Top 10 Albums

Welcome to the second edition of my personal top 10 albums that are in heavy rotation.

Top 10 List - Jan 8, 2010

• 10. Roger Waters - Amused to Death (1992)
• 9. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (1968)
• 8. Rush - Permanent Waves (1980)
• 7. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)
• 6. U2 - No Line on the Horizon (2009)
• 5. Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (2009)
• 4. Pearl Jam - Backspacer (2009)
• 3. Motorhead- Motorizer (2008)
  
• 2. Wolfmother- Cosmic Egg (2009)

#1 - Them Crooked Vultures- Them Crooked Vultures (2009) - This album is brilliant!!

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Top 10 Albums and the BCHOF

Welcome to the first edition of my personal top 10 albums being listened to at any given time. This list changes on a regular basis. I have always been a progressive rock (prog rock) fan but just recently discovered some bands that are creating amazing music.

BTW...There will be a Rush album on every list...It's my list.

Top 10 List - July 27, 2009

10. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)
9. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely (2008)
8. Coheed & Cambria - No World For Tommorrow (2007)
7. Tragically Hip - We Are the Same (2009)
6. Tiles - Presents of Mind (1999)
5. Roger Waters - Amused to Death (1992)
4. Bruce Cockburne - Speechless (2005)
3. Rush - Snakes & Arrows Live (2008)
2. Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun (1992)

1. OSI (Office of Strategic Intelligence) - Blood (2009)

Now for the debut of the ~BC~HOF~

This is my album Hall of Fame. Albums will be added here when I feel it deserves to be a member. I am forcing myself to take my time because I have 25 albums that should be there and another listen is required.

The first entry is from 1972. This is the first album that I bought that I still listen to. The guitar work by Steve Howe is outstanding on this album.

The album is Fragile by Yes

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It's Peeps Season!!

Someone tell Hank that's not how you become a member of PETA. mmm Peeps...

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The Rankin Family Concert - Halifax, NS - Feb. 28, 2009

WOW! What an amazing concert from the Rankin Family last night at the Halifax Metro Centre. This band never ceases to put on a show that oozes energy. Backed by a band that absolutely rocked. The powerful voices of those 3 girls is the show stopper. Raylene puts her entire being into those songs and her version of Rise Again is always a crowd pleaser. If these guy's never tour again, it will be a shame. Do not miss The Rankin Family, if they tour again.

Here are a few pictures I took.

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Cape Breton Baby Boy

A Cape Bretoner is drinking in a New York bar when
he gets a call on his cell phone. He hangs up, grinning
from ear to ear, and orders a round of drinks for everybody
in the bar because, he announces, his wife has just produced
a typical Cape Breton baby boy weighing 25 pounds.

Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25
pounds, but the Cape Bretoner just shrugs, "That's about
average down home, folks...like I said, my boy's a typical
Cape Breton baby boy." Congratulations showered him from
all around, and many exclamations of "WOW"! were heard.
One woman actually fainted due to sympathy pains.

Two weeks later he returns to the bar. The bartender says,
"Say, you're the father of that typical Cape Breton baby that
weighed 25 pounds at birth. Everybody's been making bets
about how big he'd be in two weeks. We were gonna call you,
so how much does he weigh now?" The proud father answers,
"Seventeen pounds." The bartender is puzzled, and concerned.
"What happened? He already weighed 25 pounds the day he was
born." The Cape Breton father proudly says, "Had him circumcised".

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Quick Quote(s)

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
- Russell Green

Quick Quote

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Talking 'bout my g-g-generation...

Does your kid suffer from the Caudling Virus? This is a must-watch video for everyone.

Find out: Click Here!

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Quick Quote

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three"

Alice Hahn

Lyricalocity 5

Here's a band I'm liking more and more with each listen. Porcupine Tree. The Fear of a Blank Planet album was released in 2007 and I've been hooked for months.

