Rubes by Leigh Rubin for September 25, 2022

I grew up when the GREAT families had Encyclopedia Britanica at their house, and the GOOD families had World Book. We had both AND the big Websters on a stand. But then we also had seven kids at home who needed access to facts. At the same time. I liked to look things up because if you just keep reading you find out all KINDS of cool stuff!

Thinking about Google; (somebody check my math, it’s late)

Annual revenue is about $260 billion

Profit margin is about 26%

Number of employees is about 160,000

So each employee roughly can be attributed $1.6 million in profit.

Typical salary of software weasels is about $250,000.

Darn, it is time to tighten up the expenses!

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/google-continues-to-tighten-its-belt-as-it-enters-a-difficult-few-months-and-that-includes-telling-employees-they-cant-expense-perks-like-food/articleshow/75588747.cms

https://travelnoire.com/google-tightening-its-belt-regarding-employee-travel-and-certain-perks

Must be all those ‘golden parachutes’…………

Schoolteacher: Now, what is a comet? You!

Prisoner: A comet. A comet is a star with a tale on it.

Schoolteacher: Correct. [points to Stan]

Schoolteacher: Name one.

Stanley: Rin Tin Tin.

(From “Pardon Us” by Laurel & Hardy)

… traking you since the dawn of time.

Not as funny as Duck Duck Go it. Nor as safe.

Either make a wish or duck

From Google About 2,520,000 results (0.57 seconds)

“Come-t again?”

The text version is KYAGB. As a hint, the first word is kiss.

Back in the stone age I thought they used Alta Vista?

What about asteroid? And why are they near the edge of what appears to be a fragment of a planet?