Just one of my many thoughts...

one sheet, one happy wife.

2009-09-19T12:01:00.000-07:00

Dryer sheets have many uses, not only do they keep our clothes smelling wonderful, Our home smelling wonderful, they can pick up dust and cat hairs like nothing else... they even make great art material so they are great but one thing some don't think about to us them for is... stinky farts... my husband was told one day at his work that if you have bad farts that if you take a dryer sheet and put it in your back pocket it will eliminate the fart smell, so one day hubby tried it out and you know it actually worked lol as his request I am told to tell you bloggy friends about his exciting discovery lol

troubles come and troubles go

2009-03-30T18:53:00.000-07:00

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! -- Dr. Seuss

less is more

2009-03-11T21:02:00.000-07:00

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
- Dr Seuss

What if ...

2009-01-31T17:48:00.000-08:00

what if things of this world were made out of balloons?

Monkeys?

Carnivals?
Dresses
Go garts
Weird hats

Grasshoppers?

Costumes

Fruit?

Your Furniture
Your computer?

Armor
What if Magicians were?
Motorcycles?
Monster Trucks?
Your toilets?
Armor and weapens

Mario
Penguins?
Lobsters?
motor bike

Sculptures...
Fancy dresses
Tanks

Racing carts
Pets
Robots

Christmas trees
Scary things... like spiders.....actually I would totally like spiders if they were made from balloons.
Fish

Planes
Skeletons

Eye catching mistakes...

2009-01-30T11:11:00.000-08:00

See if you caught any of this when you watched Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory...

Revealing mistakes: When Charlie and Grandpa Joe float towards the fan, you can see the cables holding them up.
Revealing mistakes: When Violet turns into a blueberry, you can see the hose inflating her blueberry suit. (Full screen only.)
Revealing mistakes: When Willy Wonka does a pirouette and reaches to push the button for the Wonkavator doors, he misses the button, but the doors open anyway.
Continuity: Before Mike Teevee gets taken away, the Oompa Loompa shoe pom-poms are white. When the Oompa Loompas start singing the pom-poms are suddenly orange.
Continuity: In the final scene in Willy Wonka's office, the consistency of his hairstyle changes back and forth from neatly-gelled and manicured to flyaway and ungroomed.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the last Oompa Loompa musical number (following Mike Teevee's undoing), the Oompa Loompa in the foreground apparently doesn't know the words to the song.
Continuity: When Mike Teevee is going to send himself via Wonkavision, the cameraman (Oompa Loompa) puts his goggles on twice.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When everyone is in the hallway outside the nerve center, they are all crouched down; when Wonka opens the door they are all standing up straight with 6 feet of room on top of them. The room and hallway are full of other such optical illusions, so this is clearly an intentional artistic effect.
Revealing mistakes: When Wonka first allows the children into the chocolate room he makes an umbrella out of a "mushroom" top. As he twirls the umbrella you can see the stab holes in the Styrofoam bottom from prior takes.
Factual errors: The liquid issuing from the beehive on the machine that makes the chewing-gum meal is obviously not honey, as honey is more viscous.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: During their first song, the Oompa Loompas sing, "What are you at getting terribly fat", but the words flashing across the screen say, "Where are you at getting terribly fat".
Continuity: When Charlie opens his first Wonka bar and says he found the ticket, the bar is inside the plastic casing still, but when he turns around, it is out of the casing and in his other hand.
Crew or equipment visible: When Mike Teevee gets thrown back into the pots/pans after eating the exploding candy in the inventing room, you can clearly see the line attached to his belt that was used by a crew member to yank him backwards.
Crew or equipment visible: The wire holding the Wonkavator is visible as it flies over the city.
Continuity: When the Wonkavator appears for the first time, it appears completely different from the one that goes through the glass ceiling (e.g., the spire is missing from its roof, and there is less exterior trim)..
Revealing mistakes: When Willy Wonka does his somersalt on his way to meet the children, the mat on which he lands is visible under the carpet.
Continuity: When Charlie finds the coin and buys his first candy bar he stuffs as much as possible into his mouth, yet in the very next scene, his mouth is empty
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the office, after Charlie is introduced to Slugworth, Wonka puts his hands on Charlie's shoulders. You can hear Wonka say, "You've won," but his lips don't move.
Miscellaneous: At the start of the movie when all the children are in the sweet shop, the shopkeeper lifts up a section of counter to go to the customer side of the counter and does not put the section of counter back down. The shopkeeper returns to behind the counter through another section of counter, and then re-opens the first section of counter to let the kids behind the counter. Also, when he lifts up the counter the second time, a girl by the counter clearly gets smacked on the chin by the rising counter.
Continuity: When everyone first enters the chocolate factory containing the chocolate river, the cast enters in reverse order of how they were positioned to in the previous scene when Wonka plays the musical lock on the door.
Revealing mistakes: When the Candyman gives the children the strip of dots on paper, you can clearly see the kids pretend to pick the candy off the paper and eat them.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Charlie and his family are watching the television, you can see and hear the anchor talking about the chocolate bars. In the next scene when you see Charlie talking to his grandpa, you can only hear the anchor talking because in the background (Full-screen only) the television is off. Although, in the next shot the television is in again.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the kids in the candy store are yelling, "Me, me!" their lips don't move.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the beginning of 'Cheer Up, Charlie' Mrs. Bucket's lips aren't moving with the music
Revealing mistakes: In Wonka's office, the clock's pendulum should be anchored under the number six; it is off-center to the right, thus breaking the harmony of everything being cut in half.
Revealing mistakes: When Willy Wonka is in his office, the light bulb in the half lamp on the desk is whole; breaking the trend of everything being cut in half.
Revealing mistakes: When Mike Teevee is telling his mom he feels fine after he got shrunken and put into the television, you can see where his platform ends to the left.
Revealing mistakes: When Willy Wonka rushes over to Augustus Gloop, Augustus can clearly be seen pushing himself into the river.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Charlie presses the button in the Wonkavator, you can hear Willy Wonka say 'There it goes", yet, his mouth does not match and you can tell that his audio was edited to say that.
Revealing mistakes: The two doors that Willy Wonka exits while coming out of the factory are fully lit but in the next shot from the point of view of the crowd, the right door is shadowed.
Revealing mistakes: You can clearly see that Willy Wonka is about to turn right down the red carpet but in the next shot, he has been pushed back toward the end of the stairs.
Revealing mistakes: After Willy Wonka shuts off the Everlasting Gobstopper machine, he goes to pick one off the conveyor belt to show to the guests. The conveyor belt pulls up briefly with the Gobstopper, revealing it was previously stuck to the belt.
Miscellaneous: In the scene where they are going through the tunnel of horrors, they are presumably traveling at a great speed. However there is no wind. In fact, this is due to the fact that the director and the wind-machine operator had a "blow-out" that day, and the director chose to shoot the scene without wind.
Revealing mistakes: The first time you see the world map on the news (indicating where the gold tickets are found), there is a hole/tear in the map around Montana -- this is the place where the marker "3" will be placed in later takes.
Revealing mistakes: When the girl is turned into a blueberry in Willy Wonka, it is clear once the loompas lay her on her back and roll her in the next shot it is a dummy.

