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Beauty Of Mathematics :-)

captanil — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:48:00 +0000

I recently got this from my finance manager.. about the beauty of mathematics.. I know its a very old one, still…

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn’t it?
And finally, take a look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321

Intresting Facts , May be useless but Amusing Never the less :-)

captanil — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:54:00 +0000

Intresting Facts

(1) The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; “7″ was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP” indicated the direction of the bubbles.

(2) Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

(3) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles from the flush.

(4) The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

(5) American car horns beep in the tone of F.

(6) No piece of paper can be folded into half more than 7 times.

(7) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

(8) 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

(9) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

(10) Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

(11) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

(12) The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

(13) A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight.

(14) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

(15) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

(16) The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”

(17) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

(18) The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

(19) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

(20) Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

(21) The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

(22) Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

(23) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

(24) Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

(25) Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

(26) All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.

(27) The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

(28) Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

(29) Pearls melt in vinegar.

(30) Thomas Jefferson is credited with inventing the coat hanger.

(31) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

(32) The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

(33) It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.

(34) Humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms of their hands.

(35) Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka.

(36) The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)

(37) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

(38) A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

(39) The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the “American Pie.”(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

(40) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. * Spades – King David; * Clubs – Alexander the Great; *Hearts -Charlemagne; * Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

(41) Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down-hence the __expression “to get fired.”

(42) Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

(43) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

(44) Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

(45) Actor Tommy Lee Jones and US vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

(46) The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

(47) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”

(48) The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

(49) There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

(50) All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20

(51) A pregnant gold fish is called a twit.

(52) Rocks explode in microwaves.

(53) Steam rollers don’t actually roll steam.

(54) 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321

(55) Coca-Cola is better at cleaning your drain pipes than products like Draino.

(56) The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

(57) The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and coughed.”

(58) The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

(59) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

(60) Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”

(61) Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

(62) Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

(63) The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means, “the king is dead.”

(64) Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”

(65) Camel’s milk does not curdle.

(66) Cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.

(67) The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

(68) Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

(69) When opossums are playing ‘possum’, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.

(70) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

(71) If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom..

(72) The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified.

(73) The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

(74) An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

(75) When a gorilla is angry, he’ll stick his tongue out at you

(76) In Tibet it is a sign of respect to stick your tongue out at guests.

(77) The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life.”

(78) The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

(79) “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

(80) The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth.

(81) Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

(82) Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

(83) The phrase “sleep tight” derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

(84) “Three dog night” (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

(85) Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio’s newscast about the wreck.

(86) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

(87) Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]

(88) Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

(89) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

(90) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

(91) There are three credit cards for every person in the United States.

(92) Coca-cola was originally green.

(93) Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

(94) Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever; Dumbest dog: Afghan

(95) Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

(96) Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

(97) Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2.

(98) City with the most Rolls Royce’s per capital: Hong Kong.

(99) State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

(100) Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.

(101)Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12 .

(102) Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.

(103) Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.

(104) Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44%.

(105) Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

(106) Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.

(107) Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%.

(108) Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%.

(109) City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC.

(110) Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.

(111) Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%.

(112) Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%.

(113) Percentage of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%.

(114) Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105.

(115) Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.

(116) Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

(117) Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%.

(118) Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3.

(119) Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3.

(120) Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7

(121) Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%

(122) Percentage of mammal species that are: 3%

(123) Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%

(124) Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5

(125) Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.

(126) Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3

(127) Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon

(128) Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt

(129) Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for ‘Profiles in Courage’.

(130) Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals.

(131) Only food that does not spoil: honey

(132) Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)

(133) Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

(134) Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antartica

(135) Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig

(136) Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

(137) An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

(138) In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

(139) Polar bears are left-handed.

(140) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

(141) Eskimos never gamble.

(142) The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

(143) The youngest pope was 11 years old.

(144) Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school.

(145) Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

(146) Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

(147) Your nose and ears never stop growing.

(148) Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.

(149) Hot water is heavier than cold.

(150) The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.

(151) They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.

(152) Cream does not weigh as much as milk.

(153) Starfish have eight eyes–one at the end of each leg.

(154) Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.

(155) The heart of an unborn baby girl beats faster than the heart of an unborn baby boy.

(156) First novel ever written on a typewriter was ‘Tom Sawyer.’

