31st July 2012 Funny French & Strange Bookmarkers

Strange & unusual things found in returned library books ~

The Guardian newspaper is to be thanked for bringing this article to our attention having interviewed former librarian, Jan Bild, in Worthing after a 30 year career working in libraries.

The following strange articles were found in the books returned to the library:

 

* A rasher of uncooked bacon [presumably a book mark]

* A £10 note

* A shoelace

* One large feather

* A bag of hashish in a hole gouged in the book's centre pages

* A Pension book

* Love letters to Edith

* Vomit [sorry]

* Photos

* Page where every letter 'O' had been coloured in

* Bank statements

* Spaghetti

Funny French ~

 

* In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk.

* Outside a Paris dress shop: Dresses for street walking.

* In a Bed and Breakfast in France: The genuine antics in your room come from our family castle. Long life to it.

* In a Bed and Breakfast in France: Please avoid coca watering, cream cleaning, wet towels wrapping, and ironing drying.

* Hunt-Wesson introduced its Big John products in French Canada as Gros Jos before finding out that the phrase, in slang, means "big breasts". In this case, however, the name problem did not have a noticeable effect on sales.

* Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious pornographic magazine.

*A menu translation in a restaurant near Calais where "Pate de maison" was in the English version as "Our pie". (I think Pâté de maison may be better translated as house pâté, or even house special).

* Overheard in Pontivy, Brittany, France: Je NE care pas. – I don't care.

* On the same holiday overheard: Longtemps, pas voir. – Long time, no see.

* The French father of twins is known as - Pas du tout. (Not Pas de deux!)

 

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Prev: 30th July 2012 Man, Woman, Boss

30th July 2012 Man, Woman, Boss

 
There are the smart people & the dumb people, that we all know; but what happens with the combination when pairing them up? 

• Smart man + dumb woman = pregnancy
• Dumb man + smart woman = affair
• Dumb man + dumb woman = marriage
• Smart boss + smart employee = profit
• Smart boss + dumb employee = production
• Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
• Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

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Prev: 30th July 2012 Bad News & Worse News

30th July 2012 Bad News & Worse News

Soon after O'Shaugnessy clocked in for work, the foreman called him over and told him that he had a phone call in the front office.

When O'Shaugnessy returned, he had a mournful expression on his face and his head hung low. His foreman noticed and asked if it was bad news.

'To be shure it was, Boss', he replied, 'I just found out that my mother died earlier this morning.'
'Gosh, that's awful, 'replied the foreman, 'Do you want the rest of the day off?'
'No', replied O'Shaugnessy. 'I'll finish the day out.'

About an hour later, the foreman returned to inform him that there was another phone call for him in the office. This time when O'Shaugnessy returned he looked twice as glum, and the foreman asked if everything was all right.

'Bejeezuz Boss, its even worse news. That was my brother, and his mother died today too!'

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Prev: 30th July 2012 There's No Fury Like A Woman Scorned

30th July 2012 There's No Fury Like A Woman Scorned

On the first day after breaking up with the husband, Margo packed all her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases. On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things. On the third day, Margo sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining room table by candlelight, put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of Chardonnay.

When she had finished, she went into each an every room and deposited few half-eaten anchovies dipped in caviar down the curtain rods.

 

When Margo's husband Ralph returned with his new girlfriend Tracey, all was bliss for the first few days. Then slowly, the house began to smell. They tried everything, cleaning, mopping, and airing the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents, and carpets were steam cleaned. Air fresheners were hung everywhere.

Exterminators were brought in to set off gas canisters, during which they had to move out for a few days, and in the end they even paid to replace the expensive wool carpeting ... Nothing worked.

People stopped coming over to visit. Repairmen refused to work in the house. The maid quit. Finally, they could not take the stench any longer and decided to move.

A month later, even though they had cut their price in half, Ralph and Tracey could not find a buyer for their stinky house. Word got out, and eventually, even the local realtors refused to return their calls. Finally, they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the bank to purchase a new place.

