The North has Bloomingdale's,
The South has Dollar General.
The North has coffee houses,
The South has Waffle Houses.
The North has dating services,
The South has family reunions.
The North has switchblade knives;
The South has Lee Press-on Nails.
The North has double last names;
The South has double first names.
The North has Indy car races;
The South has stock car races.
North has Cream of Wheat,
The South has grits.
The North has green salads,
The South has collard greens.
The North has lobsters,
The South has crawfish.
The North has the rust belt;
The South has the Bible Belt.
FOR NORTHERNERS MOVING SOUTH . . .
In the South:
If you run your car into a ditch, don't panic. Four men in a four-wheel drive pickup truck with a tow chain will be along shortly. Don't try to help them, just stay out of their way. This is what they live for.
Don't be surprised to find movie rentals and bait in the same store... do not buy food at this store.
Remember, "Y'all" is singular, "all y'all" is plural, and "all y'all's" is plural possessive
Get used to hearing "You ain't from round here, are ya?"
Save all manner of bacon grease. You will be instructed later on how to use it.
Don't be worried at not understanding what people are saying. They can't understand you either. The first Southern statement to creep into a transplanted Northerner's vocabulary is the adjective "big'ol" truck or "big'ol" boy. Most Northerners begin
their Southern-influenced dialect this way. All of them are in denial about it.
The proper pronunciation you learned in school is no longer proper!
Be advised that "He needed killin." is a valid defense here.
If you hear a Southerner exclaim, "Hey, y'all watch this," you should stay out of the way. These are likely to be the last words he'll ever say.
If there is the prediction of the slightest chance of even the smallest accumulation of snow, your presence is required at the local grocery store. It doesn't matter whether you need anything or not. You just have to go there.
Do not be surprised to find that 10-year olds own their own shotguns, they are proficient marksmen, and their mammas taught them how to aim.
In the South, we have found that the best way to grow a lush green lawn is to pour gravel on it and call it a driveway.
AND REMEMBER:
If you do settle in the South and bear children, don't think we will accept them
as Southerners. After all, if the cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn't call 'em biscuits.
Source: Internet
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
25 Things About To Become Extinct In America
This is Sad But True... Will this happen in our life time?
(We've all seen this before,but it needs to be repeated. We need to wake up and become observant of the changes that are happening all around us.
Some are good, others are trivial, and some need to reacted to by all of us. Like our country and our government, we are being consumed by foreigners and are losing more and more of the rights we have fought for, and we are paying for this!!! Wake up, America.)
25. U.S. Post Office
They are pricing themselves out of existence. With e-mail, and and online services
they are a relic of the past. (refer to #9)Packages are also sent faster and cheaper with UPS.
24. Yellow Pages
This year will be pivotal for the global Yellow Pages industry. Much like newspapers,
print Yellow Pages will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts,
from Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), to local search engines and combination search/listing services like Reach Local and Yodel Factors acceleration of the print 'fade rate' and the looming recession will contribute to the onslaught. One research firm predicts the falloff in usage of newspapers and print Yellow Pages
could even reach 10% this year -- much higher than the 2%-3% fade rate seen in past years.
23. Classified Ads
The Internet has made so many things obsolete that newspaper classified ads might sound like just another trivial item on a long list. But this is one of those harbingers of the future that could signal the end of civilization as we know it. The argument is that if newspaper classifieds are replaced by free online listings at sites like Craigslist.org and Google Base, then newspapers are not far behind them.
22. Movie Rental Stores
While Netflix is looking up at the moment, Blockbuster keeps closing store locations
by the hundreds. It still has about 6,000 left across the world, but those keep dwindling and the stock is down considerably in 2008, especially since the company gave up a quest of Circuit City. Movie Gallery, which owned the Hollywood Video brand,
closed up shop earlier this year. Countless small video chains and mom-and-pop stores
have given up the ghost already.
21. Dial-up Internet Access
Dial-up connections have fallen from 40% in 2001 to 10% in 2008. The combination of an infrastructure to accommodate affordable high speed Internet connections and the disappearing home phone have all but pounded the final nail in the coffin of dial-up Internet access.
20. Phone Land Lines
According to a survey from the National Center for Health Statistics, at the end of 2007, nearly one in six homes was cell-only and, of those homes that had land lines, one in eight only received calls on their cells.
19. Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs
Maryland's icon, the blue crab, has been fading away in Chesapeake Bay. Last year Maryland saw the lowest harvest (22 million pounds) since 1945. Just four decades ago
the bay produced 96 million pounds. The population is down 70% since 1990, when they first did a formal count. There are only about 120 million crabs in the bay and they think they need 200 million for a sustainable population. Over-fishing, pollution, invasive species and global warming get the blame.
18. VCR's
For the better part of three decades, the VCR was a best-seller and staple in every American household until being completely decimated by the DVD, and now the Digital Video Recorder (DVR). In fact, the only remnants of the VHS age at your local Wal-Mart or Radio Shack are blank VHS tapes these days. Pre-recorded VHS tapes are largely gone
and VHS decks are practically nowhere to be found. They served us so well.
17. Ash Trees
In the late 1990's, a pretty, iridescent green species of beetle, now known as the emerald ash borer, hitched a ride to North America with ash wood products imported from eastern Asia. In less than a decade, its larvae have killed millions of trees in the Midwest, and continue to spread. They've killed more than 30 million ash trees in southeastern Michigan alone, with tens of millions more lost in Ohio and Indiana. More than 7.5 billion ash trees are currently at risk.
16. Ham Radio
Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and often worldwide) wireless communications with each other and are able to support their communities with emergency and disaster communications if necessary, while increasing their personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory.However, proliferation of the Internet and its popularity among youth
has caused the decline of amateur radio. In the past five years alone, the number of people holding active ham radio licenses has dropped by 50,000, even though Morse Code
is no longer a requirement.
