The Sergeant in Hill Street Blues (1981) always sent his staff out onto the streets with the exhortation  “Hey, let’s be  careful out there”. If you ever wondered who else this might apply to – the answer is everyone. Along with being careful out there you should also be careful with what you say and how it is received. For example the Telegraph of the 6th September carried the following:

“A hospital advertisement for a senior doctor was published on an NHS website with a reference to “the usual rubbish about equal opportunities”. .. The advertisement sought a “regional anaesthetist fellow” to fill a one-year post at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University NHS Trust, Merseyside. But under the job description section of the advert… a hospital employee had inserted the phrase “the usual rubbish about equal opportunities etc…”.

The gaffe, which was in reference to the NHS’ equal opportunities policy, was “swiftly” deleted after hospital chiefs were
made aware of the damaging comment”. There but for the grace of God go you and I.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8742354/NHS-hospital-usual-equal-opportunities-rubbish-job-advert-sparks-investigation.html

Yesterday’s Sunday Times contained the following introduction to the horoscope for us Virgoans:
“Once you understand that few of this week’s discussions or decisions will be based on logic, everything else will make sense”.
All I can say is that there is a lot of it about and it was ever thus.

I received this today from my friend Lorraine Ann Hazley-Fayad:
“So sad…Please put this on your status if you know or are related to someone who suffers from stupidity. People need to understand that stupidity is real and should be taken seriously. You could be sitting near to a stupid person right now. There is still no known cure for stupidity and sympathy does not help.
Sometimes a 2×4 to the back of the head helps, but not a lot. But we can raise awareness! 53% won’t re-post this because they don’t know how to copy/paste”.
Of course, I couldn’t possibly comment

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long are a selection of catchphrases and pearls of wisdom from one of Robert A. Heinlein’s main characters (Lazarus Long). These were originally published as two “intermissions” in the 1973 novel Time Enough for Love. In the context of the novel, these quotes were selected from
Long’s much longer memoirs (which make up a significant portion of the novel). Some of the phrases are humorous, some philosophical, and some merely quirky. They range in length from one sentence to multiple paragraphs. For example:

“Never try to teach a pig to sing- it wastes your time and annoys the pig.” and “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”

In 1978, these “notebooks” were published as a standalone work, with some selections illuminated (much like scripture) by D.F Vassallo. More excerpts were published in New Destinies, Vol. VI/Winter 1988 — “Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue, edited by Jim Baen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Lazarus_Long