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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