(157) There are more collect calls on Father’s Day than any other day of the year.

(158) Heinz Ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

(159) Men get hiccups more often than woman.

(160) Armadillos can be housebroken.

(161) Bugs have hair on their eyes.

(162) In 1727, pennies featured this motto: “Mind your own business!”

(163) A giraffe’s tongue is two feet long.

(164) Elephants can stand on their heads.

(165) President Taft used to get stuck in his bathtub.

(166) Cockroaches flatulate every 15 minutes.

(167) Charles Osbourne had the hiccups for 69 years. He later said that the hardest part was keeping his false teeth in his mouth.

(168) To escape enemies, the African wood snake fills its eyes with blood and drools red spit from its mouth.

(169) The average elevator travels 10,000 miles a year.

(170) Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

(171) Goldfish remember better in cold water than in warm water.

(172) Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

(173) The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

(174) That San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

(175) If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

(176) Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

(177) “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

(178) No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

(179) The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

(180) The children’s nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosey” is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (“Ring around the rosey…”), these sores would smell very bad, so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously) so that they would cover the smell of the sores (“…a pocket full of posies…”). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease (“…ashes, ashes, we all fall down!”).

Intresting Opening Lines Collected from Net for asking Out your Heart :-) Enjoy

captanil — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:34:00 +0000

Pickup Lines

1. Is your Dad an astronaut? Because someone took the stars from the sky and put them in your eyes.
2. You must be tired because you’ve been running through my dreams all night
3. Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
4. Are you from Tennessee? Because you’re the only ten I see!
5. I know I don’t look like much now, but I’m drinking milk.
6. Pardon me miss, I seem to have lost my phone number, could I borrow yours?
7. I hope you know CPR, because you take my breath away!
8. Was your dad king? He must have been to make a princess like you.
9. Were you in Boy Scouts? Because you sure have tied my heart in a knot.
10. What does it feel like to be the most beautiful girl in this room?
11. You are the reason men fall in love.
12. I’m writing a term paper on the finer things in life, and I was wondering if I could interview you.
13. If you stood in front of a mirror and held up 11 roses, you would see 12 of the most beautiful things in the world.
14. When I saw you from across the room, I passed out cold and hit my head on the floor, so I’m going to need your name and number for insurance reasons.
15. Do you want to see a picture of a beautiful person? (hold up a mirror)
16. Did it hurt when you fell out of heaven?
17. Can I borrow a quarter, I told my Mom I’d call when I met the girl of my dreams.
18. Do you have a map? I keep getting lost in your eyes.
19. Excuse me, but I think I dropped something, my jaw!
20. Hello, I’m a thief, and I’m here to steal your heart.
21. I’m new in town. Could you give me directions to your apartment?
22. If I could rearrange the alphabet, I’d put U and I together.
23. If I followed you home, would you keep me?
24. Was your father an alien? Because there’s nothing else like you on earth!
25. Was your Dad a baker? Because you’ve got a nice set of buns.
26. You’re like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life!
27. Hello. Cupid called. He says to tell you that he needs my heart back.
28. You remind me of a magnet, because you sure are attracting me over here!
29. If you were a laser, you’d be set on “stunning”.
30. Excuse me, do you have any raisins? How about a date?
31. Hello. Are you taking any applications for a boyfriend?
32. Can I take your picture? I want Santa to know exactly what I want for Christmas.
33. Is it hot in here or is it just you?
34. Are you related to Mike Tyson? Because you knock me out.
35. If you were a burger at McDonalds, you’d be named McGourgous.
36. Your body must be a Visa, because it’s everywhere I want to be.
37. How you doin?
38. Please come here, I’m desperate.
39. Didn’t we go to different schools together?
40. Guy: Did you just fart? Girl: No, why? Guy: Because you just blew me away.
41. If I had a nickel for every girl as beautiful as you, I’d have five cents
42. Would you like some visene? Why? So you can see our clear future together.
43. I hear your body is made up of 75% water, man am I thirsty!
44. Do you sleep on your stomach? (No) Can I?
45. I love you, you’re the best.
46. If I had a rose for every time I thought of you I’d be walking in a garden forever.
47. You’re so sweet I’m getting cavities.
48. If I told you that you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?
49. If I had a camera, I’d use the whole roll.
50. Your name must be Lucky Charms, cause you’re magically delicious.
51. Baby, have you been eaten your Campbell’s soup? Because you are looking Mmm, Mmm good!
52. Are you wearing lipstick? Mind if I taste it?
53. If I were bread, would you be my butter?
54. God was showing off when he made you.
55. My name isn’t Elmo, but you can tickle me all over.
56. Could you please step away from the bar? You’re melting all the ice.
57. Hi, are you here to meet a nice guy/gal or will I do?
58. Aieeeah! Your eyes glow like the twin suns!
59. You fascinate me more than the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
60. I’m The Man in Demand
61. There’s a star in the sky for every time I think of you
62. Hi, I’m incredibly rich.
