Once upon a time a big monk and a little monk were traveling together. They came to the bank of a river and found the bridge was damaged. They had to wade across the river.
There was a pretty lady who was stuck at the damaged bridge and couldn't cross the river.
The big monk offered to carry her across the river on his back to which the lady accepted.
The little monk was shocked by the move of the big monk and was thinking "How can big brother carry a lady when we are supposed to avoid all intimacy with females?" But he kept quiet.
The big monk carried the lady across the river and the small monk followed unhappily. When they crossed the river, the big monk let the lady down and they parted ways with her.
All along the way for several miles, the little monk was very unhappy with the act of the big monk. He was making up all kinds of accusations about big monk in his head. This got him madder and madder. But he still kept quiet. And the big monk had no inclination to explain his situation.
Finally, at a rest point many hours later, the little monk could not stand it any further, he burst out angrily at the big monk. "How can you claim yourself a devout monk, when you seize the first opportunity to touch a female, especially when she is very pretty?"
All your teachings to me make you a big hypocrite.
The big monk looked surprised and said, "I had put down the pretty lady at the river bank many hours ago, how come you are still carrying her along?"
Moral: This very old Chinese Zen story reflects the thinking of many people today. We encounter many unpleasant things in our life, they irritate us and they make us angry. But like the little monk, we are not willing to let them go away. There is no point in remaining hurt by the unpleasant event after it is over. Learn to move on in life!
Monday, October 3, 2011
Think, Believe, Dream and Dare
An eight-year-old boy approached an old man in front of a wishing well, looked up into his eyes, and asked: "I understand you're a very wise man. I'd like to know the secret of life."
The old man looked down at the youngster and replied: "I've thought a lot in my lifetime, and the secret can be summed up in four words.
The first is think. Think about the values you wish to live your life by.
The second is believe. Believe in yourself based on the thinking you've done about the values you're going to live your life by.
The third is dream. Dream about the things that can be, based on your belief in yourself and the values you're going to live by.
The last is dare. Dare to make your dreams become reality, based on your belief in yourself and your values."
And with that, Walter E. Disney said to the little boy, "Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare."
The old man looked down at the youngster and replied: "I've thought a lot in my lifetime, and the secret can be summed up in four words.
The first is think. Think about the values you wish to live your life by.
The second is believe. Believe in yourself based on the thinking you've done about the values you're going to live your life by.
The third is dream. Dream about the things that can be, based on your belief in yourself and the values you're going to live by.
The last is dare. Dare to make your dreams become reality, based on your belief in yourself and your values."
And with that, Walter E. Disney said to the little boy, "Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare."
Pay for the Food
There was a poor old Irish cobbler whose shop was next door to a very upscale French restaurant.
Every day at lunch time, Mike, the Irish gent, would go out the back of his shop and eat his soda bread and maybe a kipper or piece of Irish blue cheese while smelling the wonderful odors coming from the restaurant’s kitchen.
One morning, the Irishman was surprised to receive an invoice in the mail from the adjoining restaurant for “enjoyment of food”
Mystified, he marched right over to the restaurant to point out that he had not bought a thing from them.
The manager said, “You’re enjoying our food, so you should pay us for it.” The Irishman refused to pay and the restaurant took him to court.
At the hearing, the judge asked the restaurant to present their side of the case. The manager said, “Every day, this man comes and sits outside our kitchen and smells our food while eating his. It is clear that we are providing added value to his poor food and we deserve to be compensated for it.”
The judge turned to Mike and said, “What do you have to say to that?” The old Irishman didn’t say a thing but smiled and stuck his hand in his pocket and rattled the few coins he had inside.
The judge asked him, “What is the meaning of that?” The Irishman replied with a mile wide grin, – “I’m paying for the smell of his food with the sound of my money.”
Every day at lunch time, Mike, the Irish gent, would go out the back of his shop and eat his soda bread and maybe a kipper or piece of Irish blue cheese while smelling the wonderful odors coming from the restaurant’s kitchen.
One morning, the Irishman was surprised to receive an invoice in the mail from the adjoining restaurant for “enjoyment of food”
Mystified, he marched right over to the restaurant to point out that he had not bought a thing from them.
The manager said, “You’re enjoying our food, so you should pay us for it.” The Irishman refused to pay and the restaurant took him to court.
At the hearing, the judge asked the restaurant to present their side of the case. The manager said, “Every day, this man comes and sits outside our kitchen and smells our food while eating his. It is clear that we are providing added value to his poor food and we deserve to be compensated for it.”
The judge turned to Mike and said, “What do you have to say to that?” The old Irishman didn’t say a thing but smiled and stuck his hand in his pocket and rattled the few coins he had inside.
The judge asked him, “What is the meaning of that?” The Irishman replied with a mile wide grin, – “I’m paying for the smell of his food with the sound of my money.”
Member of Parliament
While walking down the street one day a 'Member of Parliament' is tragically hit by a truck and dies.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
'Welcome to heaven,' says St. Peter. 'Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you.'
'No problem, just let me in,' says the man.
'Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.'
'Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,' says the MP.
'I'm sorry, but we have our rules.'
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly & nice guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises...
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him.
'Now it's time to visit heaven.'
So, 24 hours pass with the MP joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
'Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven.
Now choose your eternity.'
The MP reflects for a minute, then he answers: 'Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.'
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. 'I don't understand,' stammers the MP. 'Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
What happened?'
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, 'Yesterday we were campaigning...
Today you voted.'
Good luck
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
'Welcome to heaven,' says St. Peter. 'Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you.'
'No problem, just let me in,' says the man.
'Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.'
'Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,' says the MP.
