Another New Crop Circle Predicts July 7th 2009 - Earth getting a Major Solar Storm

This intricate Crop Circle was deciphered by another group, than the Jellyfish Circle - they too have come to a conclusion of a solar storm impacting the Earth on July 7th 2009 from this crop circle.

This thread is in conjunction with the Jellyfish Crop Circle thread here: www.abovetopsecret.com...

The link to the website of the group who deciphered the crop circle is here: www.earthfiles.com...

The first night it showed up, it looked like this:



Then after the next night it looked like this: It was added on to:



Then a few nights later it was added on to once again:



Besides being Gorgeous - it seems to have a powerful message in it, which is showing the degrees of where each planet is etc. Well, guess what date, all those planets positioned where they are comes out to be? Yep.... July 7th 2009.

How did they get to that conclusion?

“As shown in the explanatory diagram below, Part I of Milk Hill on June 21, clearly looked like a ‘sextant,’ which has long been used to measure the ‘altitude’ or height above the horizon of various astronomical objects in Earth’s sky.”

“It also showed a second underlying symbolism for Earth and Moon where planet Earth was drawn with a ‘teardrop’ shape, while our Moon was drawn with a standard ‘dumbbell’ shape first noted in the early 1990s. That teardrop shape is the usual scientific symbol for a CME, or coronal mass ejection from our Sun.

Then when it was added on to on the 22nd, they came up with this conclusion.

The second addition to Milk Hill on June 22, also seemed to show astronomical symbolism. The Australian scientist concluded that the second addition closely resembles an “orrery,” which is a traditional mechanical device used to illustrate planetary motions.



most people today do not know about Ptolemy’s geocentric model for our solar system, and that is why we have shown it below:

“Along the top, that Milk Hill crop picture then shows six of seven planetary symbols 1-2-3-4-5-6 (when including the outermost curved line), so as to match six rectangular ‘boxes’ that were drawn immediately below. Clearly those boxes have some connection to Ptolemy’s astronomical objects 1-2-3-4-5-6, but what could their relation be?”

Here is where it starts getting more interesting and how everything starts being pulled together for the conclusion of a solar storm on July 7th 2009.



This below part goes with the picture above, explaining the degrees and so on of the rectangles.

Any box with one stripe means “negative altitude” (below the horizon), while any box with two stripes means “positive altitude” (above the horizon). Our best date of July 6, 2009, produces altitudes above or below the local horizon as Moon = - 64 degrees (not visible);

Mercury = + 62 degrees; Sun = + 61 degrees; Venus = + 42 degrees; Mars = + 39 degrees; or Saturn = + 22 degrees. Planet Jupiter at - 39 degrees is not visible, so is not shown. On nearby dates, say July 5 or 8, 2009, the negative altitude for our Moon does not exceed high positive elevations of + 62 or + 61degrees for Mercury or the Sun as required.

“The answer to this apparently difficult problem is actually quite simple: What is the true purpose of a sextant, as shown at Milk Hill one day earlier? Well, a sextant tells how high in the sky any bright astronomical object might be at a given time of observation, in units of 0 degrees to 90 degrees, relative to the local horizon. In astronomical language, those heights in the sky are called ‘altitudes.’

“Could each of those six rectangular boxes be telling us relative altitudes for Ptolemy’s six astronomical objects 1-2-3-4-5-6 at some calendar date in the near future?

So these people took apart the crop circle by looking at the degrees and placements of the planets in the circle, besides the scientific sign of a CME at the center of the crop circle. Here is how they completely came to the conclusion of a solar storm impacting the Earth on July 6/7th 2009.

“With that idea in mind, we used an astronomical almanac to calculate altitudes for the Sun, Moon and five bright planets over a wide range of dates during the summer of 2009. Then we compared those calculated values with the relative heights of six boxes shown in Part II of Milk Hill. The hourly time of observation clearly has to be close to 1200 UT, since one arm of that crop formation sextant is aligned south to north, parallel to the crop tramlines, while our Sun lies due south at noon in southern England.

“Our best theoretical matches to the crop formation boxes were for upcoming dates of July 6 or 7, 2009. Why would those crop artists go to all the trouble of showing us sextant and orrery shapes, then coding that orrery with six rectangular boxes which mean July 6 or 7, 2009, unless something significant were going to happen at that time?,/p>

Now how does the CME come into the whole concept of the Earth being impacted that day?

