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Make Handicaps disappear
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Stunning pictures from around the World
thanks Kitty L
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Simply Superb
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Those Funny Animals
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Animals adopting each other
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Garfield
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Meanwhile in the USA
In a special Sunday radio address,
House Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio)
delivered a health tip to the American people,
advising them
to delay getting cancer for a year.
He added that heart disease, emphysema, and
diabetes
were among a laundry list of conditions that would be
“patriotic to
avoid for a year.”
“If you delay getting any of these things for the next
twelve months,
together we will win this fight,” he said
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Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying,
"Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon.
The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, craps on the board and
then struts around like it won the game."
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Conduct us
When I was a little boy, my family
did not have a lot of money.
My father had a reasonably well paying job,
but
with four kids and a dog, money was often tight.
This is not to say that we
were deprived or unhappy.
Our family did many activities together,
but our
favorite was camping,
which we did year-round, blazing heat or freezing cold.
It was a great sight to see the whole
clan scrambling
to get everything together for a weekend trip.
The whole family
then piled into our Chevy station wagon
with a dog bigger than the three
smallest children put together.
Dad would then tie down our trusty tent
to the
top of the Chevy and off we would go.
Our tent was amazing in and of
itself.
It was a army surplus tent large enough for the whole family plus dog.
It had survived though rain storms, snow storms, wind storms.
It had twice been
uprooted from its stakes in high winds.
(Makes me wonder why we went camping in
so much terrible weather.)
It had blown off the Chevy a couple
of times,
but it had always survived.
At least it survived with mother's help
at the sewing machine
. It had patches over patches but it was still our
faithful camping tent.
But alas, canvas can only last so
long,
so after about ten years of steady service
, my Dad admitted one summer
that our tent was no longer usable.
We didn't go camping at all the following
fall.
The only thing that kept us kids controllable
was that Dad promised we
would get a new tent at Christmas,
and we could go camping all winter.
So Mom and Dad went on a savings
program
to get the money for our new tent.
They even got us kids to pitch in a
little.
Money was tight, but the savings accumulated,
and we all had visions of
a great winter outdoors.
That is, until disaster struck in
late November,
and my little bother Johnny broke his arm.
Dad hadn't counted on
an emergency,
and the hospital and doctor bills completely depleted our tent
saving.
We were all downcast at the prospect of no winter camping.
Even I was
almost sorry I pushed Johnny off the roof.
So as Christmas approached, we were
all pretty glum.
There weren't as many presents around the tree as usual,
because the extra money had gone into my bother's arm.
Finally, Christmas Eve was here,
and
our month long depression was lifted a little,
because we could open our presents.
Dad had to work, but he was late, and hadn't called.
Mother began to worry,
and
just before she called the police,
Dad drove up.
We couldn't believe our eyes!
There
on top of the Chevy was a brand new shiny tent,
even larger than Old Faithful.
Instantly, five voices started
asking Dad question after question,
so he ushered us all into the living room,
around the Christmas tree to tell us what happened.
It seems that Dad had seen an
advertisement
for a store called SURPLUS CITY (all caps required)
. Last week he
had gone by to see if they had any tents
that we could afford.
There was one
perfect tent (the only one actually) for $60.
So Dad worked a little overtime
and scrimped a little on his Christmas gifts
and he scraped together about $45.
That night he had gone to SURPLUS
CITY with his $45
and tried to get a bargain on the tent.
He had managed to
chisel the manger down to $50 for the tent,
but from there the manager wouldn't
budge.
There was no credit or lay-away at SURPLUS CITY,
either, just cold hard
cash.
So Dad went back out to the car,
and
thought about how hard it would
be to come home empty handed.
In a flash of
inspiration, he got the spare tire from the car
and went back in.
He asked the
manager if he would take the spare tire for $5
so he could buy the tent.
With that act of desperation, the
managers heart softened.
What with it being Christmas and all,
and my father
being so intent on getting the tent,
and stopping in several times over the
past week,
he let Dad have the tent for $40.
When Dad finished telling this
story,
we all cheered and hollered and generally made fools of ourselves.
That
was the happiest Christmas I have ever had.
And that was the best winter of
camping we ever had too
, in the winter of our discount tent.
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True Stories
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Cops and Donuts
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Kids add joy to your life
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A beautiful Story
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Funny Insults
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Fishing under Ice
The people of Kangiqsujuaq in Canada who go to great lengths
to add
variety to their diet of seal meat
by venturing under the sea ice during the
extreme low tides
of the spring equinox to gather mussels.
