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Just a Thought

Now for something completely stupid

Where the hell is Matt?

Hillary or Barack? You Choose

Cult leader comes to America.

Who wrote the Bible?

From The New Yorker

The Brilliance of American Youth

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Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip

To a blind women with a guide:

“Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?”

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Salt Lick Sculpture

Following on the heels (or trunks) of elephant paintings and colorful scribbles created by chimpanzees which fooled some art experts and world-renowned museums,  we now have, finally, the first seeds of appreciation for the powerful and dynamic, soul-lifting scuptures cows and other hooved critters craft from their salt licks.  Dunno about you but I'm pleased and relieved these outstanding artistic creations are finally receiving the recognition they deserve.

Being Old in America

ALL ABOUT BEING BORN BETWEEN 1930 and 1980....

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank
while they were pregnant.  They took aspirin, ate blue-cheese
dressing, and tuna from a can.  They didn't get tested for Diabetes
and there are no Ultrasound photos of us in the womb.

We slept on our tummies, in baby cribs layered with lead-paint.  We
had no child-proof medicine bottles, doors or cabinets.

We rode in cars as infants and children with no car-seats,
booster-seats, seat-belts or air-bags.  We got older and rode our
bikes without helmets.  We even...hitch-hiked! No one drove us to
school in an SUV.  A special treat on a warm, summer day was to ride
in the back of a pick-up truck.  We never fell out.

We drank water from the garden hose, not a plastic bottle.   We
hared one soft-drink with four friends, and we all drank from the
ame bottle.  No one actually died from this.

We ate white bread and real butter.  We drank whole-milk and Koolade
made with 'too much sugar.'  But we weren't overweight because we got
plenty of exercise playing outside.  School recess was mandatory,
twice a day, and always outdoors.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day -- as long as we
were home before dark.

No one was able to reach us all day.   And we were O.K.

We spent hours building our go-carts out of scraps.  We'd drive down
a hill, and would be surprised to find there were no brakes. We ran
into the bushes,  and learned how to solve the problem...by
ourselves.

We fell out of trees, got bruises and cuts and broken  bones...and we
lost teeth.  There were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate mud-pies and worms.  The worms did not live inside us forever.
  We kicked-the-can, made up games with an old tennis-ball and a
stick.  Contrary to what we were told, we never put out someone's
eye.

We had Little League tryouts, and not everyone made the team.  Those
who weren't picked, and their parents,  learned to ''deal with'' the
disappointment....And it was unheard of for a parent to bail us out
of jail.  If we broke the law, they actually sided with the law.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, or X-Boxes.  We did not have
150 cable-channels, or color-TVs, or VHS, or DVDs.  Nor did we have
CDs, Walkmans, surround-sound, personal computers, Internet,
chat-rooms or...cell-phones.  Instead, we went outdoors. We rode our
bikes, or walked to a friend's house and  knocked on the door,
sometimes just to talk.

There are more ''things'' for children today.  But we had the most
important thing a child can have.  We had the freedom to fail....We
are generations of risk-takers, problem-solvers and independent
thinkers.   We have created an explosion of ideas and innovation.  We
learned "to deal with it all," perhaps because as children we didn't
"have it all."

Thanks and a hat tip to my friend in Hammond, Indiana

Also, I would add, that I survived having my feet xrayed in the shoe store, even thought it was fun!

Mensa Invitational

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the 2005 winners:  

1. Cashtration (n): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.  

2. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.  

3. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

4. Bozone (n): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

5. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the  person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.  

9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.  

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)  

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is, like, sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's, like, a serious bummer.  

12. Decafalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n): The frantic dance you perform just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.  

16. Beelzebug (n): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor  (n): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.