15. The Swimming Hole
Thanks to our litigious society, swimming holes are becoming a thing of the past.
'20/20' reports that swimming hole owners, like Robert Every in High Falls, NY, are shutting them down out of worry that if someone gets hurt they'll sue. And that's exactly what happened in Seattle. The city of Bellingham was sued by Katie Hofstetter
who was paralyzed in a fall at a popular swimming hole in Whatcom Falls Park. As injuries occur and lawsuits follow, expect more swimming holes to post 'Keep out!' signs.
14. Answering Machines
The increasing disappearance of answering machines is directly tied to No 20 our list -- the decline of landlines. According to USA Today, the number of homes that only use cell phones jumped 159% between 2004 and 2007. It has been particularly bad in New York; since 2000, landline usage has dropped 55%. It's logical that as cell phones rise,
many of them replacing traditional landlines, that there will be fewer answering machines.
13. Cameras That Use Film
It doesn't require a statistician to prove the rapid disappearance of the film camera in America. Just look to companies like Nikon, the professional's choice for quality camera equipment. In 2006, it announced that it would stop making film cameras, pointing to the shrinking market -- only 3% of its sales in 2005, compared to 75% of sales from digital cameras and equipment.
12. Incandescent Bulbs
Before a few years ago,the standard 60-watt (or, yikes, 100-watt) bulb was the mainstay of every U.S. home. With the green movement and all-things-sustainable-energy crowd, the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb (CFL) is largely replacing the older, Edison-era incandescent bulb. The EPA reports that 2007 sales for Energy Star CFLs nearly doubled from 2006, and these sales accounted for approximately 20 percent of the U.S. light bulb market. And according to USA Today, a new energy bill plans to phase out incandescent bulbs in the next four to 12 years.
11. Stand-Alone Bowling Alleys
Bowling Balls. US claims there are still 60 million Americans who bowl at least once a year, but many are not bowling in stand-alone bowling alleys. Today most new bowling alleys are part of facilities for all types of recreation including laser tag, go-karts,
bumper cars, video game arcades, climbing walls and glow miniature golf. Bowling lanes also have been added to many non-traditional venues such as adult communities, hotels
and resorts, and gambling casinos.
10. The Milkman
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 1950, over half of the milk delivered was to the home in quart bottles, by 963, it was about a third and by 2001,
it represented only 0.4 percent. Nowadays most milk is sold through supermarkets in gallon jugs. The steady decline in home-delivered milk is blamed, of course, on the rise of the supermarket, better home refrigeration and longer-lasting milk. Although some milkmen still make the rounds in pockets of the U.S., they are certainly a dying breed.
9. Hand-Written Letters
In 2006, the Radicati Group estimated that, worldwide, 183 billion e-mails were sent each day. Two million each second. By November of 2007, an estimated 3.3 billion Earthlings owned cell phones, and 80% of the world's population had access to cell phone coverage. In 2004, half-a-trillion text messages were sent, and the number has no doubt increased exponentially since then. So where amongst this gorge of gabble is there room for the elegant, polite hand-written letter?
8. Wild Horses
It is estimated that 100 years ago, as many as two million horses were roaming free within the United States. In 2001, National Geographic News estimated that the wild horse population has decreased to about 50,000 head. Currently, the National Wild Horse
and Burro Advisory board states that there are 32,000 free roaming horses in ten Western states, with half of them residing in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management is seeking
to reduce the total number of free range horses to 27,000, possibly by selective euthanasia.
7. Personal Checks
According to an American Bankers Assoc. report, a net 23% of consumers plan to decrease their use of checks over the next two years, while a net 14% plan to increase their use of PIN debit. Bill payment remains the last stronghold of paper-based payments -- for the time being. Checks continue to be the most commonly used bill payment method, with 71% of consumers payingat least one recurring bill per month by writing a check. However, a bill-by-bill basis, checks account for only 49% of consumers' recurring bill payments (down from 72% in 2001 and 60% in 2003).
6. Drive-in Theaters
During the peak in 1958, there were more than 4,000 drive-in theaters in this country,
but in 2007 only 405 drive-ins were still operating. Exactly zero new drive-ins have been built since 2005. Only one reopened in 2005 and five reopened in 2006, so there isn't much of a movement toward reviving the closed ones.
5. Mumps & Measles
Despite what's been in the news lately, the measles and mumps actually, truly are disappearing from the United States. In 1964, 212,000 cases of mumps were reported in the U.S. By 1983, this figure had dropped to 3,000, thanks to a vigorous vaccination program. Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine, approximately half a million cases of measles were reported in the U.S. annually, resulting in 450 deaths. In 2005, only 66 cases were recorded.
4. Honey Bees
Perhaps nothing on our list of disappearing America is so dire; plummeting so enormously;
and so necessary to the survival of our food supply as the honey bee. Very scary.
'Colony Collapse Disorder,' or CCD, has spread throughout the U.S. and Europe over the past few years, wiping out 50% to 90% of the colonies of many beekeepers -- and along with it, their livelihood.
3. News Magazines and TV News
While the TV evening newscasts haven't gone anywhere over the last several decades,
their audiences have. In 1984, in a story about the diminishing returns of the evening news, the New York Times reported that all three network evening-news programs combined
had only 40.9 million viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what they have today is half that.
2. Analog TV
According to the Consumer Electronics Association, 85% of homes in the U.S. get their television programmingthrough cable or satellite providers. For the remaining 15% --
or 13 million individuals -- who are using rabbit ears or a large outdoor antenna to get their local stations, change is in the air. If you are one of these people you'll needed to get a new TV or a converter box in order to get the new stations which will only be broadcast in = 0 A digital.
