Make Money Online

Earn and Make Money Online

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There are many ways to earn and make money online free. Many of them do not require any initial investment. This site introduces several methods that I have tried and have succeed of making money online to save you some trouble and help you avoid scams.

I have divided the methods to make money online and earn money online into several Categories:

Trading forex	Paid Surveys	Completing Offers
Clicking Ads(PTC)	Affiliate Programs	Other Free Money

For most of these programs you will need either a Paypal or AlertPay account for them to transfer money to you.

***I would Highly Recommend the Free Paid Surveys Section; they are very easy to do and can bring you a stable income of a few hundred dollars per month. Doing legitimate free paid surveys is an ideal method of Making Money Online Free as a beginner.

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Highly Recommended:

Valued Opinions

Get paid up to $50 per survey(U.S members only)

GlobalTestMarket

Lots of Surveys Available, $2-$20 per Survey. Members from All Countries are Welcome!

Opinion Outpost

Pays $1-$10 per survey. Members from U.S or Canada only

Marketiva

Get $5 free to start trading forex with this broker.

Site Map

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Special Survey Offers

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Sometimes, survey panels are looking for members from a specific group. The rewards for these types of surveys are generally much higher than the normal surveys. These offers will end when they have received enough respondents, so hurry!

Below is a list of current available survey offers, check if you qualify:

~~1. Looking for US residents age 14-17.~~
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2. Looking for US residents age 18 and over who use a cell phone and either have purchased a cell phone in the past six months or intend to purchase a cell phone in the next six months.
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~~3. Looking for US parents with children aged 2 and under, or first-time pregnant parents.~~
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~~4. Looking for 500 UK respondents, age 18 and over.~~
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~~5. Looking for US males age 18 and over.~~
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~~6. Looking for US residents age 18 and over.~~
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~~7. Looking for UK parents who have at least~~ one child age 6-13
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***Click Here to See a List of the Popular Survey Panels***

Link Exchange

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If you are interested to do link exchange with this site, please put the following html code in your site.

<a href="http://www.thefunstufftodo.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Earning Money Online</strong></a>
Introduces free ways of making money online by clicking ads, doing surveys and trading forex and more.

Then email freetonytong2@yahoo.ca with the page linking to this site and the info about your site.

Once I see my link on your site, I will link to your site immediately

Below are my link Partners:

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Anson Realty
Martha's Vineyard real estate agent, property and home sales in Massachusetts.
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Chicago maid service
cleaning services Chicago
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Resume Writer
The Resume Clinic provides targeted, powerful resume and cover letter packages from certified writers. Free resume assessments and personalized service with a performance guarantee.
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Sales Recruitment Agencies
Search hundreds of sales jobs and discover expert sales recruitment services. UK based sales recruitment agency.
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Medical Sales Recruiters - PHC Consulting
Provides top sales reps, sales management, marketing, service/support personnel to the most prominent high growth companies in the laboratory products industry. Visit our career site. Great jobs await.
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My Nurse Recruiter
Nursing Jobs Search for Nurse Recruiters and Nurses. Make My Nurse Recruiter, yours.
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Uk Engineering Recruitment
Specialist Engineering Recruitment Website - Browse our technical job vacancies. Find jobs suitable for you from any technical sector that match to your qualifications & experience.
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EZWebsiteBuilder.Biz – Easy Website Builder Build Website Online
Design, build and manage your website, blog, online store or e commerce site. Cheap website domain names, web hosting, online website builder 24/7 live support.
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JPMC Web Services
India's leading Website Design and Development company providing eCommerce website development, flash presentation, content writing etc.

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Clipping Path Specialist
Clipping Path service from $0.49. Satisfaction guarantee, free trial, no payment required before job done, 1-24 Hrs turnaround. Image masking, photo editing, vector creation and other image manipulation services are also available.
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Yellowsurveys.com - Paid Surveys
Paid surveys are a great way to get paid and earn extra cash. Fill in a paid survey online and make money for giving your opinion. Yellowsurveys.com is dedicated directory listing over 900 online surveys in the United States, UK, Australia, Canada and international.
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Get Paid For Free Paid Online Surveys Free Paid Surveys Online Directory is online since March, 2003 and provides legal information about hundreds of free paid online surveys, polls, and focus group providers along with detailed reviews and descriptions for each program. Also contains paid survey guidelines, FAQs and useful tips on boosting your online revenue and how to avoid scams. Paid Surveys Online Directory is the only resource you need to start making money by taking online paid surveys!
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Other Free Ways to Make Money Online

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Top Paid Programs

For the following programs, I recommend you to use a new email address when you are signing up. Because some will send you emails weekly, but you will be paid for reading them.

