True (but SILLY) Facts!

Just something for us to smile, chuckle or giggle at!

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days…you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.  (Hardly seems worth it.)

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If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (NOW that’s more like it!)

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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G!!)

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A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In the next life, am sure lots want to be a pig!)

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A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. CREEPY! (I’m still not over the pig. 😛)

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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (DON’T try this at home, maybe at work 😀)

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The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off. (‘Honey, I’m home. What the …?!!’)

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The flea can jump 350 times its body lengthy. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes…lucky pig! Can you imagine??)

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The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

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Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (Still thinking about the pig…quality over quantity 😛)

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Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know 😀)

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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm….)

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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you’re ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

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Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. (Okay, so that would be a good thing 😀)

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A cat’s urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

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An ostrich ‘s eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that too!)

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Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)

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Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they’ll live a lot longer.)

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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig???)

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R.I.P Patrick Swayze….

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LOS ANGELES — Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into moviegoers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. Swayze died in Los Angeles, Wolf said, but declined to give further details.

Swayze arrived on the scene in a big way in 1983, with a starring role in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Outsiders.” Distinguishing yourself among the likes of Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Matt Dillon in that film was no small feat. And while all would go on to enjoy very successful careers, none would star in “Road House” and “Red Dawn.”

My definition of a great actor is one who convinces in the role; one who doesn’t take you out of the story with all the tics and technique. By that standard Swayze never disappointed. A trained dancer, his physical abilities sold the action, his sincerity brought heart to the romance and a complete lack of pretension made him accessible — made him something that is all but extinct today: a real-live movie star.

Time is what creates the classic film, not critics or box office, and time has made clear that Swayze made a mark on cinema few might have expected twenty years ago. “Road House,” “Point Break,” “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” live endlessly on cable television and DVD players everywhere.  They are a immortal part of our culture and … they are Patrick Swayze movies.

We don’t know a whole lot about Swayze’s personal life, which was another big reason to like him, but he was married to the same woman, Lisa Niemi, for 34 years. Swayze was married since 1975 to Niemi, a fellow dancer who took lessons with his mother; they met when he was 19 and she was 15. A licensed pilot, Niemi would fly her husband from Los Angeles to Northern California for treatment at Stanford University Medical Center.

In the real world what that says about the character of a man is impressive. In Hollywood, it says everything.

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And Larry King wrote: “Patrick Swayze was a wonderful actor & a terrific guy. He put his heart in everything. He was an extraordinary fighter in his battle w Cancer.”

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Thanks for everything. Rest in peace.

HUSBAND OF THE YEAR!!

IT’s TRUE… WOMEN’s PROBLEMS STARTS WITH MEN!

Starting off the competition of the “HUSBAND OF THE YEAR” awards

The honorable mention for:

IRELAND

Followed closely by

THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA

and then, POLAND

but the 3rd place must go to…

GREECE

It was very very close but the runner up price was awarded to

SERBIA

But the winner of the HUSBAND-N-WIFE of the year is…

SCOTLAND

–> Ya gotta love the Scottish!!

The Scottish are true romantics…Look! He’s even holding her hand! 😛

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Well they always said this!

Woman has MAN in it;

Mrs. has MR. in it;

She has HE in it;

Madam has ADAM in it;

oOkay! Ookay! It all makes sense now… I’ve never looked at it this way before::

EVER NOTICE HOW ALL OF WOMEN’s PROBLEMS START WITH MEN?

MENtal illness

MENstrual cramps

MENtal breakdown

MENopause

GUYnaecologist

AND

when we have REAL trouble, it’s a HISterectomy.

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Oprah’s Flash Mob

SPECTACULAR!

That’s all I can say…National TV Broadcast: Black Eyed Peas performed “I Gotta Feeling” and officially opened Oprah’s 24th Season (2009-10) along with 21,000 fans dancing on Michigan Avenue (Chicago, IL) on Tuesday, September 8th (2 days before it aired nationwide). This is being recorded as the World’s Largest ‘Single-City’ FLASHMOB event ever held!!

{ History? Present? Future? }

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Has History Taught Us Anything About How We Should Live?

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Most of the history that we learned in school tell us about wars. We are taught how such-and-such a person or persons struggled for power at a particular time in history. We also learned that civilizations rose and fell, that empires were built, and they collapsed and that virtually nothing is left of them at the present time except ruins and scattered remains…

History clearly tells us that it is foolish to wage wars. Alexander the Great and Hitler were among the greatest war-mongers the world had ever known. They set out to conquer every country that they could lay their hands on. They succeeded to a certain extent, but what was the unavoidable outcome of their mad ambition? They were mortal! They had to die and with their death, their dreams and ambitions perished too. Greece and Germany are no longer the all-powerful nations they once were.