1. The Family Farm
Since the 1930's, the number of family farms has been declining rapidly. According to the USDA, 5.3 million farms dotted the nation in 1950, but this number had declined to 2.1 million by the 2003 farm census (data from the 2007 census hasn't yet been published). Ninety-one percent of the U.S. FARMS are small Family Farms.
Both interesting and saddening, isn't it?
Source: Internet
(We've all seen this before,but it needs to be repeated. We need to wake up and become observant of the changes that are happening all around us.
Some are good, others are trivial, and some need to reacted to by all of us. Like our country and our government, we are being consumed by foreigners and are losing more and more of the rights we have fought for, and we are paying for this!!! Wake up, America.)
25. U.S. Post Office
They are pricing themselves out of existence. With e-mail, and and online services
they are a relic of the past. (refer to #9)Packages are also sent faster and cheaper with UPS.
24. Yellow Pages
This year will be pivotal for the global Yellow Pages industry. Much like newspapers,
print Yellow Pages will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts,
from Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), to local search engines and combination search/listing services like Reach Local and Yodel Factors acceleration of the print 'fade rate' and the looming recession will contribute to the onslaught. One research firm predicts the falloff in usage of newspapers and print Yellow Pages
could even reach 10% this year -- much higher than the 2%-3% fade rate seen in past years.
23. Classified Ads
The Internet has made so many things obsolete that newspaper classified ads might sound like just another trivial item on a long list. But this is one of those harbingers of the future that could signal the end of civilization as we know it. The argument is that if newspaper classifieds are replaced by free online listings at sites like Craigslist.org and Google Base, then newspapers are not far behind them.
22. Movie Rental Stores
While Netflix is looking up at the moment, Blockbuster keeps closing store locations
by the hundreds. It still has about 6,000 left across the world, but those keep dwindling and the stock is down considerably in 2008, especially since the company gave up a quest of Circuit City. Movie Gallery, which owned the Hollywood Video brand,
closed up shop earlier this year. Countless small video chains and mom-and-pop stores
have given up the ghost already.
21. Dial-up Internet Access
Dial-up connections have fallen from 40% in 2001 to 10% in 2008. The combination of an infrastructure to accommodate affordable high speed Internet connections and the disappearing home phone have all but pounded the final nail in the coffin of dial-up Internet access.
20. Phone Land Lines
According to a survey from the National Center for Health Statistics, at the end of 2007, nearly one in six homes was cell-only and, of those homes that had land lines, one in eight only received calls on their cells.
19. Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs
Maryland's icon, the blue crab, has been fading away in Chesapeake Bay. Last year Maryland saw the lowest harvest (22 million pounds) since 1945. Just four decades ago
the bay produced 96 million pounds. The population is down 70% since 1990, when they first did a formal count. There are only about 120 million crabs in the bay and they think they need 200 million for a sustainable population. Over-fishing, pollution, invasive species and global warming get the blame.
18. VCR's
For the better part of three decades, the VCR was a best-seller and staple in every American household until being completely decimated by the DVD, and now the Digital Video Recorder (DVR). In fact, the only remnants of the VHS age at your local Wal-Mart or Radio Shack are blank VHS tapes these days. Pre-recorded VHS tapes are largely gone
and VHS decks are practically nowhere to be found. They served us so well.
17. Ash Trees
In the late 1990's, a pretty, iridescent green species of beetle, now known as the emerald ash borer, hitched a ride to North America with ash wood products imported from eastern Asia. In less than a decade, its larvae have killed millions of trees in the Midwest, and continue to spread. They've killed more than 30 million ash trees in southeastern Michigan alone, with tens of millions more lost in Ohio and Indiana. More than 7.5 billion ash trees are currently at risk.
16. Ham Radio
Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and often worldwide) wireless communications with each other and are able to support their communities with emergency and disaster communications if necessary, while increasing their personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory.However, proliferation of the Internet and its popularity among youth
has caused the decline of amateur radio. In the past five years alone, the number of people holding active ham radio licenses has dropped by 50,000, even though Morse Code
is no longer a requirement.
15. The Swimming Hole
Thanks to our litigious society, swimming holes are becoming a thing of the past.
'20/20' reports that swimming hole owners, like Robert Every in High Falls, NY, are shutting them down out of worry that if someone gets hurt they'll sue. And that's exactly what happened in Seattle. The city of Bellingham was sued by Katie Hofstetter
who was paralyzed in a fall at a popular swimming hole in Whatcom Falls Park. As injuries occur and lawsuits follow, expect more swimming holes to post 'Keep out!' signs.
14. Answering Machines
The increasing disappearance of answering machines is directly tied to No 20 our list -- the decline of landlines. According to USA Today, the number of homes that only use cell phones jumped 159% between 2004 and 2007. It has been particularly bad in New York; since 2000, landline usage has dropped 55%. It's logical that as cell phones rise,
many of them replacing traditional landlines, that there will be fewer answering machines.
13. Cameras That Use Film
It doesn't require a statistician to prove the rapid disappearance of the film camera in America. Just look to companies like Nikon, the professional's choice for quality camera equipment. In 2006, it announced that it would stop making film cameras, pointing to the shrinking market -- only 3% of its sales in 2005, compared to 75% of sales from digital cameras and equipment.
12. Incandescent Bulbs
Before a few years ago,the standard 60-watt (or, yikes, 100-watt) bulb was the mainstay of every U.S. home. With the green movement and all-things-sustainable-energy crowd, the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb (CFL) is largely replacing the older, Edison-era incandescent bulb. The EPA reports that 2007 sales for Energy Star CFLs nearly doubled from 2006, and these sales accounted for approximately 20 percent of the U.S. light bulb market. And according to USA Today, a new energy bill plans to phase out incandescent bulbs in the next four to 12 years.