Unique Rewards, get paid to visit websites, read emails, completing offers, trying products, etc. Huge earning potential, Highly Recommended! US or Canada Members Only.

You can Sign Up Here

Inbox Dollars, more than 5 million members, as seen on TV, earn money by reading emails, take surveys, play games, shop online. Highly Recommended!

Sign Up Now to Get $5 Free!

UniqPaid, earn tremondous amounts of money by signing up free offers, Highly Recommended!

You can Sign Up Here

Matrixmails, Get paid to read emails, visit sites, write articles, play games and search the internet.

You can Sign Up Here

Donkey Mails, get paid to read emails, click ads, sign up offers and to surf and promote websites. Make sure you use a new email address for this, because they do send a lot of emails.(but you get paid for reading them)

You can Sign Up Here

Once you sign up, you will get a share(like shares in stocks). Then you will get paid daily without doing anything!!! The more shares you have, the more you will get paid everday. You can increase your shares by clicking or signing up. Or if you are lazy and don't feel like doing anything, you will still get paid with the one share you received.

You can Sign Up Here

Easyhits4U is the most popular traffic exchange program available today. What is traffic exchange? It's like a trade system between website owners. You earn credits as you surf other people's websites. In return, you can use the credits earned to bring other people to view your website. Not only you can bring more traffic to your site, Easyhits4U also pays you $.30 for every 1000 sites surfed.

Once you signup, submit your own website or the site you want to promote (Currently not supporting Donkey Mail's PTP) under my sites. Easyhits4u will verify the website to make sure there's no illegal contents on your website and etc. Just go through the verifcation process. Then you can start surfing. You have two options, choose the 1:1 exchange, viewing for 20s option. This is a better choice unless you are really eager to earn the bonuses. In that case, choose the 2:1 exchange.

Once you clicked start surfing, you will start to see other people's websites. There will be a banner at the top showing the time you'll have to wait before seeing the next site. There is also an anti-cheat program, so you will have to click the word matching the word in the image. At the bottom of the Anti-cheat image, you will see the number of sites remaining before you can get your bonus. Once you reach that bonus page, just click claim prize to get the prize. The prize gets better as you surf more pages. Once you receive enough credits, you can then assign those credits to your site.

You can Sign Up Here

Free Paid Surveys

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Free Paid Surveys are hard to find these days, but they do exist. Most free paid survey sites will pay you $1-$10 for each survey you complete. There are even times when you will get a $20 or $50 survey, but they are very rare. Remember DO NOT sign up to any survey sites that require you to deposit money. All legitimate paid survey sites should pay you money for your opinions. I know several good free paid survey sites for you to join(all free to join). It is recommended to join as many survey panels as possible to maximize the earnings.

You will need a valid email address to join these panels, since that's where they are going to send the surveys. I guarantee you the survey sites below do not send spam mails, however, if you are feeling cautious, create a new email address for this.

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***Special Survey Offers Available***
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1.Valued Opinions

Get paid up to $50 per survey with this survey panel. Only accept members from the U.S.

Sign up here

2. GlobalTestMarket

Earn points which are redeemable for cash. Usually pays $2-$20 per survey.

Members from all nations are welcome.

Sign up here

3. Toluna

Top Ranked Survey Site, pays an average of $3 per survey. Sends surveys regularly!

*If you are from UK Sign up by Clicking the Banner

*If you are from USA, Sign up here

*If you are from Germany, Sign up here

*If you are from Netherlands, Sign up here

*If you are from Australia, Sign up here

4. Opinion Outpost

A very popular site, will pay you $1-$10 for each survey you complete. (Sends surveys frequently)

Currently only accepting members from the U.S and Canada.

Sign up here

5. Palm Research

A very good survey site, because it sends out 2 surveys every day.

Each survey pays $1. Accepts members from World Wide.

Sign up here

6. Ciao!

One of the best Survey Panels in UK. If you are from UK, definitely gives this panel a try! Pays Cash for each survey completed.

Sign up here

7. Lightspeed

A Popular survey Panel in the USA. Well known for fast payment. Pays cash rewards.

Sign up here

7. Web Perspectives

A great survey panel for Canadians to join. Earn cash for each survey completed. Sends a lot of surveys per week.

Canadians Only.

Sign up here

8. American Consumer Opinion

A survey site that accepts international members(all countries).

Pays $2-$20 per survey. Up to $50 for focus groups.

Sign up here

9. Survey Savvy

Another popular panel that accepts members from all countries.

Pays an average of $3 per survey.

