As I informed you on Monday, this will be the last Daily List sending. I may start it back up again sometime, but for now, I simply am not able to continue reading 4-5 jokes every day to get one ready to go for you folks.

It seems fitting that I stop the Daily List today, of all days. November 2002 marks the 5-year anniversary of the jokes list. Unfortunately, I only have archives dating back to the joke you received today: April 18, 2000. I have plans to get jokes that were sent before I started this whole automated thing put into my online database of jokes. If I managed to do it today (that won't happen), there would be 855 jokes and/or messages for you to read, including this message.

If for some reason you have jokes from me going back even farther than April 18, 2000 or between January 1, 2001 and January 11, 2001, feel free to share.

I hope you all have enjoyed the Daily List and I hope you continue to enjoy the jokes, no matter how often they come to you.

Until Monday...

Reaching the end of a job interview, the human resources person asked a young engineer fresh out of MIT, "And what starting salary were you looking for?"

The engineer said, "In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."

The interviewer said, "Well, what would you say to a package of 5 weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, a company matching retirement fund for 50% of your salary, and a company car leased every 2 years and ... say, a red Corvette?"

The engineer sat up straight and said, "Wow! Are you kidding?"

And the interviewer replied, "Yeah, but you started it."