10) “While waiting to be interviewed, Your Honor, I took a 10 to 1 bet that this defendant would be found ‘not guilty.’ ”

9) “Yes, Your Honor, I’ve served on a jury before, in fact, 27 times. After I was laid-off, I became a professional juror for the pay we’re allotted for days served.”

8) “Certainly, I can serve on a jury providing the court permits me to bring my youngest, so I can breast-feed her during the trial.”

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[This is a follow-up to an earlier post of mine on blog4brains about lobbyists, entitled "Lobbyists and Our Economic Woes." If you have not read the earlier post, I encourage you to do so.]

Need a job? Here’s a job without any requirements at all — no higher or special education, no background checks, no random drug tests. You do need one thing going for you, and that’s the inborn skills of a pitchman — being a natural pitchman is a must requirement. (Some may say an ability to navigate ethical gray areas is an important skill as well, but that is neither here nor there.) The chores of obtaining proper contacts and mustering the ability to network are important but secondary traits.

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Today is not too early to think about gift-giving for this Christmas. Why? Because if you have your list of what gifts to give resolved early, that, and its money problems, are off your mind and, hence, less stress for you.

But, what if you don’t have any money for Ma’s xmas gift? And nothing for Pa’s? For brother’s? For sister’s? Or anything for uncles and aunts?

And, what about your girl/boy friend? Oh, what to give? What to give? I can only count pocket change this year, you say. Hey, no problem. Give an IOU Christmas gift. IOU gifts cost nothing in dollars and cents. What is an IOU gift?

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I remember when I was a little kid that my Dad, along with all the other fathers in the neighborhood, would buy live fowl and would do the slaughtering themselves. Chicken, turkeys, ducks.

There was this one Thanksgiving approaching when one of my Uncle Alex’s sons was bitten by what we would call today, the intrapreneurial spirit. He bought and brought home from a farmer about a hundred live turkeys. He put them in his father’s backyard, and the yard didn’t need to be fence up; it already had a wire mesh fence all around. It really became a big backyard turkey coop. My cousin must have spent his calculated and imagined fortune from the coming sale of those turkeys many times over and over in his head.

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Some history first:

“St. Nicholas is by far the most easily recognized source of Christmas presents around the world. Parents would leave small gifts of candy or fruits for their children in the honor of St. Nicholas. Eventually the date of this exchange of gifts became associated with the December 25th festivities.

“Christmas presents became even more of a focal point of the holiday experience in the mid-19th century when Americans began to shift from exchanging small, simple gifts and instead began taking a more consume-driven approach to Christmas presents and gift exchanges.”

–Source: Gail Leino at EzineArticles.com

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There’s a black hole in your re’sume’ just like there’s one in outer space. The company hirers always notice that black hole and ask you about it. “Please explain this three-month gap here from last year. What did you do during that time?”

Well…

Yes, well… Well, Blog4Brains.com has concocted ten top ways for you to get out of that black hole. The things you can say to cover over your gaps are:

1) I loved my job so much, and I wanted my job to continue being done the right way, I volunteered at no cost to my former employer to stay over for three months to train my replacement.

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