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  • THE ‘Y’ CHROMOSOME

    THE ‘Y’ CHROMOSOME

    People born before 1946 are called – The Greatest Generation.

    People born between 1946 and 1964 are called – The Baby Boomers.

    People born between 1965 and 1979 are called –Generation X.

    And people born between 1980 and 2010 are called –Generation Y.

    Why do we call the last group –Generation Y ?

    Y should I get a job?

    Y should I leave home and find my own place?

    Y should I get a car when I can borrow yours?

    Y should I clean my room?

    Y should I wash and iron my own clothes?

    Y should I buy any food?

    But perhaps a cartoonist explained it most eloquently below…

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    Just thought you might want to know “Y”

  • PLACES THAT DEFY LOGIC

    1. Cameron Falls – Alberta, Canada

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    This might look like a scene straight out of the Bible, but it’s actually a natural phenomenon where large amounts of red-colored sediment called argolite washed down the waterfall due to heavy rainfall.
    Image by Solent News / Rex / Rex USA

    2. Krzywy Domek – Sopot, Poland

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    Nope, this isn’t a bad photoshop job. Krzywy Domek, Polish for “crooked house,” was actually built this way.
    Source: Topory  /  via: en.wikipedia.org

    3. Tunnel of Love – Klevan, Ukraine

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    You would be forgiven if you believed this to be the path to Narnia. Located in Klevan, Ukraine, this “Tunnel of Love” is actually a private railroad for a nearby fiberboard factory.
    Image by Amos Chapple / Rex / Rex USA

    4. Hanshin Expressway – Hanshin, Japan

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    Yes, that’s an elevated highway running through a building. This unusual situation was the compromise reached between the highway’s builders and the landowners, with the highway noted as the official “tenants” of the floors that it winds through.
    Source: Ignis  /  via: en.wikipedia.org

    5. Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park – Gansu Province, China

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    This zebra-like pattern in the mountains was created by different layers of red sandstone and other mineral deposits being compressed together over millions of years. The resulting “layer cake” was then cleaved and buckled into its current position by the same tectonic plates responsible for creating parts of the Himalayan mountains.
    Image by Amos Chapple / Rex / Rex USA

    6. Setenil de las Bodegas – Spain

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    This might look like houses moments away from being crushed by a giant rock, but is actually the town of Setenil de las Bodegas in Spain. Over the course of its history, locals have built houses into the rocky overhangs of the gorge.
    Image by Juergen Richter / Getty Images

    7. Magdeburg Water Bridge – Magdeburg, Germany

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    Yes, that’s a river on top of another river. This giant water bridge took six years to make and is the world’s longest navigable aqueduct.
    Image by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP / Getty Images

    8. Cube Houses – Helmond, Netherlands

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    These cube houses were designed by architect Piet Blom. Each house is supposed to represent an urban tree and the series of houses a forest.
    Source: Geert C. Smulders  /  via: en.wikipedia.org

    9. Wave Rock – Hyden, Australia

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    Wave Rock is an example of a geological phenomenon known as a flared slope. This usually occurs when erosion is concentrated on the lower areas of the slope.
    Source: Kaliumfredrik  /  via: en.wikipedia.org

    10. The Nine Hells of Beppu – Beppu, Japan

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    Beppu, Japan is home to more than 2,900 hot springs of which “The Nine Hells of Beppu” are the most famous. These nine hells have colorful names such as “Boiling Hell” and “Shaven Monk’s Head Hell,” with the above being the “Blood Pond Hell.” This natural hot spring gets its red color from the ferrous (meaning that it contains iron) minerals found in the pond.
    Image by Tony Wheeler / Lonely Planet Images / Getty Images

    11. Living Tree Bridge – Cherrapunji, India

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    Deep in the rainforests of the Indian state of Meghalaya lie some of the most extraordinary pieces of civil engineering in the world. Here, in the depths of the forest, bridges aren’t built – they’re grown. Cherrapunji receives about 50 inches of rain a year which would easily rot normal wooden bridges. This is why, 500 years ago, locals began to guide roots and vines from the native Ficus Elastica rubber tree across rivers using hollow bamboo until they became rooted on the opposite side – eventually creating a bridge.

  • Old Pictures

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  • illustrated insults and wit!