Wonka

2009-01-28T18:24:00.000-08:00

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, was on tonight and that reminds me of my dream to find a place that is made out of entirely candy :)

anyways .... here are few facts about the movie

The combination to the first door in the chocolate factory is 99-44/100% pure, which was an ad slogan for Ivory Soap.

Among Wonka's lines are the following quotations: "Is it my soul that calls me by my name?" from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"; "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by" from the John Masefield poem "Sea Fever"; "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" from John Keats's "Endymion: A Poetic Romance" and "Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!" from William Allingham's "Homeward Bound".

Peter Ostrum, who plays Charlie Bucket, made no other films. He later became a veterinarian. In fact, of all the Wonka kids, Julie Dawn Cole is the only one still acting.

Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) hated chocolate.

In the scene where Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) drinks from a flower-shaped cup and then eats the cup, the cup itself was made of wax. Gene Wilder had to chew the wax pieces until the end of the take, at which point he spat them out.

The reactions of the actors in some scenes are spontaneous. For example, when the children first enter the main factory and see the gardens, their reactions are real, it was really their first view of that particular set.

A number of the objects and plants in the main factory really were edible, including the giant lollipops.

The film was originally financed by the Quaker Oats Company. They hoped to tie it to a new candy bar they intended to bring on the market. When the film was released, the company began marketing its "Wonka" chocolate bars. Unfortunately, an error in the chocolate formula caused the bars to melt too easily, even while on the shelf, and so they were taken off the market. Quaker sold the brand to St. Louis based Sunline, Inc. (which later became part of Nestlé via Rowntree) not long after this; Sunline was able to make the brand a success, and Wonka-branded candy (most of which isn't chocolate-based) is still available in the USA.

The opening credits sequence was filmed at a real chocolate factory in Switzerland.

Most of the small walk-on parts in this movie were played by German people.

The final Oompaloompa song took a total of 50 takes.

After reading the script, Gene Wilder said he would make the film under one condition: that he would be allowed to do a somersault in the scene when he first meets the children. When asked why, Gene Wilder replied that having Willy Wonka start out limping and end up somersaulting would set the tone for that character. He wanted to portray him as someone whose actions were completely unpredictable. His request to do the somersault was granted.