63. I’ve noticed you noticing me and I’m just giving you notice that I’ve noticed you!
64. Do you have a boyfriend?
65. I know somebody who likes you but if I weren’t so shy, I’d tell you who.
66. Pardon me, but what pickup line works best with you?
67. Statistically speaking the most effective pickup line of all time is “I love you”.
68. You must be a parking ticket, because you have fine written all over you.
69. Excuse me, do you have the time? Woman: No. Man: Well I have the time and it says I have time for you alllll the time
70. Can I dip you in chocolate?
71. Roses are red, bananas are yellow, wanna go out with me like a nice little fellow?
72. Hi, whats your name? Did you go to (put in a place) yesterday? (no) Oh, right that was in my dream.
73. I heard milk does a body good but man, how much have you been drinking?
74. If love were a drop of water, I’d be in the Atlantic Ocean.
75. If you were a tear drop, I would never cry for fear of losing you.
76. You know what I fell in? (What?) Love with you.
77. Excuse me, do you have Band-aid? I skinned my knee when I fell for you.
78. Was your Dad in the Air Force? Because you’re the bomb.
79. Hi, my name is (insert your name here)
80. Life without you is like a pencil without lead, pointless.
81. I’m a genetic engineer and I need to utilize your body for a stem cell experiment. It shouldn’t hurt too bad.
82. My love for you is like diarrhea; I can’t hold it in.
83. I think I’ve seen your picture somewhere. Oh yes, it was in the dictionary under SHA-BAM!
84. You’re so hot that you make the sun jealous.
85. Do you know what the square root of 81 is? (Hopefully they say nine) Oh, then you are not just another pretty face.
86. I lost my teddy bear so can I cuddle with you instead?
87. You’re so hot you melt the elastic in my underwear.
88. Hey c’mon now, I’m ugly, you’re ugly, it’s perfect.
89. Can I borrow your library card, because I’d like to check you out!
90. I should call the police because you’re stealing my heart.
91. You’re more beautiful than 100 pink flamingos on a golf course.
92. I can’t wait until tomorrow. Somehow you get prettier every day.
93. If wishes came true I’d be having dinner with you tonight.
94. Girl: I’m sorry, I can’t talk right now, I have a(n) (some instrument) lesson. Guy: (instrument)? I thought angels played harps.
95. Excuse me, you look sexy, what’s your name?
96. If beauty were time, you’d be eternity.
97. Baby, you’re so sweet, you put Hershey’s out of business, and speaking of Hershey’s, how about a kiss?
98. You see my friend over there? [Point to friend who sheepishly waves from afar] He wants to know if YOU think I’M cute.
99. ASL?
100. Can I have your heart? I need it to be complete and I don’t feel whole without you.
101. It’s never easy meeting a complete stranger, especially one as beautiful as you, without being properly introduced. But shall we try anyway?
102. Gently rub the girl’s back and say, “I thought angels had wings.”
103. You must be the cause of global warming.
104. I don’t think a firefighter could put you out.
105. It looks like you need a man in your life. How about me?
106. Girl, you must be a parking ticket, cause you got fine written all over you.
107. Um, you have really beautiful…uh…eyes, yea. You are pretty. What I mean is…you have a nice forehead, er ah…Do you believe in when I walk by…(To yourself) Oh man, STUPID STUPID STUPID!
108. Hi, I’m Mr. Right. Someone said you were looking for me.
109. Is your name Pepsi? Because you sure are sizzling.
110. Are you a broom? Because you sure swept me off my feet.
111. If a star fell every time I thought of you, the sky would be black at night.
112. You’re looking sharper than a page of Oscar Wilde witticisms that has been rolled up into a point, sprinkled with lemon juice and jabbed into someone’s eye.
113. I think we should be lab partners because you and I have chemistry.
114. I don’t know if it’s igneous or metamorphic, but baby, you rock.
115. Did you know the distance from here (touch one side of the girl’s shoulder) to here (touch other side of shoulder so your arm is around her) is the same distance from here (touch same spot last touched) to here (grab her around the waist)
116. Kiss me if I’m wrong, but don’t you want to go out with me?
117. You must be Jamaican, because Jamaican me crazy.
118. I thought Veryfine only came in a bottle.
119. (Walk up to them, place an ice cube on the floor and crush it with your foot) Now that we’ve broken the ice, what’s your name?
120. If I were a tear drop I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.
121. If you’re here, who’s running heaven?
122. Do you know Karate? Because your body is kickin’
123. I’m going to put this tear of mine in the ocean. When you find it I’ll stop loving you.
124. If I were you I would go out with me.
125. Do you work for NASA? Because you’re outta this world.
126. Walk up to a girl and look at the tag on the back of her shirt. When she asks what you’re doing tell her your checking to see if she was made in heaven.
127. I couldn’t pay attention in school (or work) today because I couldn’t stop thinking about you.
128. Would you like a coolata, because you are ahota.
129. You’re the marshmallows in my Lucky Charms.
130. If I ran McDonald’s I’d name a sandwich after you called “The McGorgeous.”
131. If I were a gardner, I’d plant your tulips next to mine.
132. Is there an airport near by or is that my heart taking off?
133. Did you hear the latest health report? You need to increase your daily intake of vitamin me.
134. One night I looked up at the stars and thought “Wow, how beautiful.” Now that I’m looking at you, nothing else can compare.
135. May I borrow some of the chapstick you’re wearing?
136. I have an owie on my lip, will you kiss it and make it better?
137. Hey good lookin’ what’chya cookin’?
138. Love is when you don’t want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream. After seeing you, I don’t ever want to sleep again.
139. Let’s hide behind a rock and get a little bolder.
140. Lets get these windows a little foggy.