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  • PERKS AND HOW TO CALL

     PERKS OF BEING 60 AND OVER   

    · Kidnappers are not very interested in you. 
    · In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
    · No one expects you to run into a burning building.
    · People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
    · There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
    · Things you buy now won’t wear out. 
    · You enjoy hearing arguments about pension plans.
    · You have a party and the neighbours don’t even realise it.
    · You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
    · You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.
    · You sing along with elevator music.
    · Your eyes won’t get much worse.
    · Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
    · Your joints are a more accurate meteorologist than the national weather service.
    · Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember them either.
    · Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.


    HOW TO CALL THE POLICE IF YOU’RE OLD    

    George Phillips age 82 of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things. 
    He phoned the police, who asked ‘Is someone in your house?’ He said ‘No.’ Then they said:
    ‘All patrols were busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available.’ George said, ‘Okay’. He hung up the phone and counted to 30.
    Then he phoned the police again.
    ‘Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don’t have to worry about them now because I just shot them.’ and hung up.
    Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team, a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips’ residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.
    One of the Policemen said to George, ‘I thought you said that you shot them!’
    George said, ‘I thought you said there was nobody available!’ (True Story)

    WAN

  • AUNTY ACID

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  • Why don’t we think of something like this?

    Thought you’d enjoy:
    From The London Times:
    A Well-Planned Retirement
    Outside England’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees for cars was $1.40, and for buses $7.
    Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn’t show up, so the zoo management called the city council and asked it to send them another parking agent. The council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the zoo’s own responsibility. The zoo advised the council that the attendant was a city employee.
    The city council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the city payroll.
    Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, or France, or Italy, is a man who’d apparently had a ticket booth installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day — for 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars. And no one even knows his name.

    WAN

  • 5 Riddles

    The 5 Riddles

    THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST FIVE RIDDLES I HAVE SEEN

    THE ANSWERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM.
    RIDDLE 5 IS AMAZING.
    IT SHARPENS THOSE GENES IN YOUR BRAIN
    AND STALLS ALZHEIMER’S FOR YEARS

    1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him

    2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

    3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away

    4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday

    5. This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching

    THE ANSWERS TO ALL FIVE THE RIDDLES ARE BELOW

    Answers:

    1. The third room. Lions that haven’t eaten in three years are dead.
    That one was easy, right

    2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry shot held under water; and hung

    3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.

    4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and tomorrow

    5. The letter e which is the most common letter used in the English language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.

    I’ll be getting Alzheimers any time now.
    How did you do

    WAN

  • Think about these

    PONDERISMS

     

    (some things to think about)

     

     

    I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

     

     

     

    There are two kinds of pedestrians . . . The quick and the dead.

     

     

    Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

     

     

    The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

     

    Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

     

     

     

    Have you noticed since everyone has a cell phone these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?

     

    Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

     

     

     

    All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

     

     

    In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

     

     

    How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

    Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, ‘I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out’? Hmmmmm, How about eggs ? . . .

     

     

     

     

    If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

    If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

     

    Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

     

     

    Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

     

     

    Do you ever wonder why you gave me your email address?

    WAN

  • IRS Audits Grandpa

    THE IRS DECIDES TO AUDIT GRANDPA
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    The IRS decides to audit Grandpa and summons him to the IRS office.
    The IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney.
    The auditor said, “Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you win money gambling.  I’m not sure the IRS finds that believable.”
    “I’m a great gambler and I can prove it,” says Grandpa. “How about a demonstration?”
    The auditor thinks for a moment and said, “Okay.  Go ahead.”
    Grandpa says, “I’ll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.”
    The auditor thinks a moment and says, “It’s a bet.”
    Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it.  The auditor’s jaw drops.
    Grandpa says, “Now, I’ll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.”
     Now the auditor can tell Grandpa isn’t blind, so he takes the bet.
    Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye.
     The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand – with Grandpa’s attorney as a witness.  He starts to get nervous.
    “Want to go double or nothing?”  Grandpa says, “I’ll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.”
    The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there’s no way this old guy could
    possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again.
     Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can’t make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor’s desk.
     The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win.
     But Grandpa’s own attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.
     “Are you okay?” the auditor asks.
     “Not really,” says the attorney.  “This morning, when Grandpa told me he’d been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and pee all over your desk and that you’d be happy about it!”
    I keep telling you!  Don’t Mess with Old People!!
     
     Put another way –
    “Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time!”     
     
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