On the One Hand: The Economist’s Joke Book PLUS: Howie Meeker’s Hockey Basics!
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On the One Hand . . . The Economist’s Joke Book.
Author: Economic Futurist Jeff Thredgold
Publisher: Thredgold Economic Associates
Date: 2001
The Cover Promises: D&D-style sorcery fun with a one-eared Richard Gephardt.
Discovered at: Goodwill at 89th & Wornall
Representative Quotes:
Page 24: “An ‘acceptable’ level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.”
Page 26: “A recession is when your neighbor has lost her job. A depression is when you lose yours.”
All right, all right. Maybe The Economist’s Joke Book makes the same joke twice within three pages. (That’s economical!) And maybe that joke is a thumb gouging out the eye of funny in the first place. (That saves on R&D!) And maybe Economic Futurist Jeff Thredgold’s book is the self-published, sold-at-speaking-engagements, throw-awayable paperback equivalent of every forwarded e-mail your economist aunt ever passed on to everyone in her address book. Let’s keep an open mind, here.
Page 57: “An economist is someone who knows 100 ways to make love … but doesn’t know any women/men.”
I don’t know any women/men, either. But, really, Economic Futurist Jeff Thredgold, if you do get to know some women/men, or maybe some men/women, or even any other transgendered combination you happen upon in your Economic Futuring, the odds are good that the net gain in partner parts and orifices might boost your 100 known ways of making love exponentially.
You get one more chance, The Economist’s Joke Book!!
