Friday, April 4, 2008

Take me back in time

Now it’s time to go back to the 50’s.
Take me back to the fifties.

Enjoy the trip!

23 Unanswered Questions

1. If all the nations in the world are in debt (am not joking. even US has got debts), where did all the money go?

2. When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?

3. What is the speed of darkness?

4. If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

5. Who copyrighted the copyright symbol?

6. Can you cry under water?

7. Why do people say, "You’ve been working like a dog" when dogs just sit around all day?

8. Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed?

9. Do fish ever get thirsty?

10. Can you get cornered in a round room?

12. Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep?

13. What came first, the fruit or the color orange?

14. If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

15. What should one call a male ladybird?

16. If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot?

17. Can you blow a balloon up under water?

18. Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?

19. If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it?

20. If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?

21. Why is it called a TV set when there’s only one?

22. If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?

23. Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?

“Cheese”


Numeral uno


Here’s one I could solve


Dad’s changing diapers

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Spring Time


T. Hanks


Path to beach costs New Zealand man his house

A man will have to pay more than $80,000 for illegally cutting a path through a sea cliff so his children could walk down to the beach. Franklin man Bryce Parsons has put his home up for auction to pay for the damage - which a judge said looked as though a large slice had been cut out of a living organism and its entrails spilled out on the foreshore.

Judge Fred McElrea told Parsons in the Auckland District Court that it was a serious piece of damage to public land in a very sensitive situation with a high degree of recklessness. He fined the 43-year-old $20,000 and ordered him to pay $1260 in costs.

Parsons already faces a $60,000 bill for fixing the damage to the coastal esplanade next to his Glenbrook Beach Rd property. Parsons said yesterday he had not known he needed consents before making the cut from his property overlooking the Manukau Harbor. "We have three kids, and they want to get down to the beach. It was just for access from the property."

5th Grader Smarter Then The Smithsonian

Michigan boy, 11, discovers decades old mistake during trip to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
The 11-year-old boy, who lives in Allegan but attends Alamo Elementary School near Kalamazoo, went with his family during winter break to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum's Tower of Time, a display involving prehistoric time. Not one visitor had reported anything amiss with the exhibit until Kenton noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, identified the Precambrian as an era.

Kenton knew that was wrong. His fifth-grade teacher, John Chapman, had nearly made the same mistake in a classroom earth-science lesson before catching himself.
"I knew Mr. Chapman wouldn't tell all these students" bad information, the boy told the Kalamazoo Gazette for a story published Wednesday.
So Kevin Stufflebeam took his son to the museum's information desk to report Kenton's concern on a comment form. Last week, the boy received a letter from the museum acknowledging that his observation was "spot on."
"The Precambrian is a dimensionless unit of time, which embraces all the time between the origin of Earth and the beginning of the Cambrian Period of geologic time," the letter says.
The solution to the problem would not involve advanced science but rather simply painting over the word "era," the note says.
"We did forward a copy of the comment and our paleobiology department's response to the head of the exhibits department," said Lorraine Ramsdell, educational technician for the museum.
While no previous visitors to the museum had brought up the error, it has long rankled the paleobiology department's staff, who noticed it even before the Tower of Time was erected 27 years ago, she said.
"The question is, why was it put up with that on it in the first place?" Ramsdell said.
Excited as he was to receive the correspondence from museum officials, he couldn't help but point out that it was addressed to Kenton Slufflebeam.