Saturday, April 29, 2017

Quote from Winston Churchill

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.-Winston Churchill

Quote from Munia Khan

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls.-Munia Khan

Quote from Carrie Fisher

Sex was for men.Marriage,like lifeboats,was for women and children.-Carrie Fisher

Quote from Orval Hobart Mowrer

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.-Orval Hobart Mowrer

Friday, April 28, 2017

Quote on words

Words are how people think.When you misuse words,you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.-Margaret Heffernan

Quote from Vance Havner

The gospel is for lifeboats,not showboats,and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.-Vance Havner

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Quote from Jean Kerr

The only reason that they say,'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.-Jean Kerr

Quote from Ed Stafford

A lazy,bored brain latches on to negativity and problems and exaggerates them until they become out of perspective and all-consuming.-Ed Stafford,WALKING THE AMAZON

Quote from Rumi

Be a lamp,or a lifeboat,or a ladder.-Rumi,Persian poet

Quote from Margaret Atwood

We have been shark to each other,but also lifeboat.-Margaret Atwood

Quote from Lysa Terkeurst

Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation.-Lysa Terkeurst,UNGLUED:MAKING WISE CHOICES IN THE MIDST OF RAW.

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers;a war,a crusade,a goldmine,a new country,speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)

Quote from Oscar Wilde

When the prurient and the impotent attack you,be sure you are right.-Oscar Wilde,THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Quote from Steve Maraboli

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event.Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.-Steve Maraboli,UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU:REFLECTIONS OF LIFE AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

Quote from Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment.It is a criticism.-Alan Jay Lerner

Quote from Georg Feuerstein

Ultimately,there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.-Georg Feuerstein

Quote on love

Love is not singular except in syllable.-Marvin Taylor

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Pit vipers

Q.Which is the largest pit viper in the world?
Answer.The bushmaster

Carnivorous reptiles

Q.Which is the largest carnivorous reptile in South America?
Answer.The black caiman

Quote from Steve Maraboli

I used to worry about the labels others placed on me---until I realized my limitations weren't coming from their labels,but from my own.-Steve Maraboli

Quote on old libraries

That's what I like so much about old libraries--they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.-Ruth Reichl,DELICIOUS

Quote from Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.-Benjamin Franklin

Quote from George Herbert

Love and a cough cannot be hid.-George Herbert

Quote from George Orwell

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.-George Orwell(1903-1950)

Quote from Nick Webb

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.-Nick Webb

Quote from Carlos Wallace

Labels(of any kind) are simply band-aids people apply to their lives to mask the wounds of their insecurities-Carlos Wallace

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names,to large societies and dead institutions.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,SELF-RELIANCE.

Quote from Gregory Maguire

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway,why not get the benefit of it?It liberates you from convention.-Gregory Maguire

Quote on titles

Titles are prisons of human potential.-Natasha Tsakos

Quote from Darnell Lamont Walker

Definitions only belong to those who need them.-Darnell Lamont Walker

Quote on labels

Labels can provide a tempting hiding place.-Nick Vujicic,LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Humorous secularist blogger sadly murdered in Maldives

Yameen Rasheed, 29,a prominent secularist blogger was stabbed to death on the Indian island of Maldives this April 2017.He wrote the wonderful blog  http://thedailypanic.com which poked fun at religious authorities.
                          In recent years,the tiny island nation of Maldives has become a recruiting ground for ISIS recruits.
                            The West must do more to stem Islamic radicalization in countries like the Maldives and Bangladesh.People in Islamic counties are increasingly afraid to assert their right to freedom of speech.

Another interesting blog

Honduras

Q.What is the largest lake in Honduras?
Answer.Lake Yojoa

Some interesting websites and blogs(many for thrifty people)

Quote on slavery

Slavery remains rife,the shackles are just different.Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.-Aisha Mirza

Quote from David W.Earle

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.-David W.Earle

Quote from Orrin Woodward

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.-Orrin Woodward

Quote from Philp Pullman

People are too complicated to have simple labels.-Philip Pullman,THE AMBER SPYGLASS.

