Friday, 22 March 2013

Apartment Rental (For 18's & Over)

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A married businessman meets a beautiful girl and agrees to spend the night with her for 5oo euros. He spends the night with her but before he leaves, he tells her that he does not have any cash with him, But he will have his secretary write a check and mail it to her, Calling the payment ''RENT FOR APARTMENT.''

On the way to the office he regrets what he has done, realizing that the whole event was not worth the price. So he has his secretary send a check for 250 euros and enclosed the following typed notes:

Dear Madam, Enclosed you will find a check in the amount of 250 euros for rent of your apartment. I am not sending the amount agreed upon, because when I rented the apartment, I was under the impression that; It had never been occupied; that there was plenty of heat; and that it was small enough to make me feel cozy and at home. However, I found out that it had been previously occupied, that there wasn't any heat, and that it was entirely too large.

Upon receipt of the note, the girl immediately returned the check for 250 euros with the following note:

Dear Sir, First of all, I can't understand how you expect a beautiful apartment to remain unoccupied indefinitely. As for the heat, there is plenty of it ... if you know how to turn it on. Regarding the space, the apartment is indeed of regular size, but if you don't have enough furniture to fill it, please don't blame the landlady.

Send the rent in full or I will be forced to contact your present landlady ...

The Prayer, The Ad & The Interview

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** The prayers
One night, Nathan overhears his son Benny saying his prayers. "God bless mummy and daddy and grandma. Goodbye, grandpa."
Nathan thinks this a bit strange. The next day, the grandfather dies.

About a month or two later, Nathan hears Benny saying his prayers. Once again, "God bless mummy. God bless daddy. Goodbye, grandma."
The next day the grandmother dies. Nathan gets more than a little worried about the whole situation.
 
Two weeks later, Nathan once again overhears Benny’s prayers. "God bless mummy. Goodbye, daddy."
This nearly gives Nathan a heart attack. He doesn't say anything, but gets up early next morning to go to work to avoid the traffic. He stays out all through lunch and dinner and finally, after midnight, leaves his office. He's still alive! When he gets home, he apologizes to his wife, Sarah.

"I’m sorry, darling. I had a very bad day at the office."
"You think you had a bad day?" Sarah says, "The postman dropped dead on our doorstep this morning."

** Stop Press
Here is a good singles advert which, it is said, appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
 
SINGLE BLACK FEMALE 'seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and fishing trips, cosy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. Rub me the right way and watch me respond. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Kiss me and I'm yours. Call (404) 875-6420 and ask for Daisy.'
 
Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society about an 8-week old black Labrador retriever.

** The interview
Harry went for a job interview. It seemed to go well because before he left, he was told, "We would like you to work for us. We’ll give you £10 an hour starting today and in three months time we’ll increase it to £15 an hour. So when would you like to start?"
 

Harry replies, "In 3 months from now."
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Food For Thought - Or For Sex

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In the Kingdom of chimpanzees, the females are nearly always the ones to choose and pick the males they want to mate with. These are also usually the same ones who have shared their prey willingly, or specially, with them. Not all that different from the human's dine and wine routine is it?

According to the investigation carried out in Tai, the National Park of Ivory Coast, this conduct is not just observed when the females are on heat. It's quite habitual of the male to offer part of their capture during the female' 'cool' periods. After they have shared some meat together, the male's chances to copulate with the female greatly increases when the female is on heat weeks or months later.

'If a male shares his meat with one particular female always, his chance is doubled.' so wrote the investigators Christopher Boesch and Cristina Gomes, of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology of Leipzig, Germany, in the electronic magazine Plos One, where day before they presented their conclusions. "This indicates that chimpanzees interchange food for sex, and they do it as long term installment." Or is it investment?
 photo Chim2_zpsf6d7c0f9.jpgThe investigators also reminded us that in the human society of the hunting era, the best hunters were always the ones that could conquer or collect most females. This data also affect our vision of relationships between men and women. Similar studies show that the benefits the women received in the hunt-for-food society was the motor of relation between successful reproduction and the ability of the hunters.

