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Lose Weight Effectively

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Deadline Limit Theorem

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For a proof, you may try asking the following persons: a student trying to finish his thesis a graduate student submitting a journal article for peer review an accountant at the end of the financial fiscal year an executive preparing a report for the board of directors or, you may take a look at your own experience of trying to beat a deadline!

Joke unjoke

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A usual workday. Twenty-three emails in my inbox. Twelve of them forwarded. Four containing jokes. I, being a bit of a comic character myself, appreciate receiving jokes through email. How can I not welcome them after spending several hours in front of a computer trying to figure out how to get a computer program to work? They lighten up my workday. They help preserve my sanity. However, there are some jokes that instead of making my workday lighter dampen it altogether. Iā€™m referring to ā€œgreenā€ or obscene jokes. I have received them a couple of times, and I think I still will in the future. Itā€™s not unusual for a person to receive a green joke, laugh at it for a while, and then start sending it to all the persons in his address book without thinking that some of them could be offended. Of course itā€™s not always out of malice that people send this type of jokes. When a person sends me a green joke, I would like to think that he is only trying to share something that he think...