Then Margo called Ralph, and asked how things were going and he told her the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely, and said that she missed her old home terribly, and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for getting the house back.

Knowing his ex-wife had no idea how bad the smell was, Ralph agreed on a price that was about 1/10th of what the house had been worth, but only if she were to sign the papers that very day. She agreed, and within the hour his lawyers delivered the paperwork.

 

A week later Ralph and Tracey stood smiling as they watched the moving company pack everything to take to their new home - including the curtain rods!

Footnote:

I have heard variations of the above story several times. While it does seem to be based on a true story, with suitable embellishments, this woman's joke would seem to be entering the realms of an urban myth.

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29th July 2012 Magnificent Video Of Nature

29th July 2012 The Most Unusual & Entertaining Concert

29th July 2012 To Kill An Unborn ...

Yes, I am rather brutal with the title of this Blog. Amongst several other issues and considerations re. abortion, the Spanish law under discussion right now is the proposal to be effective next year, that it's illegal to abort a foetus which has been detected to be seriously deformed. Up till now since 2010, it's the decision solely of the woman with such unfortunate & heartbreaking dilemma.

The demonstration below shows those who are against such a law. My personal opinion is that such a decision, as brutal as it seems, is the decision of common sense, from the humanity  , or medical point of view. To take away the right of the most important person directly involved, the pregnant woman to decide the destiny of both herself and her child's future, all the scientific & prenatal diagnostic advances make no sense.

With such a restrictive law, all the private clinics with highly qualified doctors & surgeons would disappear, and many women will face the more brutal and tragic deaths occurred in dirty clandestine private abodes with butchers to actually cut & kill, not abort.

 

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Prev: 29th July 2012 Irish Logic

29th July 2012 To Kill An Unborn ...

Yes, I am rather brutal with the title of this Blog. Amongst several other issues and considerations re. abortion, the Spanish law under discussion right now is the proposal to be effective next year, that it's illegal to abort a foetus which has been detected to be seriously deformed. Up till now since 2010, it's the decision solely of the woman with such unfortunate & heartbreaking dilemma.

The demonstration below shows those who are against such a law. My personal opinion is that such a decision, as brutal as it seems, is the decision of common sense, from the humanity  , or medical point of view. To take away the right of the most important person directly involved, the pregnant woman to decide the destiny of both herself and her child's future, all the scientific & prenatal diagnostic advances make no sense.

With such a restrictive law, all the private clinics with highly qualified doctors & surgeons would disappear, and many women will face the more brutal and tragic deaths occurred in dirty clandestine private abodes with butchers to actually cut & kill, not abort.

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Prev: 29th July 2012 Irish Logic

29th July 2012 Irish Logic

** What good is language? ~ A Swiss man, on holiday in Dublin, needed directions. He was standing outside Davy Byrne's pub when he saw two youths walking by so he stops them and asks, "Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?" The two lads look at each other blankly and stare back at him. "Excusez-moi, parlez vous Français ?" he tries again. The two continue to stare. "Parlare Italiano?" Still absolutely no response from the two lads. "Hablan ustedes Espanol?" The Dublin lads remain totally silent. The Swiss guy walks off extremely disappointed and downhearted that he had not been understood. One of the boys turns to the second and says, "Y'know, maybe we should learn a foreign language!" "Why?" says the the other youth, "That guy knew four languages, and it didn't do him any good!" ** The Oasis ~ Niall and Ethan are two young lads from Shannon and they are lost in the Sahara desert. They're only desperate for water, but just as they think they're about to die, they chance upon an oasis where market day appears to be in full swing. They go to the first stall they see, and Niall asks if they can buy some water. "No," replies the Bedouin stall owner, "I only sell fruit. Try the next stall." So off they stagger to the next stall and this time Ethan asks for some water. "Sorry," says the merchant, "But I only sell custard." "Custard! Custard?" splutter the two. Niall turns to Ethan and shouts angrily, "What kind of flippin' place is this?" By now totally desperate, they go to the next stall, only to be told, "Sorry, but I only sell jelly." Hearing this, Ethan says to Niall and speaks through clenched teeth, "Bejabbers, Niall - this is a trifle bazaar."

