Friday, 21 August 2009
Heard On Answering Machines
Hi! This is John. If you are the phone company, I already sent the money. If you are my parents, please send money. If you are my financial aid institution, you didn't lend me enough money. If you are my friends, you owe me money. If you are a female, don't worry, I have plenty of money.
Nostalgia
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN
It was considered a great privilege
to be taken out to dinner at a real
restaurant with your parents.
.They threatened to keep children back another
year if they failed ..... and they did it
When a Ford Zephyr was every ones dream
car ..... and people went steady.
No one every asked where the ignition keys were
because they were always in the car, in the
ignition, and the doors were never locked.
Did You Know?
Tesco is the third largest global retailer based on revenue, behind Wal-Mart and France's Carrefour, but second largest based on profit, ahead of Carrefour. In 2008 the company employed approximately 440,000 people.
John Horn founded Tesco in 1919 when he began to sell surplus groceries from a stall in the East End of London. The name came about after Jack Cohen bought a a shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell. He made new labels using the first three letters of the suppliers name (TES) and the first two letters of his surname (CO). forming the word TESCO.
The first Tesco store was opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Edgeware, Middlesex. The first self-service store opened in St.Albans in 1951.
Jack Cohen was an enthusiastic advocate of trading stamps. He signed up with Green Shield Stamps in 1963 and became one of the company's largest clients.
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