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Most crowded cities on the planet
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The
Typewriter
Leroy
Anderson (1908-1975)
was an American composer of short, light concert pieces,
many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under
the direction of Arthur Fiedler.
As with all his other compositions,
Leroy Anderson wrote The Typewriter for orchestra,
completing the work on October 9,
1950.
This particular orchestration was performed in a June 12, 2011
concert by members of the National Orchestra and Chorus of Spain in
Madrid.
The (typewriter) soloist is Alfredo Anaya.
Watch his
expressions and actions throughout the video.
..wonderful!
Many
of the younger crowd who may see this video
won't remember the ole
typewriter.
But us geezers remember it well.
That was a long time
ago.
You will find this rendition absolutely
delightful.
This is for all the ancients who remember what a
typewriter was!
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THE ORIGIN OF
PROFILING
The day it all started was March 6, 1836.
On that fateful day,
Davy Crockett
woke up and rose from his bunk
on the main floor of the Alamo
and
walked up to the observation
post along the west wall of the fort.
William B. Travis and Jim Bowie were already there,
looking out over the top of
the wall.
These three great men gazed at the hordes of Mexicans
moving towards the Alamo.
With a puzzled look
on his face
, Crockett turned to Bowie and said,
“Jim, are we, by any chance,
having any landscaping done today?”
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Those funny animals
Ducks first swim
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Hello!!!
Mouse
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More Animals
There are two kittens here.......... baby rabbits are known as kittens
Butterflys can taste with their feet
Sea otters hold each others paws while they sleep so they don't drift apart
Gentoo Penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble
Elephants show remarkable empathy..... even with other species
A cats nose is ridged with an unique pattern....just like a human fingerprint
Dolphins have names for each other
A group of porcupines is called a prickle
This animal is called a quokka.. and is known to be the happiest animal in the world
Found only on an island off Western Australia
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When your having a bad Day
You can retire to Phoenix, Arizona where...
1.
You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2.
You've experienced condensation on your hiney from the hot water in the toilet
bowl.
3.
You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
4.
You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5.
You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face
when you open your oven door.
6.
The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!
OR
You can retire to California where...
1.
You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2.
The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3.
You know how to eat an artichoke.
4.
You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
5.
When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take
to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6.
The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought.
OR
You can retire to New York City where...
1.
You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2.
You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to
Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3.
You think Central Park is "nature."
4.
You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you
multi-lingual.
5.
You've worn out a car horn. (Ed. Note if you have a car).
6.
You think eye contact is an act of aggression.
OR
You can retire to Minnesota where...
1.
You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
2.
Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3.
You have more than one recipe for casserole.
4.
Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5.
The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.
OR
You can retire to the Deep South where...
1.
You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2.
"Y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.
3.
"He needed killin" is a valid defense.
4.
Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean,
Mary Beth, etc.
5.
Everything is either "in yonder," "over yonder" or
"out yonder." It's important to know the difference, too.
OR
You can retire to Colorado where...
1.
You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2.
You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home so he stops at the day
care center.
3.
A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4.
The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.
OR
You can retire to the Midwest where...
1.
You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2.
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3.
You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same
day.
4.
You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5.
When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was
different!"
OR
FINALLY You can retire to Florida where.
1.
You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2..
All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3.
Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4.
Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5.
Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people
Meanwhile in Sweden
Meanwhile in Japan
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Before you give up on this magic video
because it’s not in English
I can tell you it is pretty amazing at the end.
I’m sure there is a logical explanation for how this magic trick
is performed but I don’t really care as I like it just for the entertainment
value.
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A
magician accidentally turned his wife into a couch and his two kids into
armchairs.
He started to panic and thought to himself,
"What the heck have
I done?"
He began to ponder,
"How am I going to bring back my beloved
family?"
So, he thought for a while and decided a good idea
was to take
them to a hospital and see if the surgeon
could operate and bring them back.
He
loads them into his van and off he rushes to the local hospital.
He walked up
and down the hospital
and after some serious surgery, he asks the doctor,
"Doc, how are they doing?"
The doctor replies, "Comfortable,
sir!
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Did you hear about
the big winner on JEOPARDY?
He went home the next day, and his wife demanded,
Who were those women I saw you outwit last night?"
An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard
and a German are walking down the
street together.
A juggler is performing on the street
but there are so many
people that the four men can’t see the juggler.
So the juggler goes on top of a
platform and asks:
“Can you see me now?”
The four men answer:
“Yes.” “Oui.” “Si.” “Ja.”
Putin n a ritz
Teaching junior high
school English,
Mr. Speller stressed the importance
of nice clean margins on
student papers.
One seventh-grade boy said in his essay
that he was sorry to
write in the margarine.
When he graded his paper,
Mr. Speller added a little
note next to his that said,
"Maybe next time you will do butter."
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Read Slowly, It may take
a while for the light to come on.
1. ARBITRATOR: A cook
that leaves Arby's to work at McDonalds
2.
AVOIDABLE:
What a bullfighter tries to do
3.
BERNADETTE: The act of torching
a mortgage
4. BURGLARIZE:
What a crook sees with
5.
CONTROL:
A short, ugly inmate
6. COUNTERFEITERS: Workers who put
together kitchen cabinets
7.