11. Stand-Alone Bowling Alleys
Bowling Balls. US claims there are still 60 million Americans who bowl at least once a year, but many are not bowling in stand-alone bowling alleys. Today most new bowling alleys are part of facilities for all types of recreation including laser tag, go-karts,
bumper cars, video game arcades, climbing walls and glow miniature golf. Bowling lanes also have been added to many non-traditional venues such as adult communities, hotels
and resorts, and gambling casinos.
10. The Milkman
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 1950, over half of the milk delivered was to the home in quart bottles, by 963, it was about a third and by 2001,
it represented only 0.4 percent. Nowadays most milk is sold through supermarkets in gallon jugs. The steady decline in home-delivered milk is blamed, of course, on the rise of the supermarket, better home refrigeration and longer-lasting milk. Although some milkmen still make the rounds in pockets of the U.S., they are certainly a dying breed.
9. Hand-Written Letters
In 2006, the Radicati Group estimated that, worldwide, 183 billion e-mails were sent each day. Two million each second. By November of 2007, an estimated 3.3 billion Earthlings owned cell phones, and 80% of the world's population had access to cell phone coverage. In 2004, half-a-trillion text messages were sent, and the number has no doubt increased exponentially since then. So where amongst this gorge of gabble is there room for the elegant, polite hand-written letter?
8. Wild Horses
It is estimated that 100 years ago, as many as two million horses were roaming free within the United States. In 2001, National Geographic News estimated that the wild horse population has decreased to about 50,000 head. Currently, the National Wild Horse
and Burro Advisory board states that there are 32,000 free roaming horses in ten Western states, with half of them residing in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management is seeking
to reduce the total number of free range horses to 27,000, possibly by selective euthanasia.
7. Personal Checks
According to an American Bankers Assoc. report, a net 23% of consumers plan to decrease their use of checks over the next two years, while a net 14% plan to increase their use of PIN debit. Bill payment remains the last stronghold of paper-based payments -- for the time being. Checks continue to be the most commonly used bill payment method, with 71% of consumers payingat least one recurring bill per month by writing a check. However, a bill-by-bill basis, checks account for only 49% of consumers' recurring bill payments (down from 72% in 2001 and 60% in 2003).
6. Drive-in Theaters
During the peak in 1958, there were more than 4,000 drive-in theaters in this country,
but in 2007 only 405 drive-ins were still operating. Exactly zero new drive-ins have been built since 2005. Only one reopened in 2005 and five reopened in 2006, so there isn't much of a movement toward reviving the closed ones.
5. Mumps & Measles
Despite what's been in the news lately, the measles and mumps actually, truly are disappearing from the United States. In 1964, 212,000 cases of mumps were reported in the U.S. By 1983, this figure had dropped to 3,000, thanks to a vigorous vaccination program. Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine, approximately half a million cases of measles were reported in the U.S. annually, resulting in 450 deaths. In 2005, only 66 cases were recorded.
4. Honey Bees
Perhaps nothing on our list of disappearing America is so dire; plummeting so enormously;
and so necessary to the survival of our food supply as the honey bee. Very scary.
'Colony Collapse Disorder,' or CCD, has spread throughout the U.S. and Europe over the past few years, wiping out 50% to 90% of the colonies of many beekeepers -- and along with it, their livelihood.
3. News Magazines and TV News
While the TV evening newscasts haven't gone anywhere over the last several decades,
their audiences have. In 1984, in a story about the diminishing returns of the evening news, the New York Times reported that all three network evening-news programs combined
had only 40.9 million viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what they have today is half that.
2. Analog TV
According to the Consumer Electronics Association, 85% of homes in the U.S. get their television programmingthrough cable or satellite providers. For the remaining 15% --
or 13 million individuals -- who are using rabbit ears or a large outdoor antenna to get their local stations, change is in the air. If you are one of these people you'll needed to get a new TV or a converter box in order to get the new stations which will only be broadcast in = 0 A digital.
1. The Family Farm
Since the 1930's, the number of family farms has been declining rapidly. According to the USDA, 5.3 million farms dotted the nation in 1950, but this number had declined to 2.1 million by the 2003 farm census (data from the 2007 census hasn't yet been published). Ninety-one percent of the U.S. FARMS are small Family Farms.
Both interesting and saddening, isn't it?
Source: Internet
Facts About Mississippi
The Mississippi Gulf Coast , from Biloxi to Henderson Point, is the largest and longest man-made beach in the world.
The Ringier-America company in Corinth , MS prints National Geographic.
The world's only cactus plantation is located in Edwards with more than 3,000 varieties of cacti.
Mississippi has more tree farms than any other state.
Mississippi has more churches per capita than any other state.
Norris Bookbinding Company in Greenwood is the largest Bible rebinding plant in the nation.
H.A. Cole in Jackson , MS , developed the cleaning product Pine-Sol. Pine-Sol is manufactured only in Pearl , MS .
Dr. Tichenor created Dr. Tichenor's Antiseptic in Liberty , MS (not in South Louisiana as commonly believed).
Four cities in the world have been sanctioned by the International Theatre/Dance Committee to host the International Ballet Competition: Moscow , Russia ; Varna , Bulgaria ; Helsinki , Finland ; and Jackson , Mississippi .
David Harrison of Columbus owns the patent on the "Soft Toilet Seat." Over one million are sold every year.
The first football player on a Wheaties box was Walter Payton of Columbia , MS .
The Teddy Bear's name originated after a bear hunt in Mississippi with President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt refused to shoot an exhausted and possibly lame bear. News of this spread across the country, and a New York merchant capitalized on this publicity by creating a stuffed bear called "Teddy's Bear."
