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Monday, April 08, 2013
WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE?
It's not good to start the day feeling old. But that is how I started the day when I read that Julian Lennon (John's son) is celebrating his 50th birthday today. I was just into my 20's when he was born.
A MIND BOGGLER
There are as many neurons in the human brain - about 100 billion - as there are stars in the Milky Way. on.wsj.com/17hNPlS
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 8, 2013
I am getting as frustrated with the "lack of spring" in Wisconsin as Donnie is with the lack of moisture in Texas. While it will be rain today, the weather man says THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEW INCHES OF SNOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY.
I don't like the sound of that "few inches" part.
Rapid City is getting set for more than a few inches of snow.
It's supposed to start snowing there tonight with heavy snow tomorrow and tomorrow night. It will pile up to 6 inches or more before it's done.
Meanwhile, Rick and Angela will be enjoying a little bit more of winter with 3 to 5 inches of snow in Worland tonight with wind gusts close to 40 MPH. Worland could see another 1 to 3 inches tomorrow.
I don't like the sound of that "few inches" part.
Rapid City is getting set for more than a few inches of snow.
It's supposed to start snowing there tonight with heavy snow tomorrow and tomorrow night. It will pile up to 6 inches or more before it's done.
Meanwhile, Rick and Angela will be enjoying a little bit more of winter with 3 to 5 inches of snow in Worland tonight with wind gusts close to 40 MPH. Worland could see another 1 to 3 inches tomorrow.
Sunday, April 07, 2013
THIS SOUNDS LIKE GOOD NEWS
Scientists believe they've found genetic markers to predict increased risk of Alzheimer's | ti.me/17fbnHP (via @timehealthland)
— TIME.com (@TIME) April 7, 2013
WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE THIS?
I was just looking at the weather and there's rain in the forecast for every day this week and to make it worse there's even a chance of some snow late in the week.
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THE NORMAL HIGH FOR APRIL 7 IN LA CROSSE IS 55 DEGREES
Our high, today, should be between 50 and 55 so we're right where we should be this time of year. I can live with it!
LEAVE IT TO MY BUDDY GARY TO ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD JOKE.
The family wheeled Grandma out onto the lawn, in her wheelchair , where
the activities for her 100th birthday were taking place.
Grandma couldn't speak very well, but she would write notes when she needed to communicate.
After a short time out on the lawn, Grandma started leaning off to the right, so some family members grabbed her, straightened her up, and stuffed pillows on her right.
A short time later, she started leaning off to her left, so again the family grabbed her and stuffed pillows on her left.
Soon she started leaning forward, so the family members again grabbed her, and then tied a pillowcase around her waist to hold her up.
A nephew who arrived late came up to Grandma and said, 'Hi, Grandma, you're looking good! How are they treating you?'
Grandma took out her little note pad and slowly wrote a note to the nephew.......
'Bastards won't let me fart.'
Grandma couldn't speak very well, but she would write notes when she needed to communicate.
After a short time out on the lawn, Grandma started leaning off to the right, so some family members grabbed her, straightened her up, and stuffed pillows on her right.
A short time later, she started leaning off to her left, so again the family grabbed her and stuffed pillows on her left.
Soon she started leaning forward, so the family members again grabbed her, and then tied a pillowcase around her waist to hold her up.
A nephew who arrived late came up to Grandma and said, 'Hi, Grandma, you're looking good! How are they treating you?'
Grandma took out her little note pad and slowly wrote a note to the nephew.......
'Bastards won't let me fart.'
WHERE HAVE I BEEN. I'LL TELL YOU WHERE I'VE BEEN!
I've been growing old and totally missed out on this peddle-pub thing.
In case you missed it, HERE'S THE STORY FROM WKBT
In case you missed it, HERE'S THE STORY FROM WKBT
AN UPDATE FROM LYNNE
"Bob, Daniel and I spent hours with Mom and had a good time. Jon stayed here. He felt a cold coming on and didn't want to take a chance of giving anything to her.
Mom was feeling OK so we took her home and sat and talked in the living room which was fun. We had a good trip up and back."
Mom was feeling OK so we took her home and sat and talked in the living room which was fun. We had a good trip up and back."
OH! TO BE 25 AGAIN!
Talk about a sweet deal, this is it! Round trip airline tickets to Los Angeles, hotel accomidations and tickets to the "Dos De Mayo" celebraton sponsored by DOS EQUIS BEER Sorry, Wisconsin, but the best beer in the world, for my money, is Dos Equis.
Anyway, HERE'S THE WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN ENTER THE CONTEST and here's a video to tell you more about the party.
Anyway, HERE'S THE WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN ENTER THE CONTEST and here's a video to tell you more about the party.
HERE'S AN INTERESTING WEB PAGE
CLICK HERE
The chart shows the easiest foreign languages for an english speaker to learn, like Spanish, those that are a little harder, like Turk, and the hardest of all, like Korean.
I noticed that both Dutch and Norwegian are on the "easy" list. I wonder if Ole and Lena jokes are funnier in Norwegian?
SPEAKING OF OLE AND LENA
Ole is on his deathbed. The doctor has told him he has only a few hours to live.
He catches the scent of his favorite bars wafting through the air. With all the strength he can muster, he drags himself into the kitchen and sees a fresh pan cooling on the rack.
He cuts one out and bites into the scrumptious cookie.
Lena comes in, smacks his hand, and says, “Shame on you, Ole! Dese are for after de funeral!”
The chart shows the easiest foreign languages for an english speaker to learn, like Spanish, those that are a little harder, like Turk, and the hardest of all, like Korean.
I noticed that both Dutch and Norwegian are on the "easy" list. I wonder if Ole and Lena jokes are funnier in Norwegian?
SPEAKING OF OLE AND LENA
Ole is on his deathbed. The doctor has told him he has only a few hours to live.
He catches the scent of his favorite bars wafting through the air. With all the strength he can muster, he drags himself into the kitchen and sees a fresh pan cooling on the rack.
He cuts one out and bites into the scrumptious cookie.
Lena comes in, smacks his hand, and says, “Shame on you, Ole! Dese are for after de funeral!”
AN ENGLISH LESSON FROM CARL
I think a retired English teacher was bored.
THIS IS GREAT. Read all the way to the end................
This took a lot of work to put together.
You think English is easy?
The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this.
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixedUP about UP.
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP... When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes thingsUP.. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP. Now it's UP to you what you do with this email.
THIS IS GREAT. Read all the way to the end................
This took a lot of work to put together.
You think English is easy?
The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this.
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixedUP about UP.
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP... When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes thingsUP.. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP. Now it's UP to you what you do with this email.
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