29th Jan 2012 Beautiful Birds

Very beautiful birds you seldom see.
There's no colour made by man that was not made by God first.

29th Jan 2012 Old Friends

TODAY IS THE OLDEST YOU'VE EVER BEEN, YET THE YOUNGEST YOU'LL EVER BE, SO ENJOY THIS DAY WHILE IT LASTS.

Observations on Growing Older ** Going Out is good ... Coming Home is better! ** You Forget names ... But it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!! ** You realize you're never going to be really good at anything ... Especially Golf. ** The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore. ** You sleep better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring than in bed. It's Called "pre-sleep". ** You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF" Switch ... ** You tend to use more 4 letter words ..... "what?"..."when?"... ??? ** Now that you can afford expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere. ** You notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"!!! ** What used to be freckles are now liver spots. ** Everybody Whispers. ** You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet ... 2 of which you will never wear. ** But Old is good in some things: Old wine, Old songs, Old movies, and best of all, OLD FRIENDS!! It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived! Be Happy, And Share It With Your Old Friends.

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Prev: 29th Jan 2012 Mule Trading

29th Jan 2012 Mule Trading

Curtis and Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily: 'Mule for sale'.

They bought it for $100, and the farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day. When he showed up the following day, he said 'Sorry, fellows, I have bad news. The mule died last night.'

Curtis & Leroy replied, 'Well then, just give us our money back.'

The farmer said 'Sorry, I can't do that. I went and spent it already.'

They said, 'Ok then, just bring us the dead mule.'

The farmer asked, 'What in the world ya'll gonna do with a dead mule?'

Curtis said, 'We gonna raffle him off.'

The farmer said, 'You can't raffle off a dead mule!!'

Leroy said, 'We shore can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's dead!'

A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked:

'What'd you fellers ever do with the dead mule?'

They said' 'We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do ... 'Shucks, we sold 500 tickets for $2 apiece and made a profit of $998.'

The farmer said, 'My Lord, didn't anyone complain?'

Curtis said, 'Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his 2 dollars back.'

Curtis and Leroy now work for the government!!! They are overseeing all the bailout and stimulus programmes.

Moral of the story: Limit all US politicians to 2 Terms.

One in office ... One in prison

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Prev: 29th Jan 2012 Eternal Rest With Footballers

29th Jan 2012 Eternal Rest With Footballers

Now one can die happy if not exactly rest in peace. Pretty soon, the football fans of FC Barcelona can be buried in Camp Nou, well, not really 'buried' in the literal sense. The club is building a sepulchre or commonly known as cemetery with niches, or burial vault referring to the fancy ones. It will have space for 20,000 earns containing ashes of ex-footballers and aficionados who, during life, had specifically expressed their wish to spend their eternity on the grassy land where their idols had run & tumbled.

Imagine it becoming a centre for pilgrimage for the families, filing in there on All Saints' Day, carrying flowers and blue & scarlet coloured flags, insignia of the football club. When the cemetery completes, it will be more than certain than ever that football is a religion of the people, for most Spanish certainly, and the stadiums the temples where footballers and trainers are saints, and where fans show their reverence and devotions with stampedes and all sorts of rituals or ceremonies. Very strong competitor for the traditional cemeteries.

 

If the example extends, soon enough we might also see such columbariums in the houses where the contemporary divinities lived, like Michael Jackson, or Kim Schmitz, founder of Megaupload and proprietor of a collection of cars, amongst them a Rolls Royce. Was it pure coincidence that his Roller displays the matriculated plate: ' God '?

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