Q: Should I assume that Governor Nearly-Elect Cuomo will reform politics in the city known as Albany, since he has spent many years there working in state government, is the son of a former two-term governor, was once married to a Kennedy, and also worked in Washington D.C.?
A: Not necessarily so.
Q: I have never been to Portugal and do not speak Portuguese. Why should I care about Portuguese debts and deficits? What is the big problem with their economy?
A: Plastic corks.
Q: If I burned toast this morning right before potential buyers toured my house, will it help sell the house?
A: Not likely.
Q: Workers, especially government workers in Greece, Spain and Portugal are striking in protest against efforts to reduce their pay, benefits, early-retirement rules, vacation and pensions. Shouldn't they be working and saving even more?
A: Jawohl.
Q: Like the banking and insurance industries, oil-drilling may not be truly regulated. Gulf-coast "regulators" were found to have been watching porn on government computers instead of regulating. Do federal or state agencies really regulate anything except motor vehicles?
A: Pornography.
Q: If Bush was the one responsible for the cheap or free mortgages, lax banking regulation, coddling the auto companies and the cozy relationship between oil-well regulators and drillers, do his failures have a statute of limitations?
A: When things get better.
Q: When we were growing up, even stockbrokers didn't talk about the "market" so much. What should I tell my friends who obsessively talk about the "Dow?"
A: Put a Portuguese cork in it.
Q: What were those pols in Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain thinking about, when they got themselves into all this financial trouble? What was their model, for goodness sake?
A: A place called Albany, near Rome and Ithica.
Q: What are your thoughts on the new electric cars?
A: Re-Volting.
Q: I will get a new job that I really like very soon, right?
A: Write.
Ed Note, just in case you want more answers to your own questions, go to:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ssanty/cgi-bin/eightball.cgi
I hope the Eight Ball decides to run for office, he seems to be smarter than anyone out there !
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