How many executives does it take to change a lightbulb

What do you mean change it? It's a perfectly good bloody bulb! We have had it for a thousand years and it has worked just fine. Seven: One to install the new bulb and six to figure out what to do with the old one for the next 10, years. Two: One to change the bulb, and one to complain about how much better life was before electricity.

One team, but they'll label every piece of the old one, mark its location in the room and write a detailed description before determining that it was used to store cornmeal.

The chance meeting of two: One who holds the pink giraffe, and the other who fills the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools. We have an exact copy of the light bulb here, and it seems to be working fine. Can you tell me what kind of system you have? Now, exactly how dark is it? Ok, there could be four or five things wrong. And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly.

After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a pick-up truck to support his expanding business.

By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances.

At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, "What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be now, if you had been connected to the Internet from the very start!

I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft! Is that a S. How did it get its card? Did it know someone? It doesn't matter--nobody will give them credit anyway.

How many publicists does it take to screw in a light bulb? How many directors does it take to screw in a light bulb? How many prop masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? Light bulb? The script doesn't mention any light bulb! How many union electricians does it take to screw in a light bulb? It's about traffic. What's encouraging is in one style, we only have one piece left, four days after the presentation.

Of course, small businesses must turn a profit to succeed. There used to be an aspirational element to fashion, built into its tiered price points that has become lost as manufacturers turn acrobatics to produce the unachievable: quality foreign labor from exhausted workers who earn poverty pay. Because this campaign for an everything-now-democracy is bringing us down.

Here in the U. Dries Van Noten is a designer whose collections evoke a profound emotional reaction among his legions of covetous fans. But can a work of art be produced on the spot? Would one have dared ask Lucien Freud to complete a portrait like he was taking a Polaroid? Along with Moschino, Prada, and some others, Van Noten reveals pieces of his collection to certain buyers approximately a month before the runway show. I need the reverb of the reactions to the collection to start really well the next one.

So for me, doing a consumer fashion show is not really my cup of tea.