17th Sept 2011 Listen To The Experts ...

Good advice from a top psychologist ~

Dr. Neil proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.

So I looked around my house to see things I started and hadn't finished; and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Pinot Noir, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bottle of Baileys, a bottle of Kaluha, a packet of Penguins, the remainder of bottle of Prozac, Valium prescriptions, the rest of the Cheesecake, and a box of chocolates.

You have no idea how good I feel.

 

According to biological scientists ~

At a weekend convention of biological scientists, Hannah, a researcher remarks to another in a different laboratory, 'Did you know that in our lab we have switched from mice to lawyers for our experiments?'

'Really? Why did you switch? the other inquired.

'Well, for two reasons. First we found that lawyers are far more plentiful, and second, the lab assistants don't get so attached to them,' chortled Hannah.

 

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17th Sept 2011 Any Arab Sheik Available?

The president of the Emirates Arabic United saved, with a €250,000 cheque, the last chacuteria (butcher shop specialised in all varieties of sausages) in a little town north of Paris where the Sheik has one of his residences. The owner of the establishment could not afford the cost of renovation, and was forced to close up his shop after 50 long years.

 

How many Sheiks do we need to save so many businesses in time of the financial crises, obliged to close up for good during the recent difficult years? One only needs to take a stroll in the markets dotted with small shops especially in city suburbs, to see sad scenes of drawn down blinds and closed windows, and notes pasted on the doors informing of 'for rent', 'for sale' or 'closed indefinitely'. Notices of gloom, dismay and impotence. Accumulation of illusions and efforts sealed off behind the sad and grey curtain. Family business with decades of anecdotes like the one started by the grandfather carpenter, then the next generation turned it into a hardware store, with yet one more life as a clothing shop, by 2 young designers who inaugurated with torrents of hopeful dreams. It's now dark and shut tight.

 

The cold and indifferent Venetian blinds is the lock of a labyrinth of longings that didn't materialize, the shattered hope, and the cruel balance sheet of heavy loss. The door hardly ever opens for weeks now, maybe months already. The silence is the outcry of desperation ... with not a Sheik in sight.

 

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