Yet, nations of today continue to wage wars against one another. There are a million excuses offered to justify one nations aggression toward another! In the name of race, creed, religion, economy and self-defense, nations attack one another. Hitler proclaimed the superiority of his Aryan race. Japan believed it was their divine duty to subjugate the barbarians. Religious fanatics murder in the name of God. Each nation imagines itself more superior, better and prouder (if there’s such word) than the others. So the nations of the world continue to be at loggerheads.

Strife prevails! Peace is just a dream…

If any nation will just reflect on the fate of nations before them, they will find that no nation, however great or powerful it may proclaim itself to be, had ever lasted forever! The mystery of the Aztecs, the Mayans, Ancient Egypt, Cathay, Rome and other once great civilizations bear testimony to the fact that all greatness must end. The end may even be total, as in the cases of the legendary Atlantis and the remnants of Stonehenge in England. What were they?How did they end? We can only guess and speculate. We only know that once they were great. They are no longer!

History has pointed out the folly of fighting one another. It tells us that no nation is greater than the next. We are just different. It tells us that wars do not solve anything. War only accelerates the collapse of those who wage it. So instead of trying to dominate one another, it is better to live in peace. Instead of insisting that we are right, it is better to tolerate and realise that we are unique and there is no need to prove anything.

To refrain from war and to live in peace are the simple lessons of history. It would be wonderful if the people of this fragile planet learned these lesson.

However, history also shows that man has never lived in peace before. The chance of peace is as dim as it always had been. So it seems that man is destined to continue his ceaseless struggle against one another. The struggles now will be history. Tomorrow the future generations will study them, realise the folly and wish that further struggles be ended. Then they will put down their history books and continue to struggle as ever before.

Man does not learn from history. We are no different from the war-mongers of yesteryears. Peace remains a dream…

Personally…am just too tired to argue!

Can you read that notes baby?

Sometimes I wish you understand how I felt about you…

Sometimes I wish you stop for awhile and listen to my needs.

Sometimes all I want you to do is say how grateful you are to be with me…Appreciate me for who I am and what I have done!

I know that you will never admit anything, but at least treat me fair and with respect. I am not some toys that you can just kicked and pushed around!

If you’re somehow reading this, don’t say anything…just remember the notes above. ILU!

Love ME cause ILU!

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Love me in the Springtime, when all is green and new,
Love me in the Summer, when the sky is oh so blue,
Love me in the Autumn, when the leaves are turning brown,
Love me in the Winter, when the snow is falling down.

Love me when I’m happy, and even when I’m sad,
Love me when I’m good, or when I’m oh so bad,
Love me when I’m pretty, or if my face is plain,
Love me when I’m feeling good, or when I’m feeling pain.

Love me always darlin’, in the rain or shining sun,
Love me always darlin’, after all is said and done,
Love me always darlin’, until all our life is through,
Love me always darlin’, for I’ll be lovin’ you!

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Something to…

If questioning would make us wise

No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;

If all our tale were told in speech

No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh

And love not bound in hearts of flesh

No aching breasts would yearn to meet

And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows

The secret powers by which he grows?

Were knowledge all, what were our need

To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Then seek not, sweet, the “IF” and “WHY”

I love you now until I die.

For I must love because I live

And life in me is what you give!

Funny!

Quoted from Grant Barrett, “Notes From The Language Underground”

In Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, a play about show business, one of the main character tells another that certain words are funny all by themselves. “Words with ‘K’ in it are funny. You didn’t know that, did you? If it doesn’t have a ‘K’, it is not funny.”

He adds, “Pickle is funny.”

Oh, yes! Pickle is indeed automatically a funny word in English.

In North America, we almost always use pickle to mean a pickled cucumber. We use pickled as an adjective for anything that’s been soaked in a flavourful seasoned brine, as in pickled tomatoes or pickled peppers.

North Americans also use pickle as a countable noun: There are three pickles left, meaning, “There are three pickled cucumbers left.” In Britain, pickle alone is an uncountable noun: Do you want some pickle on your fish? They are referring to what North Americans would call a pickle relish, a condiment of chopped vegetables soaked in vinegar and spices.

But there’s more to pickles than eating. As the playwright says, all sorts of unaccounted baggage travels along with a word, such as which words make us giggle and why. What kind of baggage makes pickle unserious?

Partly, when we think of the pickled cucumbers, perhaps we then think of other things similar to pickles and before we know it, we’re blushing. We snicker over pickle because of its shape is suggestive of a certain male organ.

Hence, pickle is also often used to mean “penis“, as it is in the Hollywood expression pickle shot, meaning a movie scene where a man’s genitals can be seen, and in pickle park, a public but secluded area (like a park) where men meet each other for secret sexual encounters.

Partly, too, we chuckle because as Simon wrote, “pickle” has funny sounds in it. A plosive P (a fast lip-popping noise) and a hard ck. Pickle! You almost want to shout it.

