Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

- A camera was dropped out of a plane to test out a parachute. It didn’t open and the camera was shattered. Miraculously, its memory stick was patched up and repaired
- Ants took up home in a hard drive. It was actually attempts to kill them off with repellent that did for the data
- Data got washed away after a USB stick was put through a washing machine
- USB stick dropped into a pot of apple puree baby food
- One man found out that taking a laptop on a rowing boat trip is ill advised. He and laptop ended up overboard
- A wedding photographer desperately needed to recover some pictures after saving one lot of snaps over ones from another couple’s happy day
- Acid spilt on a hard drive during a scientific experiment
- Another overeager scientist was so keen to stop his hard drive squeaking that he drilled a hole in it and poured in oil.

A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S.,English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies.

At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, "Whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English."
He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?"

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied "Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."
You could have heard a pin drop!!

Doctors in China admit they are baffled after a man began to perspire green sweat.

Cheng Shunguo, 52, of Wuhan city, says his sweat turned green in the middle of November.
"I noticed that my underwear and bed sheets were all green, and even the water in the shower," he told the Chutian Metropolis News.
Cheng says he feels no discomfort, but went to hospital because he was worried about his condition.
Doctors thoroughly cleaned his armpits but it took only 10 minutes for his sweat to turn a piece of white gauze green again.
They have carried out blood tests on Cheng, but found everything to be normal.
"We can't find the cause," admitted a spokesman for the hospital which reported the case to the media in the hope of finding a solution.