Thursday, 11 August 2011
11th Aug 2011 Giggles - Too Funny To Be True, But Absolutely Was!
Carnation Milk 65 Years Ago ...A little old lady from Wisconsin had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation.
When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in approximately the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan. The producers wanted a rhyme beginning With 'Carnation Milk is best of all. '
She thought to herself, I know all about milk and dairy farms. I can do this! She sent in her entry, and several weeks later, a black limo pulled up in front of her house.
A man got out and said, 'Carnation' LOVED your entry so much! We are here to award you $2,000 even though we will not be able to use it!'
This is a true story. Don't you think the slogan is priceless, a riot? So was the little old lady I say! Tags: carnationmilk
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11th Aug 2011 Video Of Acrobatic Skill As You Had Never Imagined Possible
The Chinese are outstanding with their acrobatic skills amazing the world over and over. Each time you think you have seen the limit beyond imagination, they come up with more unbelievable performances ...
This video shows the performance on the Russian Bar, at the Circus Festival of Monte Carlo last month. The final stunt will take your breath away!
This video shows the performance on the Russian Bar, at the Circus Festival of Monte Carlo last month. The final stunt will take your breath away!
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11th Aug 2011 A House At The Price Of An iPod
Tata, an Indian company, is planning to launch in the market this year prefabricated modulus units of 20 square metres at 500 € each, the price of an iPod. Some superior ones of 30 square metres are priced at 700 €. This is meant to ease somewhat the very serious deficit of housing of 146 million dwellings. They are the cheapest houses in the entire world. The firm is also the same one that produced the most affordable car in the market of vehicles, the Tata Nano.
These houses, in the form of prefabricated units sold in a kit, with roof/ceiling, walls, windows and doors, available at the end of this year. The company has copied the style of the famous and well established Swedish company Ikea, only that instead of mounting your own furniture, you put together the structure of a house.
The material used for the construction of these low-cost modulus are ecological, like fiber of coconut and jute (strong fiber from an East Indian plant normally used to make sacking and cordage), and is estimated to have a life of 20 years. Like the Nano, one can acquire better equipped designs. In accordance with the pilot testing to adapt the product to the necessities, the balcony is the favourite accessory, followed by the option of roof with solar panels. The local papers call it the 'house of the village' aimed at the millions of people in India that live in poverty, especially in the rural areas. Most of them still live in houses constructed with mud and straw. For the moment, these houses are being tested in 30 locations in West Bengala, and later in the rest of the country.
There exists however, a great fear that the new product might end up being converted in 2nd residences of the people with plenty of money! Just like the Nano 3 years ago. They were built as solution of mobility for the middle and low income families but most ended up being the 2nd or 3rd vehicle of the rich.
11th Aug 2011 Knowledge Gained From Watching Movies 2
Following my post yesterday about common scenes in movies, but most unlikely not to say totally impossible to happen in real life; here are some more screen fantasies: -
- Once applied, lipstick will never rub off even while scuba diving, or after night-long romantic tumble.
- Large, loft-style apartments in New York City (or Paris) are well within the price range of most people-whether they are employed or not.
- If staying in a haunted house, women will investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
- Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
- You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
- Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German or Russian officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German or Russian accent will do.
- If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
- All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
- If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.
- When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.
- Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe
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