Joke gifts

Although he was a qualified meteorologist,
Hopkins ran up a terrible record of forecasting
for the TV news program. He became something
of a local joke when a newspaper began keeping
a record of his predictions and showed that he'd
been wrong almost three hundred times in a single
year.

That kind of notoriety was enough to get him
fired.

He moved to another part of the country and
applied for a similar job. One blank on the job
application called for the reason for leaving
his previous position.

Hopkins wrote, "The climate didn't agree with
me."