Joke of the weekend

A guy enters the “10 items or fewer” line at a supermarket in Cambridge, Mass. with an overflowing basket containing many more than ten items. As he begins unloading his cart, the comely young cashier says to the man, “Why, you must attend either Harvard or MIT.”

The man puffs up at this and replies, “Why yes I do, but how ever did you know?”

“Well, there’s a sign right in front of you that says ‘Ten items or fewer’ so either you attend MIT and can’t read, or Harvard and can’t count.”

[The above courtesy of “Car Talk” this morning. BTW, where did Larry Summers go to school?]

Good news, according to a Pizza Hut commercial playing today on ESPN, they have revamped and “simplified” their menu so that it has no more “confusing combinations or math.” Finally, someone is doing something to help people too stupid to read a Pizza Hut menu.

Great moments in the green movement: Earlier this week, Frito-Lay, the manufacturers of Sun Chips, announced that they will cease selling the snack in the world’s first compostable bag. The reason? Consumers complained in large numbers that the packaging was “too loud,” thus proving once again, that no personal inconvenience is too small to be rejected by consumers in their mindless pursuit of whatever the hell they want. Resistance took the form of at least six different Facebook groups protesting the annoyingly loud bags.

How I danced before my knees got old.