“At early stages in the ejection process, any Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on the sun can acquire a teardrop shape, such as that drawn for planet Earth in the Milk Hill sextant marked with a blue asterisk. At late stages in the ejection process, any CME might evolve into a spherical shape, such as that drawn next to the crop formation intelligence's “Sun” symbol marked with a red asterisk.



“If Milk Hill Part II is really telling us about a CME (and not a comet), then that may be why the crop artists omitted 5 = Mars and 7 = Saturn from their curved orbital paths, while including 1-2-3-4-6. On July 6 or 7, both Mars and Saturn will lie angularly offset from the other four planets and our Moon, when viewed in terms of a possible directional CME ejection by our Sun.

“For the past two years, our Sun has been abnormally quiet between solar cycles 23 and 24. Within the past month however, it has become more active. What if anything might happen shortly?

So in complete conclusion here is what they say:

“Based on previous examples from 2004 or early 2009, we can be pretty sure that the crop formation intelligence's use of a teardrop symbol does represent a coronal mass ejection (CME) from our Sun. Why then would they have drawn planet Earth in the form of a large teardrop on June 21, unless several CMEs will impact upon Earth soon?

“We can see on the left of that new crop picture a round circle for our Sun, which seems to be emitting five CMEs along curved paths through space that eventually intersect with planet Earth at the red asterisk.

Seeing that this crop circle was deciphered by another group other than the person who deciphered the Jellyfish crop circle and they have come to the same conclusion from this crop circle as the message of the Jellyfish crop circle. Don't you think someone is trying to get a message to us?

Also, it will be interesting to hear within the next few days, if the govt. and utility companies might have some "testing" being done where either govt. facilities need to shut down for a few hours and the same with electric companies. In my opinion, people within the govt. know these crop circles are messages and they would have people decipher them from the inside. They would then know something is going to possibly happen in less than a weeks time in the form of a solar flare/storm/CME. I like to watch all areas and read between the lines, especially from the governments.

So, there you have it, Another crop circle deciphered to say the Earth will be impacted on the 7th of July by a solar storm.

*AboveTopSecret.com

The Love Doctor

Dear Love Doctor,

I have this friend who won't quit telling lies. Everything she says is a lie. I am so sick of this and want to kill her. I am getting so sick of it! How do I get her to stop?


Signed,

Sick and Tired
Dear Sick,

Hmmm. The Love Doctor thinks that you lie too much. That's right! YOU! I mean, look at your letter! There are at least 2 lies right there! Is EVERYTHING that she says a lie? Do you REALLY want to kill her? I think not!

So maybe she pads the truth - can you tell when she lies? If so, maybe just say "Are you sure you remember it that way? Our minds can play tricks on us.

If that doesn't work - rent Pinocchio and give her a front row seat!

Hope this helps.

Yrs,

The Love Doctor

--Send your questions about love to "The Love Doctor" directly from 'OZ' - The 'Other' Side of the Rainbow! I have added an email link that goes direct to The Love Doctor - this will enable quicker responses from him. You can do this by clicking on his picture in the sidebar and put your question in the email. This will ensure that The Love Doctor gets your question. The Love Doctor forwards his replies to me for posting consideration. Note: Due to the high volume of letters that The Love Doctor receives, not all letters will be posted on 'OZ' - but the Love Doctor will reply to every email. (so he says)

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Horoscopes

Aries Mar 21 - Apr 19

The stars believe that a person must make his own mistakes, but they warn you not to do anything that may, say, burn down Chicago this week.

Taurus Apr 20 - May 20

Only God can judge you. Unfortunately, He's been appearing to all your friends and telling them what an asshole you are.

Gemini May 21 - Jun 21

The black widow spider does not have the most powerful venom of any spider in the world, but it's still going to do quite a number on your legs.

Cancer Jun 22 - Jul 22

The truth is indeed elusive, hard to comprehend, and subjective. What we're trying to say is: You're fat.

Leo Jul 23 - Aug 22

There hasn't been a stampeding death in your area in more than a century, but your air horn and steer costume will change all that.

