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Office Christmas party joke FROM: Pauline Lewis, Human Resources Director TO: All Employees DATE: 4th November 2008 RE: Christmas Party I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House. There will be a cash bar and plenty of drinks! We'll have a small band playing traditional carols...please feel free to sing along. And don't be surprised if the MD shows up dressed as Santa Claus! A Christmas tree will be lit at 1.00p.m.. Exchange of gifts among employees can be done at that time, however, no gift should be over

The parrot and the turkey A young man named John received a parrot as an early Christmas gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to 'clean up' the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw up his hands, grabbed the bird and shoved him in the freezer. For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute. Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms and said 'I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully> intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior.' John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued.... ........'May I inquire as to what that turkey did?' Advance merry Crimbo!!

My first choice for a pastel paper would have to be any decent hand-made watercolor paper A very close second and, in some ways, also my first choice is Waterford Watercolor, Rough After that; anything with plenty of "tooth" and strong enough to withstand some scraping and a lot of water and fixatives. (I tend to make a watercolour wash using pastels and a wet paintbrush to create my initial background colours, layout and colour scheme... after that, I always go over the top with fixatives - except in the final layer where I never use them) Canson Me Tientes is great when I want to really force myself to go easy on the application of pastel and try to keep to a more traditional style of pastel painting with at least a bit of the original paper colour showing through...

Can anyone help identify the (Filipino?) artists of the following four paintings: If you are not a member of the ArtFreaks.com Forums, you can e-mail any information that you might have to the site-owner: Contact Us The following was received by e-mail: I don't have an e-mail address for Ypon's Art Gallery but their physical address and phone numbers can be found at: artfreaks.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=218 These are the paintings, (four now - complete with close-ups of the signatures,) that Victor would like some information on.