Many of the words that come out of Willy Wonka's mouth were literary quotations. This was not in the original script that Roald Dahl wrote. All of the numerous literary references were added for one reason or another by David Seltzer when he re-wrote the screenplay.

The exterior of the chocolate factory was Munich's gas works.

This movie was shot in Munich, Germany, but the producers had to go outside of Germany to recruit enough little people to play the Oompa Loompas (one of the many tragic legacies of the Nazi era). Many of the people cast as Oompaloompas (German or otherwise) did not speak English fluently, if at all. This is why some appear to not know the words to songs during the musical numbers.

Willy Wonka's line, "The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last" is a quote from Oscar Wilde's play, "The Importance of Being Earnest".

Handanimals?

2009-01-25T20:08:00.000-08:00

These amazing hand paintings done by guido daniele and Yes those are peoples hands not animals :)

Horse made from toothpicks...

2009-01-24T14:34:00.000-08:00

The largest toothpick mosaic was 8m2 (86.11 sq. feet) by Saimir Strati (Albania) and displayed at the Arbnori International Centre of Culture, Tirana, Albania on 4 September 2007. The artist used 1.5 million toothpicks and worked 40 days to achieve this record. (GBR)

""Strati spent 13 hours a day for 40 days on the mosaic measuring two by four meters in a technique resembling digital camera pixels, using either sharpened or blunt ends of oak, poplar and bamboo toothpicks.

He told Reuters the idea to produce the mosaic came to him while he tried to explain to a friend what La Sagrada Familia, the unfinished Barcelona cathedral of Spanish architect and artist Antoni Gaudi, looked like.

"I took some toothpicks from the table and opened them to show him how it looked like," said Strati. "I named the horse 'Reinless Spirit' to honour Gaudi's flight of genius."

The mosaic was shown to the public in the round hall of Tirana's pyramid-shaped culture centre. Strati's portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's largest mosaic of nails, is shown nearby.""

Wrinkles cause what?

2009-01-23T17:54:00.000-08:00

Years wrinkle the skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

btw I had a Shar-Pei dog named Corky lol

Gotta have my Coffee Apple?

2009-01-20T18:14:00.000-08:00

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

Shsixsshee... what??????

2009-01-16T13:53:00.000-08:00

“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

underwater what???

2009-01-15T12:36:00.001-08:00

My last blog got me thinking about what if there was an underwater post office...well guess what there is... it is the worlds ONLY underwater post office!

can you think of a more unique job than being an Underwater Post Officer? For five ‘Xtreme Posties’ this job is a reality. Vanuatu Post’s Underwater Post Office, found just off Hideaway Island near Port Vila, was opened for business on 23 May 2003. The Post Office is only 50 metres offshore and at only three metres below the surface is very accessible to young and old alike, and hundreds have participated in posting one of the special waterproof postcards that are available. These cards are collected regularly by one of Vanuatu Post’s four trained scuba divers and “cancelled” underwater with an embossing cachet. Mail that requires a normal Underwater Post Office date stamp is cancelled in the Main Post Office. Vanuatu Post promised all visitors they would accept mail underwater and deliver anywhere in the world.

The Underwater Postmen of Vanuatu handle thousands of specially-made waterproof postcards which can be written on land or even underwater. The postcards are collected every day with the post office staffed in the busy season where the Xtreme postmen work on a shift basis. The mail they receive is given a special embossed frank underwater before being sent on its way through the postal channels. Standard mail (non waterproof) that is requested to carry the underwater cancellation is catered for at the main Post Office.

1. What makes the postcard waterproof?
The postcards are a synthetic product called Syntek and the weight is 340gsm. So a plastic like product. The Syntec material is basically made of a mixture of clay (calcium carbonate) and polypropylene resin. It is non-toxic and has the look, feel and printability of paper, plus the durability of plastic. They are tough, waterproof, tear-resistant, impervious to grease, oils, chemicals and the elements. They can also withstand high temperatures and humidity.
2. How does the underwater embossing work?
The embossing is done by a small hand held machine that makes raised areas in the shape of the cancellation.
3. The underwater post office is open for how many hours each day? How many people work there?
The Post Office is open for about one hour on most days, and longer if there is much interest. Usually one staff member in the Post Office but we always have some else in the water nearby for safety reasons. When the Post Office is not staffed there is a drop box that customers can swim down to and post the cards. We trained four of our staff to get their open water dive certificate, and sometimes the dive masters at Hideaway Island operate the Post office of our behalf.

All info found at
http://www.vanuatupost.vu/

Deepest Underwater Postbox

2009-01-13T20:38:00.000-08:00

There is a mailbox located underwater off the coast of Susami in Wakayama prefecture.
10 metres (32.8 ft.)

The mailbox is an actual mail collection point officially recognized as part of Susami’s postal system.

Each day the contents are collected from the box, which reportedly contains as many as 200 pieces of mail at the busiest times.

