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  • TOO MANY POETS

    Ignore the depressed, alcoholic and suicidal poets and those who teach students, they can’t write. Listen to the four-year-old, alone in the attic singing, “I’ve been working on the rainbow” quietly to himself.
  • THINK ABOUT IT

    1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back. 4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 5 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 6 - OK, so what's the speed of dark? 7 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? 8 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. 9 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. 10 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. 11 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. 12 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
  • FASCINATING FACTS

    1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. 2. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 3. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 4. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
  • SIGNS WORTH READING (REAL)

    Department Store TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW In a Laundromat: AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT In a London department store: BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS In an office: WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN In an office: AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD Outside a second hand shop: WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?
  • DID YOU EVER WONDER WHY…

    Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes? How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings? If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors? If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose? Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

E-MAILERS ANONYMOUS

TOP 10 SIGNS THAT YOU KNOW IT’S TIME TO JOIN E-MAILERS ANONYMOUS

10. You wake up at 3a.m. to go to the bathroom, and check your email on the way back to bed.

9. Your firstborn is named dotcom.

8. You turn off your modem and are suddenly filled with a feeling of emptiness, as if you just pulled the  plug on a loved one.

7. You spend half of a plane trip with you laptop in your lap…and your child in the overhead compartment.

6. You decide to stay in college for an additional year  or two, just for the free Internet access.

5. You find yourself typing “com” after every period.com

4. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.

3. You move into a new home and decide to Netscape before you landscape.

2. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.  : )

DRUM ROLL PLEASE

AND THE NO. 1 SIGN THAT YOU KNOW IT’S TIME TO JOIN E-MAILERS ANONYMOUS:

1. Immediately after reading this list, you email it to
    someone.

 

 

 Strange & Unusual Facts 

Here are some unusual facts that you can use to prove superiority to your friends. 

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a bellybutton. 

A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. 

People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more. 

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop …even your heart. This is why people have always said “God bless you” after a sneeze. 

Only 7% of the population are lefties. 

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. 

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old. 

The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. 

The toothbrush was invented in 1498. 

The average housefly lives for one month. 

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don’t ask how. 

A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened. 

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. 

Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day. 

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot. 

Among the music catalog’s that Michael Jackson owns the rights to, is the South Carolina State anthem. 

In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk. 

Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash. 

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. 

Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.

They are reused in vein transplant surgery. 

Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were seventh cousins. 

If coloring weren’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

"Go Green!"

"Go Green!"

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