Quote from John Morley

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.-John Morley

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Quote from Steve Maraboli

Your labels don't limit me---they limit your experience of me.-Steve Maraboli

Quote on definitions

Definitions belong to the definers,not the defined.-Toni Morrison,BELOVED.

Quote on guacamole

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole,but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.-Frank Bruni

Another quote from Eudora Welty

The greatest mystery is unsheathed reality itself.-Eudora Welty

Quote from Eudora Welty

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.-Eudora Welty(1909-2001)

Quote from Frank Bruni

Words.A child needs a forest of words to wander through,a sea of words to splash in.A child needs to be read to,and a child needs to read.-Frank Bruni,"THE GIFT OF READING''in THE NEW YORK TIMES(November 25,2015)

Quote on weakness

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.-George Sand

Quote on gossip

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.-George Sand

Quote from George Sand

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution.The reverse is true.As one grows older,one climbs with surprising strides.-George Sand

Quote from Amit Abraham

Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted.-Amit Abraham

Quote from Napoleon Hill

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.-Napoleon Hill(1883-1970)

Quote from Davy Crockett

Be always sure you are right-then go ahead!-Davy Crockett

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Quote from Norman Vincent Peale

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.-Norman Vincent Peale

Quote from Jerry Spinelli

This was the ghetto:where children grow down instead of up.-Jerry Spinelli

Quote from Klaus Kinski

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.-Klaus Kinski

Quote from Ernest Bramah

One cannot live forever by ignoring the price of coffins.-Ernest Bramah

Quote from Eudora Welty

A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument,which may be answered.-Eudora Welty

Friday, April 21, 2017

Great quote from George Orwell

(Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.-George Orwell(1903-1950)

Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every single person is a fool,insane,a failure,or a bad person to at least ten people.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote from Jon Bon Jovi

Map out your future-but do it in pencil.The road ahead is as long as you make it.Make it worth the trip.-Jon Bon Jovi

Quote from Fran Lebowitz

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.-Fran Lebowitz

Quote from Nelson DeMille

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road-maps.-Nelson DeMille

Quote on political science

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.-Harold Lasswell

Quote from Flannery O'Connor

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.-Flannery O'Connor,THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY.

Quote from Salman Rushdie

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.-Salman Rushdie,THE SATANIC VERSES

Quote from Gail Lumet Buckley

Family faces are magic mirrors.Looking at people who belong to us,we see the past,present and future.-Gail Lumet Buckley

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Quote on God

God heals as well as God Kills.-Abhijit Naskar,THE GOD PARASITE:REVELATION OF NEUROSCIENCE.

Quote on fear

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.-Joe Hill,THE FIREMAN

Quote from Margaret Atwood

There were a lot of gods.Gods always come in handy,they justify almost anything.-Margaret Atwood,THE BLIND ASSASSIN

Quote from Craig Kimberley

If money makes the world go round,it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.-Craig Kimberley

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Quote from Tim O'Brien

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts.This we call memory.-Tim O'Brien

Quote from Steve Maraboli

Apathy is a trap.There is no challenge---so there is no reward.Remember,there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.-Steve Maraboli

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out,but it catches fire again every time a child is born.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote on Italian food

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.-George Miller

Monday, April 17, 2017

Quote from Danielle Laporte

You don't need to be burned out to go on hiatus-Danielle Laporte

Quote from Tom Waits

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.-Tom Waits

Quote from James Beard

Be simple.Be honest.Don't overcook and don't undercook,but it's better to undercook than overcook.-James Beard

Quote on April

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.-Christopher Morley

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Quote from George Gobel

If you build a better mousetrap,you will catch better mice.-George Gobel

Quote on cemeteries

But cemeteries are like mousetraps for memories,catching grief by the tail before it knows what's what.-Jennifer E.Smith

Conservative quote from P.J O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.-P.J.O'Rourke

Quote from Ernest Bramah

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.-Ernest Bramah(1868-1942)