This is a deadly serious
race against time
as they have less than half an hour to search these
temporary
caverns before the tide rushes back in.
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Its important to have fun at work
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Put on your thinking cap
and try some of these
DULT SCIENCE QUIZ...
Here’s a quiz on how much science adults know.
Only 7% of the adult population gets all 13 questions correct. See how you do.
Only 7% of the adult population gets all 13 questions correct. See how you do.
or
I scored 9 try to beat me....... Phil
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Click on this link for a Logo's Quiz
I only got two wrong
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Take the Aussie Quiz
It doesn't matter if your not an Aussie
Good fun about Aussie Slang and Sayings
Even I got two wrong
Right-o
you lot, reckon you know a bit about Oz?
Have a gander at this site and see how you fare.
Australia Quiz
POSTERS
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Over the next few weeks I will post some of those
Great Instrumental hits from days gone by
Here are a couple to enjoy
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One of the major soft drink conglomerates decided
it was time to re-invent
the way they sold their product.
After months of discussion and deep thought
an unmistakable idea of genius
appeared.
It is being test marketed in a secret location
somewhere in the world and
the results are being analysed at the moment.
The unique selling idea is to have several different container sizes
in the
very same six-pack.
The most successful packages has two 250 ml bottles,
two
500 ml bottles, and two 1000 ml bottles.
To the bottler’s surprise, after purchasing the beverage,
most people are
choosing to drink from the 1000 ml container first.
Postmarketing research is showing why.
It is the liter of the pack
A young apprentice was caught stealing from the local soap factory.
When the case came to court the judge decided
to make an example of him to
discourage other youths
from delinquency and a life of crime.
Judge: “Well, what have you to say in your defense?”
Boy: “Only that I’m sorry your honour.”
Judge: “Humph! I senten”ce you to 10 years hard labour,
starting immediately
and with no parole!.”
Boy: “But sir, it was only a few bars of cheap soap!”
Judge: “Consider yourself lucky!
It could have been life, boy.
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Thousands of Bangladeshis
crammed ferries and trains,
leaving Dhaka to return to their home
villages
and celebrate Eid al-fitr, which marks the end
of the Muslim holy
month of Ramadan
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Top Brand names and their worth
1. Apple
Brand Value: $98,316 million
2. Google
Brand Value: $93,291 million
3.
Coca-Cola
Brand
Value: $79,213 million
4. IBM
Brand Value: $78,808 million
5. Microsoft
Brand Value: $59,546 million
6. General Electric
Brand Value: $46,947 million
7. McDonald's
Brand Value: $41,992 million
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Boogie Woogie
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At the Duplex
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Wow!! .... How was this done
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Men and Women
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Animusic HD - Resonant
Chamber
thanks Ray S
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Kids
Love this song
Aloha ka manini:
A song which
demonstrates the respect and gratitude that Hawaiians
have for one of their
dearest sources of food.
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and this
Tia Garrere
this
is not goodbye; this is merely farewell, until we meet again, in a better
place, Aloha
no doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong
But I think this is the National Anthem
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This weeks Signs
No one should have to wait that long for luggage
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Mercedes Clever Advert
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A slave call girl from Sardinia named Gedophamee
(say it aloud a
few times) was attending a great,
but as yet unnamed, athletic festival 2500 years ago in Greece ..
In those days, believe it or not,
the athletes performed naked.
To prevent unwanted arousal while competing,
the
men imbibed freely on a drink containing saltpeter
before and throughout the variety of events.
At the opening ceremonial parade,
Gedophamee
observed the first wave of naked magnificent males
marching toward her and she exclaimed:
“OH!! Limp pricks!”
Over the next two and a half millenniums
that has morphed into
“Olympics”.
Just thought I’d share this new found knowledge with you.
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YOU GOTTA TRY THIS AT LEAST ONCE!!!!!
IT'S GREAT. LISTEN TO THE MUSIC WHILE YOU PLAY.
YOU MAY FEEL VERY
RELAXED.
YOU MIGHT EVEN TRY IT AGAIN,
AGAIN AND AGAIN.
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We've all been there
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PHILS PHILOSOPHY
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Animals of Australia
Disclaimer
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videos on this site
are understood to be in the public domain.
If you hold the copyright to any of them and would
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please contact Phil at
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2 comments:
I loved the two kids video and We've all been there. Especially the last video. Wow, that was awesome.
Have a terrific day Phil. :)
thanks Sandee god bless
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