unbelievable...

doesn't help all those conspiracy theorists who say a rocket, not a plane, hit the Pentagon in 2001...


i've always found conspiracy theories a bit daunting.

first, i don't think everyone can keep there mouth's closed if they're part of a conspiracy. second, i don't believe that there is a group of people smart enough to pull off some of the wild, intricate conspiracies we've read about over the years. people are just not that careful by nature.

"oh, yeah?" you might ask. "what about 9/11? those guys pulled it off."

in hindsight from the investigations, there were lots of signs that they weren't that bright. of course, there were also a lot of signs that neither was our government for not seeing the signs or heeding the warnings of a few people who pointed out those signs, or to the Clinton administration who said, "this is going to happen. be careful."

duh... proves my original point...


and reminds me of a joke...

A Japanese doctor said, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."

A German doctor said, "That's nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks."

A British doctor said, "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half of a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks."

A Texas doctor, not to be outdone said, "You guys are way behind. We took a man with no brains out of Texas, put him in the White House and now half the country is looking for work."

the everything test...

I've always liked these silly things on the internet - What Color Are You?, What martini are you [Sapphire, twist, blue cheese olive], etc. They are all kind of fun and can make you think about things sometimes.

Well this one is supposed to be the daddy of them all - The Everything Test. This one purports that all the questions affect all the results....

Here are my results. It actually gets a lot of things correct. The only one that is totally wrong is my being more lazy than workaholic. Of course, that may be from my answering the work questions being retired rather than actually having a job right now [and even that may change in the near future]. As far as being more engineering mind than artistic mind, it makes no sense. As a learner I am what is known as an abstract random, meaning that anything that is in highly sequential order totally throws me for a loop. Blast me with everything all at once and I can almost instantly make heads and tails of it. I hated math until I was forced to teach it.

The Everything Test

There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all.

Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a purity test, or deep questions for a personality test.We're turning that upside down - all the questions affect all the results, and we've got some innovative results too! Enjoy :-)

Personality You are more logical than emotional, more concerned about others than concerned about self, more atheist than religious, more loner than dependent, more lazy than workaholic, more rebel than traditional, more engineering mind than artistic mind, more cynical than idealist, more leader than follower, and more extroverted than introverted. As for specific personality traits, you are outgoing (100%), innovative (86%), intellectual (81%), adventurous (69%).

Stereotypes Old Geezer 83% Punk Rock 80% Prep 77%

Life Experience Sex 31% Substances 19% Travel 56%

Politics Your political views would best be described as Liberal, whom you agree with around 86% of the time.

Socioeconomic Your attitude toward life best associates you with Upper Class. You make more than 91% of those who have taken this test, and 28% more than the U.S. average.

If your life was a movie, it would be rated PG-13. By the way, your hottness rank is 57%, hotter than 37% of other test takers.

TAKE THE TEST
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The thing I agree with more than anything else with my results? cynical. Through and through. Though I much prefer the word sardonic: grimly mocking or cynical; trenchant.

The sex part is interesting. Though we all like to think of ourselves as adventuresome, romantic and kinky, I think we not only tend to exaggerate but are really quite conservative for the most part.

try the test. have fun...

let's hang on to what we've got...

and what we've got is quite a lot...

No, this post has nothing to do with Frankie Valli. At least, I don't think it does. It's just one of the silly, fun things to do that you find on the internet and can't force yourself to ignore. I don't think I've done one of these things for quite a while. thanks for the heads up to little voice

What Tarot Card Are You?

I am the Hanged Man

Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.

With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain.

The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.

The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

well, at first glance it was kind of a surprise. after reading it a couple of times, it's pretty positive. what card are you?

monday morning mayhem...

because without a laugh to start the week, it might not work...

this week - information to slip into conversation, be it over cocktails or the negotiations table.

1. Trivial Pursuit...

Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false? Sharpen your pencils...

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19 John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem.

21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.

26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

Now, click on Comments for the answers...


2. totally useless information...

- At 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was the only US President to get stuck in the White House bathtub
- Taft also had a special re-enforced steel dinning chair.
- Hrand Araklein, a Brinks's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters crushed phim.
- Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella
- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Goofy had a wife, Mrs. Goofy, and one son, Goofy jr.
- Superman is in every Seinfeld episode (it's on a shelf in Jerry's apartment)
- The guy in the Darth Vader suit didn't know that James Earl Jones was doing the woice until the screenplay.
- Queen Elizabeth I had anthophobia -- the fear of roses
- Malcom Lowry had pnigophobia -- the fear of choking on fish bones
- Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died 13 minutes before midnight on Friday the 13th.
- Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
- Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
- Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
- Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
- There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death.
- When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks
- Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
- The average American has $104 in their wallet
- Mozart wrote the nusery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five.
- The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the American Pie.
- Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
- 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.'
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
- Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of 'Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.'
- Charles de Gaulle's final words were, 'It hurts.'
- Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired ppilot 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.
- Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
- Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant 'plenty of excrement'
- Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. ( He changed it every two innings)
- The only real person to ever to appear on a pez dispenser was Betsey Ross.
- Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
- Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time (think about that one!)
- Mike Neismith's (the guitarist of The Monkeys) mom invented White Out.
- Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the JAWS movies.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

and finally

- The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

3. IEDILF - Omnificient English Dictionary in Limerick Form...

A Mexican chef named Miguel
Loves to hear when his customers yell,
And the louder those screams,
Then the wider he beams;
His chipotles are hotter than hell.

The IEDILF is looking for help in providing entries to the dictionary. They're only up to the c's!


4. scary thought...

What if the
Hokey Pokey
really
IS
what it's
all about?


Now, don't you feel smarter? Great pick-up lines in there also...