Sign up here

10.Survey Networks

Enter into drawings for a number of great prizes including Cash, Cars and the Grand Prize of $50,000!

Sign up here

11. Permission Research

As a member, you will have access to a database of downloadable softwares and games. You can also earn points redeemable for cash and other valuable prizes.

Members from all nations are welcome.

Requires to download the Permission Research software.

Sign up here

Building a Website

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To build a successful website, you first need a domain name. What is a domain name? It is what identifies you on the internet. It usually associates with com, net, org. For example, the domain for this website is "thefunstufftodo.com". When people enters your domain on a internet browser, it will go to your website.

Usually you can register a domain name for a year with less than $10. It is recommended to get your domain name as soon as possible before someone else gets it. Many people actually made profits just by registering domain names and selling them later for much higher prices.

Go Daddy is the world's largest domain registrar. It also provides services like web hosting, email and building websites, etc. Check it out here

Once you have registered a domain name, you will need to find a web hosting server where you can store all your webpages on the internet. Go Daddy also offers this service.

If you are just creating a small, personal website, there are companies that offer free web hostings with limited storage space. The most popular one would be blogger run by google. You need to sign up for a google account to use blogger.

Once you get yourself familiar with blogger, you will discover all your webpages have the web address "blogspot.com". Since you have your own domain, you can change this so that all the webpages will have"yourdomain.com".

If you need help for changing domain names on blogger, Check here

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*Once you have a website, you can start earning money by joining ads networks and affiliate programs.

Click here for more info

Make Money Online Using a Website

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You can make decent money if you have a website or blog. If you need help building a website

click here

There are mainly two ways of making money using your website/blog.

1. Joining an ad network.
2. Joining an affiliate program or network.

So what are the differences between the two?

Well, an ad network pays you to display their ads on your website. Usually they pay per thousand impressions or per click(PPM or PPC).

Examples:

Hooqy

Linkbucks

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Affiliate Programs

On the other hand, an affiliate program pays you by sales or leads. Meaning if someone buys their products or signs up for their programs by clicking the link on your website, then you get paid. This is also known as PPA. Generally PPA pays much more than PPC and PPM.

One of my favorites is:

Etoro is a very popular online forex broker. It is best known for its special trading platform where trading is like playing games.

As an etoro affiliate, you can choose between 2 plans:

1. Earn a 25% revenue share(lifetime) of the revenues eToro generates from your referred users.
OR
2. Earn a one time payment of up to $200 for each new depositing trader you refer.
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Affiliate Networks

There are many affiliate programs out there. So rather than joining them individually, it is better to join an affiliate network which consists of a lot of affiliate programs.

Shareasale is a good one to join. It has about 3000 affiliate programs for publishers(website owners) to join. The upside for this program is that all the merchants have prepaid, so you don't need worry about not getting paid from a particular affiliate program.

Once you sign up, browse through the Merchant list to find an affiliate program that you like to join.

One of the best merchants in shareasale would be The original Scrapbox . It's a company that sells storage box. Once you reach the website, click skip intro. Under Main, you will see Affiliate program. After you clicked Join Now, if you already have a shareasale account, just log in and you will be added to the program.

Its EPC(earnings per click) is one of the highest among the programs. EPC is an indication of how likely a product will be sold after someone clicks the link.

Once again, you can join Scrapbox here.

Get paid to click Ads(PTC)

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For this category, the available programs pay you to view advertisements. You will have to view each ad for certain seconds before you can get the credit. You will profit very slowly at the beginning. The main thing to keep in mind is that try to click ads everyday. It is recommended to join several ads clicking programs to maximize profit.

For most of these program you will need either a Paypal or AlertPay account for them to transfer money to you.

NEOBUX Highly Recommended(Rating 10/10 )

Neobux is probably the most reliable clicking ads program around with great earning potential. You get $0.01 for every advertisement you click. There are several ads available per day.

To profit with this program, first you must try to click your daily ads. Then you need to get referrals, basically refer other people to join this program. For every ad that your referral clicks, you earn $0.005. Then once you get enough referrals, your earnings will increase tremendously.

If you find it hard to find referrals, don't worry. Another good thing about this program is that it allows you to rent referrals to work for you. Basically, you pay other people to click ads for you. They also have a great tool to monitor the workers you hire. But remember you will need money to rent the referrals. You can earn this money by completing your daily clickings. This is a very good program to join and have a great earning potential.

The only drawback is that the earning process is very slow at the beginning. The rule of thumb is to keep clicking ads everyday for the first month, then you will have enough money to rent referrals. After that, you will profit by very fast.

