January  2005 Quotes

And all the love I've thrown away and lost, I'm longing for again

Now darling' I just wanna be

Back in your Arms....

- Bruce Springsteen - Back In Your Arms

Ten Thoughts To Ponder for the New Year

10. Life is a sexually transmitted disease

9. Good Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die

8. Men have two emotions: hungry or horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a  sandwich.

7. Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

6. Some people are like a slinky ... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

5. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospital and dying of nothing.

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

3. Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents. ?

2. 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.

1. We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration. ?

On the Measure Of Things and showing  us the risks scientists took for their study

In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of ones face.

- Bill Bryson. A History Of Nearly Everything

Cool Word to Learn

Specious: Superficially plausible but actually wrong. Misleadingly attractive in appearance.