Things Not to Put in a Resume Cover Letter

1. “I’m really keen to work for you – I hear the drugs are good.”

2. “I regret that I have no references. Unfortunately every company I
have worked for has since closed down.”

3. “I’ll kill myself if I don’t get a job.”

4. “I know where you live.”

5. Any sentence beginning with “I was recently acquitted.”

6. “I’m really tall, so I think I’d be well suited to this job.”

7. Happy faces.

8. “By the way, I understand that you have unmarried daughters.”

9. “My turn-ons include…”

10. “I’m confident that I’ll get this job. God told me.”

Michael Gish

If small mistakes are called a "Faux Pas" then Our beloved but lexicon deprived President makes "Grande Pas" too often...recently President Bush was hosting the White House Conference on malaria...told reporters he's excited about meeting the "malarians" and reassured the "malarians" there was no plan to invade "malaria"....the powerful Military officer that follows the President around with the "bomb code" brief case ought to stick a dictionary and thesaurus in that case...just in case the President needs to speak...even the horrors of Turets Syndrome would imrpove Bush's speeches...may be random but at least they'd have passion...

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