I had been doing tech support for Hewlett-Packard’s DeskJet division for about a month when a customer called with a problem I just couldn’t solve. She told me she could not print yellow. All the other colors printed just fine, which completely baffled me, because the only true colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow. For example, green is made from cyan and yellow—yet green printed perfectly. Every color of the rainbow...

THE CONFESSION “Hi Fred, this is Alan next door. I have a confession to make. I’ve been feeling guilty these past few months and have been trying to pluck up the courage to tell you, but at least I’m telling you now in a text message as I feel bad about you not knowing. The truth is I have been sharing your wife a lot lately. In fact, probably more than you. I haven’t been able to get it at home recently, but that’s...

A man goes inside a pet shop and starts to move around the cages to scout the pets. He sees a monkey with a price of 5000$ and goes to the merchant to ask for details. "Hey mister, the monkey… what does it know to be worth that much money?" "Well, it knows Windows 95, 98, 2000, and also knows Word, C++, Visual Basic and last but not least, it knows how to play computer games." "Good monkey, it’s worth the money." He...

Two young engineers applied for a single position at a computer company. They both had the same qualifications. In order to determine which individual to hire, the applicants were asked to take a test by the manager. Upon completion of the test, both men missed only one of the questions. The manager went to the first applicant and said, "Thank you for your interest, but we've decided to give the job to the other appl...