thus saving valuable training dollars.
you're not a loafer, you're a self-starter. offer to show your boss what you learned. that will make your boss scurry away like a frightened salamander.
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messy desk. top management can get away with a clean desk. for the rest of us, it looks like you're not working hard enough. build huge piles of documents around your workspace.
to the observer, last year's work looks the same as today's work; it's volume that counts. pile them high and wide. if you know somebody is coming to your cubicle, bury the document you'll need halfway down in an existing stack and rummage for it when he/she arrives.
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voice mail. never answer your phone if you have voice mail. people don't call you just because they want to give you something for nothing-- they call because they want you to do work for them. that's the way to live. screen all your calls through voice mail.
if somebody leaves a voice mail message for you and it sounds like impending work, respond during lunch hour. that way, you're hardworking and conscientious even though you're being a devious weasel. if you diligently employ the method of screening incoming calls and then returning calls when nobody is there, this will greatly increase the odds that they will give up or look for a solution that doesn't involve you.
the sweetest voice mail message you can ever hear is "ignore my last message. i took care of it." if your voice mailbox has a limit on the number of messages it can hold, make sure you reach that limit frequently. one way to do that is to never erase any incoming messages. if that takes too long, send yourself a few messages.
your callers will hear a recorded message that says, "sorry, this mailbox is full"--a sure sign that you are a hardworking employee in high demand.