Funny Statements which make No Sense :-) Enjoy and laugh

captanil — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:52:00 +0000

“Golden, Ripe, Boneless Bananas, 39 Cents A Pound.”
– Ad in the “Missoulian” by Orange Street Food Farm

“I invented the internet”.
– Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President

“Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.”
– Alan Minter, Boxer

“I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.”
– Alicia Silverstone, Actress

“How to store your baby walker: First, remove baby.”
– Anonymous Manufacturer

“This is no longer a slum neighborhood. I haven’t heard of a Cubs fan being shot in a long time.”
– Anonymous Wrigley Field Neighbor, Chicago, IL

“During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.”
– AP report describing Fresno State basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian

“Two grand slams in a week – man, that’s seven or eight ribbies right there.”
– Bill Madlock, Baseball broadcaster

“You guys line up alphabetically by height.”
– Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach

“Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.”
– Bill Peterson, football coach

“The internet is a great way to get on the net.”
– Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate

“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.”
– Britney Spears, Pop Singer
“Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.”
– Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman

“The team has come along slow but fast.”
– Casey Stengel, Baseball player/manager

“I think the team that wins Game 5 will win the series. Unless we lose Game 5.”
– Charles Barkley, NBA Basketball Player

“China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.”
– Charles De Gaulle, former French President

“Football players win football games.”
– Chuck Knox, football coach

“Most lies about blondes are false.”
– Cincinnati Times-Star, headline

“If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

“It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President

“It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system!”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President on the concept of a manned mission to Mars

“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

“Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.”
– David Acfield
Stupid Quotes “I haven’t committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.”
– David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.