Snowman......No Snow Woman!

2008-12-08T18:39:00.000-08:00

The Worlds Largest Snowman, or well should I say Snow Woman!

""BETHEL, MAINE – The good people of Bethel have officially broken the world record for the largest snowman, previously held by them, by 9 feet. Angus, King of the Mountain was replaced in the record books by a woman named Olympia Sno wWoman who weighs in at 13,000,000 lbs. of snow. 5 foot wreaths were used for eyes, 16 skis for eyelashes, 130 ft. scarf, 30 ft. spruce trees for arms and 2,000 ft. of rope for hair.

It was a whole community effort with even the local kids pitching in. Elementary school children made the "carrot" nose made of muslin, chicken wire & wood frame. The Mt. Valley Middle School in Mexico (Mexico, Maine, that is) students painted a 48 ft. circumference fleece hat. And the Mahoosuc Kids Association painted 5 red auto tires that are used for lips. ""

Laffy Taffy

2008-11-04T19:58:00.000-08:00

Laffy Taffy as you know has 2 jokes on the back of them .. So I as I opened my halloween candy...

285. Why did the Ghost join the team?
Because they needed spirit

286. Why can't your nose be 12 inches long?
Because then it would be a foot

Fact: Laffy Taffy is a brand of candy first produced in the 1970's.

Kings worth playing

2008-10-09T07:06:00.000-07:00

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
King of Spades = David (from the bible)
King of Clubs = Alexander the Great
King of Hearts = Charles (presumably after Charlemagne)
King of Diamonds = Caesar (presumably after Julius Caesar)

""In the standard English playing card deck, the king and the other face cards represent no one in particular (though the king of hearts is sometimes referred to as the "suicide king" due to the fact that he appears to be sticking his sword into his head). However, the court cards in a French deck do have names. Because the manufacture of playing cards was illegal in the UK during the Interregnum, when the English Restoration came and the court began playing card games, the suits in an English deck came from the French deck, but without all of the lore.

For a period, starting in the 15th century, French playing-card manufacturers assigned to each of the court cards names taken from history or mythology. This practice had largely disappeared by the 19th century.^[1] The most common names for the kings were:^[2]

King of Spades: David (a biblical king)
King of Hearts: Charles (presumably after Charlemagne)
King of Diamonds: Caesar (presumably after Julius Caesar, dictator of the Roman Republic)
King of Clubs: Alexander (king of Macedon) "" ( insert from wiki)

R Represents Kings in a french deck

Sometimes I feel like a Nut

2008-09-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age.
Although some produce at 20-30 years but 50 is the average and by 70-80 years they will produce thousands!

Just few more Quotes.... to kick off the season!

2008-09-24T21:39:00.000-07:00

Dwight Schrute: When I was in the 6th grade I was a finalist in our school spelling bee. It was me against Raj Patel. I misspelled, in front of the entire school, the word "failure".

Michael Scott: Last week I would've given a kidney to anyone in this office. I would've reached right into my stomach and pulled it out for them. But now, no. I don't have the relationship with these people that I thought I did. I hope they ask, so they can hear me say, "Uh, no, I only give my organs to my real friends. Go get yourself a monkey kidney."

Dwight Schrute: Women are like wolves. If you want a wolf, you have to trap it. You have to snare it. And then you have to tame it. Keep it happy. Care for it. Feed it. Lovingly, the way an animal deserves to be loved. And my animal deserves a lot of loving.

Michael Scott: You may look around, and see two groups here. White collar, blue collar. But I don't see it that way. You know why not? Because I am collar-blind.

Michael Scott: A lot of the people here don't get trophies very often, like Meridith or Kevin. I mean who's gonna give Kevin an award, Dunkin' Donuts?

Pam Beesley: I suggested we flip a coin, but Angela said she doesn't like to gamble. Of course by saying that, she was gambling that I wouldn't smack her.

[Jim set a fence of pencils up between Dwight and his desk]
Dwight Schrute: Your pencils are creating a health hazard. I could fall and pierce an organ.

Michael Scott:
You know what I want this to be cutting-edge, I want it to be fast, quick cuts. You know, youthful, sort of, um, MTV on crack kind of thing.

Dwight Schrute: The eyes, are the groin of the head.

Michael Scott: Yeah. We all want money. But there is none in the budget. So. Tell me why you're really leaving.
Stanley: Money.
Michael Scott: Mo money mo problems, Stanley. You of all people should know that.

Michael Scott: Well it is a little chillier than I had thought. So I have fashioned my hat back into my pants.

Michael Scott: I have brought with me only the bare essentials. A knife. A roll of duct tape. In case I need to fashion a shelter, or make some sort of water vessel.

Pam Beesly: There is a master key and a spare key for the office. Dwight has them both. When I asked, "what if you die, Dwight? How will we get into the office?" He said, "if I'm dead, you guys have been dead for weeks."

Creed:
A lot of jazz cats are blind. But, they can play the piano like nobody's business. I'd like to put the piano in front of Pam, without her glasses and see what happens. I'd also like to see her topless.

Michael Scott: Today's a very special day for me. And it's really not about me. It's about my grandkids, it's about my great grandkids... I can come back here when I'm one hundred and I can find that piece of cement and say, "That's me. Look kids, your daddy left that face hole." I donno. It's a good feeling.

Michael Scott: You are fired like a heart attack.

Michael Scott:
Yeah, I'm trying to lure these kids into my booth. But, uhh, kids are very weary of being lured, these days. Thank you Dateline.

Jim Halpert: You know, it's a tough thing, seeing a grown man take six shots to get out of a sand trap, but I have to give Phil credit for not quitting. Which is what I told him. I also told him that I don't quit either, and I'd call him every single day until he gave me his business. Which he did, after fifteen minutes of me blocking his car. So I am now his paper supplier! And I shot a 102 today so I'm feeling pretty good.

Michael Scott: You cheated on me? When I specifically asked you not to?

Dwight Schrute: I'm a deer hunter. I go all the time with my dad. One thing about deer: they have very good vision. One thing about me: I'm better at hiding, than they are at vision

Michael Scott: Was tonight a success? Well, I made Pam laugh so hard she fell down and almost broke her neck. So I killed, sort of

Jim Halpert: One day Michael came in, complaining about a speed bump, on the highway... I wonder who he ran over then
.
Michael Scott: Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate, so he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.

And more

2008-09-21T17:58:00.000-07:00

Dwight Schrute: It appears that the website has become alive. This happens to computers and robots sometimes. Am I scared of a stupid computer? Please. The computer should be scared of me. I have been salesman of the month for 13 of the last 12 months. You heard me right. I did so well last February that Corporate gave me two plaques in lieu of a pay raise

Dwight Schrute: As of this morning, we are completely wireless, here at Schrute Farms. But as soon as I find out where Mose hid all the wires, we'll get that power back on

Michael Scott: Alright let me ask you this, tell me if you think this is creative. When I was five, I imagined that there was such a thing as a unicorn. And this was before I had even heard of one, or seen one. I just drew a picture, of a horse, that could fly over rainbows, and a had a huge spike in its head. I was five! Five-years-old. Couldn't even talk yet.

Dwight Schrute: I signed up for Second Life about a year ago. Back then, my life was so great that I literally wanted a second one. In my second life I was also a paper salesman and I was also named Dwight. Absolutely everything was the same. Except I could fly.

A few Office Quotes

2008-09-15T21:06:00.000-07:00

Michael Scott: Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me, the choice is easy.

Dwight Schrute: Garbage can be very helpful. Okay? He's a useful cat. He killed an entire family of racoons. Look at him.

Michael Scott: Yeah, I went hunting once. Shot a deer in the leg. Had to kill it with a shovel. Took about an hour. Why do you ask?

Creed: Creed Bratton has never declared bankruptcy. When Creed Bratton gets in trouble, he transfers his debt to [holds up passport] Williams Charles Schneider.

Kevin: I kinda know what it's like to be in commericals. My nickname in high school used to be Kool-Aid Man.

Open my eyes

2008-09-12T19:08:00.000-07:00

Today I share a poem with you :) it was in book of poems that I did not write but I liked it and would like to share it with everyone.

Open my eyes

God, open my eyes

so I may see
And feel Your presence
close to me...
Give me strength
for my stumbling feet

As I battle the crowd
on life's busy street,
And widen the vision
of my unseeing eyes
So in passing faces
I'll recognize
Not just a stranger,
unloved and unknown,
But a friend with a heart
that is much like my own...
Give me preception
to make me aware
That scattered profusely
on life's thoroughfare
Are the best gifts of God
that we daily pass by
As we look at the world
with an unseeing eye.

Raisin's they are alive!

2008-09-11T06:57:00.000-07:00

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Its alive?

2008-09-04T08:54:00.000-07:00

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.

The Fluffy Stuff

2008-08-29T14:14:00.000-07:00

The other night I was playing on ISketch.net and I got the word CandyFloss... well I had no idea that was the same thing as Cotton Candy! Cotton candy is also known as CandyFloss, Fairy Floss, Old woman's hair, Doll's hair, Papa's beard and few other names...

The most popular color of cotton candy is pink, though any color can be made. (I like Blue )

There is something about Cotton Candy that makes me think of Clouds... and if I was to eat the clouds that is how they would taste... I know its not logicial but a girl can dream right?

Zippy de do da...

2008-08-27T15:14:00.000-07:00

Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo kabushikigaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

I checked the first 3 pair of jeans I had and all had YKK lol

and you thought that lady down the street had big mouth?

2008-08-23T07:56:00.000-07:00

A hippo can open its mouth up to 4 ft ...........geez you could fit a small child in their O_O

They Chewy Bubble?

2008-08-22T11:10:00.000-07:00

Do you ever wonder about how chewing gum and bubble gum are so chewy??

Chewing/Bubble Gum contains rubber!

Traditionally gum has been made from chicle, but many modern chewing gums use rubber instead!

Keeping Cars Intune?

2008-08-21T12:09:00.000-07:00

Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F

lightning bugs & FireFlys

2008-08-19T12:21:00.000-07:00

I Remeber Catching "lighting bugs" when I was a little kid...in the summer time in my back yard...I remeber watching them in jar in my bedroom light up I thought it was kool and then next day release them.

Do you wonder where fireflies got their internal light? Fireflies actually contain the so-called Luciferin. This substance when combined with oxygen will enable them to produce light. This process is called bioluminescence and they light up to attract the mate. Same is true with angler fish which also produces light, but they use it to catch the prey.

Pez Candy!

2008-08-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

So many different ones to choose from but there is only one "Worlds Largest Pez Dispenser"

The World's Biggest Pez Dispenser stands 7 foot 10 inches tall - over 20 times the size of a normal Pez dispenser. Yes, the World's Biggest Pez Dispenser works!
It dispenses a clear plastic capsule that can hold 6480 Pez candies or a standard size Pez dispenser. Completed in September of 2006, a retired "Snowman B" (1986-2001) Pez dispenser was used as the model. The World's Largest Pez Dispenser weighs 85 lbs. The Burlingame Museum is where you can see the World's Largest Pez Dispenser.

Smallest Monkey!

2008-08-05T07:16:00.000-07:00

Pygmy marmosets (Callithrix Pygmaea) weigh a mere 0.5 oz (15g) at birth and commonly grow to an adult weight of just 4.2 oz (119g) on average, they measure 5.35in. (136mm) excluding the tail, which is usually longer than the body. Despite their size, they can leap up to 16ft. 5 in. (5m) into the air! They are found in the upper amazon, the forest of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, and Brazil.

Do you want more salt on that?

2008-08-01T12:59:00.000-07:00

By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

(no wonder my grandma adds tons of salt to everything lol)

Cat litter isnt just for cats poop

2008-07-30T07:12:00.000-07:00

Other uses for Cat Litter

Sneaker deodorizer
If your athletic shoes reek, fill a couple of old socks with scented cat litter, tie them shut, and place them in the sneakers overnight. Repeat if necessary until the sneakers are stink-free.

Add traction on ice
Keep a bag of cat litter in the trunk of your car. Use it to add traction when you're stuck in ice or snow.

Prevent grease fires
Don't let a grease fire spoil your next barbecue. Pour a layer of cat litter into the bottom of your grill for worry-free outdoor cooking.

Get rid of that musty smell when you open the closet door. Just place a shallow box filled with cat litter in each musty closet or room. Cat litter works great as a deodorant.

Preserve flowers
The fragrance and beauty of freshly cut flowers is such a fleeting thing. You can't save the smell, but you can preserve their beauty by drying your flowers on a bed of cat litter in an airtight container for 7-10 days.

Remove foul stench
Just because your garbage cans hold garbage doesn't mean they have to smell disgusting. Sprinkle some cat litter into the bottom of garbage cans to keep them smelling fresh. Change the litter after a week or so or when it becomes damp. If you have a baby in the house, use cat litter the same way to freshen diaper pails.

Keep tents must-free
Keep tents and sleeping bags fresh smelling and free of must when not in use. Pour cat litter into an old sock, tie the end, and store inside the bag or tent.

Repel moles
Moles may hate the smell of soiled cat litter even more than you do. Pour some down their tunnels to send them scurrying to find new homes.

Make grease spots disappears
Get rid of ugly grease and oil spots in your driveway or on your garage floor. Simply cover them with cat litter. If the spots are fresh, the litter will soak up most of the oil right away. To remove old stains, pour some paint thinner on the stain before tossing on the cat litter. Wait 12 hours and then sweep clean.

Big Blue

2008-07-15T15:21:00.000-07:00

During 2003 Crayola celebrated its 100th Birthday with "Big Blue" the worlds largest crayon.
Big Blue stands 15ft tall and weighs 1,500lbs and is a permanent display at The Crayola Store in Easton, Pennsylvania. It is named big blue because its America's favorite color.

The ART-rageous Tour Bus collected leftolas (small bits of worn down crayons) during its cross-country trek during 2003. Which made up Big Blue.

Look at that rock!!!

