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Recent Posts
- Now Is The Time
- In-house Recruiters – behaviours and ethics, improvements needed
- The Future Can Wait………….. Get Recruitment Basics Right Now
- My Top 10 Predictions for 2012
- LinkedIn – Blank Invites to Connect …………why?
- Are Your Interviewers Good Enough?
- Recruiters – What are your 3 Burning Questions?
- Do You Want to Hire the Best Talent?
- #myjobhunt – Being Inspired & Being Confident is Crucial
- Resourcing – Why Chop Logs with a Teaspoon?
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Damn it you made me look… so wasn’t worth the rule breaking. So in way of a random comment I’ll leave you with a joke:
Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader are locked in a light Sabre battle when Vader Say’s “I know what you’re getting or Christmas”. Luke ignores it and keeps fighting when again Vader say’s again “I know what you’re getting for Christmas”. The battle intensifies and Vader say’s again “I know what you’re getting for Christmas”. Luke’s had enough and asks “how do you know”. Vader replies ” I have felt your presents”
Wonder if we can fill the comment with Star Wars jokes and make this Gary’s most popular post ever?
Two Stormtroopers walk into a bar. The third one ducks.
Darth Vader: I know what you have got for Christmas.
Luke: How?
Darth: I have felt your presents
Sorry couldn’t help it
Knock-knock.
Who’s there?
Dook.
Dook-who?
..spot on.
It’s not a great one, but James stole mine! I was also tempted by the DON’T READ THIS. I resisted for a moment but then grimly accepted that I had to rebel and read it! Sigh..
Great idea.
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker go out for a Chinese meal. When the first course arrives, Obi-wan watches as Luke attempts to pick up his food with the chopsticks provided and keeps dropping it back into his bowl at the crucial moment.
After some minutes, when Luke still hasn’t managed to eat a thing, Obi-Wan leans across the table and says in a low voice:
“Luke… Use the forks.”
Socks and flip-flops. Why?
THE RIOTERS’ PRAYER.
Our father, who art in prison,
my mum knows not his name,
thy Riots come, read it in the Sun,
in Birmingham, as it is in London.
Give us this day our Welfare bread & forgive us our looting,
as we’re happy to loot those who defend stuff against us,
lead us not into employment but deliver us free housing,
for thine is the Tellies, the Blackberry & the Barcardi,
forever and ever…
Innit !!!!
Luke: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Vadar: Because it could not resist the power of the dark side.