ALL THE REST –    February 28
  

Today's Quotations — ADVICE
 


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Whatever advice you give, be short.

— Horace

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

— Schiller 

 
 

Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!.

— Henry Miller 

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.

— Sydney Smith 

 

I  have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

— Harry S Truman 

 

word puzzleToday's Word – VITROLIC

 



vit·ri·ol·ic adjective. 1. Of, similar to, or derived from a vitriol. 2. Bitterly scathing; caustic: vitriolic criticism.


"If you are not good, none is good"-- those little words may give a terrific meaning to responsibility, may hold a vitriolic intensity for remorse.

George Eliot, Middlemarch


Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

Over the next several days the facts here on the DM will be about Serendipitous Discoveries.
This is the first fact on this subject.

   

Serendipity
Discoveries

Post-Its
 

 
   
 
Serendipity, or chance discovery. This has been the means of a number  of scientific discoveries both great and small. 

 

 
SERENDIPITY 12   

It is not all that often that a new product comes along that has us wondering - "What did we do without it." Post-it, those little (once only) yellow notes we see stuck everywhere is one of those products. These little notes were invented by 3M and named "Post-its." Since their invention they have been imitated by many. The initial development was rather serendipitous.

In 1974, Art Fry was employed at 3M in product development. On Sundays he sang in the church choir of North Presbyterian Church of North St. Paul, Minnesota. Art marked his choir book in the usual way one would, with tiny scraps of paper tucked into the choir book. The paper scraps marked the pages so that he could quickly turn to the proper song at the proper time. The problem was, sometimes the paper scraps would fall out. Art would have to hurriedly scramble to the correct page for the song

Art Fry says, "I don't know if it was a dull sermon or divine inspiration, but my mind began to wander and suddenly I thought of an adhesive that had been discovered by another 3M scientist, Dr. Spencer Silver." Dr. Silver had discarded the adhesive because it was not strong enough to be permanently useful. Fry's inspiration was that the discarded adhesive might be used to keep his place temporarily in the choir book without becoming permanently attached. Fry thought it could be "a temporarily permanent adhesive."


Art Fry returned to work on Monday ready to work on the project. He envisioned many other uses for the bookmark product. The adhesive idea was not an instant success. The discarded adhesive had to be modified to be both temporary enough and permanent enough. The experimentation and development took nearly a year and a half. Fry then showed the product to the marketing personnel. They were not sure that the public was looking for a sticky note pad that would sell at a premium price. The product was finally test marketed in four cities in 1977. It was quite successful in two of the cities, but in the other two cities the results were quite discouraging. Investigation into the wide difference in the reception of the notes disclosed that the two cities where the Post-its were successful the dealers were giving out free samples. Once the product was in the consumers' hands they were quite a success. By 1980 the Post-its were widely used in the US. By 1981 they were just as big a success in Europe.


Sources: Serendipity | Encyclopaedia Britannica | The New Shell Book of Firsts

 

 

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Today's SMILE

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

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

 
   

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New US Stamps  

The post office had to recall its series of stamps depicting famous lawyers. It seems people were confused as to which side to spit on.


Too Young for Heaven

A young lawyer dies and is sent to heaven.

Upon his arrival, he meets St. Peter at the Gate. St. Peter asks the
lawyer his name and looks up his entry in the Great Big Book.

St. Peter then looks at the lawyer and says, "You look very good for
being 138 years old."

Astonished, the lawyer replies, "There must be some mistake, I am
only 32."

St. Peter responds, "Not according to your billable hours." 

David A. Rinke II | Funny Pages Mailing List


 

A Test For Memory Loss


The doctor was administering a test for memory loss to three old gentlemen.

He asked, "What is 3 times 3?"

The first old man replied, "One Hundred and Fifty Six."

The doctor turned to the second old man. "What's three times three?"

The second old man said, "Tuesday."

The doctor then asked the same of the third man who answered, "Nine."

And how did you arrive at that answer?", asked the doctor.

The third old man answered, "Easy...I just subtracted Tuesday from 156 and I got nine."



A Can of Spinach

As an experiment, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are placed in separate rooms and left with a can of spinach, but rooms are opened, one-by-one.

In the first room, the engineer is snoring, with a battered, opened and emptied can. When asked, he explains that when he got hungry, he beat the can to its failure point.

In the second room, the physicist is seen mouthing equations, with a can popped open beside him. When asked, he explains that when he got hungry, he examined the stress points of the can, applied pressure, and "pop!"

In the third room, the mathematician is found sweating, and mumbling to himself, "Assume the can is open, assume the can is open...""
   

 


Grandma buys a Car?

One day, an elderly woman was walking along the street, coming home from the supermarket. Her bag of groceries was especially heavy that day, and as she passed Nathan Hale's Used Cars, she got an idea that she could drive herself to the store and save a lot of shoe leather, time and aching muscles. She walks into the car dealership and, as it just so happens, gets the owner himself. He asks her what kind of car she wants and she replies,

"Well, sonny, I can't remember the name exactly, but it has something to do with hate or anger."

The owner replies, "Well, let's see... Oh yes, you want a Plymouth Fury! We have a couple on the lot. What color do you prefer?"

The lady has some trouble explaining the exact color to him, so she reaches into her shopping bag, takes out an ear of corn, strips down the shucks and says, "I want this color sonny."

To which Nathan replies, "Ma'am I'm sorry, but we don't have any in this color. Could I show you a nice blue one?"

"No son, I want this color."

"But ma'am, they didn't make that color! Maybe a cherry red one would suit you?" says the owner, obviously worried about losing a sale.

By this time, the old lady gets mad, and starts throwing things at the owner, thereby chasing him out of the office and into the lot. One of the salesmen, coming into the office from the back door, notices the disruption and asks the secretary what the old woman was so upset about.

The secretary replies, "Apparently, Hale hath no Fury like the woman's corn!"?"


Just Follow My instructions

There once was a man who died and went to heaven. When he got to heaven, there were two doors. One had a sign above it saying "Married Men" and the second door had a sign reading "Single Men". He was married, so he went through the first door. Upon entering, he saw two more doors. One had a sign reading "Men Dominated by Their Wives" and the second read "Men NOT Dominated by Their Wives". The line for men dominated by their wives was so long it wrapped around heaven several times. However, at the other door, there was only one man, just standing there. So, the married man approaches the lone man under the Not-Dominated sign and asks: "Why are you just standing there? Aren't you going in?"

To which the gentleman replied: "Oh, I don't know. My wife just told me to stand here."  

From Digaday


(A PRAYER)

"Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself that I  am growing older...Keep me from the fatal habit of  thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.  Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs.  Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not bossy.  With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not
to use it all, but Thou knowest, Lord, that I want  a few friends at the end."

From: William H. Rayborn




How do you keep an idiot busy for hours?

 



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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You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.

 


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