.Monday, February 16, 2009
What is a grandparent?
(Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds)
Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own.
They like other people’s.
A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady!
Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come to see them.
They are so old they shouldn’t play hard or run.
It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money.
When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.
They show us and talk to us about the colors of the flowers and also why we shouldn’t step on ‘cracks.’
They don’t say, ‘Hurry up.’
Usually grandmothers are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes.
They wear glasses and funny underwear.
They can take their teeth and gums out.
Grandparents don’t have to be smart.
They have to answer questions like ‘Why isn’t God married?’ and ‘How come dogs chase cats?’
When they read to us, they don’t skip.
They don’t mind if we ask for the same story over again.
Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don’t have television because they are the only grownups who like to spend time with us.
They know we should have snack time before bed time and they say prayers with us and kiss us even when we’ve acted bad.
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A 6 YEAR OLD WAS ASKED WHERE HIS GRANDMA LIVED. "OH," HE SAID, " SHE LIVES AT THE AIRPORT AND WHEN WE WANT HER WE JUST GO GET HER. THEN WHEN WE’RE DONE HAVING HER VISIT, WE TAKE HER BACK TO THE AIRPORT."
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GRANDPA IS THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH! HE TEACHES ME GOOD THINGS BUT I DON’T GET TO SEE HIM ENOUGH TO GET AS SMART AS HIM!
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Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own.
They like other people’s.
A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady!
Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come to see them.
They are so old they shouldn’t play hard or run.
It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money.
When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.
They show us and talk to us about the colors of the flowers and also why we shouldn’t step on ‘cracks.’
They don’t say, ‘Hurry up.’
Usually grandmothers are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes.
They wear glasses and funny underwear.
They can take their teeth and gums out.
Grandparents don’t have to be smart.
They have to answer questions like ‘Why isn’t God married?’ and ‘How come dogs chase cats?’
When they read to us, they don’t skip.
They don’t mind if we ask for the same story over again.
Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don’t have television because they are the only grownups who like to spend time with us.
They know we should have snack time before bed time and they say prayers with us and kiss us even when we’ve acted bad.
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A 6 YEAR OLD WAS ASKED WHERE HIS GRANDMA LIVED. "OH," HE SAID, " SHE LIVES AT THE AIRPORT AND WHEN WE WANT HER WE JUST GO GET HER. THEN WHEN WE’RE DONE HAVING HER VISIT, WE TAKE HER BACK TO THE AIRPORT."
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GRANDPA IS THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH! HE TEACHES ME GOOD THINGS BUT I DON’T GET TO SEE HIM ENOUGH TO GET AS SMART AS HIM!
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Bizarre Soft Drinks
Pepsi Ice Cucumber
Yes, you read the headline correctly: on 2007, Pepsi released this special Ice Cucumber-flavored drink in Japan. While the bottle clearly describes it as "combination" of cucumber and cola, there just isn’t much cola flavor to it. The drink takes on a somewhat sweet and fruity flavor, but the artificial cucumber flavor is noticeable.
Yes, you read the headline correctly: on 2007, Pepsi released this special Ice Cucumber-flavored drink in Japan. While the bottle clearly describes it as "combination" of cucumber and cola, there just isn’t much cola flavor to it. The drink takes on a somewhat sweet and fruity flavor, but the artificial cucumber flavor is noticeable.
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NEEDS: made of cheese
Care for a glass of cheese? This new cheese drink comes in 3 different flavors; plain, blueberry, and yuzu citrus. They use a special process to cut down on the sweet taste of the flavored drinks. It is said to have a taste similar to yogurt, but with a cheesy aftertaste.
Care for a glass of cheese? This new cheese drink comes in 3 different flavors; plain, blueberry, and yuzu citrus. They use a special process to cut down on the sweet taste of the flavored drinks. It is said to have a taste similar to yogurt, but with a cheesy aftertaste.
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Salad Flavored Water
Released way back in 2004 by Coca-Cola, the Salad Water comes in 6 different flavors.
