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New Dress for the show............$700.00
Giant Stuffed Bear......................$300.00
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Sense and Nonsense Of interest to???????????? Mostly stolen from other truly clever people. 1984 was not imposed upon us by the Government, we opted in!
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New Dress for the show............$700.00
Giant Stuffed Bear......................$300.00
Not knowing how to hold the bear with a microphone in your hand...
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TO: GOD
FROM: THE DOG
Dear God: Is it on purpose our names are the same, only reversed?
Dear God: Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another?
Dear God: When we get to heaven, can we sit on your couch? Or is it still the same old story?
Dear God: Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a Dog? How often do you see a cougar riding around? We do love a nice ride! Would it be so hard to rename the 'Chrysler Eagle' the 'Chrysler Beagle'?
Dear God: If a Dog barks his head off in the forest and no human hears him, is he still a bad Dog?
Dear God: We Dogs can understand human verbal instructions, hand signals, whistles, horns, clickers, beepers, scent ID's, electromagnetic energy fields, and Frisbee flight paths. What do humans understand?
Dear God: More meatballs, less spaghetti, please.
Dear God: Are there mailmen in Heaven? If there are, will I have to apologize?
Dear God: Let me give you a list of just some of the things I must remember to be a good Dog.
1. I will not eat the cats' food before they eat it or after they throw it up.
2. I will not roll on dead seagulls, fish, crabs, etc., just because I like the way they smell.
3. The Litter Box is not a cookie jar.
4. The sofa is not a 'face towel'.
5. The garbage collector is not stealing our stuff.
6. I will not play tug-of-war with Dad's underwear when he's on the toilet.
7. Sticking my nose into someone's crotch is an unacceptable way of saying 'hello'.
8. I don't need to suddenly stand straight up when I'm under the coffee table
9. I must shake the rainwater out of my fur before entering the house - not after.
10. I will not come in from outside and immediately drag my butt.
11. I will not sit in the middle of the living room and lick my crotch.
12. The cat is not a 'squeaky toy' so when I play with him and he makes that noise, it's usually not a good thing.
P.S. Dear God: When I get to Heaven may I have my testicles back?
The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years.
In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.
An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.
This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists. Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable. Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.
Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -- the exact number is not known. Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes. Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.
THEN IT HAPPENED!
By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!
But notice: A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea...Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.
Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.
Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people.
But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!
Beloit, Wis. – Born when Ross Perot was warning about a giant sucking sound and Bill Clinton was apologizing for pain in his marriage, members of this fall’s entering college class of 2014 have emerged as a post-email generation for whom the digital world is routine and technology is just too slow. Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. The creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, it was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. The Mindset List website at www.beloit.edu/mindset, the Mediasite webcast and its Facebook page receive more than 400,000 hits annually. The class of 2014 has never found Korean-made cars unusual on the Interstate and five hundred cable channels, of which they will watch a handful, have always been the norm. Since "digital" has always been in the cultural DNA, they've never written in cursive and with cell phones to tell them the time, there is no need for a wrist watch. Dirty Harry (who’s that?) is to them a great Hollywood director. The America they have inherited is one of soaring American trade and budget deficits; Russia has presumably never aimed nukes at the United States and China has always posed an economic threat. Nonetheless, they plan to enjoy college. The males among them are likely to be a minority. They will be armed with iPhones and BlackBerries, on which making a phone call will be only one of many, many functions they will perform. They will now be awash with a computerized technology that will not distinguish information and knowledge. So it will be up to their professors to help them. A generation accustomed to instant access will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in books and journals and not just on-line. Their professors, who might be tempted to think that they are hip enough and therefore ready and relevant to teach the new generation, might remember that Kurt Cobain is now on the classic oldies station. The college class of 2014 reminds us, once again, that a generation comes and goes in the blink of our eyes, which are, like the rest of us, getting older and older. The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014 Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992. For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead. 1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive. 2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail. 3. “Go West, Young College Grad” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way.” 4. Al Gore has always been animated. 5. Los Angelinos have always been trying to get along. 6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High. 7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo. 8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities. 9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend. 10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet. 11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis. 12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry. 13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation. 14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine. 15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause. 16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways. 17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection. 18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess. 19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone. 20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed. 21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn. 22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech. 23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars. 24. “Cop Killer” by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording. 25. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks. 26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides. 27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive. 28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day. 29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown. 30. “Viewer Discretion” has always been an available warning on TV shows. 31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum. 32. Czechoslovakia has never existed. 33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen. 34. “Assisted Living” has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals. 35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall. 36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones. 37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an “Annus Horribilis.” 38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. 39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes. 40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics. 41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam. 42. Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict. 43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space. 44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs. 45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college. 46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station. 47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents. 48. Someone has always gotten married in space. 49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States. 50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps. 51. Food has always been irradiated. 52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church. 53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn’t he? 54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy. 55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties. 56. They may have assumed that parents’ complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street. 57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife. 58. Beethoven has always been a dog. 59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola’s new Tab Clear, it was gone. 60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48. 61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies’ withholding tax, or else. 62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine. 63. Their parents’ favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies. 64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely. 65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus. 66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church. 67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court. 68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S. 69. The Post Office has always been going broke. 70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping. 71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing. 72. One way or another, “It’s the economy, stupid” and always has been. 73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated. 74. They’ve always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel. 75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.Beloit College Mindset List: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset |
Jose and Carlos are both beggars. They beg in different areas of town.
Carlos begs for the same amount of time as Jose, but only collects about eight or nine dollars a day.
Every day, Jose brings home a suitcase full of ten dollar bills. He drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house, and has lots of cash to spend.
"Hey, amigo," Carlos says to Jose, "I work just as long and hard as you do, so how come you bring home a suitcase full of ten dollar bills every day?"
Jose says, "Look at your sign, what does it say?"
Carlos' sign reads;
I have no work, a wife and
six kids to support.
"What's wrong with that?" Carlos asks him.
"No wonder you only get eight or nine dollars a day!"
Carlos says, "Alright, so what does your sign say?"
Jose's sign reads:
This took place in Charlotte, North Carolina - USA
A lawyer purchased a box of
very rare and expensive cigars, then insured
them against, among other things, fire.
Within a month, having smoked his entire
stockpile of these great cigars, the
lawyer filed a claim against the insurance
company. In his claim, the lawyer
stated the cigars were lost 'in a series
of small fires.' The insurance company
refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that
the man had consumed the cigars in the normal
fashion.
The lawyer sued and WON!
(Stay with me.) Delivering the ruling, the
judge agreed with the insurance company that the
claim was frivolous. The judge stated
nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from
the company, in which it had warranted that the
cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that
it would insure them against fire, without
defining what is considered to be unacceptable
'fire' and was obligated to pay the claim.
Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal
process, the insurance company accepted the
ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his
loss of the cigars that perished in the 'fires'.
NOW FOR THE BEST PART.. After the lawyer cashed the check, the
insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts
of ARSON! With his own insurance claim, and
testimony from the previous case being used
against him, the lawyer was convicted of
intentionally burning his insured property and
was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000
fine. This true story won First Place in
last year's Criminal Lawyers Award
contest.
Every once in a while sanity prevails!