History to the rescue! Real meaning behind children’s game exposed. Is That… Is That How It Goes? Historic LOL.
“This is the church. This is the steeple. Open the doors and eat all the people.”
Image courtesy of http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/07/02/funny-pictures-history-this-is-the-church/.
Priceless! MUST SEE! Caught running away HERE at GIF SOUP. Longer version at You Tube.
‘Agitated’ Obama Storms Out of Debt Meeting. Fox.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told Fox News that President Obama became agitated and abruptly walked out of today’s debt talks at the White House – allegations that Democratic sources strongly deny.
“He (the president) became very agitated,” Cantor told Fox News. “He said ‘Ronald Reagan wouldn’t sit here. You either have to compromise on the dollar figure or the grand bargain’…He said ‘Don’t call my bluff. I’m going to the American people on this.’”
Cantor said Obama shoved back and said, ‘We’ll see you tomorrow’ – noting the meeting “ended with (the) President abruptly walking out of the meeting.”
That’s some real grown-up way of handling serious national economic issues.
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Our bellybuttons are home to hundreds of undiscovered species. io9.
The Belly Button Biodiversity project recently began taking DNA samples from people’s navels to find out what bacteria is living within. Of the roughly 1,400 bacterial strains discovered thus far, at least 662 of them are completely unknown.
A noble scientific study, with noble findings. Enough to frighten the average person, and make him or her race off the shower to scrub out the vermin with a Q-Tip and toothbrush with Ajax. Egad!
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Joke of the day.
One word in the English language that can be a noun, verb, adj., adv. and a prep.
UP
Read until the end … you’ll laugh.
This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is ‘UP.’ It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv.], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.
At other times, this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it UP, for now . . . my time is UP!
Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?
U
P!
Did that one crack you UP?
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Joke of the day.
Not what you think.
One night, a police officer was stalking out a particularly rowdy bar for possible violations of the driving under the influence laws. At closing time, he saw a fellow stumble out of the bar, trip on the curb, and try his keys on five different cars before he found his. Then, sat in the front seat fumbling around with his keys for several minutes. Everyone left the bar and drove off. Finally, he started his engine and began to pull away.
The police officer was waiting for him. He stopped the driver, read him his rights and administered the Breathalyzer test. The results showed a reading of 0.0. The puzzled officer demanded to know how that could be. The driver replied, “Tonight, I’m the Designated Decoy.”
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ScienceShot: Old Spiders Weave Messy Webs. Science.
Apparently, youth lends itself quite well to orderliness. So goes the thinking on the web creations of a 17-day old spider versus that of a 188-day old spider.
Scientists obviously did not check on how tidy the young spiders kept their rooms, in comparison the housekeeping habits of older spiders.
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In 2008, Space Station Gets Pee-Recycling System. Wired.
Fast forward to 2011. NASA’s Stillsuit: Atlantis Crew to Test Pee-Recycling Bag. Wired.
Whoa! Drink your own pee? Is that what’s in the bag for adventuresome astronauts? It has gone from a machine process, to a sugary fluid osmotic process.
Before.
The machine will use a distillation process that compensates for the absence of gravity to remove impurities from urine. Then the water will be combined with fluid from showers, shaving, tooth brushing and hand washing, as well as perspiration and water vapor that collects inside the astronauts’ space suits.
All this reclaimed water will go through a processing system to extract free gas and solid materials such as hair and lint. Afterward, the system will remove any remaining contaminants through a high-temperature chemical reaction.
Now.
NASA’s recycler will use a sugary solution injected into a semi-permeable inner bag, which is nested inside an outer bag. Dirty fluid that’s pumped into the outer bag will slowly pass through the inner bag and into the sugary solution, leaving behind its contaminants. On Earth, the double-sack system makes about a liter of sports drink-like fluid in four to six hours.
Thirst quenching, mouth-watering delicious?!? All the sports drink manufacturers are now green with envy for sure. Check out the all the images here.
But will that mellow yellow beverage be served at body temp, or on the rocks? One Japanese television crew member who tried it said it tasted like Capri Sun.
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Email in circulation.
Thought for the day.
Hat tip, Proud Military Mom.
I think Congressmen should wear uniforms,
like NASCAR drivers,
so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
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Kiddie version of running with the bulls.
Practicing. For the big one at the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona.
“Bullfighting with fake bull. …”
Image courtesy of http://www.holyegg.com/index.php?id=3052.
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Roll ‘em!
Except when it is the last roll of toilet paper in the house.
“Papel de wc infinito.”
Image courtesy of http://www.vayagif.com/gif/30528.
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