“The only reason we’re 7-0 is because we’ve won all seven of our games.”
– David Garcia, baseball team manager

“Sit by the homely girl, you’ll look better by comparison.”
– Debra Maffett, Miss America 1983

“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
– Decca Records Rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”
– Dennis Rodman, NBA Basketball player, on Chicago Bull’s team chemistry being overrated

“We’re just physically not physical enough.”
– Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

“Weather forecast: precipitation in the morning, rain in the afternoon.”
– Detroit Daily News

“The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.”
– Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.

“Can you get a ticket for running a stop sign that is not
there?”
– Driver school applicant

“The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.”
– Dwight Eisenhower

“A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.”
– Everett Dirksen, Congressman

“Boxing’s all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.”
– Frank Bruno, Boxer

“The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It’s only the people who make them unsafe.”
– Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia.

“I have opinions of my own –strong opinions– but I don’t always agree with them.”
– George Bush, former U.S. President

“It is white.”
– George W. Bush, when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

“If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”
– George Gobel

“If you think is was an accident, applaud.”
– Geraldo Rivera, talk show host, to his audience on Natalie Wood’s drowning

“I cannot tell you how grateful I am — I am filled with humidity.”
– Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House

“Does the album have any songs you like that aren’t on it?
– Harry News, music reviewer

“Coming on to pitch is Mike Moore, who is six-foot-one and 212 years old.”
– Herb Score, Sportscaster

“I do not like this word “bomb.” It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.”
– Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons

“I don’t want to ever, ever do something in life that isn’t fun. Ever.”
– Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress, in the February Cosmopolitan.

“We’re going to move left and right at the same time.”
– Jerry Brown, Governor of California

“I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad.”
– Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player

“Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.”
– Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

Stupid Quotes “I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.”
– Linda Evangelista, Supermodel

“He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.”
– Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota.

I”The largest crowd ever in the state of Las Vegas.”
– Mark Jones, TV Broadcaster

“Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding.”
– Mickey Rivers, baseball player

“I’m a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife.”
– Mike Greenwell, Baseball player

“If only faces could talk…”
– Pat Summerall, Sportscaster, during the Super Bowl

“All of the Mets’ road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.”
– Ralph Kiner, NY Sportscaster

“Solutions are not the answer.”
– Richard Nixon, former U.S. President

“Permitted vehicles not allowed.”
– Road sign on US 27

“A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man.”
– Samuel Goldwyn

“SAFETY FIRST: Please put on your seat belt – prepare for accident.”
– Sign on backseat of Taxi

“If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”
– Terry Venables

Fun Facts – February 2009

captanil — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:39:00 +0000

The Astounding Cellular Makeup of the Human Body!!!

The human body is complex structure of cells, so many cells in fact that it would be impossible to count them all. Scientists estimate that there are around 75 trillion cells in the human body with an additional 750 trillion bacteria cells living in the human gut.

10% of your bodyweight consists of bacteria.

If you laid out all of your blood vessels from end to end, it would create a line that stretches out to 161,000 km (100,000 miles), or the distance around the equator 4 times.

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.

7-8% of your bodyweight is made up of blood, in the average human it is estimated to be about 5 litres.

The blood of an adult contains approximately 25 trillion cells.

A single drop of blood contains more than a staggering 250 million cells!

Only 40-50% of blood is composed of red blood cells.

Red blood cells have a limited life of approximately 120 days in which they will travel 480 km (300 miles) around your body.

It takes just 60 seconds for a blood cell to complete a whole circuit of the human body.[/COLO[COLOR=Purple]R]

It also means that every second 3 million blood cells die while simultaneously 3 million more are created.

30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth-Incredible Cloud Faces and Figures

captanil — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:53:00 +0000

30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth

Incredible Cloud Faces and Figures

1. This cloud over Budapest in Hungary looks uncannily like an Australian Aboriginal man.

2. Some may liken this cloud above the Maldivian island of Meerufenfushito to the first female UK Prime Minister, Maggie Thatcher, others might see Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

3. There’s no mistake this cloud resembles actor Marlon Brando, best known for his role as Mafia boss Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy.

