Category: Wan’s Wisdom

Some Deeper meaning stories

  • 7 Reasons not to mess with children!

    7 reasons not to mess with children. 

    A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. 

    The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

    The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

    Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

    The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.

    The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’

    The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’. 



    A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work.

    As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

    The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God.’ 

    The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’

    Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’ 



    A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

    After explaining the commandment to ‘honour’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’

    Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill.’ 



    One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. 

    She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?’

    Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’

    The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Mummy, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?‘ 



    The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

    ‘Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor.’

    A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’ 



    A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’

    ‘Yes,’ the class said. 

    ‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’

    A little fellow shouted, 
    ‘Cause your feet ain’t empty.’ 



    The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:

    ‘Take only ONE .. God is watching.’ 

    Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

    A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples.’ 

    WAN

  • Lots of Good Tips

    Subject: Lots of Good Tips

  • Why is it so?

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    WHY:
    Why do men’s clothes have buttons on the right while women’s clothes have buttons on the left?

    BECAUSE:
    When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid’s right! And that’s where women’s buttons have remained since.

    WHY:
    Why do ships and aircraft use ‘mayday’ as their call for help?

    BECAUSE:
    This comes from the French word m’aidez -meaning ‘help me’ — and is pronounced, approximately, ‘mayday.’
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    WHY
    Why are zero scores in tennis called ‘love’?

    BECAUSE:
    In France , where tennis became popular, the round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called ‘l’oeuf,’ which is French for ‘the egg.’ When tennis was introduced in the US , Americans (mis)pronounced it ‘love.’

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    WHY:
    Why do X’s at the end of a letter signify kisses?

    BECAUSE:
    In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.

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    WHY:
    Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called ‘passing the buck’?

    A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility of dealing, he would ‘pass the buck’ to the next player.

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    WHY:
    Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?

    BECAUSE:
    It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the host’s glass with his own.

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    WHY:
    Why are people in the public eye said to be ‘in the limelight’?

    BECAUSE:
    Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and theatres by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theatre, a performer ‘in the limelight’ was the centre of attention.

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    WHY:
    Why is someone who is feeling great ‘on cloud nine’?


    BECAUSE
    Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.

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    WHY:
    In golf, where did the term ‘Caddie’ come from?

    BECAUSE:
    When Mary Queen of Scots went to France as a young girl, Louis, King of France , learned that she loved the Scots game ‘golf.’ He had the first course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced ‘ca-day’ and the Scots changed it into ‘caddie.’

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    WHY:
    Why are many coin collection jar
    banks shaped like pigs?

    BECAUSE:
    Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called ‘pygg’. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as ‘pygg banks.’ When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that resembled a pig. And it caught on.

  • THE DOOR . . what a relief. We’ve been let off the hook!

    Whew! What a relief to learn this…
     
    Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?
    Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.
    Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.
    Thank goodness for studies like this. It’s not our age, it’s that stupid door!

     

  • Statistic

    THIS IS A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC, PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST WORRISOME IN RECENT YEARS.

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    25% of the women in this country are on medication for mental illness.

     

    That’s scary!

     

    It means 75% are running around untreated.

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