Pickles are common features in children boardbooks, (small, short children’s books with very thick pages that are hard to bend or tear) because authors know children know that pickle is fun to say. 🙂

Maybe we also giggle because we make odd faces when eating sour pickles, which is where we get pickle-puss, when someone who has a sour expression. The lips purse (draw together like the opening of a bag fastened with string), the eyebrows scowl, the whole face scrunches up (squeezes together in an irregular way), just as if we have eaten a very sour pickle.

Because of the automatically funny notions about pickle– look, I’m serious, just ask anybody who speaks English for a living and they’ll tell you, pickle is a giggle-maker – the word pops up in all sorts of slangy language.

For example, pickle is used for things (besides male genitals) that are pickle-like. Bombs and torpedoes are long and smooth and round, so soldiers, airmen, and sailors call them pickles!

By extension, to drop bombs or to push the button to drop them is to pickle. Even getting a target in the crosshairs can be to pickle and the switch or lever which fires or drops the weapons (or controls other machinery) is sometimes called the pickle or pickle switch. The switch is sometimes shaped like a pickle.

To be in a pickle is a far more commonly known expression. It means to be in a difficult situation. If you’re locked out of your house at night with no way to get in, you’re in a pickle. If your wife is the person who locked you out of the house because you were having an affair with another woman, then you’re really in a pickle.

More obscurely, to hit a ball hard in baseball is to pickle it. The idea here, supposedly, is that the batter is salting away the ball. Ordinarily, when you salt something away, you store it away for a long time. This is often said of food, since salt has been used since the earliest days of civilisation to keep food from spoiling. Salting something is like pickling it. So, metaphorically speaking, the ball is hit so hard that it won’t be seen for a long, long time, as if it were a fruit that was salted, or pickled, and stored.

Pickle-stabbers is what you might call a woman’s high-heeled shoes, especially those with spindly, sharp heels. They look very much like the kind of utensil needed to successfully stab and retrieve pickles from a jar.

In aviation, to pickle an aircraft is to disassemble it, usually for storage or shipping, and packing all of its parts in oil or grease.

In fact, putting anything in any kind of liquid can be called pickling, including pickling your liver, which means drinking too much alcohol over a long period of time, although to be pickled can simply mean to be thoroughly drunk.

You can also pickle metal, which means immersing it in an acidic solution, usually as part of an industrial process.

In Britain, pickle can be a term of affection: “Come sit by your papa, my little pickle.”

So besides funny or sour, pickle is a little sweet, too.

What a Woman Want?

What do us girls really want from the men in our lives?

What would be the desirable qualities that would make a man absolutely perfect?

God, apparently as a prank, devised two sexes and called them opposite. The sex war has raged since 5,000 years. But it’s time we called a TRUCE… starting with men negotiating their terms of surrender.

Tell me, WHY DO MEN LIKE INTELLIGENT WOMEN? Because opposites attract. Just look at the evidence. What excites men? Food, Footy and the Playboy channel 😛 The trouble is, women get all excited about nothing… and then we marry him!

Over half of all marriages today end in divorce, (let’s face it, more ought to!) and the majority of these divorces are initiated by women. (Obviously many marriages break up for religious reasons- he thinks he’s a God and well, she just doesn’t.)

Marriage statistics are currently lower than Britney Spears’s bikini line. And as we now know that marriage suits men much better than it suits women, (married men live longer than single men, have less heart disease and mental problems, whereas single women live longer than married women and have less heart disease and mental problems), I suspect that it’s women who are getting PMT– Pre Monogamy Tension!

As it’s in a man’s interest to keep us happy, it might be helpful to give them a list of what a woman’s looking for in her Knight in Shining Armani.

First and foremost, we want a man who knows that ‘mutual orgasm’ is NOT an insurance company. (If he persists in this attitude, may I suggest you adopt the “doggy position”- where he begs- and you just roll over and play dead.)

We also prefer a man who does half the housework and the odd sensitive thing with mange tout. (The way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach. That is NOT aiming too high 🙂 )

We favour a bloke who talks to us too. I often feel that my small intestine communicates with me more often than my partner. After all, word play is foreplay for females. How else is Woody Allen still getting laid? 😉

Unless crossed, the female of the species tends towards fidelity and constancy. There are a few species where the male stays faithful until he dies- mostly as a result of being eaten by his partner after mating.

The truth is, many men go straight from puberty to adultery. And yet they expect their women to be so virginal. Males are prone to pant- “Darling, darling, am I the first man to make love to you?” To which the woman replies, “Of course…I don’t know why you men keep asking the same silly question?!”

Believe me boys, if you don’t want the Pope to start ringing you up for tips on celibacy, I suggest you stop thinking that monogamy is something you make dining room tables out of.

But girls, do you know what really makes a man perfect? Being perfect enough to understanding why we’re not.

So…ladies! What do you look for in a man?? ** quizzical**