Quote from Dixie Waters

Little symbols of love are like molten lava,there's something even better below the surface.-Dixie Waters

Quote from James D.Carswell

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap,nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.-James D.Carswell

Quote from Ernest Bramah

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.-Ernest Bramah(1868-1942)

Quote from Syrus

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.-Publilius Syrus

Quote on perfection

Perfection has one grave defect:it is apt to be dull.-W.Somerset Maugham

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Quote from Denis Hayes

Listen up,you couch potatoes:each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.-Denis Hayes

Quote on recycling

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.-Peter F.Hamilton,THE NAKED GOD

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is this to be said in favor of drinking,that it takes the drunkard first out of society,then out of the world.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)

Quote on drunkards

A drunkard is like a whiskey bottle,all neck and belly and no head.-Austin O'Malley(1760-1854),United Irish leader.

Quote from Jeremy Courtney

Because even though fear,hatred,and violence conspire to unmake the world,preemptive love unmakes violence.-Jeremy Courtney

Friday, April 14, 2017

Quote on death

Death is loneliness in its purest form.-Katherine Anne Porter(1890-1980)

Quote on religious dogma

Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.-Steve Maraboli,UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU:REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

Quote from Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.-Eartha Kitt

Quote from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fertilizer does no good in a heap,but a little spread around works miracles all over.-Richard Brinsley Sheridan(1751-1816)

Quote from Katherine Anne Porter

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round,only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.-Katherine Anne Porter

Canola oil brand that you finished consuming in March 2017

In March 2017,you finished consuming a 3 Litres plastic tub of SPECTRA-Canola Oil.(For salads,Baking and Frying)(Cholesterol free)-Super fine.-Trans Fat Free.
                                    This canola oil was quite good.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Quote from Noam Chomsky

That's the standard technique of privatization:defund,make sure things don't work,people get angry,you hand it over to private capital.-Noam Chomsky

Quote on religions

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)

Quote from Jim Rohn

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet.Use your mind to work out problems and find answers;file away good ideas in your journal.-Jim Rohn

Quote from Peter F.Drucker

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we may it a required course.-Peter F.Drucker

Quote on adults

Adults are obsolete children.-Dr.Seuss(1904-1991)

Quote on automation

Automation does not make optimism obsolete.-George Keith Funston

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Quote on entrepreneurs

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.-Robert A.Rice Jr

Quote on warehouses

Rather than demolish an abandoned warehouse,why not just cover it with graffiti and call it art?-Jarod Kintz

Quote from Noam Chomsky

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism,not a war against terrorism.-Noam Chomsky,9-11.

Quote on the disabled

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or not that disabled.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote from Ernest Bramah

The one-legged never stumble.-Ernest Bramah

Quote on roads

Where the road bends abruptly,take short steps.-Ernest Bramah

Quote on flooding

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.-Ernest Bramah(1868-1942)

Quote from Ernest Bramah

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation,there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.-Ernest Bramah

Quote from Plutarch

If you live with a cripple,you learn to limp.-Plutarch

Quote on profanity

Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple.-David Keuck

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Quote from Madeleine M.Kunin

To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.-Madeleine M.Kunin

Quote from Terry Waite

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practise it. Slowly but surely,as they try to extinguish life in others,the light within them dies.-Terry Waite,LONDON GUARDIAN,February 20,1992.

Madagascar

Q.What is the national tree of Madagascar?
Answer.The Baobab.
                         The Baobab trees are also known as 'Upside Down Bottles' or 'Monkey Bread Trees';they are believed to be the largest succulents in the world.
                                     (Up to 90% of the tree species that grow in Madagascar grow nowhere else in the world).

Another interesting quote on terrorism

Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper.You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you.-Paul Wilkinson,LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH,September 1,1992.

Interesting quote on terrorism

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?-Howard Zinn,HOWARD ZINN ON WAR.

