Joke: The Golden Toilet

Before the 2001 inauguration of George Bush, he was invited to a get-acquainted tour of the White House. After drinking several glasses of iced tea, he asked Bill Clinton if he could use his personal bathroom.
When he entered Clinton’s private toilet, he was astonished to see that President Clinton had a solid gold urinal.
That afternoon, [...]

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Definition and Origin of the Term “Blackmail”

Lately I’m getting interested in the origin of words in the English language. It’s part of my language training program which gets more and more fascinating as I dig in. This post will be about the word “blackmail”.
For those of you who are studying English as a second language, let me say that [...]

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Hunger is Showing Its Ugly Face

It was Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), who once said that uncontrolled population growth could lead to global famine. He regarded ideals of future human improvement with skepticism, considering that throughout history a segment of every human population seemed relegated to poverty. He explained this phenomenon by pointing out that population growth generally [...]

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The Man With Multiple Lives

Roy C. Sullivan (1912-1983)
Normally we only live and die once. That’s the normal human being life cycle. However, there are extremely rare cases where a person will defy death more than once and live to tell the story. One of these these uncommon “cheaters of death” is Roy Cleveland Sullivan who defied [...]

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A Home in the Cool Mountains of Panama

The home of Rachelle and Ben Smith in the Altos de Cerro Azul area of Panama.
Shortly after the topple of General Manuel A. Noriega’s regime—Panama ex-strong man—the name Panama was immediately associated with Noriega and drugs. Nobody wanted to come to Panama to visit, live or invest and the tourist industry was in [...]

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Joke: How to Tell the Sex of a Fly

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
—“What are you doing?”, she asked.
—“Hunting flies”, he responded.
—“Oh! Killing any?”, she asked.
—”Yep, 3 males, 2 females”, he proudly replied.
Intrigued, she asked, “How can you tell them apart?”
He responded, “3 were on a beer can, 2 [...]

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Do You Think Puns Are Funny?

Puns are used in the American culture to have fun. If you are new to the English language, I’m afraid you won’t laugh much, since words used in puns do not have a literal meaning. You must be familiar with the colloquial speaking of the English language to understand the comical meaning of [...]

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Simple Ways to Improve Your Health

Laugh every day! Whoever said life has to be serious? Studies have shown that laughter decreases stress hormones and can act as a powerful muscle relaxer. Laughter can help you breathe deeper, strengthen your immune system, forget about pain and lower blood pressure. As they say, laughter is the best medicine.
Next time there’s an opportunity [...]

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Leading the Flock With Flock

After using Mozilla Firefox, I never thought I would be using another Web browser on a continued basis. That is, until I discovered Flock. This is the best browser around if you are a dedicated blogger and like to socially interact with other surfers. That’s why Flock is appropriately called, “The Social [...]

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The Wheels of Life

Please check these time wheels and select which one applies to your age.

Source: The Barrow Boy

Tags: LifeCycle, Aging, Humor, Cartoons

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