H. T. Merrill of Iuka flew the first round-trip transoceanic flight in 1928. The flight to England was made in a plane loaded with ping-pong balls.
The birthplace of Elvis in Tupelo includes: a museum, a chapel, and the two-room house in which Elvis was born.
The world's oldest Holiday Inn is in Clarksdale .
Blazon-Flexible Flyer, Inc., in West Point , manufactures the best snow sled in the country, the Flexible Flyer.
Greenwood is the home of Cotton Row, which is the second largest cotton exchange in the nation and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Emil and Kelly Mitchell, the King and Queen of Gypsies, are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Meridian . Since 1915, people from all over the world have left gifts of fruit and juice at their grave sites.
The 4-H Club began in Holmes County in 1907.
The Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg is the largest research, testing, and development facility of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
On April 25, 1866, women in Columbus decorated the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers in Friendship Cemetery . This gesture became known as Decoration Day, the beginning of what we observe as Memorial Day.
Shoes were first sold as pairs in 1884 at Phil Gilbert's Shoe Parlor in Vicksburg .
Inventor James D. Byrd of Clinton holds seven patents and developed the plastic used as a heat shield by NASA.
Mississippi University for Women in Columbus was the first state college for women in the country, established in 1884.
The McCoy Federal Building in Jackson is the first federal building in the United States named for a Black man. Dr. A. H. McCoy was a dentist and business leader.
Hat Maker John B. Stetson learned and practiced hat making in Dunn's Falls, MS.
The oldest field game in America is Stickball, played by the Choctaw Indians of Mississippi. Demonstrations can be seen every July at the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia , MS .
Alcorn State University , in Lorman, is the oldest black land grant college in the world.
The International Checkers Hall of Fame is in Petal ( Hattiesburg ).
Natchez was settled by the French in 1716 and is the oldest permanent settlement on the Mississippi River .
Natchez once had 500 millionaires, more than any other city except New York City .
Natchez now has more than 500 buildings that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Captain Issac Ross of Lorman freed his slaves in 1834 and arranged for their passage to the west coast of Africa . They founded the country of Liberia .
Oliver Pollock was the largest individual financial contributor to the American Revolution. He invented the dollar sign ($). He is buried near Pinckneyville.
Resin Bowie, the inventor of the Bowie Knife, is buried in Port Gibson, MS.
Liberty was the first town in the country to erect a Confederate monument in 1871.
The Pass Christian Yacht Club is the second oldest yacht club in North America , founded in 1849.
The Mississippi Legislature passed one of the first laws in 1839 to protect the property rights of married women.
The Natchez Trace Parkway , named an " All American Road " by the federal government, extends from Natchez to just south of Nashville , Tennessee . The Trace began as an Indian trail more than 8,000 years ago.
The Mississippi Delta is the birthplace of the Blues, which preceded the birth of Jazz, the only other original American art form.
The Vicksburg National Cemetery is the second-largest national cemetery in the country. Arlington National Cemetery is the largest.
D'Lo, MS was featured in Life Magazine for sending proportionally more men to serve in World War II than any other town of its size; 38 percent of the men who lived in D'Lo served.
In 1894, Coca-Cola was first bottled by Joseph A. Biedenharn in Vicksburg .
Mississippi was the first state to outlaw imprisonment of debtors.
Belzoni is the Catfish Capital of the World. Approximately 70 percent of the nation's farm-raised catfish comes from Mississippi .
Some things you may, or may NOT, know about Mississippi:
Fred Montalvo owns the company that makes "Icee" drinks is from Edwards.
Peavey Electronics, in Meridian , is the world's largest manufacturer of musical amplification equipment.
Proportionally more Mississippians were killed during the Civil War than from any other Confederate state.
Serving during Reconstruction, Hiram Revels was the first Black U.S. Senator.
The first Parents-Teachers Association was founded in Crystal Springs .
Babe Ruth's last home run was hit off a Mississippian, Guy Bush of Tupelo .
The famous BURNS GIRLS AND BOYS were born in Mississippi to Rev. and Mrs John B. Burns, Sr.
Source: Internet
The Ringier-America company in Corinth , MS prints National Geographic.
The world's only cactus plantation is located in Edwards with more than 3,000 varieties of cacti.
Mississippi has more tree farms than any other state.
Mississippi has more churches per capita than any other state.
Norris Bookbinding Company in Greenwood is the largest Bible rebinding plant in the nation.
H.A. Cole in Jackson , MS , developed the cleaning product Pine-Sol. Pine-Sol is manufactured only in Pearl , MS .
Dr. Tichenor created Dr. Tichenor's Antiseptic in Liberty , MS (not in South Louisiana as commonly believed).
Four cities in the world have been sanctioned by the International Theatre/Dance Committee to host the International Ballet Competition: Moscow , Russia ; Varna , Bulgaria ; Helsinki , Finland ; and Jackson , Mississippi .
David Harrison of Columbus owns the patent on the "Soft Toilet Seat." Over one million are sold every year.
The first football player on a Wheaties box was Walter Payton of Columbia , MS .
The Teddy Bear's name originated after a bear hunt in Mississippi with President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt refused to shoot an exhausted and possibly lame bear. News of this spread across the country, and a New York merchant capitalized on this publicity by creating a stuffed bear called "Teddy's Bear."
H. T. Merrill of Iuka flew the first round-trip transoceanic flight in 1928. The flight to England was made in a plane loaded with ping-pong balls.
The birthplace of Elvis in Tupelo includes: a museum, a chapel, and the two-room house in which Elvis was born.
The world's oldest Holiday Inn is in Clarksdale .
Blazon-Flexible Flyer, Inc., in West Point , manufactures the best snow sled in the country, the Flexible Flyer.