2008-07-10T10:20:00.000-07:00

A diamond is the hardest natural substance on earth

A diamond is 58 times harder than the next hardest mineral on earth, corundum, from which rubies and sapphires are formed.

A green diamond is the rarest. It is not the rarest gemstone, however. That title goes to a pure red ruby.

Bold as a lion

2008-07-09T12:36:00.000-07:00

The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1

Worlds Largest Garden Gnome

2008-07-08T10:45:00.000-07:00

with the help of Ken Brown and John Hutchison, Maria Reidelbatch (all U.S.A) created a garden gnome that measured 13ft 6in (4.11m) tall on August 31, 2006.
The gnome resides at the Gnome on the Grange Mini Golf Range at Kedler's Farm, Kerhonkson, NY

Tony the tiger says ... There grrrreat !

2008-07-03T11:50:00.000-07:00

Everyone recognises the tiger from its striped coat, but few people know these stripes extend through to the skin. The skin of the white tiger is a bluish color, also complete with stripes.
( I know its not a tiger but gives you an idea of what it looks like)

The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes while the Amur (Siberian) has the fewest, but on average there are 100-150 stripes per animal. The Amur tiger's stripes are wider and lighter in colour than those of the other subspecies.

The striping on a tiger's forehead is often referred to by the Chinese as the mark of 'wang'or'king'.

Cheerful

2008-07-01T14:56:00.000-07:00

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up

Kindness

2008-06-27T13:48:00.000-07:00

Kindness in words creates Confidence.

Kindness in Thinking creates Profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates Love.

scubba diving in a pool?

2008-06-19T10:20:00.000-07:00

When your hot and thinking about getting a new pool think about this pool.... its the worlds deepest pool better known as "Nemo 33"

designed to prepare divers for underwater expeditions, the world's deepest swimming pool is "Nemo 33" in Brussels, Belgium, which stretches to depths of over 108ft. (33m) The Pool contains 661,000 gal. (2.5 million liters) of springwater heated to 86 F by an array of solar panels.
The train stops in the middle of the tunnel for two minutes so that passangers can take pictures through the windows of the panels on its walls.

Best way out

2008-06-15T15:56:00.000-07:00

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Love of Thorns

2008-06-06T14:17:00.000-07:00

Love sees roses without thorns. It is love that makes the impossible possible.

The Pink Bird

2008-06-05T22:10:00.000-07:00

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

Lots of room or None at all

2008-05-30T21:24:00.000-07:00

More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

hey boo boo how about a pinic basket?

2008-05-28T08:41:00.000-07:00

Why did God only create one Yogi Bear?

cause when He tried to make a second He made a Boo Boo

Heavy

2008-05-20T12:10:00.000-07:00

The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge

broken hearted

2008-05-19T21:58:00.001-07:00

He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. psalms 147:3

Chocolate Craving?

2008-05-16T20:04:00.000-07:00

Largest Chocolate Igloo - Marco Fanti (italy) and his team of builders used a total of 330 chocolate bricks, and worked for 23 hours, to make a chocolate igloo weighing 6,613lb. (3 ton) in Pergugia, Italy. on October 17, 2006

Is that your Face?

2008-05-15T23:33:00.000-07:00

Of all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.

Fresh and Minty?

2008-05-12T13:31:00.000-07:00

What is drawn by everyone without pen or pencil?

Breath

You might be having a bad day.....

2008-05-07T22:18:00.000-07:00

You might be having a bad day, if:
1] You woke up in a strange place

2] Your new diet doesn't seem to be working

3] You pulled a muscle while trying to exercise

4] Your new hat looked better on you at the store

5] You keep losing things

6] You feel like you're in the wrong place at the wrong time

7] The boss chewed you out at work

8] You got caught in the rain at lunchtime

9] You feel trapped somehow...

10] Traffic on the way home was brutal

11] You think you might be coming down with the flu

12] You're home alone and you hear a noise in the basement

Broken pinky?

2008-05-06T11:31:00.001-07:00

What can you break without touching it?

Your promise.

Diffucult?

2008-04-29T13:54:00.000-07:00

Opportunities are often disguised as difficulties.

Puzzled

2008-04-25T21:08:00.000-07:00

sometimes we only see a piece of the puzzle, sometimes we see just enough to think we know what it is, sometimes the pieces are upside down and turned around making it hard to know anything, sometimes we get on all roll and all the pieces just seem to be falling into place and sometimes we are able to see the finshed puzzle, and then we start new ones, or frame the one that took us so long to finsh.

-Jennifer

Truth

2008-04-24T20:48:00.000-07:00

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain

Optical Illusions

2008-04-22T20:58:00.000-07:00

Optical Illusion- A visually perceived image that is deceptive or misleading.