Virgo Aug 23 - Sep 22

Take solace in this: There is a meaning and purpose to the universe, even if it's far too complicated for you to understand, and won't pay off for years.

Libra Sep 23 - Oct 23

Some may call your breast implants tacky, but at least you had the guts to try out unconventional shapes.

Scorpio Oct 24 - Nov 21

You've always been a fashion-forward trendsetter, which is why, after next Thursday, they'll all be saying that getting shot in the face is the new black.

Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21

Gradual, almost imperceptible change will make you a better person over the course of the next 37,000 years.

Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 19

The stars could reveal your future, but they'd just be repeating what the Love Tester at the fair already told you.

Aquarius Jan 20 - Feb 18

People will come from miles around to seek your wisdom on all manner of things, which is proof that people will do anything for a good laugh.

Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20

You'll never smile again after the tragic loss of your lower jaw and lips this week.

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TRUE or FALSE - YOU DECIDE!

The bends is another name for decompression sickness.

U-BETCHA! Decompression sickness, (DCS) (also historically or colloquially known as divers' disease, the bends or caisson disease) describes a condition arising from the precipitation of dissolved gasses into bubbles inside the body on depressurisation. DCS most commonly refers to a specific type of scuba diving hazard but may be experienced in other depressurisation events such as caisson working, flying in unpressurised aircraft and extra-vehicular activity from spacecraft.

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are variations of the UNIX operating system - and are so named "BSD" meaning Blue Screen of Death - referring to how often Microsoft Windows crashed and produced this "Blue Screen".

Nope! They are all variations of UNIX, but "BSD" in this case refers to Berkeley Software Distribution (at the University of California at Berkeley.

A cataract can be both an eye complaint and a waterfall.

Yup. The Cataract is a large, powerful waterfall. You know what an eye cataract is...

A Nocturnal Emission means wetting the bed.

Not likely! A Nocturnal Emission is an ejaculation during sleep by a male. It is also called a "wet dream", or a spontaneous orgasm.

Nocturnal emissions are most common during teenage and early adult years. However, nocturnal emissions may happen any time during or after puberty. The emission may happen with or without an erection, and it is possible to wake up during, or to simply sleep through, the ejaculation. It can also refer to women experiencing menstrual emissions that also often occur at night.

Hydrophobia is “fear of open spaces”.

Un-uh. It's Agoraphobia. Hydrophobia or Rabies, is a set of symptoms of the later stages of an infection, in which the victim has difficulty swallowing, shows panic when presented with liquids to drink, and cannot quench his or her thirst.





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Sask. bill would allow commissioners to refuse to perform gay marriages

By James Wood, Saskatoon StarPhoenix

REGINA — A bid by Saskatchewan to let marriage commissioners refuse to perform gay weddings for religious reasons is being praised as a defence of religious freedoms by some and condemned as the institutionalization of discrimination by others.

Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan announced Friday the government would refer two versions of new legislation to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to rule on their constitutionality.

One option the province is considering would involve a grandfather clause which would only exempt individuals who were commissioners at the time same-sex marriage was legalized in 2004 from performing same-sex marriages.

The other option would allow a religious exemption for all commissioners who chose to use it.

In 2008, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal ruled that a Regina marriage commissioner had violated the province's human rights code by refusing to marry a gay couple because of the commissioner's religious beliefs.

That case is currently being appealed before the Court of Queen's Bench, while two other marriage commissioners are suing the government over the lack of a religious exemption.

Morgan said the government wants to bring forward legislation that will settle the issue before the courts and fulfil the Saskatchewan Party's original intentions to provide an exemption.

He said the government will ensure that civil marriage ceremonies will be available to same-sex couples.

"But we also have rights of people that have deeply held religious beliefs, and if we can accommodate both sets of beliefs or both views within the charter and within our administrative framework, that would be our preferred course," said Morgan.

Kelly Ries, co-chair of the Saskatoon Diversity Network, said he was stunned the government had re-opened an issue he called settled when gay marriage was legalized in 2004.

"Marriage commissioners were established to perform civil marriages. They are public officials. They don't get to pick and choose which parts of the public they will or will not serve," he said.

"I don't think the gay community is prepared to say 'We're prepared to be discriminated against.' We fought long and hard not to be, we fought long and hard to have a place at the table with everyone else."