Greenwood is the home of Cotton Row, which is the second largest cotton exchange in the nation and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Emil and Kelly Mitchell, the King and Queen of Gypsies, are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Meridian . Since 1915, people from all over the world have left gifts of fruit and juice at their grave sites.
The 4-H Club began in Holmes County in 1907.
The Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg is the largest research, testing, and development facility of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
On April 25, 1866, women in Columbus decorated the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers in Friendship Cemetery . This gesture became known as Decoration Day, the beginning of what we observe as Memorial Day.
Shoes were first sold as pairs in 1884 at Phil Gilbert's Shoe Parlor in Vicksburg .
Inventor James D. Byrd of Clinton holds seven patents and developed the plastic used as a heat shield by NASA.
Mississippi University for Women in Columbus was the first state college for women in the country, established in 1884.
The McCoy Federal Building in Jackson is the first federal building in the United States named for a Black man. Dr. A. H. McCoy was a dentist and business leader.
Hat Maker John B. Stetson learned and practiced hat making in Dunn's Falls, MS.
The oldest field game in America is Stickball, played by the Choctaw Indians of Mississippi. Demonstrations can be seen every July at the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia , MS .
Alcorn State University , in Lorman, is the oldest black land grant college in the world.
The International Checkers Hall of Fame is in Petal ( Hattiesburg ).
Natchez was settled by the French in 1716 and is the oldest permanent settlement on the Mississippi River .
Natchez once had 500 millionaires, more than any other city except New York City .
Natchez now has more than 500 buildings that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Captain Issac Ross of Lorman freed his slaves in 1834 and arranged for their passage to the west coast of Africa . They founded the country of Liberia .
Oliver Pollock was the largest individual financial contributor to the American Revolution. He invented the dollar sign ($). He is buried near Pinckneyville.
Resin Bowie, the inventor of the Bowie Knife, is buried in Port Gibson, MS.
Liberty was the first town in the country to erect a Confederate monument in 1871.
The Pass Christian Yacht Club is the second oldest yacht club in North America , founded in 1849.
The Mississippi Legislature passed one of the first laws in 1839 to protect the property rights of married women.
The Natchez Trace Parkway , named an " All American Road " by the federal government, extends from Natchez to just south of Nashville , Tennessee . The Trace began as an Indian trail more than 8,000 years ago.
The Mississippi Delta is the birthplace of the Blues, which preceded the birth of Jazz, the only other original American art form.
The Vicksburg National Cemetery is the second-largest national cemetery in the country. Arlington National Cemetery is the largest.
D'Lo, MS was featured in Life Magazine for sending proportionally more men to serve in World War II than any other town of its size; 38 percent of the men who lived in D'Lo served.
In 1894, Coca-Cola was first bottled by Joseph A. Biedenharn in Vicksburg .
Mississippi was the first state to outlaw imprisonment of debtors.
Belzoni is the Catfish Capital of the World. Approximately 70 percent of the nation's farm-raised catfish comes from Mississippi .
Some things you may, or may NOT, know about Mississippi:
Fred Montalvo owns the company that makes "Icee" drinks is from Edwards.
Peavey Electronics, in Meridian , is the world's largest manufacturer of musical amplification equipment.
Proportionally more Mississippians were killed during the Civil War than from any other Confederate state.
Serving during Reconstruction, Hiram Revels was the first Black U.S. Senator.
The first Parents-Teachers Association was founded in Crystal Springs .
Babe Ruth's last home run was hit off a Mississippian, Guy Bush of Tupelo .
The famous BURNS GIRLS AND BOYS were born in Mississippi to Rev. and Mrs John B. Burns, Sr.
Source: Internet
Friday, September 10, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
An Interesting Bit Of Logo Trivia...,
Tostito
If you look at the center of this logo, you can see two people enjoying a Tostito chip with a bowl of salsa.
This logo conveys an idea of people connecting with each other.
Formula 1
At first, this logo might not make much sense. But if you look closely, you'll see the number 1 in the negative space between the F and the red stripes.
I also love how this logo communicates a feeling of speed.
Milwaukee Brewers
The Milwaukee Brewers is a professional baseball team from Milwaukee , Wisconsin (well, duh…). Their logo is actually made up of the letters M (on top) and B (below the m).
These two letters also form a baseball glove.
Northwest Airlines
This simple looking logo actually carries a lot of information. First of all you can see the letters N and W, the first two letters of the brand name.
But what most people don't see is the compass that points to the Northwest, another reference to the brand name.
Amazon
This logo doesn't seem to hide much at first sight, but it gives you a little insight in the philosophy behind the brand. First of all, the yellow swoosh looks like a smile: Amazon wants to have the best customer satisfaction.
The swoosh also connects the letters a and z, meaning that this store has everything from a to z.
Toblerone
Toblerone is a chocolate-company from Bern , Switzerland . Bern is sometimes called ‘The City Of Bears ’.
They have incorporated this idea in the Toblerone logo, because if you look closely, you'll see the silhouette of a bear.
Baskin Robins
The old logo of Baskin Robbins had the number 31 with an arc above it. The new logo took this idea to the next level.
The pink parts of the BR still form the number 31, a reference to the 31 flavors.
Sony Vaio
Sony Vaio is a well known brand of laptops. But did you know that the name Vaio logo also had a hidden meaning?
Well, the first two letters represent the basic analogue signal. The last two letters look like a 1 and 0, representing the digital signal.
Do you see any arrows on FedEx’s logo? I saw it a few times at other site saying that there’s an arrow hidden in the FedEx arrow, but I couldn’t find it. I now know where it is, it’s your turn to find.
The clue is that the arrow is located in between the alphabet E and X, and the arrow is white, acting as a background.
