Fact & Fantasy 12
A GERMAN WIFE divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time, with him tidying up and rearranging the furniture. After 15 years she called it quits when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty.
NELSON MANDELA - 8 LESSONS OF LEADERSHIP
1. Courage is not the absence of fear - it's inspiring others to move beyond it.
2. Lead from the front - but don't leave your base behind.
3. Lead from the back - and let others believe they are in front.
4. Know your enemy - and learn about his/her favourite sport.
5. Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.
6. Appearances matter - and remember to smile.
7. Nothing is black or white.
8. Quitting is leading too.
(Obama seems to have learned all these lessons)
SOME SAYINGS
- Optimist: a person who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
- Pessimist: a person who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
- Horse sense is the thing a horse has that keeps it from betting on people. (W.C. Fields)
- Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished. (Leslie Neilsen)
- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. (B.F. Skinner)
WOMEN
Five stages of a female's life: 1. to grow up
2. to fill out
3. to slim down
4. to hold it in
5. to hell with it
An OLDER WOMAN will never wake you up in the middle of the night and ask you "What are you thinking?"
An older woman doesn't care what you think.
INDIA TO CRACK DOWN ON DOCTORS ABORTING GIRLS
...Indian parents are choosing to abort female foetuses in such large numbers that 900,000 girls are now being lost every year.... Experts estimate India has lost 10 million girls in the past 20 years, yet in the 14 years since selective abortion was outlawed only two doctors have been convicted of the crime - and officials admit that one of those is back in business. [Business as usual] (The Guardian, England)
THE THINGS PEOPLE DO!!!
1. BOG SNORKELLING - Biking through a bog wearing lead weights ... is a growing international sport. The tiny Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells is plays host to the World Mountain Big Bog Snorkeling Championships. Competitors cycle along the bottom of a 6-foot deep peat bog wearing a mask and snorkel. A lead-filled frame and water-filled tyres ensure grip on the pond bottom. The cyclist wears a weight belt to avoid floating off. (Guardian, 2008)
2. S. AFRICAN KIDS' GAME (Johannesburg): Schools are the 'single most common' site of crimes against children, such as robbery and assault, including rampant sexual violence, some of it by teachers...South African schoolchildren are so affected by crime that they act out games involving rape and mimic robberies in the playground. One [game] cited in the report is a game played by 7-year-old children called 'rape me, rape me', in which they pretend to sexually assault each other. (The Australian, Mar 14 2008)
THESE 51 STATES:
OKLAHOMA - in Harthahoren, Oklahoma, it's illegal to put a hypnotized person in a display window.
WEST VIRGINIA - a town in West Virginia went from a molehill to a mountain. Literally. In 1949 Molehill, West Virginia was officially renamed Mountain, West Virginia.
CONNECTICUT - in Devon, Connecticut, it's illegal to walk backwards after sunset.
BODY IMAGE - DIETING
1. When I buy cookies, I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though: Raid really doesn't taste that bad. (Janette Barber)
2. We rarely repent of having eaten too little. (Thomas Jefferson)
3. Dieting is starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.
Statistics
1. The Statue of Liberty has some pretty big feet. Her sandals are 7.6 meters long, which means her shoe size is 879 (based on the standard formula for calculating women's shoe sizes).
2. Forbes tells us the world now has 358 billionaires. Their combined net worth exceeds the combined net worth of the world's poorest 2.5 billion people.
3. The average woman consumes 6 lb. of lipstick in her lifetime.
4. The cruise liner QE2 moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel that she burns.
5. More than 600 tourists have booked guided coach tours to see rhubarb growing out of season in sheds in Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK.
6. WOMEN blink nearly twice as much as men.
7. Average number of stars visible from a U.S. suburb on a clear night: 250
Average number of stars visible from the U.S. wilderness: 2,500.
8. The Department of Defense/Department of Energy budget of the United States equals the military budgets of the next 25 military powers put together.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
1. My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man -and I'm giving them my share. (Rita Mae Brown)
2. In The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, a University of Georgia researcher concluded that a group of homophobic men (men who feared and hated homosexuals and dreaded being close to them) contained twice as many men who were sexually aroused by erotic photos of men as did an equal group of non-homophobic men.
INTERESTING WEBSITES:
1. TIRE SAFETY
http://rvvideos.blogspot.com/2008/07/your-new-car-or-rv-tires-could-kill-you.html
2. THE AUSCHWITZ ALBUMS
http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/mutimedia/index.html
3. THE AMAZON.COM TAKEOVER
www.word-power.co.uk/viewPlatform.php?id=
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***And finally (just in case you or your dog were thinking of knowingly or willfully obstructing or retarding the progress of your mailperson) here is the note on the outside of my Medicare D information pack, sent by US Mail:
WARNING
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. U.S. Code Title 18, Sec. 170l.