From Wikipedia:
The concept of the album was heavily influenced by Brett Easton Ellis' novel Lunar Park[8]. The novel is told from the perspective of a father, whereas the album is mostly from his son's perspective. Many of the lyrics for Fear of a Blank Planet are lifted directly from the novel, particularly "My Ashes", which is an homage to the last chapter, in which the ashes of a cremated father are scattered and cover the memories of his life.

From their site:
Porcupine Tree was born in 1987 as a psychedelic, experimental, and progressive music outlet for the home studio explorations of Steven Wilson. In fact, Wilson had already been making music for several years, as a musically precocious teenager who taught himself to play guitar and keyboards, and whose early tape releases with bands such as Altamont and Karma had already become known in the London musical underground (these tapes, which included early versions of later PT tracks like "Nine Cats," "Small Fish," and "This Long Silence," would eventually become highly-valued collectables, a circumstance Wilson describes as "a bit like a painter having his nursery school blots exhibited"...click here for more...




Sentimental

I never wanna be old
And I don't want dependents
It's no fun to be told
That you can't blame your parents anymore.

I'm finding it hard to hang from a star
I don't wanna be...
Never wanna be old.

Sullen and bored the kids stay
And in this way wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play
And in this way wish away each day

I don't really know
If I care what is normal
And I'm not really sure
If the pills I've been taking are helping

I'm wasting my life
Hurting inside
I don't really know
And I'm not really sure...

Sullen and bored the kids stay
And in this way wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play
And in this way wish away each day

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A very brave lady...

Saw a funny bumber sticker on the commute to work this morning on the back of a VW with plates from Massachusetts.

Be nice to America
Or we we'll bring democracy to your country.

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Enough...

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays...Pick the one you prefer and everyone else...Shut the fuck up about it.

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Quick Quote

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened"

Douglas Adams

Hi...

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Suck it up Princess...

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Too much time on your hands...

Poor Bubbles, this does not compute.

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Quick Quote...

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons"

R. Buckminster Fuller

Lyricalocity 4

This lyric is for Jerry Falwell who died today, May 15, 2007 - The world has one less Religious Terrorist. Click here to see the real Jerry Falwell.

This is a song by Rush. The boy's have released a new album called Snakes & Arrows. I probably could have picked several songs from this album to dedicate to JF but decided Witch Hunt is perfect. I'm seeing Rush in September, for the first time in 20+ years and they are playing this song. This will be the longest summer of my life!



Witch Hunt

The night is black
Without a moon
The air is thick and still
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torch lit hill

Features distorted in the flickering light
The faces are twisted and grotesque
Silent and stern in the sweltering night
The mob moves like demons possessed
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right
Confident their ways are best

The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill

They say there are strangers who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves

Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand...

Neil Peart - Rush

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Is It Any Wonder Some Folks Go Postal...

Found this here.



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I'm leaving on a jet plane...

There are several flight tracking websites devoted to providing the average Joe with access to real-time flight information. Some are OK and some are horrible. This site is tops, in my book.

Each red dot represents an airplane in flight. This is real-time information.

From the site...
Founded in March of 2005, FlightAware is the first company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and commercial air traffic in the United States. FlightAware launched public operations in September of 2005 and in November of 2005 became the most popular flight tracking service on the Internet.

FlightAware's proprietary flight arrival time algorithms combined with our powerful, intuitive, responsive, and reliable web-based interface yield the most capable and useful flight tracking application.

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Is there anybody out there...

Major Discovery: New Planet Could Harbor Water and Life
By Ker Than - Staff Writer
Space.Com
Posted: 24 April 2007
04:23 pm ET

An Earth-like planet spotted outside our solar system is the first found that could support liquid water and harbor life, scientists announced today.

Liquid water is a key ingredient for life as we know it. The newfound planet is located at the "Goldilocks" distance-not too close and not too far from its star to keep water on its surface from freezing or vaporizing away.

And while astronomers are not yet able to look for signs of biology on the planet, the discovery is a milestone in planet detection and the search for extraterrestrial life, one with the potential to profoundly change our outlook on the universe.

"The goal is to find life on a planet like the Earth around a star like the Sun. This is a step in that direction," said study leader Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland. "Each time you go one step forward you are very happy."