You can sign up HERE

BuxP Recommended (Rating 8.0/10)

Buxp has a lot of ads available for clicking. You will need an AlertPay Account for this. It's completely free. They also pay you to complete offers. A very great site to make money. The only downside is that the payment for each ad clicking is relatively low($0.001 or $0.005). But they have a lot of ads available.

The important thing to remember is to NOT to click the ad under the anticheat detector(it's at the very bottom of the page). If you clicked that, you account balance will go to 0. It's used to prevent hackers to use autoclick programs. Just be careful when you are viewing and clicking ads. When you are on the viewing ads page, everytime you refresh your page, you will get an update of the ads available for clicking (you can only click the same ad every 24 hours).

Sign up BuxP HERE

Offer Completing Programs

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Getting paid to complete offers. What are offers? Well, some of them require you to complete a survey, some require you to fill up some registration information and some of them want you to try some website or software. You can earn ranging from 10 cents to 30 dollars for each offer that you have completed.

It is recommended for you to create a new email address just for this. A lot of the offers require you to provide them with a valid email address and they probably are going to send junk mails.

Cash Crate
Cash Crate is a very popular offer-completing program. There will be a lot of offers available if you live in the U.S.

Make sure you give Cash Crate the correct mailing address, since they are going to mail the cheque to you. Whether you will give your real mailing address when you are completing offers is up to you. I also recommend you to create a new email account just for this. Cashcrate does not send junk mails, but the offer companies do.

Once you've created an account, click the members tab. Under there, click complete offers. You can choose to show 100% free offers, Trial offers or both. 100% free offers are completely free but usually pay you less(usually $0.25 for each offer). Trial offers require you to sign up an offer using a credit card, some are free, some has a small registration fee. These offers pay you a lot more; they usually want you to try a particular software or program. You can sign up those programs first and later when cash crate approves your submission, you can decide whether you want to cancel those memberships or keep them. Complete those offers only if you are willing to go through the cancelling process with those companies, but you will be rewarded with quite a bit of money(usually around $10 for each offer).

For 100% free offers, there's a category of offers with description of : Complete the survey and registration on the first two pages. Participate in 1 or more sponsored offer that you are interested in during the registration and click on 2 offers in the rewards section. For this kind of offers, the main thing to keep in mind is that to stick to the main page, close any popups.

First fill your general information(your address, phone number, emails etc.) A valid email address is needed since some offers will send you a confirmation email, making sure the email is yours. Whether you fill your real mailing address and phone number is up to you. Then just follow along the main page, hitting continues and submits. Then it will ask you to pick yes or no for several products. Make sure to pick yes for at least one of the offers before submitting. Then just pick an option (single, married etc) and click submit. Finally it will reach the LAST STEPS, with silver offers, golden offers, Platinum offers. Just make sure to click at least two ads on each page.

You DON'T have to sign up those ads, just clicking them is fine. After all that, you are done. You can close that page, and go to your cash crate page to submit. You may have to wait for a few hours before cash crate confirm your completion and credit you with the money.

For completion of other kinds of offers, I think it's really straight forward, just follow the rule of thumb: stick to the main page, close any pop ups. Then you should be fine. They will mail you the check once it reaches the minimum payout amount ( you can set it under account)

In addition, there are research surveys available every day. You can do the same survey every 24 hrs.

You can also join the referral program. Basically you get paid if you refer other people to join the program.

You can sign up Cash Crate Here.

Trading forex

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Trading forex is one of the fastest ways of earning money online. Many people have earned thousands of dollars in just a few days. It is easier and safer than stock-trading and you can trade 24 hours. Moreover, you can buy OR sell currency pairs, this means you can profit in both a rising and a falling market. This is ideal in the current economy.

However, fast comes with risks; if you are not careful, you may lose money.

Here I will recommend some risk-free methods for trading forex.

Most brokers have demo accounts for beginners to practice forex. These accounts are free and you can practice trading using virtual money.

Some brokers will even give you a small amount of money to start trading hoping you will invest later.

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Marketiva (Highly Recommended)

Marketiva is a forex broker that has been around for years, very reliable. I have withdrawn my money from them 26 times.

It will give you $5 free just to try trading forex. I have grown my $5 to $6000. When you sign up, $2.5 will be in your live funds, the other $2.5 will be in your live forex account. You can freely transfer money between accounts.

Moreover, they have a live support system that will answer your questions in different languages instantly (open 24 hrs). Market is closed on Sat and Sun. Also, they have chat rooms for more than 30 different languages.

Highly Recommended!!

Join now at: http://www.marketiva.com/?gid=27259

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Etoro (Recommended)

Etoro is also a very reliable broker and has an excellent platform for beginners and professionals.

