Amazing Facts You Might Like To Know

** If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

** It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

** Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

** Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

** No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

** Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

** Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

**Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

**'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

**The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

**The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

**Microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

** The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

** The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

** The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are palindromes. They read the same whether you read them left to right or right to left.

** There are more chickens than people in the world.

** There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

** There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'acetious.'

** Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

** TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

** Now you know just about everything! What you don't know is I am rather worry about my nose and ears!!

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Humour To Explain Politics

One of the qualities I most admire in a person is a sense of humour. I mean humour, not sarcasm. It's one of the important and totally unique human trait, in that although we share many characteristics and capabilities with many animals, like we can all feel happiness, sadness, joy and gloom, pleasure or boredom, hunger and thirst, etc. the sense of humour is exclusively human. 

We need it. More than simply believing we do. To console ourselves when life has not been exactly treating us fairly, to put things in prospective, to mitigate disappointments, giving us strength to accept the inexplicable irony of life, and thus renew fresh hopes. And the best humour of all, also the most helpful and even therapeutic is when one can laugh at oneself, and able to see the funny side of things even when facing adversities. Recognizing shortcomings is half way down the road to correct and improve it.

 

I do not usually pay much attention to politics but, I do always look at political cartoons. They always evoke my deepest admiration how the amazing ability of these very clever artists in condensing the complex reality and situations into some caricatures, with just a gesture or two that tells more than a full page article, or a detailed chronicle news report.

A person without any sense of humour is pitiable, and a society without humour would be quite suffocating.

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Jake & Jill, A Wedding, A Will

** Jake and Jill

Jack was about to marry Jill and his father took him to one side.
'When I married your mother, the first thing I did when we got home was take off my trousers,' he said. 'I gave them to your mother and told her to put them on. When she did, they were enormous on her and she said to me that she couldn't possibly wear them, as they were too large.'

'I told her:' 'Of course they're too big. I wear the trousers in this family and I always will!' Ever since that day, we have never had a single problem.

Jack took his father's advice and as soon as he got Jill alone after the wedding, he did the same thing - took off his trousers, gave them to Jill and told her to put them on. Jill said that the trousers were too big and she couldn't possibly wear them.
'Exactly' replied Jack. 'I wear the trousers in this relationship and I always will. I don't want you to forget that'.

Jill paused and removed her knickers and gave them to Jack. 'Try these on' she said, so he tried them on but they were too small.
'I can't possibly get into your knickers' said Jack.

'Exactly' replied Jill. 'And if you don't change your bloody attitude, you never will.

** At a traditional wedding ...

A little boy, at a wedding looks at his mom and says, "Mommy, why does the girl wear white?"
His mom replies, "The bride is in white because she's happy and this is the happiest day of her life."
The boy thinks about this, and says, "Well then, why is the boy wearing black?"

** Like father, like husband

If it's true that girls are inclined to marry men like their fathers, it is understandable why so many mothers cry so much at weddings.

** A living will

Last night, my friend and I were sitting in the living room and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug."
She got up, unplugged the TV, and threw out my wine.

She's such a bitch ...

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