The new planet is about 50 percent bigger than Earth and about five times more massive. The new "super-Earth" is called Gliese 581 C, after its star, Gliese 581, a diminutive red dwarf star located 20.5 light-years away that is about one-third as massive as the Sun.

Click here for the rest of the story...

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The shifting shafts of shining weave the fabric of their dreams...

Here is another engineering wonder. A 40 story concrete tower surrounded by 600 mirrors situated to focus the suns energy at the top of the tower. This is the Seville (Spain) Solar Thermal Power Plant.


From the site...

"It is Europe's first commercially operating power station using the Sun's energy this way and at the moment its operator, Solucar, proudly claims that it generates 11 Megawatts (MW) of electricity without emitting a single puff of greenhouse gas.

This current figure is enough to power up to 6,000 homes."


"But ultimately, the entire plant should generate as much power as is used by the 600,000 people of Seville."

"It works by focusing the reflected rays on one location, turning water into steam and then blasting it into turbines to generate power. "


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Quick Quote...

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by"

Will Rogers

This one's for Helen...

Quick Quote...

"Some National Parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."

George Carlin

Missed it by that much....

I Missed St. Patricks Day...D'oh!

Here's a joke for the green folk...

What's the difference between an Irishman and a canoe?

You can tip over a canoe.

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Quick Quote...

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good"

Thomas Sowell

Sobering thought.

Some Coolness!

Fractals
I played with them a bit a few years ago. I had a DOS program (Fractint) that produced the most incredible fractals. Works of art, all from a mathematical formula. These fractals are a bit different, these pictures are examples of fractals found in nature. Hmmm...sounds like chaos...Mighty cool.

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Wonders of the Chinese Landscapes
These pictures take my breath away. Not sure if they were Photoshopped or not, I hope not. This planet never ceases to amaze.

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A Day in the Life of A Russian Motorist

After seeing some of these pictures and seeing the living conditions some folks endure, I won't complain about the poor condition of our roadways.

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Lenticular Clouds
From the site...Lenticular clouds, technically known as altocumulus standing lenticularis, are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction. Have a look...Amazing!

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OPTICAL ILLUSION

I didn't believe it and you won't. I checked the colour values in Photoshop and they both had the same RGB values...

Block A is the same Color as Block B.

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Dark Roasted Blend
Here is a cool little Blog with the motto: Something old, Something New, Something Cool. Plenty of brilliant photography, dear to this writers heart. Have a look. If you visited any of the links above, you will have noticed they all reside at DRS. . .Bookmark this one!


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i-ro-ny (noun) an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

Indian Embassy Outsourcing Visa Processing
From Political Gateway

WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- India has so many visa applications from U.S. business executives that its Washington embassy plans to outsource some of the processing.

The embassy placed a classified ad in the Wall Street Journal this week soliciting companies "for outsourcing visa collection and delivery." One reason for the heavy work load is that India is a magnet for U.S. companies that want to outsource back-office functions like telephone call centers, help desks and software design.

Harley Shaiken, a specialist in labor studies at the University of California at Berkeley, told the Los Angeles Times that it's "a man bites dog story."

"It's a small irony in an otherwise serious situation," he said.

The number of U.S. residents applying for visas to India tripled between 2000 and 2006 to about 150,000.

Copyright Political Gateway 2006©
Copyright United Press International 2006

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The Husband Store

A store that sells new husbands has just opened in New York City , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates: You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products
increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building.

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband.

On the first floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1 - These men have jobs.

The second floor sign reads: Floor 2 - These men have jobs and love kids.

The third floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love kids, and are extremely good looking.

"Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads: Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead good looking and help with housework. "Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and sign reads: Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead gorgeous, help with housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456, 012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

To avoid gender bias charges, the store's owner opens a New Wives store just across the street.

The first floor has wives that love sex.

The second floor has wives that love sex and have money.

The third through sixth floors have never been visited.


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Brilliant Photo...