Source: Internet
Friday, August 27, 2010
" I've Learned"
I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
I've learned - that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
I've learned - that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
I've learned - that it's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.
I've learned - that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that,you'd better know something.
I've learned - that you shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do but to the best you can do.
I've learned - that it's not what happens to people that's important. It's what they do about it.
I've learned - that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
I've learned - that no matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
I've learned - that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I've learned - that it's a lot easier to react than it is to think.
I've learned - that you should always leave loved ones withloving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I've learned - that you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I've learned - that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I've learned - that either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I've learned - that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.
I've learned - that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I've learned - that learning to forgive takes practice.
I've learned - that there are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
I've learned - that money is a lousy way of keeping score.
I've learned - that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
I've learned - that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.
I've learned - that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
I've learned - that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.
I've learned - that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
I've learned - that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had
and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
I've learned - that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.
I've learned - that your family won't always be there for you. It may seem funny,
but people you aren't related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families aren't biological.
I've learned - that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I've learned - that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I've learned - that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
I've learned - that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.
I've learned - that sometimes when my friends fight, I'm forced to choose sides even when I don't want to.
I've learned - that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
I've learned - that sometimes you have to put the individual ahead of their actions.
I've learned - that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
I've learned - that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
I've learned - that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I've learned - that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will hurt in the process.
I've learned - that there are many ways of falling and staying in love.
I've learned - that no matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves
get farther in life.
I've learned - that no matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.
I've learned - that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.
I've learned - that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.
I've learned - that writing, as well as talking, can ease emotional pains.
I've learned - that the paradigm we live in is not all that is offered to us.
I've learned - that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I've learned - that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
I've learned - that although the word "love" can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used.
I've learned - that it's hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and
not hurting people's feelings and standing up for what you believe.
Source: (K. Hansen)
If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you'd like to win, but think you'll lose, you're lost.
For out in the world we find success begins with a person's faith;
It's all in thestate of mind.
Life's battle don't always go to the stronger or faster hand; They go to the one who trusts in God and always thinks "I can."
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life".
I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands.
You need to be able to throw something back.
I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you focus on your family, the needs of others, your work, meeting new people, and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love human touches -- holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn
I've learned - that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
I've learned - that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
I've learned - that it's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.
I've learned - that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that,you'd better know something.
I've learned - that you shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do but to the best you can do.
I've learned - that it's not what happens to people that's important. It's what they do about it.
I've learned - that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
I've learned - that no matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
I've learned - that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I've learned - that it's a lot easier to react than it is to think.
I've learned - that you should always leave loved ones withloving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I've learned - that you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I've learned - that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I've learned - that either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I've learned - that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.
I've learned - that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I've learned - that learning to forgive takes practice.
I've learned - that there are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
I've learned - that money is a lousy way of keeping score.
I've learned - that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
I've learned - that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.
I've learned - that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
I've learned - that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.
I've learned - that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
I've learned - that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had
and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
I've learned - that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.
I've learned - that your family won't always be there for you. It may seem funny,
but people you aren't related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families aren't biological.
I've learned - that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I've learned - that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I've learned - that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
I've learned - that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.
I've learned - that sometimes when my friends fight, I'm forced to choose sides even when I don't want to.
I've learned - that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
I've learned - that sometimes you have to put the individual ahead of their actions.
I've learned - that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
I've learned - that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
I've learned - that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I've learned - that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will hurt in the process.
I've learned - that there are many ways of falling and staying in love.
I've learned - that no matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves
get farther in life.
I've learned - that no matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.
I've learned - that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.
I've learned - that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.
I've learned - that writing, as well as talking, can ease emotional pains.
I've learned - that the paradigm we live in is not all that is offered to us.
I've learned - that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I've learned - that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
I've learned - that although the word "love" can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used.
I've learned - that it's hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and
not hurting people's feelings and standing up for what you believe.
Source: (K. Hansen)
If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you'd like to win, but think you'll lose, you're lost.
For out in the world we find success begins with a person's faith;
It's all in thestate of mind.
Life's battle don't always go to the stronger or faster hand; They go to the one who trusts in God and always thinks "I can."
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life".
I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands.
You need to be able to throw something back.
I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you focus on your family, the needs of others, your work, meeting new people, and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love human touches -- holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn
Thoughts And Quotes
You were not created a copy. You were born an original. You are unique and special in your own way. Be happy with yourself.
Life is like a roller coaster ride - it has its ups and downs, but if you’re not screaming, you’re not getting your money’s worth.
If you want to do something, you should do it today - tomorrow it may be against the law.
You gain strength courage and confidence,by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The treatment must not be worse than the disease. Alan Tiernstein
"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."
Paul Harvey
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ~ Edward R. Murrow
"Because I took a moment to speak. And you took a second to smile. A tiny part of me will leave with you. And a little bit of you will stay." ~ Jevanaf
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." ~ Sally Koch ~
"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."
~ Sacha Guitry ~
"I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside." ~ Brian Tracy
Irish Proverbs
A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
A lie travels farther than the truth.
An old broom knows the dirty corners best.
Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
Even a small thorn causes festering.
Every dog is brave on his own doorstep.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." ~ George Carlin
Music is the Words of the Soul.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~
Leopold Stokowski
Without music life would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~ Mencius
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~
Victor Hugo
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ~ Aaron Copland
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. ~ Plato
Music is the soundtrack of your life. ~ Dick Clark
Love the music in yourself, not yourself in the music. ~ Jon Peter Lewis
If music be the food of love; play on. ~ William Shakespeare
If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde
" Don't meddle in the affairs of the Dragon for you are crunchy and good with ketchup "
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some sort of battle.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"Imagination is more important than intelligence" ~ Albert Einstein
Food for Thought
Two wrongs do not make a right, but three lefts do
My wild oats have turned to shredded wheat
Is reading in the bathroom considered multitasking?
