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Posted by admin on 6 August 2010

Today’s Friday so here’s the best of the emailed jokes we’ve seen this week!

I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize;

Half the people you know are below average.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

I intend to live forever…. so far, so good.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

Posted by admin on 2 July 2010

We rarely repeat articles from other blogs but this one is a gem! Teresa Boardman is an American Realtor in St Paul, Minnesota, and a great writer. Plenty of Brisbane parents could share the sentiment of this story!!

Dear person in their twenties,

It is wonderful that you got that new job and were able to move out of your folks place a mere eight years after you graduated from college. I know you will be turning 30 this year and you have accomplished much in your short life.

Your parents love you, we always have and we would do most anything for you and we probably have and we are very proud of you.

There is one thing that you need to know. We are not being honest with you about something. We have kept a secret from you all these years, and it has nothing to do with auntie Sue or that one incident a few years back at the water park. We know you did not do that on purpose.

We want to tell you that we are very tired of the boxes and storage bins in the basement and the bike, sports equipment and roller blades in the garage. We understand that you also regret having purchased that tacky piece of furniture that you bought the first time you moved out but left stored in the basement this last time you moved out. We hate it too, and yes you may move back in that is true, even though we had the locks changed and you know the secret about the back door, you will find a way, but I suspect you won’t want to use the furniture as you seem to hate it so.

Even though we love you and would do most anything for you we don’t want to provide storage for your stuff anymore. We would like to use our basements and garages and attics for something else now. We have our own tacky furniture that needs to be stored and most of our closets are over flowing as we have not moved in years and have not had any place to put anything in decades.

It would be heavenly to be able to walk to the washer without tripping over something and honestly the furnace and water heater have always wanted a room of their own, they watch and wait silently as the stuff piles up around them. Last time we had a repair man here he couldn’t even find the furnace, I guess he wasn’t much of a repair man. I never saw him leave the house, he may still be down in the basement looking for the furnace, I guess we don’t know for sure, but hope not because they charge by the hour.

Please come over for dinner tonight. We promise to cook something you really like, and buy a couple of bottles of wine, or maybe you would enjoy a beer instead. Bring a friend or significant other and a moving van. We will even front you the cash so that you can rent it. After dinner kindly remove your stuff. Don’t make me have to write this twice. I may be old but I am still your mother and even though you are bigger than I am I can still kick your butt, or at the very least make you feel guilty.

Thanks, your loving mother.

PS if you read this after the garage sale please accept my apologies, I know I should have sent a text message but for some things 140 characters are not enough.

Oh and while I am at it I would not mind being a grandmother some day. I saved your crib and pookie your stuffed rabbit just in case.

Posted by admin on 2 July 2010

Fridays are for fun so here’s the best of the bunch we’ve seen on email this week. And yes we’d love to hear your clean joke!

1) Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting a tomato in a fruit salad.

2) The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

3) Children: You spend the first two years of their life teaching them how to walk and talk. The next sixteen? Spent telling them to sit down and shut up.

4) He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.

5) If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.

6) To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

7) I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

8) Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

9) We live in a society where pizza gets to your house faster than the police.

10) A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

11) How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

12) I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

13) A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

14) The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

15) Laugh at your problems, everybody else does.

16) Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?.

17) Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

18) Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.

19) A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

20) Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

21) I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

22) War does not determine who is right. It determines who is left.

Posted by admin on 29 June 2010

If you’re out and about on a Saturday morning and you need a nice convenient way to shop for your fruit and veg, you might like to try the growers market next to the Broadway Hotel. It’s very much a case of blink and you might miss it, as it’s quite small (approximately 60 stalls) and it really is tucked in behind the hotel. The market offers some organic stalls, seasonal fruit and veges, flowers, meat, seafood and bread. However if it’s convenience you want then it’s ideal as there’s plenty of free parking and you could theoretically be in and out with everything you need in about ten minutes. Last week I was there and had a bacon and egg roll from one of the stalls that was not only the largest bacon and egg role made in the history of the universe…ever, it also cost me the very princely sum of $3.50. Admittedly I did end up wearing half of the roll on my shirt front but that I guess is sometimes the price you pay for eating a magnificent specimen of manfood that rises above bacon and egg roll mediocrity.