But Prince Albert lawyer Dale Blenner-Hassett, one of two lawyers representing the marriage commissioners suing the government, said the legislation will be a reasonable accommodation for both sides.

"It makes room for those who have religious convictions and it provides for them to be people of faith in the public service without being squashed on or forced to do things against their conscience while at the same time ensuring that those who have different views are accommodated as well," he said.

Frank Quennell, the Opposition justice critic and the minister of justice in Saskatchewan's former NDP government, said the previous government had tried to apply fairly the numerous court decisions that found provinces had a duty to civil marriage services and licenses.

"That would seem to suggest that people who were authorized to provide those services need to provide them, otherwise the government would be in breach of the law," he said.

"I don't know that the Court of Appeal will say that you can discriminate in providing what the courts have said is a public service that should be provided to people."

Morgan said Prince Edward Island is the only province that currently has legislation providing a religious exemption from marriage commissioners although other provinces do so on an informal basis.

Saskatchewan is the only province that has faced litigation on the issue, he said.

Morgan said it will be up to the court how long it takes to make a decision on the legislation but it could easily be six to 12 months.

© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service

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The lawn mower

Donï't have a hot beverage in your hand when reading this.

This was sent by a retired dentist.

We have the standard 6 ft. Fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence.

Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. Long ground rod, and drove it 7.5 feet into the ground.

The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground,the better the fence works.

One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6 hp big wheel push mower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way.

It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.

Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 giga-volt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover. Tim e stood still.

The first thing I notice is my pecker trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over,I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and the piece of shit lawnmower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.

Science says you cannot crap, pee, and vomit at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back and BAM BAMBAM you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together it was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.

At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences..... but Dad always had those piece of shit chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled. This one I could not let go of. The 8 foot long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.'Damn!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank!

Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it. Covered in poop, pee, and with my vomit on my chest I think 'Oh God please die...Pleeeeaze'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.

So here I am in the middle of July,104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day.... He left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created.

I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire...I woke up laying on the ground hours later.. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned.

There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot where the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire.Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things:

1- Three of my teeth seem to have melted.

2- I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right).

3- Poop, pee, and vomit when all mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might think.

4- My left eye will not open.

5- My right eye will not close.

6- The lawnmower runs like a sumbitch now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.

7- My nuts are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.

8- I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (I still don't understand this?).

That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.

The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.

*Thanks, Gary

History Of The Gay Cocktail

If there are two things gays like to be at the forefront of it's trends and liquor. Combine the two and you have the gay obsession with what cocktail is in and which isn't. Don't believe us? We dare you to go into a gay bar in any major metropolitan area on a busy night and loudly order a Cosmo. (We apologize in advance if you really like Cosmo's and in fact, the best kind of drink is the one that's best for you.) Still, one of the best ways to take the temperature of the gay community is to see what they're drinking, as our look into the recent past reveals.

Click above to read all about them at QUEERTY
*Thanks for the link, Ramon

Happy 4th of July to All of My American Readers!

Long may she wave!

 

Gay for a day... and I wish I was Gay...

Indian court decriminalizes consensual gay sex

(New Delhi) A court ruled Thursday to decriminalize homosexuality in the Indian capital, a groundbreaking decision that could bring more freedom to gays in this deeply conservative country.

The Delhi High Court ruled that treating consensual gay sex as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India’s constitution. The ruling, the first of its kind in India, applies only in New Delhi.

“I’m so excited, and I haven’t been able to process the news yet,” Anjali Gopalan, the executive director of the Naz Foundation (India) Trust, a sexual health organization that had filed the petition, told reporters. “We’ve finally entered the 21st century.”

But some religious leaders quickly criticized the ruling. “This Western culture cannot be permitted in our country,” said Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahali, a leading Muslim cleric in the northern city of Lucknow.

The court’s verdict came more than eight years after the New Delhi-based foundation filed its petition - not unusually long in India’s notoriously clogged court system. The verdict can be challenged in India’s Supreme Court.

Sex between people of the same gender has been illegal in India since a British colonial era law that classified it as “against the order of nature.” According to the law, gay sex is punishable by 10 years in prison. While actual criminal prosecutions are few, the law frequently has been used to harass people.