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28th July 2012 What A Beautiful World!

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Prev: 28th July 2012 The Lucky Charm

28th July 2012 The Lucky Charm

In front of the local butcher's, an art connoisseur noticed a mangy little kitten lapping up milk from a saucer. The saucer, he realised with a start, was a rare and precious piece of pottery. It was, in fact, a collector's item.

He strolled into the store and offered two pounds for the cat.

"He's not for sale," said the butcher.

 

"Look," said the collector, "that cat is dirty and scabby, but I'm an eccentric. I prefer cats that way. I'll raise my offer to ten pounds."

"It's a deal," said the proprietor, and pocketed the ten immediately.

"For that amount of money I'm sure you won't mind throwing in the saucer," said the connoisseur, "The kitten seems so happy drinking from it."

"I can't do that," said the butcher firmly, "That's my lucky saucer. From that saucer, so far this week, I've sold 18 cats."

 

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Prev: 28th July 2012 Bond Of Love

28th July 2012 Bond Of Love

Oh dear! Baby has fallen down into a mud-hole!!!

 

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Prev: 28th July 2012 Funny Shop Names

28th July 2012 Funny Shop Names

• There's a mobile snack caravan on Dartmoor named: 'The Hound of the Basket Meals'.
• There is a bakery in Sutton called 'Agatha Crustie'.
• In Turnham Green, Chiswick there's a dry cleaner called 'Turn 'em Clean'
• 'A Pane in the Glass' is the name of a glazier's in New York State, USA.
• Others can be found at a website called shophorror owned by Guy Swillingham.
• I have seen two of his examples, one in Croydon named 'The Vinyl Frontier'; a shop which sells second hand records.
• Another example is a restaurant in Belfast called 'Thai Tanic'.
• Teddy bear shop in Penge called 'Bearly Trading'.
• Fish and chip shop in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca named 'Oh My Cod'.
• A bakery in Albert Road, Southsea called 'Upper Crustie'.
• The hake and chips at a shop called: 'A Fish called Rhondda' Ton Pentre, South Wales.
• Would you believe a driving school in the Merseyside area called 'L Passo'?
• Fruit, vegetable and flower shop in Aylsham and Reepham, Norfolk goes by the name of 'Meloncaulie Rose'.
• Barbers shop named 'Herr Kutz'. 
• Knockin, in Shropshire has to have a 'Knockin Shop' naturally. What it sells is not given.
• There is, apparently, a mobile snack bar in Cornwall, UK which goes by the name of, 'The Star Chip Enterprise.'
• There was an Indian restaurant in Radford, Nottingham, UK, which went under the name of ' Balti Towers'. (Probably only appreciated by British readers)
• On a butcher's van on Dartmoor - "Tor to Tor Delivery."
• A hire van company in Kent called "Van Gough".
• Between Tenby and Pembroke can be found a specialist horticultural nursery boasting a sign reading: "Your fuchsia is in our hands."
• In Havant, Hants, UK, a greetings card shop can be found that goes by the name of "Havant Forgotten".
• There is a whole-food shop in Argyll called "Oban Sesame".
• 'Drop your pants here, and you will receive prompt attention' Sign on a laundrette.

 

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Prev: 27th July 2012 Two Heads Are Better Than One

27th July 2012 Two Heads Are Better Than One

An American tourist travelling in County Clare in Ireland came across a little antique shop in which he was lucky enough to pick up, for a mere 200 Irish punts ($350), the skull of Brian Boru**.
 
Included in the price was a certificate of the skull's authenticity, signed by Brian Boru himself. 

Fifteen years later the tourist returned to Ireland and asked the man from Clare, who owned the antique shop, if he had any more bargains. 

