Is your computer male or female?

As you are aware, ships have long been characterized as being female (e.g., “Steady as she goes”, or “She’s listing to starboard, Captain!”). Recently, a group of computer scientists (all males) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female. Their reasons for drawing this conclusion follow: Five reasons to believe computers are …

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Gardening

Once there was a beautiful woman who loved to work in her vegetable garden, but no matter what she did, she couldn’t get her tomatoes to ripen. Admiring her neighbor’s garden, which had beautiful bright red tomatoes, she went one day and inquired of him his secret. “It’s really quite simple,” the old man explained. …

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The Rake

There’s this couple doing yard work and the wife stops to go up and take a shower….so the guy is looking for the rake and yells to his wife, who looks out to the upstairs bathroom window, “Where’s the rake?” She can’t hear him, so he points to his eye [I], points to his knee …

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