The law itself can only be amended by India’s Parliament and gay rights activists have long campaigned for it to be changed. The government has remained vague about its position on the law, and Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said he would examine the high court’s order before commenting.

The court’s verdict, however, should protect New Delhi’s gay community from criminal charges and police harassment.

“This legal remnant of British colonialism has been used to deprive people of their basic rights for too long,” Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “This long-awaited decision testifies to the reach of democracy and rights in India.”

While the ruling is not binding on courts in India’s other states, Tripti Tandon, a lawyer for the Naz Foundation, said she hoped the ruling would have a “persuasive” affect.

“This is just the first step in a longer battle,” Gopalan said.

Rights activists say the law, also popularly known as 377, or section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, sanctions discrimination and marginalizes the gay community. Health experts say the law discourages safe sex and has been a hurdle in fighting HIV and AIDS. Roughly 2.5 million Indians have HIV.

Homosexuality is slowly gaining acceptance in some parts of India, especially in its big cities. Many bars have gay nights, and some high-profile Bollywood films have dealt with gay issues.

Still, being gay remains deeply taboo, and a large number of homosexuals hide their sexual orientation from their friends and families.

Religious leaders in the capital and in other parts of India argued that gay sex should remain illegal and that open homosexuality is out of step with India’s deeply held traditions.

“We are totally against such a practice as it is not our tradition or culture,” said Puroshattam Narain Singh, an official of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or World Hindu Council.

In New Delhi, Rev. Babu Joseph, a spokesman of the Roman Catholic Church, told New Delhi Television that while homosexuals should not be treated as criminals, “at the same time we cannot afford to endorse homosexual behavior as normal and socially acceptable.”

*365Gay.com

Words About Kindness

If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Some people cheer up a room by entering it, others by leaving it. What do you bring to your interactions with workmates, friends, and family? Is it encouragement, optimism, or kind words? Or is it pessimism, criticism, or cynicism?

People often forget what we say and usually what we do, but as Maya Angelou said, “They always remember how we made them feel.”

Here are some other wise words about kindness:

“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
– Sir Arthur Helps

“You will regret many things in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.”
– Brian Tracy

“Don’t wait for people to be kind. Show them how.”
– Anonymous

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
– Oscar Wilde

“That best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
– William Wordsworth

“Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”
– Joseph Joubert

“We are made kind by being kind.”
– Eric Hoffer

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”
– Robert Brault

This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.

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The 50 Worst Cars of All Time (1899-2007)

On the 50th anniversary of the Ford Edsel, TIME and Dan Neil, Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive critic and syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, look at the greatest lemons of the automotive industry ...

Click above to find out which one's made the list.
*Thanks, (Name escapes me....)

Dutch Department Store

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands.

Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything and it's in Dutch, but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens.

*****Don't click on any of the items in the picture, just wait and see what happens.

This company has a sense of humor and a great computer programmer. Click on the picture below....



http://producten.hema.nl/

*Thanks, Gary

THIS WEEK'S QUOTATIONS

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought to ask himself often.
– Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (1741-1801)

Deference is the most complicated, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
– William Shenstone, British poet (1714-1763)

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (1830-1916)

Pardon is voluntary forgetfulness while forgetfulness is involuntary pardon.
–Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French editor, publisher (1814-1886)

A person of character has strong convictions, yet avoids self-righteousness.
– Michael Josephson

*Character Counts

Who am I?

* I am in California.
* I am at a structure 8,981 feet long.
* When built, it was the longest in the world.
* It took five years to finish and cost $35 million.
* It is one of the most beautiful such structures in the world.
* It opened to pedestrians in 1937 and to cars a year later.
* In 2007, for $5, it lets you into a coastal city.
* Despite its name, its color is reddish-orange.

click here for the answer

Kids ARE Quick!

TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America .
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS: Maria.


TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the
floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.


TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D- I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.

(I Love this kid)


TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.


TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!


TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.


TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ' I. '
MILLIE: I is..
TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'


TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand.


TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.


TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.


TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher

*Thanks, Gary

Goodbye Mrs. Slocombe...

'ARE YOU BEING SERVED?' STAR MOLLIE SUGDEN DIES AT 86

The comedy actor Mollie Sugden died today at the age of 86 after a long illness.

Yorkshire-born Sugden was best known for playing Mrs Slocombe in long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?, a role later reprised for Grace and Favour.