Photo by Rich Legg

From the site: What you are seeing is a capture of a lightbulb in the process of burning out. To create the shot, my friend Harley and I removed the glass enclosure of a standard household lightbulb (while leaving the innards intact) and powered it up in a pitch black room. The result was an immediate burn-out, which we were all too ready to photograph. The red hue on the smoke was added in post-processing...click here to visit Rich's site

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Honey, what's the date...?

A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle.

For example: If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. However, if she is menstruating, or menopausal, she tends to be more attracted to a man with tape over his mouth and a spear lodged in his chest while he is on fire. No further studies are expected.

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How to tell the sex of a bird...

Guess which bird in the picture is male and which one is female?














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Infinite Monkey Theorem...

The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type or create a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. (Wikipedia)

Robert Wilensky has this to say about that:
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." (From a speech at a 1996 conference)

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See Ya 2006...2007 Has GOT to be a Better Year

Lake Superior State University - 2007 List of Banished Words

GITMO -- The US military's shorthand for a base in Cuba drives a wedge wider than a split infinitive. "When did the notorious Guantanamo Bay Naval Base change to 'Gitmo,' a word that conjures up an image of a fluffy and sweet character from a Japanese anime show?"

COMBINED CELEBRITY NAMES -- Celebrity duos of yore -- BogCall (Bogart and Bacall), Lardy (Laurel and Hardy), and CheeChong (Cheech and Chong) -- just got lucky. "It's bad enough that celebrities have to be the top news stories. Now we've given them obnoxious names such as 'Bragelina,' 'TomKat' and 'Bennifer.'" "It's so annoying, idiotic and so lame and pathetic that it's 'lamethetic.'"

AWESOME -- Given a one-year moratorium in 1984, when the Unicorn Hunters banished it "during which it is to be rehabilitated until it means 'fear mingled with admiration or reverence; a feeling produced by something majestic." Many write to tell us there's no hope and it's time for "the full banishment." "The kind of tennis shoes you wear, no matter how cute, don't fit the majestic design of the word." "That a mop, a deodorant or a dating service can be called 'awesome' demonstrates the limited vocabularies of the country's copywriters." "Overused and meaningless.' My mother was hit by a car.' Awesome. 'I just got my college degree.' Awesome."

GONE/WENT MISSING -- "It makes 'missing' sound like a place you can visit, such as the Poconos. Is the person missing, or not? She went there but maybe she came back. 'Is missing' or 'was missing' would serve us better."

PWN or PWNED -- Thr styff of lemgendz: Gamer defeats gamer, types in "I pwn you" rather than I OWN you. "This word is just an overly used Internet typo. It has been overused to the point that people who play online games are using it in everyday speech."

NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS -- Heard in movie advertisements. Where can we see that, again? "How often do movies premiere in laundromats or other places besides theaters? I know that when I want to see a movie I think about going to a shoe store."

WE'RE PREGNANT -- Grounded for nine months. "Were men feeling left out of the whole morning sickness/huge belly/labor experience? You may both be expecting, but only one of you is pregnant." "I'm sure any woman who has given birth will tell you that 'WE' did not deliver the baby."

UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN -- "If they haven't followed the law to get here, they are by definition 'illegal.' It's like saying a drug dealer is an 'undocumented pharmacist.'"

ARMED ROBBERY/DRUG DEAL GONE BAD -- From the news reports. What degree of "bad" don't we understand? "After it stopped going well and good?"

TRUTHINESS – "This word, popularized by The Colbert Report and exalted by the American Dialectic Society's Word of the Year in 2005 has been used up. What used to ring true is getting all the truth wrung out of it."

ASK YOUR DOCTOR -- The chewable vitamin morphine of marketing. "Ask your doctor if 'fill in the blank' is right for you! Heck, just take one and see if it makes you 'fill in the blank' or get deathly ill." "I don't think my doctor would appreciate my calling him after seeing a TV ad."