NO MORE boring tradings, with the visual graphics, trading at Etoro is like playing games.

Also, you will receive up to $1000 after your initial deposit. For professionals, there are weekly contests where you can earn cash prizes for being a good trader!! (Offers demo accounts)

Join Now at http://www.etoro.com/B641_A15263_TClick.aspx

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Note*I highly recommend you to learn more about forex before investing your own money.

Go to http://www.babypips.com/school, and start learning forex from kindergarden level.

Weird Animals

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A Bunch of Weird Animals......

Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families. They are commonly known as rays, but that term is also used specifically for batoids in the order Rajiformes, the "true rays".

Most species live on the sea floor, in a variety of geographical regions - many in coastal waters, few live in deep waters to at least 3,000 metres (9,800 ft).Only a few species, like manta rays, live in the open sea, and only a few live in freshwater. Some batoids can live in brackish bays and estuaries. Bottom-dwelling batoids breathe by taking water in through the spiracles, rather than through the mouth as most fishes do, and passing it outward through the gills.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoidea

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这年头龙王爷也不好混

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Existence of Sea Monster

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Horseshoe Crab

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Whale Shark

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Water Lizard

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Cool Lizard

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Evidence of Fairy Existence

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Frog

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A deep ocean fish

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A hybrid of platypus and the fish in the previous picture

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Dobby from Harry Potter

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A fish that looks like a crocodile

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Luckily this bull is not in the spanish bullfighting competiton.....

Engineering Jokes

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Here are some engineering jokes I want to share with you...

Software Engineer

A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said: "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess". He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said: "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week." The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.

The frog then cried out: "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you and do anything you want". Again the man took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked: "What is the matter ? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, that I'll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me ?" The man said, "Look I'm a software engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is cool."

ENGINEERS & GUILLOTINES

Today they're leading a priest, a drunkard and an engineer to the guillotine.

They ask the priest if he wants to face up or down when he meets his fate. The priest says that he would like to face up so he will be looking toward heaven when he dies. They raise the blade of the guillotine, release it, it comes speeding down and suddenly stops just inches from his neck. The authorities take this as divine intervention and release the priest.

Next the drunkard comes to the guillotine. He also decides to die face up hoping that he will be as fortunate as the priest. They raise the blade of the guillotine, release it, it comes speeding down and suddenly stops just inches from his neck. So they release the drunkard as well.

The engineer is next. He too decides to die facing up. They slowly raise the blade of the guillotine, when suddenly the engineer says: -Hey, I see what your problem is.-

A Train Ticket

An accountant and engineering convention was being held. On the train to the convention, there were both accounting and engineering majors. Each of the accounting majors had his/her own train ticket. But the engineers had only ONE ticket for all of them. The accountants started laughing and snickering. The engineers ignored the laughter.

Then, one of the engineers said, "Here comes the conductor". All of the engineers piled into the bathroom. The accountants were puzzled. The conductor came aboard and collected tickets from all the accountants. He went to the bathroom, knocked on the door, and said "Ticket please". An engineer stuck their only ticket under the door. The conductor took the ticket and left. A few minutes later, the engineers emerged from the bathroom. The accountants felt really stupid.

On the way back from the convention, the group of accounting majors had ONE ticket for their group. They started snickering at the engineers , who had NO tickets amongst them. When the engineer lookout shouted "Conductor coming!", all the engineers again piled into a bathroom. All of the accountants went into another bathroom. Then, before the conductor came on board, one of the engineers left the bathroom, knocked on the other bathroom, and said "Ticket please".

Clever Engineer

A mathematician and an engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight. The mathematician leans over to the engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game. The engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.

The mathematician persists and explains that the game is real easy and lots of fun. He explains, "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $5."

Again, the engineer politely declines and tries to get to sleep. The mathematician, now somewhat agitated, says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $50!"

This catches the engineer's attention, and he sees no end to this torment unless he plays, so he agrees to the game. The mathematician asks the first question. "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?"

The engineer doesn't say a word, but reaches into his wallet, pulls out a five-dollar bill and hands it to the mathematician Now, it's the engineer's turn. He asks the mathematician "What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down on four?"

The mathematician looks up at him with a puzzled look. He takes out his laptop computer and searches all of his references. He taps into the air phone with his modem and searches the net and the Library of Congress. Frustrated, he sends e-mail to his co-workers all to no avail.

After about an hour, he wakes the engineer and hands him $50. The engineer politely takes the $50 and turns away to try to get back to sleep.

The mathematician then hits the engineer, saying, "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?" The engineer calmly pulls out his wallet, hands the mathematician five bucks, and goes back to sleep.