'I've got the very thing for you, 'said the shopkeeper, 'It's the genuine skull of Brian Boru.' 
 
'You cheat, 'exploded the American, 'You sold me that fifteen years ago, 'and producing the skull he bought, added loudly, 'Look, they're not even the same size.' 

'You have got it wrong,' opined the seller, 'This is the skull of Brian Boru when he was a lad.' 

** Brian Boru (940 to 1014) managed the rare feat of uniting Ireland. In a turning point in the war with the Vikings, Brian Boru defeated the Viking leader Ivar in single combat. Not only was Brian successful in battle, but he also had at least 4 wives and founded the O' Brien clan.

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Prev: 27th July 2012 The Blonde & The Bait

27th July 2012 The Blonde & The Bait

The Bait ~

Martin arrived at Sunday school late. Miss Walter, his teacher, knew that Martin was usually very punctual so she asked him if anything was wrong.

Martin replied no, that he had been going fishing but his dad told him that he needed to go to church.

Miss Walter was very impressed and asked the lad if his dad had explained to him why it was more important to go to church than to go fishing?

Martin replied, "Yes he did. Dad said he didn't have enough bait for both of us."

Blondie Learning To Fish ~

This cute blonde wanted to go ice fishing. She had read several books on the subject, and finally, after getting all the necessary equipment together, she made her way out onto the ice.

After positioning her comfy stool, she started to make a circular cut in the ice.

 

Frighteningly, from up above, a voice boomed, "There are no fish under the ice." Startled, Blondie moved farther down the ice, poured herself a large coffee, and began to cut yet another hole.

Again, from the heavens, the voice bellowed, "There are no fish under the ice." Blondie, now became very concerned so she moved way down to the opposite end of the ice, set up her stool, and began again to cut her ice-hole.

The voice rang out once more, "There are no fish under the ice." Blondie stopped, looked upwards and said, "Is that you, Lord?"

The voice replied, "No, this is the Ice-Rink Manager."

 

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Prev: 26th July 2012 An Irish Story
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26th July 2012 An Irish Story

Racing is a national pastime. I soon got accustomed to the Reverend fathers, rushing past me to get a bet on at the race track. My mate Trev spotted one Reverend father making a big fuss of a horse in the parade ring. Amazingly the horse went on to win the next race easily.

We took great interest when we saw the same Reverend father bless another horse in the next race, blow me, this horse won too. 

Well we were hot on the Reverend father's coat tails for the third race and as soon as he patted a horse called Foxy Loxy, we raced off to get the best odds we could with the bookies.

Foxy Loxy was well up with the pace on the first circuit, but down the back straight for the second time, Foxy Loxy dropped to the rear. Then to our chagrin it dropped dead by the water jump.

When we went back to the bar we fell into conversation with a local, and told him the tale of the Reverend father.

'Be gora' he said, 'you have to learn the difference between when Reverend Murphy is blessing a horse and when he is giving it the last rites.'

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Prev: 26th July 2012 Interesting Urban Myths

26th July 2012 Interesting Urban Myths

Kilroy Was Here ~
There are numerous urban myths surrounding the origin of the catch phrase: 'Kilroy was here'. Personally I have never even heard of it, much less knowing anything about it. Still I find the origin of it rather interesting.

What happened was that during the 1940's a plague of graffiti appeared on walls all over Europe. If you have a Grandfather or Uncle who lived through World War, ask them for their version of the origin of the legendary graffiti: 'Kilroy was here'. 

Perhaps the best way to research the history is to go back close to the time when Kilroy emerged. Soon after the war was won, The American Transit Association sponsored a competition to find the original Kilroy. They declared James J. Kilroy of Halifax, Massachusetts as the source of the legend. A useful corroboration comes from the New York Times of December 24th 1946. The paper reports thus:

'During the war he was employed at the Bethlehem Steel Company's Quincy shipyard, inspecting tanks, double bottoms and other parts of warships under construction. To satisfy superiors that he was performing his duties, Mr. Kilroy scribbled in yellow crayon 'Kilroy was here' on inspected work.'
Chad On The Wall ~
Neither have I ever heard or known about Chad! 

