"Life is lived forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we stand on the mountain looking back through the valley that we can appreciate the terrain God has allowed us to scale.” Jill Savage

Friday, March 26, 2010

Fun Friday - Take a laugh break . . .






A group of 45 year old guys discuss where they should meet for dinner. Finally they agree to meet at the Kelley's Restaurant because the waitresses have low cut blouses and nice breasts. 10 years later at age 55, the group agrees to meet at Kelley's because the food is good and the wine selection is excellent. 10 years later at age 65, the group agrees to meet at Kelley's because they can eat there in peace and quiet and the restaurant is smoke free. 10 years later at age 75, the group agrees to meet at Kelley's because the restaurant is wheel chair accessible and they have an elevator. 10 years later at age 85, the group agrees to meet at Kelley's because they have never been there before.



I didn't know that !!!!
"Stewardesses"
is the longest word typed with only the left hand

And "lollipop"
is the longest word typed with your right hand.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar,'
'kayak'
and 'level'
are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear..

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.


The cruise liner, QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Bonus!! All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!

(Cheri)



THREE LITTLE BOYS were concerned because they couldn't get anyone to play with them
They decided it was because they had not been baptized and didn't go to Sunday school.
So they went to the nearest church. But, only the janitor was there.
One little boy said, "We need to be baptized because no one will come out and play with us.
Will you baptize us?"
Sure," said the janitor.
He took them into the bathroom and dunked their little heads in the
toilet bowl, one at a time.
Then he said, "You are now baptized!"
When they got outside, one of them asked, "'What religion do you think we are?"
The oldest one said, "We're not Kathlick, because they pour the water on you."
"We're not Babtis, because they dunk all of you in the water."
"We're not Methdiss, because they just sprinkle water on you.."
The littlest one said, "Didn't you smell that water?"
They all joined in asking, 'Yeah! What do you think that means?'
"I think it means we're Pisskopailians!"
(Monica)



The 'First Senior' Moment



Happy Birthday Sandra Day O'Connor - Wikipedia

She was born in El Paso, Texas, to Harry Alfred Day, a rancher, and Ada Mae Wilkey. She grew up on a cattle ranch near Duncan, Arizona. For most of her early schooling, O'Connor lived in El Paso with her maternal grandmother, and attended public schools and the Radford School for Girls, a private school. She attended Stanford University, where she received her B.A. in economics in 1950. She continued at the Stanford Law School for her LL.B

On December 20, 1952, she married John Jay O'Connor (John J. O'Connor III) and they have three sons: Scott, Brian, and Jay. Her husband suffered from Alzheimer's disease for nearly twenty years prior to his death and she has become involved in creating more awareness about the disease.

By November 2007, her family's situation had been made more difficult since, because of memory loss, her husband formed new personal attachments in the institution where he lived while not fully recalling his life-long family connections, yet her family was relieved to see her husband of 55 years so content. John O'Connor died on November 11, 2009, aged 79.

13 comments:

Mimi said...

Hi Sandie!!!!
Great post and so educational, I love it!!I never knew alot of those things!!!Like women blink more then men, no wonder my daughter or I always end up with a few closed eye pics!!!!
Here is my email address:jamiegibbs@hotmail.com
write anytime!!!!
have a great day
I have a fun busy one today!!!!
A fun busy week end!!!!
I need it after the day I had yesterday!!!!!
hugs,
jamie

Linda @ A La Carte said...

Funny Friday!!! Thanks for the laughs.

ClassyChassy said...

What funnies today! Made me smile!

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Fun Friday as always!

^..^Corgidogmama said...

What a wealth of information today!
Today's post had it all...funnies, biography, food for thought and zany fun! Thanks!

Angela said...

Hey Sandie!

Now I know why peanuts give me severe heart burn! lol Great post today with lots of great information in it!

Hugs,
Angela

{Bellamere Cottage} said...

Hi Sandie!

I remember wondering, when I was just a kid...."is vacuum the only word with double u? I think it might be. :-)

Hugs...
Spencer

betty said...

LOL with that comic with the senior moment; loved the joke with the men and the Kelly's restaurant too; too funny!

loved all the facts with the words; didn't realize that 56% of typing was done with the left hand, but as I am typing this, I am indeed aware that that is indeed the case since my left hand is flying across the keyboard and my right hand lies dormant a lot of the times. Very interesting;makes you wonder if a keyboard was invented by a leftie

(computer working okay so far today, I'm just taking it a day at a time)

betty

Lois Christensen said...

Love the first one about the men going to the restaurant! Very funny. And I had that about Sandra day O'Connor and her husband. How sad for her to have to watch him be with somebody else. Funny stories!

Lois Christensen said...

Love the first one about the men going to the restaurant! Very funny. And I had that about Sandra day O'Connor and her husband. How sad for her to have to watch him be with somebody else. Funny stories!

Tanna said...

I love te first senior moment! LOL! One of my friends sent that to me this week! Had me rolling! LOL!

Susan said...

Sandie, you are a kicker. Your blog always gives me a chuckle. Thanks. Sincerely, Susan

ocmist said...

This was a TRULY GREAT POST! All kinds of interesting info, that pug pup a the top is just the CUTEST thing, and those joke were just hysterical!!! Linda