barely out of tuesday.

no wonder that south african prince who e-mailed me a while back hasn’t sent that $10,000,000 through paypal yet. maybe the check is coming via pigeon.

JOHANNESBURG – A South African information technology company proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom, the country’s leading internet service provider.

Internet speed and connectivity in Africa’s largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive.

onemansjunk:

a cedar falls man who repeated a gag from the “seinfeld” show while at work has been fired for sexual harassment. it’s the second case of an iowan being fired for harassment stemming from an episode of the popular comedy series.

not sure which is better: the fact that the guy got fired for using the “you are so good looking” line after a sneeze (although, to be truthful, the shoulder rub was a little unnecessary), or the fact that this is the second “seinfeld”-related firing in iowa. lighten up iowa. take the corn out of your hole.

in a 1992 wisconsin case, miller brewing co. fired an executive, jerold mackenzie, for an incident that stemmed from a “seinfeld” episode.

mackenzie told his secretary about a show in which a woman was described by the characters as having a name that rhymed with part of the female anatomy. the woman was named delores, and because mackenzie was too embarrassed to say what that rhymed with, he showed her the word in a dictionary.

after he was fired for sexual harassment, mackenzie sued miller brewing co. and his former secretary. the jury didn’t believe the secretary felt harassed, awarding mackenzie $1.5 million in damages, plus $25 million for unrelated claims.

and how great is this guy’s life? jerold mckenzie goes around cracking seinfeld jokes and gets $26.5 million in return. every time i eat a pretzel, i say, “these PRETZELS are making me thirsty!” yet, nobody sends any cash my way. what’s the deal with that?