Fun Stuff...Off Topic(O/T)

[ParkTwain]

Wanna feel really smart today? Read this post

Here are some unfortunate episodes from the TV show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire":

"What kind of surge is prevented by a surge protector?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMriTkE3igY

"Which object orbits the Earth?"
(This dillweed was sabotaged by the audience.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhlERjW0bhw

An expression that means "I Can't Take It Any More"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsOR0PjsjwM

A Little Punctuation Test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF4gHS4nvSM

"What part of speech can have 'passive voice'?"
(Contestant spends three lifelines on this question.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nXuNIIJau0

"How many world wars have been fought?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chZAajLr_-U

[ParkTwain]

Don't remember last year's Christmas? (funny video)

Neither does this lady, a lounge singer/comedienne in Las Vegas:

http://christmasyuleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/fabulous-fay-mckay-winter-favorites.html

(click on the video link)

[Peter Hansen]

A Few Laughs

Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:59 PM
Subject: Why Am I married?


You have two choices in life:
You can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.
>>>>
At a cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" "Yes, I am. I married the wrong man."
>>>>
A lady inserted an ad in the classifieds:
"Husband Wanted"
Next day she received a hundred letters.
They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
>>>>
When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.
>>>>
A woman is incomplete until she is married. Then she is finished.
>>>>
A little boy asked his father,
"Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?"
Father replied, "I don't know, son, I'm still paying."
>>>>
A young son asked,
"Is it true, Dad, that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?"
Dad replied, "That happens in every country, son."
>>>>
Then there was a woman who said,
"I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then, it was too late."
>>>>
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say -- talk in your sleep.
>>>>
Just think, if it wasn't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
>>>>
First guy says, "My wife's an angel!"
Second guy remarks, "You're lucky. Mine's still alive."
>>>>
> AND NOW FOR THE FAVORITE!!!
>
>Husband and wife are waiting at the bus stop with their nine
>children. A blind man joins them after a few minutes. When the bus arrives,
>they find it overloaded and only the wife and the nine kids are able to fit
>onto the bus.
>
>So the husband and the blind man decide to walk. After a while,
>the husband gets irritated by the ticking of the stick of the blind man as
>he taps it on the sidewalk, and says to him, "Why don't you put a piece of
>rubber at the end of your stick? That ticking sound is driving me crazy."
>
>The blind man replies, "If you would've put a rubber at the end
>of YOUR stick, we'd be riding the bus ... so shut the hell up."


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[IIC]

'The Obedient Wife'

There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real miser when it came to his money.

Just before he died, he said to his wife...'When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me.'

And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart, that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.

W ell, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there - dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said,

'Wait just a moment!'
She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away. So her friend said,

'Girl, I know you were not foolish enough to put all that money in there with your husband.'

The loyal wife replied, 'Listen, I'm a Christian; I cannot go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put that money into the casket with him.'
You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!?!?!?'

'I sure did,' said the wife. 'I got it all together, put it into my account, and wrote him a check.... If he can cash it, then he can spend it.'

Send this to every clever female you know, and to every man who thinks they are smarter than women!!!

[ParkTwain]

Photos and YouTube videos - Basketball fun

Buzzer Beaters by Larry Bird (Boston Celtics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0EOfueL2W4

Two fine photos of Julius (Dr. J) Erving as a New York Net (ABA):

http://bermansports.com/picturepages/007.htm

http://bermansports.com/picturepages/013.htm

Wilt Chamberlain at 17 y.o.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GPibuasw4

Pete Maravich ranked as #2 top shooter (behind Larry Bird) in NCAA basketball history

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swHmiNyzHPM

Maravich scores 68 pts against NY Knicks (and Walt Frazier), shot by shot
(Feb 25, 1977, he fouled out of this game with 1:18 to play)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UTust5oFW4

NC State's David Thompson (6' 4") blocks shot by UCLA's Bill Walton (6' 11") shot, 1974 NCAA semifinal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whIPLxAXGc4

Photo #1 of Thompson outjumping Walton:

http://tinyurl.com/2eqjw9

Photo #2:

http://rouses.net/ncsu/david1.gif

The many moves of Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston Rockets)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLWShrCTsY

[IIC]

Get a Chinese name...Mine is Gao Dian Kuang

http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html

[billyjoe]

Doug,
If it comes out Hoo Flung Pou is that bad?

------------billyjoe

[riverbabe]

Tong Birong = Tong; "jade; green, blue;" "glorious."

Born in the year of the Tiger.

So how did they figure out the color of my eyes and that I am truly glorious and definitely a TIGER!!!

[riverbabe]

Doug,
If it comes out Hoo Flung Pou is that bad?

------------billyjoe

BJ, what is it with the DS that fascinates you?

[billyjoe]

River,
Also year of the tiger Wei Binling--- cultured, well bred--what does that mean? Another character on this forum was Hoo Flung Pou meaning brave, heroic, and chivalrous so it's not bad.

----------billyjoe

[billyjoe]

BJ, what is it with the DS that fascinates you?

River,

I've long been fascinated by double stranded RNA.

------------billyjoe

[riverbabe]

River,

I've long been fascinated by double stranded RNA.

------------billyjoe

Well, so am I, except that it doesn't really exist except sometimes in a transitional state. Almost all RNA is single-stranded. Nice try BJY.

[billyjoe]

River,
Foiled again!

------billyjoe

[mimo_100]

Hey Karel, what is this all about????

Hey Karel, what is this all about????




Giant Lego man found in Dutch sea
Wed Aug 8, 2007 10:23 AM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday.
Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-meter (8-foot) tall model with a yellow head and blue torso.
"We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to take it out of the water," said a stall worker. "It was a life-sized Lego toy."
A woman nearby added: "I saw the Lego toy floating toward the beach from the direction of England."
The toy was later placed in front of the drinks stall.

[billyjoe]

I can't blame the giant lego man for jumping in the sea. Just finished an hour of mowing and was close to a heat stroke and the sun wasn't even out in full.
Cool it and drink plenty of your chosen liquid and work as little as possible outside!

------------billyjoe