Chad was the figure peering over the wall, with the long nose, the hands and above all, those eyes. He was probably a British phenomenon. My reasoning is that Americans did not suffer from rationing, and Chad was always moaning, in English not French or German.
'Wot no tea?'
'Wot no sugar?'

I took it that Chad was invented by trainees at the radar school of the RAF, the positive and negative line shown on a graph was adapted with + signs for the eyes. Some wit wrote 'Wot no beer' under it and a legend was born.

Other evidence points to the British cartoonist George Chatterton, inventing Chad in 1937. What happened next was that during the war Chad and Kilroy combined and in the hands of Millions of servicemen, they cocked-a-snook at authority. 

One urban myth suggests that Chad on walls and 'Kilroy was here' slogans, helped the war effort to undermine the enemy. The problem with such views is that I cannot imagine how the average Japanese soldier could read Chad's comments. To me, it is more likely that Chad and Kilroy irritated our great grandparents as much as modern graffiti irritates our present grandparents. But our grandparents tried and put a positive spin on their own misdeeds. The Chad urban myth lives on.

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Prev: 25th July 2012 Gaffes & Blunders From University Students

25th July 2012 Gaffes & Blunders From University Students

Recently published in the British National Daily Newspapers:  'We have found that the brightest and cleverest folk in our country are prone to making gaffes and blunders, particularly in their examinations.' Here is a random selection from this year's exam papers ~

** In literature, a student from Bath Spa University wrote of Margaret Atwood's book: The Handmaid's Tale shows how patriarchy treats women as 'escape goats.'

** A further gem follows when an economics student at City University in London student who attributed Northern Rock's downfall to the 'laxative enforcement policies'. 
 
** A student at the University of the West of England in Bristol astonished his tutor by spelling the subject of one of his favourite topics wrong: 'alchol' instead of 'alcohol'. Another wrote 'whom' instead of 'womb' in an anatomy paper, and one replaced the word 'abdominal' with 'abominous'. 

** A fellow undergraduate concerned by the threat of diseases, wrote: 'Control of infectious diseases is very important in case an academic breaks out.' 

** Other examples come from students at St Helens College of Art and Design near Liverpool, who were asked to 'outline the importance of the four Noble Truths to the Buddhist faith'. One offered the baffling response: 'Nirvana cannot be described because there are no words in existence for doing so. Not non-existence either, it is beyond the very ideas of existing and not existing.' 

** Students at the same university were asked to outline the importance of the railway in 19th-century Britain. One wrote: 'The railways were invented to bring the Irish from Dublin to Liverpool where they were promptly arrested for being vagrants', while another responded: 'The railways were invented to take the weight off the motorways.' 

** My car got hit by a submarine: written on an Insurance claim form. The Navy informed the wife of a submariner that the craft was due in port. She drove to the base to meet her husband and parked at the end of the slipway where the sub was to berth. An inexperienced ensign was conning the sub and it rammed the end of the slip, breaking a section away, causing her car to fall into the water. The Navy paid the compensation claim.

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Prev: 25th July 2012 Funny Gaffes From Famous People

25th July 2012 Funny Gaffes From Famous People

*** Do you think these gaffes were deliberate? ***

** So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? ~ Christina Aguilera 

** Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf ~  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1999, to young deaf people in Cardiff, referring to a school's steel band.

** If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it ~ Prince Philip at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting.

** My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never, never, surrender to what is right ~ Dan Quayle, former Vice President USA

** Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal ~ General Eisenhower, Allied Commander Europe in 2nd World War

6) If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive ~ Samuel Goldwyn

*** Sporting Gaffes ***

** I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel ~ Stuart Pearce, former England soccer player

** Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot ~ Ray Wilkins, former England soccer player, speaking on BBC1 TV.

