I know you're busy, but if you wouldn't mind, just a quick read?
Famous quotes, the way a woman would have to say them in a meeting:
1. "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Woman in a meeting: "I'm sorry, Mikhail, if I could? Didn't mean to cut you offthere. Can we agree that this wall maybe isn't quite doing what it should be doing? Just looking at everything everyone's been saying, it seems like we could consider removing it. Possibly. I don't know, what does the room feel?"
2. "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
Woman in a meeting: "I'm not an expert, Dave, but I feel like maybe you could accomplish more by maybe shifting your focus from asking things from the government and instead looking at things that we can all do ourselves? Just a thought. Just a thought. Take it for what it's worth."
3. "I came. I saw. I conquered."
Woman in a meeting: "I don't want to toot my own horn at all but I definitely have been to those places and was just honoured to be a part of it as our team did such a wonderful job of conquering them." (Via Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post)
The best of Thailand
Miss Universe contestant Aniporn Chalermburanawong
When Aniporn Chalermburanawong parades down the catwalk at the Miss Universe pageant in December, she'll wear "Tuk Tuk Thailand" (pictured right) - a dress made to resemble a rickshaw in the colours of the Thai flag. This was the winning design in a national contest featuring 356 submissions. The AP describes the dress: "The outfit features an electric blue bustier and mini-skirt with thigh-high black tights - and a central headlight with handlebars just below the bosom. Attached to the costume is a backdrop of a tuk-tuk in Thailand's national colours - red, white and blue - with six national flags, a dozen more headlights and an overhead banner that says: Thailand."
Seems you can never be too clear
Regarding the overkill of signs declaring the taps are sensor taps at New Plymouth airport, a reader writes: "I've worked at the airport and even though there are so many signs, some people still ... twist them to try turn them on and end up breaking the taps!"
Hand-washing trickery
"I can relate to the numerous signs in the toilets at New Plymouth airport," says Anne. "I was at a rest stop in Germany once and it took me some time to discover how to turn the water on ... there were these small buttons on the floor (naturally out of the way under the basin) which you pressed with your foot like an accelerator on a car, to make the water run. Overseas toilets are an adventure all of their own."
Good read: London police constable Gary Collins is a super recognizer, but his mates call him Rain Man or Yoda or simply The Oracle. He has an ability to recognise facial features enabling him to match even low-quality and partial imagery to a face he has seen before, on the street or in a database at Scotland Yard.