CHIPOTLE – Smoked dry over medium heat. "Prior to 2005 . . . a roasted jalapeno. Now we have a 'chipotle' burrito with 'chipotle' marinated meat, 'chipotle' peppers, sprinkled with a 'chipotle' seasoning and smothered in a 'chipotle' sauce. Time to give this word a rest."

i-ANYTHING -- 'e-Anything' made the list in 2000. Tech companies everywhere have picked this apple to the core. "Turn on…tune in…and drop out." "Banish any word that starts with it. i am just tired of it. it's getting old.

SEARCH -- Quasi-anachronism. Placed on one-year moratorium. "Might as well banish it. The word has been replaced by 'google.'"

HEALTHY FOOD -- Point of view is everything. Someone exclaimed that the tuna steak for lunch "sounded healthy." The reply: "If my lunch were healthy, it would still be swimming somewhere. Grilled and nestled in salad greens, it's 'healthful.'"

BOASTS -- See classified advertisements for houses, as in "master bedroom boasts his-and-her fireplaces -- never 'bathroom apologizes for cracked linoleum,' or 'kitchen laments pathetic placement of electrical outlets.'"

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Saddam Hussein...1937 - 2006

The threat to America has ended. Saddam Hussein was hanged, I wonder what Osama Bin Laden thinks of that?I'm BC and I'll BC'ing Ya

Shame on the United States Government...

From the AP...

Dec 26, 12:14 AM (ET)

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military death toll in Iraq has reached 2,974, one more than the number of deaths in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, according to an Associated Press count on Tuesday.

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Biting Off More Then You Can Chew...

From The National Geographic Website

September 15, 2006—A fresh lamb dinner might sound like a manageable meal for an 18-foot-long (5.5-meter-long) python. But maybe the hungry snake should have waited for the lamb to be born.

Last week firefighters in the Malaysian village of Kampung Jabor were called in to remove the bloated snake (pictured below) from a roadway. The reptile had swallowed an entire pregnant sheep and was too full to slither away and digest its supersize meal.

But the stress of being captured likely triggered the python to purge—it eventually regurgitated the dead ewe.

Pythons are constrictors, meaning they rely on strength, not venom, to kill their prey. About once a week the large snakes ambush a likely meal, grab hold with backward-curving teeth, and wrap around the victim, suffocating it to death. Pythons then open their hinged jaws wide to swallow their prey whole.


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Another Blonde Joke...

Once upon a time, a blonde became so sick of hearing blonde jokes that she had her hair cut and dyed brown. A few days later, as she was out driving around the countryside, she stopped her car to let a flock of sheep pass. Admiring the cute wooly creatures, she said to the shepherd, "If I can guess how many sheep you have, can I take one?"

The shepherd, always the gentleman, said, "Sure!" The blonde thought for a moment and, for no discernible reason, said, "352." This being the correct number, the shepherd was, understandably, totally amazed, and exclaimed, "You're right! O.K., I'll keep to my end of the deal. Take your pick of my flock."

The blonde carefully considered the entire flock and finally picked the one that was by far cuter and more playful than any of the others. When she was done, the shepherd turned to her and said, "O.K., now I have a proposition for you. If I can guess your true hair color, can I have my dog back?"


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Pearls of Wisdom...

14 things it took me over 50 years to learn by Dave Barry

• Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

• If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

• There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

• People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

• You should not confuse your career with your life.

• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

• Never lick a steak knife.

• The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

• You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

• You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
• There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

• The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

• A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

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An Engineering Masterpiece

Leave it to the Germans. Here is a water bridge in Germany built over a 6 year period. The idea for this "bathtub bridge" was born in 1919 and construction started in the 1930's. Construction was halted in during the second world war in 1942. During the cold war, Germany split and the project was shelved indefinitely. The project was resurrected in the 1990's when reunification brought Germany back together.


Costing around a half billion Euros, it took 6 years to complete. It will connect Berlin's inland harbour with ports along the Rhine River. The water bridge is almost 1 kilometer in length and took 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build. It's important to us to make the waterways attractive to industry as a safe and environmentally friendly transportation way, A German Transportation Minister Manfred Stolpe said.



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