** For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip ~ John Motson, BBC TV football commentator.

** Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer ~ David Acfield, former cricketer and TV commentator

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Prev: 24th July 2012 Fancy A Game Of PingPong With Robots?

24th July 2012 Fancy A Game Of PingPong With Robots?

Table tennis has always been a passionate national game in C6hina and they are very good at it. But the latest trend is playing the game or a match with Robots. The following photo show 2 humanoid robots, (each measures 1,60 metre tall and weigh 53 kilos). They were presented in Peking at the Exhibition of High Technology, as real opponents in the match with human Sportsmen.

They can capture 120 images per second and able to calculate exactly where the Ping Pong ball is going to land on the table, therefore can catch & return it with the maximum speed and precision. No human had yet been able to win the game!

 

This bottom photo shows the robot called 'DeeChee' with a team of scientists in the University of the United Kingdom of Britain, being taught to speak. endowed with the intelligence similar to a baby of between 6 to 14 months. After interaction with humans, DeeChee was able to babbling to forming comprehensible words designating objects, colours & vocabulary spontaneously. He learns quickly, achieving saying his first phrases in the continuous 8 minutes, although, for the moment, he doesn't know yet what he has said means. Quite incredible!

This bottom photo shows the robot called 'DeeChee' with a team of scientists in the University of the United Kingdom of Britain, being taught to speak. endowed with the intelligence similar to a baby of between 6 to 14 months. After interaction with humans, DeeChee was able to babbling to forming comprehensible words designating objects, colours & vocabulary spontaneously. He learns quickly, achieving saying his first phrases in the continuous 8 minutes, although, for the moment, he doesn't know yet what he has said means. Quite incredible!

 

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Prev: 24th July 2012 Fancy A Highland Fling?

24th July 2012 Fancy A Highland Fling?

It's one of those days when you were least disposed to speak with strangers or mere acquaintances about nothing, that such a person would plonk himself onto the empty chair at your table while he mumbled the question: " You don't mind do you?". Before you had time to answer whether you did mind or not, he had already adjusted his posture & now seemed quite comfortably settled down there with you & ready to carry on with more questions. In accordance with my family upbringing, in fact the well observed tradition in every Chinese family, that one should always respect one's elders, I smiled & waited for the grill to start.

 

Questions from acquaintances are usually casual, limited to weather, your health and that of your family, his health & that of his family; the holidays of both parties, what you are up to now, yesterday or tomorrow. Answers are easy too, as most of the time they are not even exactly required. You often find that before you could answer one question that so called friend of yours is already asking another. Thus we spent the first 20 minutes or so exchanging absolute nothingness, all the while I was thinking, if only I could get back to my newspaper, which was spread out still on my side of the table, giving him ample hint that I really wished to return to it. No luck. He was quite enjoying the - " lovely chat, isn't it? " - amongst the other questions.

 

Then he started to, without the slightest encouragement on my part, tell me all his firm believes & principles of life, the importance of truths & nothing but the truths. I think the worst thing of getting old is not the first appearance of wrinkles but believing too much in the time tested truths, allowing no new questions raised to update one's convictions which had worked the last 50 years, why not now sort of attitude. Totally ignoring the past of time, the change of circumstances, the new technology, new advancements or improved methods, new discoveries ... each in itself or all together can influence, alter or improve on established facts but nevertheless outdated & now insufficient or no longer as effective.

 

I said to him this didn't mean the old believes or ways of doing things were wrong, just that good, valid or even valued as they were before, some are not any more now, which many older folks just can't see & accept, being so, not able to benefit from. I think he got fed up not able to convert me & suddenly remembered he had to dash off.

 

He is a Scot by the way, and with intention of being my suitor! Normally I love the Scottish gents, but this one is something else. I am hoping he might even be a bit angry, perhaps enough not to show up sharing my table uninvited too often.

No way, not with Mr. Annoyance anyway.