She died at the Royal Surrey hospital with her twin sons, Robin and Simon Moore, at her bedside, according to her agent Joan Reddin.

One of a select bunch of British performers to achieve national treasure status, Sugden was renowned for her portrayal of fearsome battleaxes. The first of such roles to achieve acclaim was as Mrs Hutchinson in The Liver Birds, a series so popular it was revived in the late 90s using the original cast.

She was the star of many other comedies, including Come Back Mrs Noah, That's My Boy and My Husband And I, which she made with her husband.

But it was as the bossy sales lady Betty Slocombe in Are You Being Served? that she was best known. The long-running, innuendo-laden television comedy was such a hit that a feature film was made based on the series, and it was successfully exported to America. Every episode Sugden sported a different hair colour and continually harped on about her "pussy".

Born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in 1922, Sugden studied drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she took three major awards in one year.

But success did not come quickly and she spent many years in repertory up and down the country. It was in 1956, while she was working for Swansea Rep at the Grand Theatre, earning about £12 a week, that she met her husband, the Coronation Street actor William Moore. The couple came to be regarded as one of the establishments of showbusiness, with a marriage that had stood the test of time, until Moore died in 2000.

*Guardian.co.uk


--Wizard's Note: I will miss you, Mollie, and I am unanimous in that.

A Well-Planned Retirement

***Debunked again by snopes Urban Legends!
http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp***

From The London Times:

Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and eight coaches, or buses.

It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40Cdn) and coaches £5 (about $7).

This parking attendant worked there uninterrupted for all of 25 years.

Then, one day, he didn't turn up for work.

"Oh well,", said Bristol Zoo management,c"we'd better phone up the city council and get them to send a new parking attendant."

"Err, no", said the council, "that parking lot is your responsibility."

"Err, no", said Bristol Zoo management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?"

"Err, NO!" insisted the Council.

Sitting in a villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming seven days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7 million)!


And no one even knows his name.

*Thanks, Gary

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Happy Canada Day, Eh?

Click above to find out why!

Note that the HBC is now owned by the USA...

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How well do you know Disney?

1. Disney's "Treasure Island" is based on a novel. Who wrote it?

2. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is really far down – but just how far? How many miles is that?

3. What musical style is evoked by the song "Under the Sea" from "The Little Mermaid"?

4. Which Annette Funicello hit, penned by the Sherman Brothers, celebrates life on a Hawaiian island?

5. What is the name of the ship Jim Hawkins embarks on in "Treasure Island"?

6. Which aquatic mother and baby do you follow in Disneynature's "Earth"?

7. Who invades England by sea – or at least tries to! – in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"?

8. Who voices the dastardly pirate Captain Hook in "Peter Pan" – and which other character does he voice in the film?

9. Which Hawaiian island did Disney animators visit to inspire the look and feel of "Lilo & Stitch"?

10. What's the name of the whale that swallows Geppetto in "Pinocchio"?

Click here for the answers.

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Exercise Ball Tricks

https://youtu.be/cgm9LgqgVyM


*Thanks, Darcene!

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HAPPY CANADA DAY!

142 Years Young!

Strong and Free, 2000

Together we are Canada

My name is British Columbia
The jewel of the West Coast.
Forestry and fishing are
The things that I do most

Hi, I am Alberta
A wild west kind of place
With cows and oil and mountains
And lots of open space.

I am Manitoba
And I’m Saskatchewan
We’re the golden prairies
Where fields of wheat grow in the sun

Hi, I am Ontario
The home of government
To me each year the leaders
Of our democracy are sent.

Bonjour, I am Quebec
Here French is my language too
When I want to ask “how are you?”
I say, “comment t’allez vous?”

Newfoundland, New Brunswick
And Nova Scotia -- those are we,
We are Atlantic Provinces
The three musketeers of the sea.

I’m Prince Edward Island
And I know I may be small
But without me all the rest of you
Would have no potatoes at all.

The Yukon, Nunavut and North West
Territories are up north.
Through ice and cold and polar bears
Few brave souls venture forth.

Together we are Canada
One nation strong and free
With sharing, friends and happiness
Forever we will be!

Under the Rainbow, 2000

*Art by Steve Walker, Fans of Steve Walker's Art