ECLIPSE:
What an English barber does for a living
8. EYEDROPPER:
A clumsy ophthalmologist
9.
HEROES:
What a guy in a boat does
10. LEFTBANK: What the robber
did when his bag was full of money
11.
MISTY:
How golfers create divots
12.
PARADOX:
Two physicians
13.
PARASITES: What you see
from the top of the Eiffel Tower
14.
PHARMACIST: A helper on the farm
15.
POLARIZE:
What penguins see with
16.
PRIMATE:
Removing your spouse from in front of the TV
17.
RELIEF:
What trees do in the spring
18. RUBBERNECK: What you
do to relax your wife
19. SELFISH: What the owner of a seafood store
does
20. SUDAFED: Brought litigation against a
government official
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PHUN PHACTS
Seniors
The 107-year-old man was asked by a television crew
what was the secret of
his longevity.
“It’s because I gave up sex,” he said.
“When did you give up sex?”
asked the reporter.
“Just about fifteen years ago.”
“I see,” said the reporter.
“And why did you give up sex?”
“I had to.
I like older women…
and there weren’t any more left!”
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There is no doubt.. It is very accurate
I thought that Google Earth was good,
but this is even more
precise.
Check this out. it's pretty scary to know they can find you anywhere.
I'm not surprised to learn that such technology exists.
It uses your IP address
and finds the exact location
of any Internet user in seconds.
It uses a
sophisticated time based algorithm to do so.
Try it and find your PRECISE
location on the earth.
Then watch your screen as the system briefly analyses
your data,
then displays your PRECISE location.
Your location will pop up in a
new window in about 10 seconds or so.
Click on the link below......
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More Amazing Grace
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For many, the stairs are something to avoid,
unless you're
determined to lose some weight.
But lovers of nature and spectacular views
are
more than used to climb steps
and more steps to recreate the view.
This list of steps is also a challenge for those who are a little dizzy.
Peldaños del Cañón
Where you are: Pailon del Diablo, Ecuador
Where are they going?
Designed to descend to the bottom of one of the most
famous waterfalls in South America,
along the way, lost in the fog in many
cases
, it is extremely slippery and steep for several tens of meters to a
lookout
where you can see a dramatic effect,
accompanied hummingbirds,gulls and
other local birds
El pozo de Chand Baori
Where you are: India
Where are they going?
The decline of these steps leads to a huge pool,
built in
the tenth century to overcome the lack of rainfall
in the region and store
water for long periods.
The structure has a total of 3,500 steps,
and down to a
depth of 30 meters
.
Stairs Elbe Sandstone Mountains
Where you are: Dresden, Germany
Where are they going?
Stairs carved into the stone itself of these mountains.
They date from the 13th century and have been eroded by wind and water
, but
there are still being used daily by tourists.
487steps, though not enough,
were
restored and expanded in the eighteenth century
The Rock of Guatapé
Where you are: Antioquia, Colombia
Where are they going?
The rock is an authentic stone monolith of 220 meters.
The steps are constructed with cement, directly on the rock
and making a
curious place that facilitated cleavage structure.
Some 702 steps are to be
followed to reach its peak.
The ladder Haiku
Where you are: Oahu, Hawaii
Material: metal
Where are they going?
On the small island of Oahu there is this tremendous
journey of 3922 steps,
climbing, cross and down a hill of 850 meters.
They were
created to facilitate the installation of a satellite in 1942.
In principle
wood, were modernized in the '50s,
but since 1987 are closed to the public
Ladder via Crucis
Where you are: Bermeo, Basque Country, Spain
Where are they going?
This endless row of stairs attached to the rock coast
where a small church dating from the tenth century
and seems to be of Templar.
To reach the hermitage of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe have to climb 231 steps
and
there are gaps in the steps that are identified as the footsteps of St. John
himself,
who are given different healing powers.
For example, you have to put
your feet in them as a solution for corns or left hats,
scarves or chapelas,to
cure the headache
Spiral staircase in the Taihang Mountains
Where you are: At the boundary between
the provinces of Shanxi and Henan, China
Where are they going?
This spiral staircase of almost 100 meters have been
installed recently
in an attempt to attract thousands of tourists
each year to
the beautiful Taihang Mountains.
Before undertaking the ascent asks visitors to sign forms
to ensure they do not
have heart problems
and are under age 60.
And is that a slip in a
narrow metal ladder as you certainly can lead to heaven,
as the song of Led
Zeppelin.
Wayna Pichu
Where you are: Machu Picchu, Peru
Where are they going?
Stairs carved into the rock that crown a climb
of about
360 meters from MachuPicchu itself.
In some sections, the ascent is complicated
to pass through narrow sections
and smallsteps and eroded.
The rise time is
calculated from one hour and 90 minutes
. Only allowed promotion to 400 tourists a day
thanks Kitty L
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More wonders of the world
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This weeks "Blast from the Past"
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Women and Children
Duel at the Mall
My Bear
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Miscelleaneous stuff
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More Russian Dash Cam
Warning some harsh language
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This Weeks Signs
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The Lost Generation
PHILS PHILOSOPHY
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Lots of good ones this week. I love Betty White. The Russians were hilarious.
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