 

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Prev: 23rd July 2012 Racing Brides

23rd July 2012 Racing Brides

Sports or running shoes certainly don't make a good combination when the 30 ladies were wearing them, teaming with their long white wedding gowns. But none of that seem important to the brides who took part in a very unusual, annual 'Bridal Race' in central Belgrade, capital of the Republic of Yugoslavia.

The winner and 2 runners-up of the race received numerous awards, including the wedding gowns they had chosen to race in.

I see one grandma bride too! Good for her, not only game for love, but game for sport; what's more, able to run! Were the bridegrooms cheering them on, or were they waiting in the pub getting drunk?

 

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Prev: 23rd July 2012 Robot Spy & MaMa Bear

23rd July 2012 Robot Spy & MaMa Bear

To get close to Polar Bears is not just a very dangerous task but near impossible for the 'paparazzi' wild life photographers, especially when they wish to obtain photos, or video, in their natural habitat. But they are able to equipped themselves now with the help of a robotized camera, able to capture spectacular close-up shots as demonstrated shots below.

The camera is camouflaged inside some sort of a chassis that simulates a snowball, can move at the speed of 65 kilometres per hour and able to resist temperatures of up to 30 degrees under zero.

But MaMa Bear in this story, extremely determined to keep her privacy, was not at all pleased that any suspicious object was anywhere near her baby, immediately hurled herself upon it with very angry looks on her face, as if grumbling 'Even in the North Pole, they won't let you live in peace!'

 

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22nd July 2012 Doctor, Doctor! - A Phobia Story

'Doctor O'Hara,' Ranjit pleaded, 'I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. You gotta help me, I'm going crazy.'

'Just put yourself in my hands for two years,' said Dr O'Hara, the psychiatrist, 'Come and see me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears.'

 

'How much do you charge?'

'A hundred dollars per visit.'

'In that case, I'll sleep on it,' answered Ranjit.

Six months later the doctor met Ranjit in the street.

'Why didn't you ever come to see me again?' asked the psychiatrist.

'For a hundred buck's a visit? A bartender cured me for ten dollars,' smiled Ranjit.

'Is that so! How?'

'He told me to cut the legs off the bed.'

List of Unusual and Strange Phobias ~

* Pteronophobia - Panic when tickled by feathers.

* Pediophobia - Fear of dolls.

* Russophobia - Dread of Russians.

* Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat.

* Consecotaleophobia - Fear of chopsticks.

* Eleutherophobia - Strange phobia of freedom.

* Epistemophobia - Fear of knowledge.

* Ereuthrophobia - Dread of blushing.

* Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.

* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words. (This one would scare anyone for sure!)

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Prev: 22nd July 2012 Funny, Strange Or Bizarre Book Titles

22nd July 2012 Funny, Strange Or Bizarre Book Titles

The Diagram Prize is awarded each year to the oddest title presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Several of these books fall into the 'must read category'.

Bizarre Book Titles:

** Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself [A book for woodworkers]

** Knitting with Dog Hair

** Wood Carving with a Chain Saw

** Drying Flowers With A Microwave

** Nuclear War: What's In It For You?

** How Green were the Nazis?

** Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them

** How to Avoid Huge Ships

** Bomb Proof Your House

** Waterproofing Your Child

Strange Book Titles:

 

** May Flowers by April Showers

** Cheese Problems Solved by P.L.H. McSweeney

** How to Write a How to Write Book by Brian Paddock

** I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen by Jasper McCutcheon

** If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs by Big Boom

** Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon

** People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond by From King Canute to Doctor Feelgood by Dee Gordon.

Amusing Book Titles:

 

**The 120 year diet

** Detecting Fake Nazi Regalia

** Foundry Work for the Amateur

** Versailles by The View from Sweden

** Oral Sadism and the Vegetable Personality

** Theory of Lengthwise Rolling

** The Potatoes of Bolivia by Their Breeding, Value and Evolutionary Relationships

** Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry

** The Interpretation of Geological Time from the Evidence of Fossilised Elephant Droppings in Eastern Europe

** Big and Very Big Hole Drilling

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