ALL THE REST –    April 9
  

Today's Quotations – APRIL

 

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O! how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!.

–  William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Now that the April of your youth adorns 
The garden of your face.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury

 

 
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Vincent Canby on the Academy Awards

 

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APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly..

–   Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1911

 
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So sweet love seemed that April morn,
When first we kissed beside the thorn,
So strangely sweet, it was not strange
We thought that love could never change.

But I cantell -- let truth be told --
That love will change in growing old;
Though day by day is nought to see,
So delicate his motions be.

–  Aristide Brian, So sweet love seemed

 

Today's Short Words of  Wisdom



"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close 
they were to success when they gave up." 

Thomas Edison 

 

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  Today's Word – effulgence 
   

 


ef·ful·gence noun. A brilliant radiance.

Begotten Son, Divine Similitude,
In whose conspicuous count'nance, without cloud
Made visible, th' Almighty Father shines,
Whom else no Creature can behold; on thee
Impresst the effulgence of his Glorie abides,
Transfus'd on thee his ample Spirit rests.

PARADISE LOST
John Milton

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 


Prickly 
Facts

  

 

The Porcupine

Porcupines are herbivores. Their diet consists of tree bark and foliage. This diet is supplemented with fruits and grasses. As with most plant eating animals their diet is insufficient in salt. This causes the porcupine to have a ravenous appetite for salt. Natural salt licks, animal bones left by carnivores, yellow pond lilies, and other items of high salt content are attractive to porcupines. Some human products such as paints, plywood adhesives and the sweated on clothing of humans have a strong appeal for porcupines.

Porcupines are slow-footed, and stocky animals. They spend much of their life in trees. They are equipped by their Creator with very sharp and formidable incisors. These teeth are used for stripping bark and foliage from tree.

Though the porcupine is slow moving it is not helpless in defending itself. The well known defensive weapon of the porcupine is its specialized hairs or quills. The average porcupine has 30,000 quills. These quills are comparable in hardness and flexibility to celluloid. The quills are so sharp that they can penetrate the hide of any animal. The short quill that stud the muscular tail of the porcupine are the most formidable and do the most damage to the unwise attacker. With a few lashes of the tail, the porcupine can send a rain of quills that pierce tiny scale-like barbs into the skin of its adversary. The quills will work their way inward because of the quills and the involuntary muscular action of the victim. Sometimes the quills will work their way out of the victum, but many times the quils will continue to work their way inward and penetrate vital organs bringing death to the victim.

Source: The Handy Science Answer Book = Visible Ink


 
 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created by Him and for Him.

Col 1:16

 

 

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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)

 
   

 

 

"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 FEW SMILES   


Extremes of Emotion

The aspiring psychiatrists were attending their first class on emotional extremes.

"Just to establish some parameters," said the professor, "Mr. Nichols, what is the opposite of joy?"

"Saddness," said the student.

"And the opposite of depression, Ms. Biggs?"

"Elation."

" And you sir, how about the opposite of woe?"

"I believe that would be giddyup," Squiffy replied.



 A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of  children while they drew.  She would occasionally walk
 around to see each child's artwork. As she got to one  little girl who was working diligently, she asked what
 the drawing was.

 The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."

 The teacher paused and said, "but no one knows what God  looks like."

 Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing the girl  replied, "They will in a minute."


THE 20 BEST OF THE WORST COUNTRY MUSIC SONG TITLES

20 – Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure.

19 – Here's A Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares.

18 – How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away.

17 – I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life.

16 – I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling.

15 – I Flushed You From The Toilets Of My Heart.

14 – I Keep Forgettin I Forgot About You.

13 – I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dawg Fight Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win.

12 – I'm Just A Bug On The Windshield Of Life.

11 – If Love Were Oil, I'd Be A Quart Low.

10 – If The Phone Don't Ring Baby, You'll Know It's Me.

9 – If You Don't Leave Me Alone, I'll Go Find Someone Else Who Will.

8 – If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?

7 – Mama Get The Hammer, There's A Fly On Papa's Head.

6 – She's Got Freckles On Her, But She's Pretty.

5 – Thank God And Greyhound, She's Gone.

4 – When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I'll Think You're Walking In.

3 – You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat.

2 – You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly.

1 – There Ain't Enough Whiskey In Texas To Drink The Ugly Out Of You.

Kasha Linka


 

This salesman selling vacuum cleaners is going from door to door trying to flog them to unsuspecting housewives. He goes to this new estate hoping to have some luck there. Carrying his cleaner  up to the door and holding a bunch of goodies in his other hand, he knocks on the door.

"Excuse me madam," meanwhile pushing his way in the door. He quickly empties the goodies he has all over the lady's plush new wool carpet, including doggie stuff, gravel, dirt and an array of  other stuff.

Then he pronounces: "The cleaners that I am about to sell you here are so good that if it doesn't clean that crap off your carpet I vow that I will eat it!"

The lady furious with the mess replies, "Well ,would you like sauce with that because we haven't got the power on yet!"


It Takes a Computer

An accounting company buys a gigantic computer. It takes up a whole wall in the small company. Two of the company's accountants are giving it a trial run. They feed the complex accounting problem into the computer, and in a few minutes a small piece of paper spits out the answer. They study the paper gravely and one guy turns to the other and says, "Do you realize that it would take 400 ordinary accountants 350 years to make a mistake this big." you?        

         




I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack at once.

 


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