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My favorite saying:

Shared pain is lessened Shared joy is multiplied

 
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2 More Days.... and I'm scrambling! I want to get a few more short-sleeved dress shirts, and I'll probably do that Saturday when I pick up the gift for my wife with my daughter.
Yes michelle, I'm getting a nice sapphire pendant with a diamond. It's the only one we both really like.
Can you believe, going from the US to Puerto Rico, is considered an "International Flight"????? Meaning we have to leave our house by about 3:45am on Monday to go to the airport *groan*.

I know Carrie's not feeling well after a nasty fall... hope you get better soon sweetie!

I'm also looking into prices to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany for this fall. I want to go, Aaron wants to go, and if my wife wants to, she'll go too! I've always wanted to go.

Other than that, time is actually FLYING this week I've been so busy at work! That's a good thing... hoping it goes REAL SLOW while on vacation.

Here's some interesting tidbits that you may or may not have known:

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the
glass to the top.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing
a watch).
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries.....)
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
14. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to
death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's
the opposite of the norm.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your
wife with anything wider than your thumb.
21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the
most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. (Let me know if
this works.)
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has
in it to begin with.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps
backwards while dancing!
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (The Suits, that is).
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

And now, the news:

Daniel Craig, "the next James Bond" (with pic) (doesn't look like Bond to me)

and then.....

Daniel Craig denies he's the new Bond, pointing out even he hasn't heard of himself

Vikings wanted: Strong social skills a must. Raping and pillaging strongly discouraged

Old news: Star Wars fans line up outside of theater 45 days before movie release. New news: Theater not planning on showing the movie!

Sony patents idea for transmitting data directly into the brain enabling a person to see movies, play video games, score with Trinity and save Zion

And that's it... have a great Thursday!

posted by Dave at Thursday, April 07, 2005