Quote on car bombs

The car bomb is the poor man's airforce.-Mike Davis,BUDA'S WAGON

Great quote from Peter Ustinov

Terrorism is the war of the poor,and war is the terrorism of the rich.-Peter Ustinov,ACHTUNG!VORURTEILE.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Quote on alarm clocks

Who needs an alarm clock when you have a bladder.-T.Haque

Quote on tea bags

The tea-bag is a vile invention suggestive to my perhaps overly squeamish eye of something a careless person might leave behind unflushed in the lavatory.-John Banville,THE SEA.

Quote from John Banville

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.-John Banville,THE PARIS REVIEW,spring 2009.

Quote on smugglers

A smuggler must know the tides and when to seize them.-George R.R.Martin,A STORM OF SWORDS.

Interesting quote on dating

A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks.Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks.The fireworks can happen at any time,and be maintained.-Helen Fisher

Quote from Taylor Swift

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad,empty town.-Taylor Swift

Quote from Muriel Barbery

When someone that you love dies---it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.-Muriel Barbery

Quote on love

Sometimes love isn't fireworks,sometimes love just comes softly.-Janette Oke

Interesting quote on sleep

Sleep is uncanny,I have always found it so,a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.-John Banville,ANCIENT LIGHT.

Quote on the past

The past beats inside me like a second heart.-John Banville,THE SEA.

Insightful quote from Margaret Heffernan

Overall,people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.-Margaret Heffernan,WILLFUL BLINDNESS:WHY WE IGNORE THE OBVIOUS AT OUR PERIL

Largest lake in Jamaica

Q.Which is the largest freshwater lake in Jamaica?
Answer.Wallywash Pond

Cannabis

April 20 is International Cannabis Day.     
                    Visit http://cannabisday.org

Paraguay

Q.What is the national tree of Paraguay?
Answer.The Lapacho

Jamaica

Q.What is the national tree of Jamaica?
Answer.Blue Mahoe

Sunday, April 09, 2017

Very unusual quote about school children

The idea that (school-children) are happy is of a piece with the idea that the lobster in the pot is happy.-Henry Louis Mencken(1880-1956)

Quote on writers

We writers are shy,nocturnal creatures.Push us into the light and the light blinds us.-John Banville

Quote from Jean Genet

Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers.Such language is not written down.It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice.At dawn it is forgotten.-Jean Genet

Quote from Henry Rollins

Here in this moment we are beautiful,nocturnal creatures and our thpughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.-Henry Rollins

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police,so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Neil Armstrong

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks,but for the ledger of our daily work.-Neil Armstrong,The first man on the moon.

Quote on architecture

All architecture is great architecture after sunset;perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art,like the art of fireworks.-G.K.Chesterton

Quote on financial crises

Financial crises are like fireworks:they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.-James Buchan

Quote from George Carlin

If you love somebody set them free.If they come back,set them on fire.-George Carlin

Quote from Jarod Kintz

I'm sexually attracted to statues made out of decomposing food.Is it normal to be hungry during intercourse?-Jarod Kintz

Quote from Virginia Woolf

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.-Virginia Woolf

Quote from Marjorie Holmes

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.-Marjorie Holmes

Quote on eagles

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.-Douglas Coupland

Quote on cult of celebrity

The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running through the bowel of the intellect.-Stephen King

Quote on toxic relationships

Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.-Asa Don Brown,INTERPERSONAL SKILLS IN THE WORKPLACE,FINDING SOLUTIONS THAT WORK.

Quote on calzone

I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza.I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty.-Jarod Kintz

Saturday, April 08, 2017

Quote on prayer

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush.How to get things from God occupies most [books].-Aiden Wilson Tozer

Quote on terrorism

Terrorism will never cease in a country where the so-called leaders are criminals and terrorists in disguise.-Michael Bassey Johnson

Quote from Don Rickles

When you stand alone and sell yourself,you can't please everyone.But when you're different,you can last.-Don Rickles

Quote from Flora Whittemore

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.-Flora Whittemore

Thursday, April 06, 2017

Quote from Robert De Niro

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.-Robert De Niro

Quote from Enrique Penalosa

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.-Enrique Penalosa

Quote from James A.Murphy

As the tides of life rise and fall,life is constant,like the waves crashing upon the shore.Persistence is the key in high and low times.-James A.Murphy,THE WAVES OF LIFE QUOTES AND DAILY MEDITATIONS.

