ALL THE REST –    January 24
  

 

Today's Quotations — SLEEP
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In a sound sleep the soul goes home to recruit her strength, which could not else endure the wear and tear of life.

Rahel


It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. A gentle failure of the perceptions creeps over you; the spirit of consciousness disengages itself once more, and with slow and hushing degrees, like a mother detaching her hand from that of a sleeping child, the mind seems to have a balmy lid closing over it, like the eye--it is closed--the mysterious spirit has gone to take its airy rounds.

— Leigh Hunt

 
 

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant For peaceful sleep and meditative snores, To ceaseless din and mindless merriment And waste of shoes and floors.

— Lewis Carroll 


Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.

— Shakespeare

 
 

The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. Sleep is the half of time which heals us.

— Richter


 

word puzzleToday's Word – CADRE

 

cad·re noun 1. A nucleus of trained personnel around which a larger organization can be built and trained: a cadre of sergeants and corporals who train recruits. 2.a. A tightly knit group of zealots who are active in advancing the interests of a revolutionary party. b. A member of such a group. 3. A framework.

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 

The Potato

Did you ever wonder who was the first person to eat some of our most popular foods today. 

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The potato is one of the world's main food crops, but it was not always so. The potato, Solanum tuberosum, is one of some 150 tuber bearing plants of the Solanum genus. The common potato ( White potato, Irish potato ) is a plant from the New World. It apparently originated in the Peruvian-Bolivian Andes. It differs from other 'root' crops in that the edible part of the plant is a tuber . A tuber is the enlarged end of an underground stem.

The potato was cultivated in South America as early as 1,800 years ago. There were a number of varieties grown. In the same areas today one can find as many as 60 varieties in a single village market. The invading Spaniards introduced potatoes into Europe during the 16th century. It quickly became popular in England and Ireland and by the end of the 17th century the newcomer was a major crop in Ireland. 

The potato is a staple in much of the world today. It originated in the New World. It quickly became popular in England and Ireland, but not so with France. The French were very suspicious of the potato. In 1619, Burgundy banned the potato. Other areas of France quickly followed with their ban of the potato. The French believed that the potato was responsible for the disease of leprosy. The Swiss also were suspicious of the potato. They blamed the potato for the disease of scrofula.

In 1795 the inhabitants of Munich had a huge crop failure. Due to their suspicions, they refused to eat available potatoes. They and hundreds of thousands of French died of starvation in the famine due to their refusal to eat the potato.It was not until after 1814 that the French began to accept the potato as a food.
  

Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica | The Mammoth Book of Oddities

 


You are worthy, O Lord our God,
to receive glory and honor and power.
For you created everything,
and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created."

Rev. 4:11

 

 

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Today's SMILE

 

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

 
   

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Only in America...            

Only in America...can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance...

Only in America...are there handicap parking places in front of an skating rink...

Only in America...do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions.

Only in America...do people order double cheese burgers, a large fry, and a diet coke...

Only in America...do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters...

Only in America...do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and leave useless junk in the garage...

Only in America...do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place...

Only in America...do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight...

Only in America...do we use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "Poli" in Latin means "many" and "tics" meaning "blood-sucking creatures"... indulgences.

From Kasha Linka


A mother was teaching her three year old daughter The Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she repeated it after her mother.  One night she said she was ready to solo.  The mother listened with pride, as she carefully enunciated each word right up to the end.  "And lead us
not into temptation," she prayed, "but deliver us some e-mail, Amen."

From Kasha Linka


A nun was sitting at a window in her convent one day when she was handed a letter from home.   Upon opening it a $10.00 bill dropped out.  She was most pleased at receiving the gift from her home folks, but as she read the letter her attention was distracted by the actions of a shabbily dressed stranger who was leaning against a post in front of the convent.  She couldn't get him off her mind and, thinking that he might be in financial difficulties, she took the $10.00 bill and wrapped it in a piece of paper, on which she had written, "Don't despair, Sister Eulalia," and threw it out of the window to him.  He picked it up, read it, looked at her with a puzzled expression, tipped his hat and went off down the street.

The next day she was in her cell saying her beads when she was told that some man was at her door who insisted on seeing her.  She went down and found the shabbily dressed stranger waiting for her.  Without saying a word he handed her a roll of bills.   When she asked what they were for he replied, "That's the sixty bucks you have coming.  Don't Despair paid 5 to 1."

From Kasha Linka


A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin and Ryan, 5 and 3 years old.

The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake.  Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, he would say, 'Let my brother have the first pancake.  I can wait.'

Kevin turned to his younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus!"

From Kasha Linka


A defense attorney who was cross-examining a pathologist asked, "Since you didn't listen for a heartbeat and you didn't check for breathing, how were you sure the man was really dead when you signed the death certificate?"

"Well, let me put it this way," said the pathologist. "The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk. But I guess it's possible he could be out there practicing law somewhere."


Little Sammy's kindergarten class was on a field trip to their local police station. There they saw pictures tacked to a big bulletin board. The label clearly read, "The 10 Most Wanted."

One of the youngsters pointed to a picture and asked if it really was the photo of a wanted person.

"Yes," said the policeman, "the detectives want him very badly."

So Little Sammy asked, while tugging on the man's belt, "Um, mister, why didn't you keep them when you took their pictures?"


WARNING SIGNS THAT YOU NEED A NEW DOCTOR

- The patient before you was a goat.

- Instead of anesthetic he has you watch PBS.

- He has an assistant named Igor.

- The local bar association named him "client of the year."

- Whenever he leaves the room his nurse makes duck noises.

- During surgery he has to keep repeating that "thigh bone connected to the knee bone" song.

- Mike Wallace and a film crew are hanging out in his waiting room.

- He asks you to turn your head and cough during an eye exam.

- You can beat him in a game of Operation.

- All his Medical books are from the Time-Life "Do-it-Yourself Series".

- He has an office sharing arrangement with a mortician.



A father and son went fishing one day. After a couple hours out in the boat, the boy suddenly became curious about the world around him.

He asked his father, "How does this boat float?"

The father thought for a moment, then replied, "Don't rightly know, son."

The boy returned to his contemplation, then turned back to his father, "How do fish breath underwater?"

Once again the father replied, "Don't rightly know, son."

A little later the boy asked his father, "Why is the sky blue?"

Again, the father replied. "Don't rightly know, son."

Worried he was going to annoy his father, he says, "Dad, do you mind my asking you all of these questions?"

"Of course not son. If you don't ask questions, you'll never learn anything!"



TRUE FACT ...

Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day.

SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University

 

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If you wish to make a *real* sponge cake,
BORROW all the ingredients.


 


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