Ever feel like "happy birthday" is overused and cliché and just plain not creative? Feel lost when handed a birthday card to sign and don't want to be the 30th person to write a bland "happy birthday"? Then the list below is for you. Cut and paste onto the walls of Facebook friends you hardly speak or even work up the courage to say some of the more off-color examples to their face. You might lose some friends, but at least you had the gall to go out in a blaze of awkwardness.
"Hey what is all that cake for? I thought you were on diet"
"Cheer up buddy"



How Accounting Should Be Taught
Although my professor made accounting fun, I think it can be taught in a more exciting way. Think CSI - Forensic Accounting. Begin the class by slapping a transparency of Enron's 2000 balance sheet on the overhead projector. The professor's first words to the class: "Can anybody tell me what this is?" A student raises his/her hand and answers, "A balance sheet."
"Wrong!" The professor would reply. "This is a crime scene. This deceived creditors and destroyed the life-savings of thousands of Enron employees. This is the scene of unchecked greed."
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