Bosch and Gomes have observed chimpanzees of the Tai National Park for 22 months, during which there were 90 episodes of hunting, 262 gifts of meat offered by male to females, and 262 copulations. My goodness, surely girls today don't give themselves immediately after a hamburger and a Coca Cola? Do they?

However, not all males show the same inclination to share their prey. Nor only the most generous share their food with all females. The most significant part of the statistics of the observation shows that gift of meat to the female is what explains the most success of the reproduction, not the variation like the status of the female or male, nor due to a special friendship between the 2 particular chimpanzees. These variations let us think that's the cause of coupling, but it's mainly because the high ranking males are usually also the bigger and stronger, and therefore able to capture more prey.

Apparently, being generous is more important than being good looking or powerful. If you are a chimpanzee that is.

Girl Friday - Secretary

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Scenes showing bosses more or less lecherous, and secretaries more or less willing, are exploited to saturation in pocket novels and movies. More or less in real life too, no doubt. But one thing is these more or less unofficial license, quite another is that in present day reality, in Moscow or Kiev, where secretaries with such added requisite of 'intimate service' are exercised, as reported here in the news What can such report contribute the readers?

For a start, an angry reaction from an indignant reader. Apparently a group of ingenious companies in Moscow try to dodge the crisis by offering their rich clients the services of secretaries, who promise much more than seeing to their correspondence and booking airline tickets or restaurant tables, or sending their wives flowers. This female
reader from Moscow but now resides in Barcelona wrote to the paper to complain, pointing out that this kind of report should not appear in a serious paper as news of international value, more apt for the frivolous tabloid and 3rd rate gossip magazines.

Her view: 'Such news does not reflect the reality of the majority of people and their true life, only serves to foster the enormous cultural prejudice already exists.' Is it coincidence that the only reader that complained is Russian?

Not too long ago, the same paper also reported the new agreement between Russia and America the nuclear disarmament, the recuperation of the carnival in Moscow, or in February, the cancellation in the Russian capital of the Rossinya Tower (was going to be the highest in Europe) of Norman Foster. A mixed bag of news both light and serious.

Personally I think she overreacted a little. The paper as she pointed out is indeed a serious and reputable newspaper. Reporting what is true and actually happening is their aim and duty, as long as the factual reality backs up the report. News is not always pleasant or pleasing, because reality isn't. It doesn't mean it shouldn't reflect some controversial topics or, occasionally, the lighter side of life or reality.

The Ageless Rockers

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Just as well it's not always bad or alarming news that get reported. What I discovered today is real invigorating and most encouraging, amongst all the other most depressing reports of murders, robberies, terrorists, accidents and disasters, natural or otherwise.

There was a rock concert, one not at all like any other. None of the members of the performing group is professional musician, and all of them are over 70 years old! Their repertoire has no melodic love songs on strings, evergreens on piano or solitary recital of cello. A Rock concert!

'Casal Rock' is the title of a so called TV Docu-series of 9 episodes, featuring a group formed by 25 members, from the age of 70 to 89, selected from all over Catalunya. I missed the first episode emitted as I didn't know about it till the day after. But that 1st part would only be showing how the group got together and how they began to learn how to change their usual style of singing church choirs, fishermen's love ballads or boleros, to modern or heavy metal rock. Each following episode would record their progress until the last one, which would be a live performance in front of a large audience, in one of Barcelona's famous night spots, the 'Gas Light' nightclub.

Amongst the songs they are going to perform include those of AC/DC, and the collaboration of groups' Estopa, Lax n' Busto, and the songs 'I love Rock & Roll' of Joan Jett, 'Smells like teen spirit' of Nivana amongst many others. Rock on, Grandpas And Grandmas!
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The Ageless Rockers during a rehearsal.

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When There's A Will There's A Way - Amasing!

'Nothing is impossible' is not just a saying, not just to console or to encourage. It's absolutely possible - as long as you possess an iron-clad mind to do it, with unwavering determination, perseverance, and endless hard work, regardless ...