Month: February 2007
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Common knowledge
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.Paul Valery, Tel Quel
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Reasons not to exercise
It is well documented that for every minute that you exercise, you add one minute to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.An addition to Some Thought on Exercise, via email from Roberst Christofferson, Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:43:11…
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Perspective
This is good to look at when you are having trouble putting things into their proper perspective.Most of us never really have given this any thought whatsoever, but it’s rather dazzling to see it presented this way!Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.The universe is…
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Black and White
You could hardly see for all the snow,Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.Pull a chair up to the TV set,“Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.”Depending on the channel you tuned,You got Rob and Laura – or Ward and June.It felt so good. It felt so right.Life looked better in black and white.I…
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Youth
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.Dorothy Fuldheim
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Saddam’s family
In the interest of accuracy, please note that all the obituaries written about Saddam Hussain were inaccurate. Missing was a complete listing of his surviving sons and daughters.A corrected paragraph follows:He was predeceased by two sons, Uday and Qusay, and is survived by 15 sons and 7 daughters.The 15 sons: Sooflay, a restauranteur; Guday, who…