The Bees Nees solicitor said that I had to add a disclaimer that if your egg roll does not measure up as “the biggest roll in the universe…ever” then Bees Nees Pty Ltd and it’s associated companies take no responsibilitty for this. That said burger may have been the result of warm conversation and extreme shameless flattery rendered by the Bees Nees salesperson upon stall holder.

Posted by Rob Honeycombe on 22 June 2010

I hadn’t seen this statue before the weekend when I stumbled across it at the southern end of South Bank’s Parklands. It was a recent present from the Ji’nan Municipal Government in the Shangdong Province of China to mark our 150th birthday.

My favourite Confucian saying: “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart”.

See more of our posts on inner Brisbane public art.

Posted by admin on 19 June 2010

MONEY: A man will pay $10 for a $5 item he needs. A woman will pay $5 for a $10 item that she doesn’t need but it’s on sale.
BATHROOMS: A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel. The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS: A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
CATS: Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren’t looking, men kick cats.
DRESSING UP: A  woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the bins, answer the phone, read a book, and get the post. A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
OFFSPRING: A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house

Posted by admin on 19 June 2010

If you have surfed the Meet Our Team page of our website, www.beesnees.com.au – you may have read that our Operations Manager Clint has been known to compete in short course triathlons and other events requiring a certain level of fitness.

Well it has been a while since his last competition (two years in fact) and he felt a little embarrassed about his lack of activity. So in his wisdom, or a moment of craziness has just entered himself into the Half Marathon in this year’s Brisbane Running Festival to be held soon in Brisbane’s inner city. Not just content with putting just himself through weeks of training leading up to the event, he has managed to rope his wife Anita and best friend Sandra into entering as well.

Entrants into the Running Festival are encouraged to fund raise for a charity of their choice and we thought it a great opportunity to support one of favourite charities – ACT for kids.

ACT for Kids is an Australian charity that is dedicated to the treatment and prevention of child abuse. More than 60,000 individual children are affected by child abuse in Australia every single year. That’s a child every 10 minutes who is suffering a form of abuse. ACT for Kids not only provides care for the children but also helps support the family unit that is affected by domestic violence.

We have set a fund raising goal of $1000 and would like your help to smash this total. So please help with this great cause and click through the donation page.

Posted by admin on 30 May 2010

Surely the researchers don’t expect us to believe this one!…. According to the 2010 Mercer Quality of Living survey Brisbane is not as good a place to live as the other Australian capitals. Based on 39 criteria, including political, socio-economic, environmental, health, education, and transport, the survey covered 221 cities worldwide and compared them to New York as the base city, which it ranked in 49th position.

Brisbane was in the survey’s 36th spot with Vienna taking the gold medal and Sydney just sneaking into the top 10 cities. Who are these people ranking us behind windy Wellington NZ and sleepy Canberra?! And as much as we’re proud of modern day Brisneyland are we really more liveable than New York, London and Rome?

We do agree with the choice for wooden spoon on their list though: Baghdad, Iraq. Although their house prices must be cheap by now…

Read the full list

Posted by admin on 28 May 2010

Today’s Friday so here’s the best we’ve seen on email this week to give you a chuckle!:

  1. The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, “If you were my husband I’d give you poison.” He said, “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
  2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.” “That depends, Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
  3. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
  4. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”  Clarence Darrow
  5. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends..”  - Oscar Wilde
  6. “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.” - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill. “Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second…. if there is one.” –  Winston Churchill, in response.
  7. “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” – Mae West
  8. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go…”
    - Oscar Wilde
Posted by admin on 26 May 2010

Here’s  a West End dining-out guide with a difference!! I’ve always found there’s plenty of choice at the restaurants and cafes along Boundary St -  but these guys take dining out to a whole new level. If you live in Colville St or Dornoch Terrace you may have had visitors you didn’t know about… take a look here.