Seen it all. Done it all. Can't remember most of it.
Police station toilet stolen........cops have nothing to go on.
Schizophrenia beats being alone
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
You have the capacity to learn from your mistakes...you'll learn a lot today.
Heck is where people go who don't believe on Gosh!
Time is just nature's way to keep everything from happening at once.
Hard work never killed anyone, but why chance it?
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts
Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires
I don't have a solution; but I do admire the problem.
I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up a thousand times the memory.
The Meek shall inherit the earth...after we're through with it.
Two can live a cheaply as one....for half as long.
Ham and Eggs....a day's work for a chicken; a lifetime commitment for a pig.
Lord, if I can't be skinny, please let all my friends be fat.
Good Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
The buck doesn't even slow down here so keep it going
Confession is good for the soul, but bad for your career
Sometimes too much to drink isn't enough
It hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
Welcome to Utah...set your watch back 20 years.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch
What happens if you get scared to death twice?
Losing a husband/wife can be hard. In my case it was almost impossible.
We have enough youth. How about a fountain of "SMART"?
"This is a lifetime deal.... Just remember these three things.... There is NO DEPOSIT----NO REFUND----and absolutely NO RETURN"
" It is worse to be sick in the soul than in body." ~ Polish Proverb ~
" Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death." ~ Roadside Church Sign ~
" The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie." ~ Ann Landers ~
" I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble." ~ Mennonite Proverb ~
The fruit with its seeds on the outside: strawberry.
The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh is lettuce.
"Vision without strategy is little more than a daydream." John Maxwell
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those." ~ Michael Nolan
WISE WORDS
'Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.'
A sharp tongue can cut my own throat.
If I want my dreams to come true, I mustn't oversleep.
Of all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.
The best vitamin for making friends...B1.
The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.
One thing I can give and still keep...is my word.
I lie the loudest when I lie to myself.
If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.One thing I can't recycle is wasted time.
Ideas won't work unless ' I ' do.
My mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.
The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime! It is never too late to become what I might have been.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right...
Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong. Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late. I don't want to let that happen so I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.
Source: Internet
Life is like a roller coaster ride - it has its ups and downs, but if you’re not screaming, you’re not getting your money’s worth.
If you want to do something, you should do it today - tomorrow it may be against the law.
You gain strength courage and confidence,by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The treatment must not be worse than the disease. Alan Tiernstein
"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."
Paul Harvey
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ~ Edward R. Murrow
"Because I took a moment to speak. And you took a second to smile. A tiny part of me will leave with you. And a little bit of you will stay." ~ Jevanaf
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." ~ Sally Koch ~
"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."
~ Sacha Guitry ~
"I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside." ~ Brian Tracy
Irish Proverbs
A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
A lie travels farther than the truth.
An old broom knows the dirty corners best.
Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
Even a small thorn causes festering.
Every dog is brave on his own doorstep.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." ~ George Carlin
Music is the Words of the Soul.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~
Leopold Stokowski
Without music life would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~ Mencius
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~
Victor Hugo
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ~ Aaron Copland
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. ~ Plato
Music is the soundtrack of your life. ~ Dick Clark
Love the music in yourself, not yourself in the music. ~ Jon Peter Lewis
If music be the food of love; play on. ~ William Shakespeare
If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde
" Don't meddle in the affairs of the Dragon for you are crunchy and good with ketchup "
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some sort of battle.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"Imagination is more important than intelligence" ~ Albert Einstein
Food for Thought
Two wrongs do not make a right, but three lefts do
My wild oats have turned to shredded wheat
Is reading in the bathroom considered multitasking?
Seen it all. Done it all. Can't remember most of it.
Police station toilet stolen........cops have nothing to go on.
Schizophrenia beats being alone
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
You have the capacity to learn from your mistakes...you'll learn a lot today.
Heck is where people go who don't believe on Gosh!
Time is just nature's way to keep everything from happening at once.
Hard work never killed anyone, but why chance it?
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts
Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires
I don't have a solution; but I do admire the problem.
I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up a thousand times the memory.
The Meek shall inherit the earth...after we're through with it.
Two can live a cheaply as one....for half as long.
Ham and Eggs....a day's work for a chicken; a lifetime commitment for a pig.
Lord, if I can't be skinny, please let all my friends be fat.
Good Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
The buck doesn't even slow down here so keep it going
Confession is good for the soul, but bad for your career
Sometimes too much to drink isn't enough
It hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
Welcome to Utah...set your watch back 20 years.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch
What happens if you get scared to death twice?
Losing a husband/wife can be hard. In my case it was almost impossible.
We have enough youth. How about a fountain of "SMART"?
"This is a lifetime deal.... Just remember these three things.... There is NO DEPOSIT----NO REFUND----and absolutely NO RETURN"
" It is worse to be sick in the soul than in body." ~ Polish Proverb ~
" Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death." ~ Roadside Church Sign ~
" The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie." ~ Ann Landers ~
" I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble." ~ Mennonite Proverb ~
The fruit with its seeds on the outside: strawberry.
The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh is lettuce.
"Vision without strategy is little more than a daydream." John Maxwell
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those." ~ Michael Nolan
WISE WORDS
'Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.'
A sharp tongue can cut my own throat.
If I want my dreams to come true, I mustn't oversleep.
Of all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.
The best vitamin for making friends...B1.
The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.
One thing I can give and still keep...is my word.
I lie the loudest when I lie to myself.
If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.One thing I can't recycle is wasted time.
Ideas won't work unless ' I ' do.
My mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.
The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime! It is never too late to become what I might have been.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right...
Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong. Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late. I don't want to let that happen so I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.
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