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Getting older- things we may not realize?

Is funny, When my grandmother passed And I cleaned out her place.. She must have had 400 ink pens,, only about 6 of them still worked.
Canned foods that were so old they were bulged at both ends and about to explode.. She always said.." they are good as long as they haven't been opened" WRONG!
2000 plastic Wal-Mart bags, 8 skillets with all of the Teflon worn off because she didn't have one plastic spatula, hundreds of pictures of people that was 70 when she was a kid and not a one with a name written on the back of it, 12 boxes of polyester cloths so old that salvation Army rejected them and on and on and on

RE: Hey...

Darn it,
And Im not allowed to put my real name, address and phone number on here

RE: What is the worst part of being alone for you?

Cooking just for myself!
I love to cook.. but seems like everything I cook, I have to eat it for a week. So for one person.. TV dinners are cheaper. YUK

Getting older- things we may not realize?

Thats one I have been trying to forget!

RE: Vote for the best Band or Artist ever

Paul Hardcastle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone scratching their heads?

or

Murray Head???

Getting older- things we may not realize?

As you age, What are some of the things you never really expected?

OK, as a kid, I always wondered, Why are the old mans eyebrows so darn long?
OMG..I'm finding out why now!
At 40 mine started getting long (real long) so I started plucking the long ones. each year there are more and more to pluck.
I had no clue what was to come............ I just didn't realize.
Now at 46, They are ALL really long. I can't pluck them any more because I woundn't have any left.

Oh how I look forward to the days when I need the barber to cut my ear hair.

whats next?

Election day-President of the United States!

Polls are now closed: and the winner is:
Drum roll
Obama 23 45%
Mc Cain 13 25%
Clinton 15 29%
Current Total 51

Guess Tuesday will give us a better real idea who will be left standing.

RE: MY opinion on makin a better CS

Then there are those that are so lost in misery,, that if you don't agree with their opinion, they will attempt lies or anything else it takes to destroy the other person.
I will not apologize to someone hell bent on taking me down with them.
Especially when someone tells me basically... Either you give me a public apology or I will take you down!

RE: Dedicate a Quote to Somebody...

One can not measure his own wisdom, others have to do it for him.

or..
You can fool most of the people some of the time, and some of the people most of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

I wont say who that one is for.

RE: Dedicate a Quote to Somebody...

RE: how do you keep from getting heartbroken?

Only choices..
Get a broken heart once in a while or
never allow yourself to get close to anyone... What a lonely life that would be.

RE: Dedicate a Quote to Somebody...

Preserve wildlife!
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. pickle a squirrel

RE: Dedicate a Quote to Somebody...

AMEN! wise man he was!


A brick house is much stronger than a straw house

The 3 little pigs

RE: When you've been Stood up.....Do you...

Good, Then it will be easy to do better!

You go girl!

RE: When you've been Stood up.....Do you...

Just thought of one..............
Find someone even hotter to date, and rub it in his face!!!
Make him see how bad he screwed up!!

RE: Dedicate a Quote to Somebody...

Idol hands are the devils workshop!

RE: More Reflections on Iraq............

I do support our troops,, They are doing what they have to do, What our Government has sent them to do.
But I do not support this war in any minute way!

Anything that brings our tropps home quicker is a good thing!

RE: What Tree Did You Fall From

Mine fits perfectly!!!!!

RE: The Town Mayor elections are completed.

HOLY COW!!!
Lot of power drinks and coffee?!
Im impressed that you can still type!!
I can almost Imagine how excited you are.. following her around the house like a new Puppy!!

Hope she put papers in the floor for you!

Election day-President of the United States!

Polling booths close at midnight tonight...
Last chance for your vote to count

Election day-President of the United States!

Just pulling it back up for more voting :)

RE: Interesting and strange !!!!

I would give you a good morning smooch... but I don't like dog slobbers!!

RE: Interesting and strange !!!!

You wanted STRANGE!

Sad what people do to animals and to other people.

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In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov rocked the scientific world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog. He created the creature in a lab on the outskirts of Moscow by grafting the head, shoulders, and front legs of a puppy onto the neck of a mature German shepherd.

Demikhov paraded the dog before reporters from around the world. Journalists gasped as both heads simultaneously lapped at bowls of milk, and then cringed as the milk from the puppy’s head dribbled out the unconnected stump of its esophageal tube. The Soviet Union proudly boasted that the dog was proof of their nation’s medical preeminence. Over the course of the next fifteen years, Demikhov created a total of twenty of his two-headed dogs. None of them lived very long, as they inevitably succumbed to problems of tissue rejection. The record was a month.

Demikhov explained that the dogs were part of a continuing series of experiments in surgical techniques, with his ultimate goal being to learn how to perform a human heart and lung transplant. Another surgeon beat him to this goal — Dr. Christian Baarnard in 1967 — but Demikhov is widely credited with paving the way for it. I guess this story makes you wonder about “the end justifying the means’. The “greater good” and all that.

RE: Interesting and strange !!!!

Stop laughing so hard Bro!!!

RE: Interesting and strange !!!!

I will let someone else explain it to you!>>>>>LMAO!!

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It is well known that the Smartest people in the world are found on a small Island in the South pacific, the Island is called Shiffer.
Every last person on the Island have extremely high IQ'S..

this is where the old name came from!!!!!!
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.Shiffer brains!

RE: Interesting and strange !!!!

I like this one.. nice visual!

RE: Interesting and strange !!!!

Add slogans gone wrong!

Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it was read as
"Suffer from diarrhea."

Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into German only to find
out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the "manure
stick".

Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American
campaign: Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.

The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, "Salem-Feeling Free", was translated
into the Japanese market as "When smoking Salem, you will feel so refreshed that
your mind seems to be free and empty."

When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as
in the US, with the beautiful baby on the label. Later they learned that in
Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of what's inside, since
most people can't read.

An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which
promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts
read "I saw the potato" (la papa).

In Italy, a campaign for Schweppes Tonic Water translated the name into
"Schweppes Toilet Water."

Pepsi's "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi brings
your ancestors back from the grave," in Chinese.

When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to
have read, "it won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you". Instead, the
company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so
the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant".