Singapore Open
The Singapore Open is an Asian Tour golf tournament. It was founded in 1961 and was staged annually until 2001, when it was won by Thaworn Wiratchant. It was then cancelled for lack of sponsorship. Other winners in the years leading up to this included American Shaun Micheel in 1998, who went on to win the 2003 PGA Championship.
The Singapore Golf Association initially hoped to revive the event after skipping only one year, but the tournament was not resuscitated until 2005, when sponsorship was secured from the Sentosa Leisure Group. The 2005 prize fund was $2 million which made the Singapore Open by far the richest tournament exclusive to the Asian Tour, that is not co-sanctioned by the European Tour, a status it has retained through 2007. Asian Tour chief executive Louis Martin claimed when the revival of the tournament was announced, “Competing for a prize purse of two million US dollars will give our playing membership a huge boost and elevate the Asian Tour to a new level.” The 2005 event was played in September.
The 2006 Singapore Open offered a purse of US$3 million with a winner’s share of US$475,000. In May 2006 it was announced that Barclays Bank would sponsor the event for five years from 2006 and that the prize fund will be increased to US$4 million in 2007 and US$5 million in 2008.
All time winners

• 2007 Angel Cabrera - Argentina
• 2006 Adam Scott - Australia
• 2005 Adam Scott - Australia
• 2002-04 Not held
• 2001 Thaworn Wiratchant - Thailand
• 2000 Jyoti Randhawa - India
• 1999 Kenny Druce - Australia
• 1998 Shaun Micheel - United States
• 1997 Zaw Moe - Myanmar
• 1996 John Kernohan - United States
• 1995 Steve Conran - Australia
• 1994 Kyi Hla Han - Myanmar
• 1993 Paul Moloney - Australia
• 1992 Bill Israelson - United States
• 1991 Jack Kay - Canada
• 1990 Antolin Fernando - Philippines
• 1989 Lu Chien-soon - Taiwan
• 1988 Greg Bruckner - United States
• 1987 Peter Fowler - Australia
• 1986 Greg Turner - New Zealand
• 1985 Chen Tze-ming - Taiwan
• 1984 Tom Sieckmann - United States
• 1983 Lu Chien-soon - Taiwan
• 1982 Hsu Sheng-san - Taiwan
• 1981 Mya Aye - Myanmar
• 1980 Kurt Cox - United States
• 1979 Lu Shi-chuen - Taiwan
• 1978 Terry Gale - Australia
• 1977 Hsu Chi-san - Taiwan
• 1976 Kesahiko Uchida - Japan
• 1975 Yutaka Suzuki - Japan
• 1974 Eleuterio Nival - Philippines
• 1973 Ben Arda - Philippines
• 1972 Takaaki Kono - Japan
• 1971 Haruo Yasuda - Japan
• 1970 Hsieh Yung-yo - Taiwan
• 1969 Tomio Kamada - Japan
• 1968 Hsieh Yung-yo - Taiwan
• 1967 Ben Arda - Philippines
• 1966 Ross Newdick - New Zealand
• 1965 Frank Phillips - Australia
• 1964 Ted Ball - Australia
• 1963 Alan Brookes - South Africa
• 1962 Brian Wilkes - South Africa
• 1961 Frank Phillips - Australia

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Insurance

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• Insurance agents are premium lovers. Insurance agents do it with third parties.
• Steve’s barn burned down. Julie, his wife, called the insurance company and said, “We had that barn insured for fifty thousand and I want my money.”
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  “Will I live longer?” asks the woman. “
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• A insurance sales rep, an administration clerk and their manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp.
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  The manager says, “I want those two back in the office after lunch.”
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  On the way from the funeral, in the limo, the doctor confessed “I must tell you gentlemen, I only put $20,000 on top of Mr. Johnson, I wanted buy this new machine that would enable me to diagnose his rare disease and save others. It’s what he would have wanted.”
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• A drunk wanders into the lounge of a hotel where an insurance convention is being held, intent on causing trouble. He yells, “I think all insurance agents are crooks, and if anyone doesn’t like it, come up and do something about it.”
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  Just as the doctor turns on the device, he gets a phone call from his ex-wife. They have a heated phone conversation for several minutes before the doctor remembers his patient. He rushes back, and is shocked when he sees the IQ readout at 75.
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  The former genius just stares blankly.
  The doctor shakes him, saying “Say Something.”
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