Quote from Gene Simmons

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.-Gene Simmons

Quote from Woody Allen

I love the rain-it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.-Woody Allen

Quote on New York

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.-Russell Baker

Quote from Jocelyn Murray

Life is like the sea.Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dreamed existed.-Jocelyn Murray,THE ENGLISH PIRATE.

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Quote from Dixie Waters

When you draw a line in the sand,be careful it is not low tide.-Dixie Waters

Quote on margarine

Can you tell the difference between our margarine and our hair tonic?WE can't.-George Mikes

Quote from MItch Hedburg

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.-Mitch Hedburg

Quote on aquarium

A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.-Oliver Gaspirtz,A TREASURY OF PET HUMOR.

Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Quote from Grace Hopper

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.-Grace Hopper

Quote from John Stuart Mill

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.-John Stuart  Mill(1806-1873)

Quote from Robert Fulghum

Don't worry that children never listen to you;worry that they are always watching you.-Robert Fulghum

Quote from James Randi

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.-James Randi

Quote on magic

Magic does not live in the unwilling soul.-Diane Duane,SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD.

Quote on the New Age

The New Age?It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.-James Randi

Quote from Hedda Hopper

She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.-Hedda Hopper

Quote from James Randi

Feeling better is not actually being better.-James Randi(born 1928)

Monday, April 03, 2017

Quote on microwaves

Microwaves are like winter coats.They warm quickly,people never clean them,and they look ugly after a year.-Jim Gaffigan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.

Quote on governments

When governments murder those who speak the truth,it is time to get new governments.-Diane Duane,THE EMPTY CHAIR.

Quote from Sid Waddell

He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.-Sid Waddell

Quote from Milton Glaser

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.-Milton Glaser

Quote on the New Age

The New Age?It's just the old age struck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.-James Randi

Quote from Sara Paretsky

When you feel lousy,puppy therapy is indicated.-Sara Paretsky

Quote on comfort food

All food starting with p is comfort food:pasta,potato chips,pretzels,peanut butter,pastrami,pizza,pastry.-Sara Paretsky

Quote from Diane Duane

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.-Diane Duane

Quote from Jim Gaffagan

I don't want to do something barbaric like exercising,so I'm just going to have someone vacuum the fat out of my body.-Jim Gaffagan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.

Quote from Sean Lock

A bit of advice:never read a pop-up book about giraffes.-Sean Lock

Quote from Jim Gaffigan

Even when the trip is over,a deep-seated paranoia sets in around baggage claim,like someone is really going to steal your ugly luggage filled with clothes that only fit you.-Jim Gaffigan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.

Sunday, April 02, 2017

Rubber

British chemist Joseph Priestley coined the word 'rubber'.

Desert city

Q.Which is the second largest desert city in the world in 2017 after Cairo,Egypt?
Answer.Lima,Peru(with 10 million residents).

Arkansas

Lake Ouachita is the largest lake located entirely within Arkansas.
                     Visit www.lakeouachita.org

Largest lake in Oklahoma

Q.Which is the largest lake in Oklahoma?
Answer.Lake Eufaula

Autism

April 2 is World Autism Day.

Saturday, April 01, 2017

Quote on fake plants

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.-Mitch Hedburg

Quote from Christopher Hitchens

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.-Christopher Hitchens,LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN.

Quote on all-you-can -eat buffets

The all-you-can eat buffet is the food equivalent of gambling.And like all other forms of institutional gambling,it's rigged for the house.-Jim Gaffigan,FOOD:A LOVE STORY.

Quote from Laurie Beth Jones

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.-Laurie Beth Jones

Quote from Bill Vaughan

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.-Bill Vaughan

Quote on giraffes

Well as giraffes say,you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.-Sid Waddell

Quote from George Carlin

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble.It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.-George Carlin

Quote on drive-in banks

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.-E.Joseph Cossman