Released way back in 2004 by Coca-Cola, the Salad Water comes in 6 different flavors.
It tastes like a lite fruit punch
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Pokka Melon Milk
What's Melon Milk? Well, the ingredient listing on the can says that it's made from melon juice and milk. OK, that plus water, sugar, and some very long chemical names. But yeah, it's basically Japanese melon-flavored milk.
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What's Melon Milk? Well, the ingredient listing on the can says that it's made from melon juice and milk. OK, that plus water, sugar, and some very long chemical names. But yeah, it's basically Japanese melon-flavored milk.
. Diet Water
Meet the Diet Water: all the flavor of regular water, only half the calories.
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Meet the Diet Water: all the flavor of regular water, only half the calories.
.Judge takes 12,000 words to clarify the meaning of tree
A High Court judge, Mr Justice Cranston, has taken 12,000 words to answer the question: What is a tree? The judge thought it necessary to spell out the exact legal definition of a tree because of confusion in the planning process. While trees could obviously be the object of tree preservation orders, the question remained about the status of saplings. For clarity the judge ruled that size did not matter, and that the smallest sapling was, legally speaking, a tree.
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Tattoo Jim said...
Just imagine how many words it would take for the judge to clarify the meaning of himself.
Just imagine how many words it would take for the judge to clarify the meaning of himself.
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Need to Remember
How's This For Nostalgia?
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All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
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It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
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Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
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Nobody owned a purebred dog?
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When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
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All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore heels?
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You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?
And, you got trading stamps to boot?
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Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
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It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
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They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did it!
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When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
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Lying on your back in the grass with your friends? and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
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Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
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Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
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And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
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When being sent to the principals office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
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Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
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Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
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Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
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Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
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I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on.
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To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
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Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
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How Many Of These Do You Remember?
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Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
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Newsreels before the movie.
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P.F. Fliers.
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Telephone numbers with a word or letter prefix...(Raymond 4-601) (AD3-1096).
Party lines.
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Peashooters.
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Hi-Fi's with 45 RPM records and 78 RPM records!
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Green Stamps.
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Mimeograph paper.
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The Fort Apache Play Set.
Lincoln Logs.
Tinkertoys
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Do You Remember a Time When..
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
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Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?'
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Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
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Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?
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It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
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The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?
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Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
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Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?'
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Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
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Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
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The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
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War was a card game?
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Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
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Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
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Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
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If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
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Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life . .
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All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
.
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
.
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
.
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
.
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
.
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore heels?
.
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?
And, you got trading stamps to boot?
.
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
.
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
.
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did it!
.
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
.
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends? and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
.
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
.
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
.
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
.
When being sent to the principals office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
.
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
.
Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
.
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on.
.
To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
.
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
.
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
.
Newsreels before the movie.
.
P.F. Fliers.
.
Telephone numbers with a word or letter prefix...(Raymond 4-601) (AD3-1096).
Party lines.
.
Peashooters.
.
Hi-Fi's with 45 RPM records and 78 RPM records!
.
Green Stamps.
.
Mimeograph paper.
.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Lincoln Logs.
Tinkertoys
.
Do You Remember a Time When..
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
.
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?'
.
Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
.
Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?
.
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?
.
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
.
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?'
.
Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
.
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
.
The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
.
War was a card game?
.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
.
Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
.
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
.
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life . .
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Cat rescued from road pillar
Rescue crews were called in to help a cat caught between 70 and 80 feet in the air.Blake McGee happened to be walking along the street around I-10 near the beltway when he heard a cat crying for help. He looked up and noticed the cat stuck in the small gap on a pillar which supports the overpass. That's about six stories high. McGee called the SPCA, who in turn contacted a company that has a cherry picker with a bucket. Together they were able to coax the cat closer with food and bring the scared animal down.SPCA investigator Charles Jantzen says it appears the cat fell through an expansion joint on the freeway and landed on the pillar. The cat is being checked out by the SPCA. They say the animal is dehydrated and may have been stuck up there for quite a while. McGee, the person who first spotted the cat, says he will try to adopt the animal.
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