4. King Louis XIV looking regal in the sky.

Amazing Cloud Animals >

Bizarre Clouds >

5. Betty Davis giving ‘that’ look.

7. Jesus doing what he does best.

carl tidy

8. Carebear gone crazy.

fluffy von der flynn

9. Is it a shark? Is it a face? Whatever it is, it looks downright creepy.

chad ramsey

10. Crossed legged demon watching the world go by.

30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth-Amazing Cloud Animals

captanil — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:51:00 +0000

30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth

Amazing Cloud Animals

1. The Donnie Darko Bunny lives on.

richard carlson

2. Smoke angel left behind from airplane flares.

russell e cooley

3. A cloud looking suspiciously like The Lion King cub, Simba, but has is it been ’shopped’?

gplex

Incredible Cloud Faces and Figures >

Bizarre Clouds >

7. Dragon shaped cloud spotted over Monument Rocks Natural Area in Kansas.

rob graham

8. Anyone else think this looks like a roaring lion?

andy chan

10. We’re in two minds whether this is the profile of an elephant or a gremlin resting on its elbow. What do you think?

30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth

captanil — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:49:00 +0000

30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth

Bizzarre Clouds

1. Size matters?

richard carlson

2. ET phone home.

richard carlson

3. This cloud almost looks like a giant finger bursting through the heavens.

richard carlson

4. A clawed hand gropes its way across the sky.

patric shaw

Incredible Cloud Faces and Figures >

Amazing Cloud Animals >

5. It could be a spaceship, not unlike the Starship enterprise but does anyone else see the upside-down kayak?

nasa

6. These awesome clouds look like giant smoke signals. We’d hate to see the size of the people making them!

valuca

7. Weird cloud formations setting over a castle’s fort. Anyone know where this pic was taken?

neatorama

8. Disc shaped cloud hovering over mountain in …

photographer unkown

9. Classic UFO shape produced by lenticular clouds. This one was spotted over Damascus, Syria.

© gianandrea sandri and roberto cavallini

10. These lenticular clouds, known locally to New Zealanders as ‘pets’, look more like a mass landing of UFOs to us.

© glynn hubbard

The Sea Gypsies of the Andaman Sea

captanil — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:55:00 +0000

The Sea Gypsies of the Andaman Sea

Image: HA’a (Robert Berman)

They may look like regular folks frolicking in the water on a hot summer’s day, but they’re really much more remarkable than that. They are the Moken, a group of about 2,000 to 3,000 people who are born, live and die traveling the Andaman Sea around Southern Thailand and Myanmar (Burma). Settling only during monsoon season, these “Sea Gypsies” live more than half the year in boats called kabang, each made from a single tree. They are master fishermen and expert divers, catching fish on spears with ease, while collecting a variety of other fruits of the sea by hand, such as sea cucumbers at low tide and shellfish at high tide.

Image: Ronnakorn Potisuwan

Moken children learn how to swim before they can walk. The Moken can plunge to depths of 75 feet without any life support gear and can also lower their heart rates in order to hold their breaths for twice as long as other humans. And that’s not all: Swedish scientist Anna Gislen also found that Moken children have the power to constrict their pupils to tiny pinpoints when they’re in the water, enabling them to sharpen their sight and see much better underwater than the rest of us.

Image: Ronnakorn Potisuwan

But how do they do it? At first, scientists thought that there might be some super-sighted genetic variation in play; after all, the Moken have been diving for hundreds of years. Perhaps, but Gislen’s studies with European children showed some pretty cool results – after four to six months of training, Swedish youngsters would automatically constrict their pupils when they came in contact with water, though not to the extent of the Moken children, who have been practising this exercise far longer.

Image: jameschew

With their almost superpower diving abilities, the Moken could easily exploit the sea, reaping more than they require to sell or trade, but they choose not to. They live simple, low-impact lives, never catching more than is required to survive. A peaceful and nonviolent people, the Moken treat everyone as family, sharing what they have and abstaining from the accumulation of worldly possessions.

To be sure, the Moken’s animist beliefs led them to worship the sea and respect its power. They know how to read the signs that the mighty ocean herself sends them, enabling them to find higher ground before anyone else knew that the 2004 Tsunami would hit.