'I'm sorry, but we have our rules.'
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly & nice guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises...
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him.
'Now it's time to visit heaven.'
So, 24 hours pass with the MP joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
'Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven.
Now choose your eternity.'
The MP reflects for a minute, then he answers: 'Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.'
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. 'I don't understand,' stammers the MP. 'Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
What happened?'
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, 'Yesterday we were campaigning...
Today you voted.'
Good luck
Do you know - Part 1
1) If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
2) To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
3) Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
4) Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
5) Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
6) People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
7) Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
8) Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
9) Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
10) The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
11) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
12) Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
13) The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
14) There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne
15) Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
16) It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
17) The heat of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale
18) Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years
19) Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
20) If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
21) Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
22) When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.
23) Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
24) Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
25) The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
26) For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.
27) Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
28) Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F
29) The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells
30) The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
31) Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
32) The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man
33) Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density
34) Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces
35) The University of Alaska spans four time zones
36) The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself
2) To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
3) Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
4) Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
5) Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
6) People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
7) Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
8) Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
9) Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
10) The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
11) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
12) Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
13) The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
14) There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne
15) Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
16) It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
17) The heat of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale
18) Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years
19) Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
20) If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
21) Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
22) When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.
23) Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
24) Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
25) The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
26) For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.
27) Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
28) Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F
29) The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells
30) The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
31) Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
32) The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man
33) Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density
34) Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces
35) The University of Alaska spans four time zones
36) The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself
Origin Of Famous Names.. (Infos)
There are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances/things/happenings.
Mercedes:
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
Adobe:
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers:
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening.
CISCO:
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco .
Compaq:
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Corel:
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.
Google:
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ...thus the name.
Hotmail:
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard:
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel:
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes):
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft:
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola:
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE:
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony:
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN:
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!:
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
Mercedes:
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
Adobe:
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers:
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening.
CISCO:
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco .
Compaq:
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Corel:
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.
Google:
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ...thus the name.
Hotmail:
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard:
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel:
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes):
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft:
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola:
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE:
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony:
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN:
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!:
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
Do You Know Part 2
1) In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
2) Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil) and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
3) Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
4) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
5) A comet's tail always points away from the sun
6) The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent
7) Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
8) The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
9) If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
10) When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight
11) Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards and was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft. She wandered about at night, and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of her approach.
12) In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed
13) Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
14) Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams
15) It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines
16) The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
17) The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
18) Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
19) Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left
20) Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
21) Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down
22) The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged
23) Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
24) For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off
25) The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
2) Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil) and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
3) Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
4) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
5) A comet's tail always points away from the sun
6) The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent
7) Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
8) The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
9) If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
10) When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight
11) Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards and was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft. She wandered about at night, and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of her approach.
12) In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed
13) Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
14) Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams
15) It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines
16) The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
17) The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
18) Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
19) Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left
20) Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
21) Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down
22) The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged
23) Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
24) For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off
25) The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
Two Ladies Talking in Heaven
1st woman: Hi! My name is Wanda.
2nd woman: Hi! I'm Sylvia. How'd you die?
1st woman: I froze to death.
2nd woman: How horrible!
1st woman: It wasn't so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm & sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?
2nd woman: I died of a massive heart attack. I suspected that my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act.
But instead, I found him all by himself in the den watching TV.
1st woman: So, what happened?
2nd woman: I was so sure there was another woman there somewhere that I started running all over the house looking.
I ran up into the attic and searched,and down into the basement. Then I went through every closet and checked under all the beds.
I kept this up until I had looked everywhere, and finally I became so exhausted that I just keeled over with a heart attack and died.
1st woman: Too bad you didn't look in the freezer---we'd both still be alive.
PRICELESS! .... ;")
2nd woman: Hi! I'm Sylvia. How'd you die?
1st woman: I froze to death.
2nd woman: How horrible!
1st woman: It wasn't so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm & sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?
2nd woman: I died of a massive heart attack. I suspected that my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act.
But instead, I found him all by himself in the den watching TV.
1st woman: So, what happened?
2nd woman: I was so sure there was another woman there somewhere that I started running all over the house looking.
I ran up into the attic and searched,and down into the basement. Then I went through every closet and checked under all the beds.
I kept this up until I had looked everywhere, and finally I became so exhausted that I just keeled over with a heart attack and died.
1st woman: Too bad you didn't look in the freezer---we'd both still be alive.
PRICELESS! .... ;")
Great Quotes
1. I Am A Great Believer In Luck & I Find That The Harder I Work, The More I Have Of It...
2. Whenever You Fall, Pick Something Up...
3. No One Can Climb The Ladder Of Success, With Both Hands In The Pocket...
4. I Am A Slow Walker But I Never Walked Back...
5. Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do...
6. A Winner Never Quits & A Quitter Never Wins...
7. Not Failure, But Low Aim Is A Crime...
8. Your Aspirations Are Your Possibilities...
9. The Highest Result Of Education Is Tolerence...
10. Control Your Destiny Or Somebody Else Will
2. Whenever You Fall, Pick Something Up...
3. No One Can Climb The Ladder Of Success, With Both Hands In The Pocket...
4. I Am A Slow Walker But I Never Walked Back...
5. Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do...
6. A Winner Never Quits & A Quitter Never Wins...
7. Not Failure, But Low Aim Is A Crime...
8. Your Aspirations Are Your Possibilities...
9. The Highest Result Of Education Is Tolerence...
10. Control Your Destiny Or Somebody Else Will
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
A man once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?"
"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."
The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked.
"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.
"Where are you going to install the idol?" The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.
"If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.
The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside
"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."
The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked.
"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.
"Where are you going to install the idol?" The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.
"If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.
The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside
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