Going To School, Getting An Education, Why?

** Going To School ~

Early one morning, a mother went in to wake up her son. 'Wake up, son. It's time to go to school!'

'But why, Mom? I don't want to go.'

'Give me two reasons why you don't want to go.'

'Well, the kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!'

'Oh, that's no reason not to go to school. Come on now and get ready.'

'Give me two reasons why I should go to school.'

'Well, for one, you're 52 years old. And for another, you're the Headteacher!'

** Getting an education - What the Experts Say ~

1) Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes - Norman Douglas

2) Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it - Stephen Vizinczey

3) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten - BF Skinner

4) If little else, the brain is an educational toy - Tom Robbins

5) America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week - Evan Esar

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Sound Of Silence

The often heard expression 'Sometimes silence speaks louder than words', contrary though it seems, is not only true but happens all the time, albeit at times not even consciously done by the people who initiate the silence, and 'words' of that silence are usually responded also with silence. While this is taking place, hundreds or more words would have been spoken. For instance, if your lover gives you the silent treatment, you know he / she is fed up or angry with you, and you could more than likely guess what words that silence represents. I suddenly talk about this subject because I saw Isabel Coixet, the renowned Spanish film director with international fame ( 'My life without me', 'The secret life of words', being interviewed about the film she was shooting in Japan, called 'Mapa de Los sonidos de Tokio' (The map of sounds of Tokyo), written also by her. She defined this picture as 'romantic thriller', well romance always thrills, but I think she meant thriller rather than thrilling. The stars in this film are Sergi Lopez and the Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, who was nominated for Oscar as the best supporting actress for her roll in 'Babel' as a deaf and dumb girl. The story is about a collector of 'bottled' sounds of different areas of Tokyo, a sound engineer, foreigner in his own country. Apparently there are many sound engineers in Japan, one Isabel Coixet met spends all his working hours collecting all sorts of silence, and had canned already 500 different ones!!! That really intrigues me. How does one know the task in hand is totally different from the last one recorded, when all you hear is, NOTHING? How does he classify and edit his collection when each says NOTHING? And what do you use these for? I got a head load of questions and not a single answer. Anyone here knows anything about it to enlighten me? Back to the film. Sergi's character, the sound collector, is being blamed for the suicide of his girlfriend, daughter of a very powerful business man in Tokyo. So he, the father, hired a assassin to kill him. That's where Rinko Kikuchi comes in, a woman with a double life, a fish seller in the market by day, and sporadic paid assassin by night. Interesting plot, huh? Great part of the scenes were shot in Barcelona. Judging by the director's definition of 'romantic thriller', I could almost guess what might happen: the assassin and the man of her prey will fall in love, and complicates her decision, to love him, or to kill him ... Sometimes it's the same thing! Tags:silence,film,tokyo,assassin

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Amusing Shop Names

Some of the shop names are funny, others amusing, and all are rather original ~

** A mobile snack caravan on Dartmoor named: 'The Hound of the Basket Meals'.

** 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.

** In Croydon, UK, a shop which sells second hand recordsn is named 'The Vinyl Frontier'

** A restaurant in Belfast is called 'Thai Tanic'.

** Teddy bear shop in Penge called 'Bearly Trading'.

** Fish and chip shop in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca is named 'Oh My Cod'.
** A bakery in Albert Road, Southsea is called 'Upper Crustie'.

** Another hake and chips in Ton Pentre, South Wales is called: 'A Fish called Rhondda'.

** 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 a mobile snack bat in Cornwall, UK, which goes by the name of 'The Star Chip Enterprise.'

** 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 launderette.

** There was an Indian restaurant in Radford, Nottingham, UK, which goes under the name of 'Balti Towers'. (Probably only appreciated by British readers)

Tag:ShopSigns

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A Life Explained In One Paragraph

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS, which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From the world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed:

“Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease”?

To this Arthur Ashe replied:

“The world over — 50 million children start playing tennis,

5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis,

50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam,

50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals.

When I was holding a cup I never asked GOD ‘Why me?’.

And today in pain I should not be asking GOD ‘Why me?’ “

“Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrow keeps you Human,
Failure keeps you humble and,
Success keeps you glowing, but,
Only Faith & Attitude keep you going ..."

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