Watch this interview with an old Moken about how they knew the tsunami was coming:

When asked how the Moken people knew that the tsunami would come, they speak of the Laboon, or the “wave that eats people,” a legend that has been passed down through the generations. Angry ancestral spirits bring on this “Big Wave,” but before it arrives, the sea recedes. Saleh Kalathalay, the village headman, recognized these signs before the 2004 Tsunami struck, and ran to warn everyone to move to higher ground to avoid the impending wave. Everyone was spared, except for one handicapped tribesman who was forgotten on the beach, and for this lapse of memory, the tribe believes it is cursed and will not rebuild their village in the same spot.

And although the Moken survived the devastating disaster of 2004, the traditional nomadic life and the knowledge of the sea that comes part and parcel with it, could soon be lost. Only about 1,000 Moken still lead the traditional life and the numbers continue to dwindle.

Image: Scruffy Dan and Breanne

Until the 1980s, the Sea Gypsies were largely untouched by modern civilisation. With the influx of entrepreneurs and tourists over the past 30 years and pressure from government, some Sea Gypsies are being forced to settle in permanent villages. Moken men are overworked by Burmese fishermen, often dying from the bends after diving deep and resurfacing quickly. And military presence restricts free movement of the Moken, resulting in difficulties ranging from an inability for young people to find spouses to a lack of trading opportunities for staples such as rice.

Dire though the situation seems, there is still hope. Moken leaders continue to forge ahead to bring people together and pass down the stories and rituals that have enabled these people to live for so long in partnership with the sea. Certainly, the knowledge that the Sea Gypsies have passed on to the rest of the world is something we won’t soon forget.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

10 Incredible Underground Lakes and Rivers [pics]

captanil — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:48:00 +0000

10 Incredible Underground Lakes and Rivers [pics]

Reed Flute Cave in Guilin, China was discovered during the Tang Dynasty almost 1,300 years ago. Image by Ian Sewell

Far below the Earth’s surface, where the sun rarely penetrates, is a world of twinkling glow worms, precious gems and limestone caves and mountains, a land inhabited by nature alone. Within this world are visions to rival many landscapes decorating our horizon; lakes lie still and calm, great networks of caves know no borders and rivers and rivulets carve an ever-evolving terrain.

We invite you to explore this remarkable subterranean domain through these incredible images we’ve complied for your viewing pleasure.

1. Cheddar Gorge is Britain’s biggest canyon and is found within the Cheddar Caves, where the UK’s oldest complete human skeleton was found in 1903. Known as the Cheddar Man, the remains were estimated to be 9,000 years old.

Snowman-1

2. Hamilton Pool Preserve, in Austin, Texas, was created quite naturally when the dome of an underground cave collapsed revealing this stunning natural pool. It is now frequented by day-trippers and naturalists. That’s naturalists not naturists, although no doubt someone has tried to go skinny dipping at one point!

Van Sutherland

3. Hamilton Pool from another perspective. When there’s been heavy rainfall, 45ft waterfalls cascade from the rim of the cavern. It must be pretty spectacular when you’re bathing.

Stuck in Customs

4. Stalagtites adorn the roof of Luray Caverns, Virginia, the still waters throwing a perfect reflection.

Ashley Dinges

5. Legend has it that early cavemen inhabited Wookey Caves in Somerset, England.

Wookey Caves

6. This underground lake in Mellisani Caves, near Kefalonia, was found when the roof of the cave collapsed after an earthquake in 1953.

Liana Photography

7. Lechuguilla Cave, in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico is the fifth longest cave discovered yet at 120 miles (193 km) long and measures 489 metres (1,604 ft) deep, making it the deepest in continental United States.

Dave Bunnell

8. This underground lake near Macan Ché on the Yucatán Peninsula is one of many that are considered to be gifts from the gods by the Mayans, and therefore sacred.

sanghavedanta

9. The limestone flow feeding into this underground lake in Mexico resembles a waterfall turned to stone. Maybe the Ice Queen is privy to this particular cavern?

Adam

10. How long must it have taken for this little waterfall in Banff, Canada, to make this underwater lake?

Petr