7th Nov 2011 A Penguin Love Story

An Amazing, Amusing and True Penguin Love Story ~

A Chinese aquarium staged a wedding for two penguins during their mating season.

Wuhan East Lake Ocean World, China, planned the wedding for the two black-footed penguins. The groom, called Little Brat, and his bride, Little Beauty, were dressed up by aquarium staff for the ceremony. 

The groom wore a tie and the bride was dressed in a red blouse as they stepped into their icy wedding room to the music of the Wedding March. For their reception, the love birds enjoyed their favourite dish: spring fish. 

I have also learned that some penguins even mate for life, like the yellow-eyed penguins; monogamy. And others, though not exactly monogamy, they do however only have one mate per breeding season. This is referred to as 'serial monogamy'.

Tags: wedding, penguin, love

Prev: 7th Nov 2011 Owner Of A Lonely Heart

7th Nov 2011 Owner Of A Lonely Heart

'Yes', the British Rock group (if you can remember that far back), was performing here in Spain on Saturday night, in the Sant Jordi Club. Very much the fashion in recent years when old timers, after 30, 40 or more years resting and presumably nourishing their talent, ability and vocal cords, decide to come back to dazzle old fans and winning a few new ones.

Theirs is the what's called progressive Rock, with a hint of folk and country. Included in the programme was their most known major hit 'Owner of a lonely heart', also 'Starship trooper' and 'Roundabout', 'You & I' ... All the past glory and energy still there, perhaps even more now, as they had changed somewhat their style and rhythm, making the original music, simple but perfect, now unnecessarily complicated and difficult, with theatrical crescendos. I guess it's the desire and effort to catch up with the times, even to jump ahead a bit of it, to say: 'Hey, we still got it, plenty of it!'

 

In the old days, music was music, a combination of sounds and tones made by skilled hands of talented musicians, playing one or a variety of instruments, emitting suggestive melodies or amazing mixture of sounds; harmonious, contrasting or even clashing, but pleasing and surprising. Nowadays, music performance is even a bigger combination, with many other elements equally important if not more so, than the music itself: stage-sets, creative scenarios, props, gadgets, elaborate lighting that creates atmosphere, and non-stop changing of costumes, extravagant, surprising or even shocking a la Lady Gaga ... Most of all, plenty of marketing. Music is figured somewhere amongst all that.

I remember, in my childhood days, I came across a saying 'Drawing a snake with legs'. Very young kid I might be but I knew well that snake didn't have legs, so I asked my father what that saying meant. He told me the story that 'During a selective competition a group of young aspiring artists had to draw or paint a snake, showing the characteristics of this much feared reptile.

One talented young man had painted a snake as if it's alive, with all it's cunning and vicious character in it's eyes, scheming, ready to strike and devour any being on his slimy path. He finished the drawing in no time at all while the competitors were still struggling hard at their task. To past time until the 'times up' bell rang, he amused himself by idly added legs to his snake. The painting looked absolutely striking but, needless to say, he failed.'

That story describes people who add unnecessary details to something already perfect. But who is to say that should that happens today, his painting of the snake with legs wouldn't become a masterpiece, giving him enormous fame and fortune, exhibited in a prestigious museum or fetching colossal sums of money in an auction?

Dali or Picasso born under the wrong star. Poor guy.

 

Tags: snake, music, lonelyheart

Prev: 7th Nov 2011 A Cigar Story & The Longest Password

7th Nov 2011 A Cigar Story & The World's Longest Password

Tipping the law of justice - A cigar story ~

A man from Charlotte, North Carolina, having purchased a case of very expensive cigars, insured them against, among other things, fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile, the man filed a claim against the insurance company, stating that 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 man sued – and won.

In delivering the ruling the judge, agreeing that the claim was frivolous, stated nevertheless that the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what it considered to be 'unacceptable fire', and was obliged to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he had lost 'in the fires'.

After he cashed the cheque, however, the 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 man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.

 

The world's longest password ~

During a recent password audit by Microsoft & Google, it was found that a blonde was using the following password: 

 

'MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento

 

When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.

Tags: password, cigar

Prev: 7th Nov 2011 The Husband, The Lover & The Workman

7th Nov 2011 The Husband, The Lover & The Workman

All arrivals in heaven have to go through a bureaucratic examination to determine whether admission will be granted. One room has a clerk who inputs computerized records of what each applicant did on his or her last day of life.

The first applicant of the day explains that his last day was not a good one.

"I came home early and found my wife lying naked in bed. She claimed she had just gotten out of the shower. Well, her hair was dry and I checked the shower and it was completely dry too. I knew she was into some hanky-panky and I began to look for her lover. I went onto the balcony of our 9th floor apartment and found the SOB clinging to the rail by his finger tips. I was so angry that I began bashing his fingers with a flower pot. He let go and fell, but his fall was broken by some awnings and bushes. On seeing he was still alive I found super human strength to drag our antique cedar chest to the balcony and throw it over. It hit the man and killed him. 

At this point the stress got to me and I suffered a massive heart attack and died. The clerk thanked him and sent him onto the next office.

The second applicant said that his last day was his worst.

 "I was on the roof of an apartment building working on the AC equipment. I stumbled over my tools and toppled off the building. I managed to grab onto the balcony rail of a 9th floor apartment but some idiot came rushing out on the balcony and bashed my hands with a flower pot. I fell but hit some awnings and bushes and survived, but as I looked up I saw a huge chest falling toward me. I tried to crawl out of the way but failed and was hit and killed by the cedar chest." The clerk can't help but chuckles as he directs the man to the next room. 

 

He is still giggling when his third applicant of the day enters. He apologizes and says "I doubt that your last day was as interesting as the fellows in here just before you." 

"I don't know" replies the man, "picture this, I'm buck naked, hiding in this cedar chest ..."

 

Tags: lover, worker, husband

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