Your eyes are making them move. To test this, stare at one spot in each picture for a few seconds and everything will stop moving; OR look at the black center of each circle in the the picture, and it will stop moving; but when you move your eyes to the next black center, the previous one will move after you take your eyes away from it.

look at the chart above and say the colour of the word and not the word itself

pic1 ( faces or a vase?)
pic2 (people or clolums?)
pic 3 (man playing a horn or a womans face?)

You probably read the word ME in brown, but.......
when you look through ME
you will see YOU!
Do you need to look again?

Which of the MIDDLE circles looks bigger, the one on the left, or the one on the right? Wait, look again! (they are same size)

sunblock

2008-04-17T20:40:00.000-07:00

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
-RWE

Anger

2008-04-16T14:43:00.000-07:00

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Out of focus?

2008-04-13T20:58:00.000-07:00

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain

Lemonade

2008-04-08T12:07:00.000-07:00

Lemonade - Chris Rice

So go ahead and ask her
For happy ever after
�Cause nobody knows what�s coming
So why not take a chance on loving
Come on, pour the glass and tempt me
Either half-full or half-empty
�Cause if it all comes down to flavor
The glass is tipping in my favor

Life gave me lemonade and I can�t imagine why
Born on a sunny day, beneath a tangerine sky
I live life without pretending
I�m a sucker for happy endings
Thanks for the lemonade
Thanks for the lemonade!

Now take your time to answer me
For the beauty of romancing
Is to calm your trembling hand with mine
While begging love to fill your eyes
I can hardly breathe while waiting
To find out what your heart is saying
And as we�re swirling in this flavor
The world is tilting in our favor

Life gave me lemonade and I can�t imagine why
Born on a sunny day, beneath a tangerine sky
I live life without pretending
I�m a sucker for happy endings
Thanks for the lemonade
Thanks for the lemonade!

I�ve got it made
Rest in the shade
And hold my love
While God above
Stirs wiith a spoon
We share the moon
Smile at the bees
More sugar please
He really loves us after all
We�re gonna need another straw!
We�re gonna need another straw!

Life gave me lemonade and I can�t imagine why
Born on a sunny day, beneath a tangerine sky
I live life without pretending
I�m a sucker for happy endings
Thanks for the lemonade
Thanks for the lemonade!

Unseen Colors

2008-04-03T15:58:00.000-07:00

While 7 men in 100 have some form of colorblindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.
The most common form of color blindness is a red-green deficiency.

Example of an Ishihara color test plate. The numeral "74" should be clearly visible to viewers with normal color vision. Viewers with dichromacy or anomalous trichromacy may read it as "21", and viewers with achromatopsia may see nothing.

Ropes are not just for cowboys

2008-04-02T12:52:00.000-07:00

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. "~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

u got problems?

2008-03-31T08:08:00.000-07:00

~Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.~

Bones

2008-03-29T07:40:00.000-07:00

Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in infants.

(as they grow some of the bones fuse together, also enables them to to pass through the birth canal more easily)

Buzz Buzz

2008-03-26T12:08:00.000-07:00

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather

Polar Bears are not really white

2008-03-25T11:09:00.000-07:00

Polar bears appear white, but their fur is not white. However, polar bear fur is transparent with a hollow core. It appears white because it reflects visible light, much like snow. The hair absorbs ultraviolet light from the sun, which in turn provides extra warmth for the skin. Many people do not realize that polar bears have black skin. This is an adaptation that allows maximum warming of the skin when exposed to sunlight.The bear has a short tail and small ears that help reduce heat loss, as well as a relatively small head and long, tapered body to streamline it for swimming.

A Porcupine Fact

2008-03-21T14:39:00.000-07:00

Porcupines float in water!

In Hours of Discouragment God is Our Ecouragement

2008-03-19T08:11:00.000-07:00

Sometimes we feel uncertian
And unsure of everything,
Afraid to make decisions,
Dreading what the day will bring-
We keep wishing it were possible
To dispel all fear and doubt
And to understand more readily
Just what life is all about-
God has given us the answers
Which too often go unheeded,
But if we search His promises
We'll find everything that's needed
To lift our faltering spirts
And renew our courage, too,
For there's absolutely nothing
Too much for God to do-
For the Lord is our salvation
And our strength in every fight,
Our redeemer and protector,
Our eternal guiding light-
He has promised to sustain us,
He's our refuge from all harms,
And underneath this refuge
Are the everlasting arms-
So cast your burden on Him,
Seek His counsel when distressed,
And go to Him for comfort
When you're lonely and oppressed-
For God is our encouragement
In trouble and in trials,
And in suffering and in sorrow
He will turn our tears to smiles.

worry less

2008-03-17T12:26:00.001-07:00

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

-Ethel Barrett

Pleasure and Happiness

2008-03-10T13:07:00.000-07:00

Pleasure comes from the outside, and happiness comes from the inside.