Abby Li's Dad

For almost six years (1996 to 2002), I sent out a weekly email to my friends. This blog serves as an archive for those emails. The entries starting in May 2006 are my personal reflections on life as a father to Abby, a husband to Melissa, and everything else.

Monday, January 27, 1997

This Week's Humor

Hi everyone,

Greetings from St. Charles, Illinois, outside of Chicago! I'm out here
for a week of Andersen training. It should be fun.

Before I get to the humor, a friend of mine, Peggy Liu, is the founder
and CEO of ChannelA, one of the best Asian American web sites on the
Internet. The address is:

http://www.channelA.com. Check out the site! Peggy also wrote me:

GREAT NEWS!!!!

Channel A has been nominated for a Webby Award -- the very first
nationally
televised Web site award show! Vote for us in the Politics and Law
category
at http://www.webmagazine.com/webby. The Award show will be webcasted
live on March 6, 1997.

MORE GREAT NEWS!!!

Win a trip to San Francisco! Everyone voting for the Webby Awards will
be
automatically entered into a drawing to win a VIP trip to San Francisco
from
anywhere in the continental US to attend the event.

HURRY! Voting closes on February 10, 1997.
___________________________________________________________

Here's the humor, forwarded to me by Dave Shim. Suppose to be a true
story.

> A young associate at Nixon Hargrave was leaving the office at 9pm
>when he found the Managing Partner standing in front of a shredder with a
>piece of paper in hand.
>
> "Listen," said the partner, "this is important, and my secretary has
>left. Can you make this thing work?"
>
> "Certainly," said the young associate. He turned the machine on,
>inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.
>
> "Excellent, excellent!" said the partner as his paper disappeared
>inside the machine. "I just need one copy."

Take care!

-Josh.

Monday, January 20, 1997

Humor: Marriage, American Style

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since I last sent out some humor. Thanks to all of
you for sending me stuff. My humor folder has about 30 emails waiting
to be forwarded. I'll try to send one out every week.

This one was forwaded to me by Stella Wang. I hope you enjoy it.

Take care and keep in touch!

-Josh.

Subject: SOME PEOPLE HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS...

If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.

If Dolly Parton married Salvador Dali, she'd be Dolly Dali.

If Bo Derek married Don Ho, she'd be Bo Ho.

If Oprah Winfrey married Depak Chopra, she'd be Oprah Chopra.

If Cat Stevens married Snoop Doggy Dogg, hey! it's the '90's!, he'd
be
Cat Doggy Dogg.

If Olivia Newton-John married Wayne Newton, then divorced him to
marry
Elton John, she'd be Olivia Newton-John Newton John.

If Sondra Locke married Elliott Ness, then divorced him to marry
Herman Munster, she'd become Sondra Locke Ness Munster.

If Bea Arthur married Sting, she'd be Bea Sting.

If Liv Ullman married Judge Lance Ito, then divorced him and
married
Jerry Mathers, she'd be Liv Ito Beaver.

If Snoop Doggy Dogg married Winnie the Pooh, he'd be Snoop Doggy
Dogg
Pooh.

How about a baseball marriage? If Boog Powell married Felipe Alou,
he'd be Boog Alou.

If G. Gordon Liddy married Boutros-Boutros Ghali, then divorced him
to
marry Kenny G., he'd be G. Ghali G.

Nog (Quark's brother on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine") has no other
name, so he uses it twice when getting a marriage license. If he
married Howard Hughes, and then Pamela Dare, he'd be Nog Nog Hughes
Dare.

If Shirley Jones married Tom Ewell, then Johnny Rotten, then Nathan
Hale, she'd be Shirley Ewell Rotten Hale.

If Jack Handy (SNL writer) married Andy Capp, then married Jack
Paar,
then moved on to Stephen King, he'd be Jack Handy Capp Paar King.

If Javier Lopez married Keiko the whale, and Edith Piaf married
Rose
Tu the elephant, they would be Javier Keiko and Edith Tu.

If Ivana Trump married, in succession, Orson Bean (actor), King
Oscar
(of Norway), Louis B. Mayer (of MGM), and Norbert Wiener
(mathematician), she would then be Ivana Bean Oscar Mayer Wiener.

If Woody Allen married Natalie Wood, divorced her and married
Gregory
Peck, divorced him and married Ben Hur, he'd be Woody Wood Peck
Hur.

If Dolly Parton married Tommy Smothers, then went even further back
in
show business and married Mr. Lucky, then divorced and married
Martin
Short, then divorced and married football kicker Ray Guy, we could
all
nod understandingly when we heard, "Dolly Parton Smothers Lucky
Short
Guy."