ALL THE REST –    May 12 & 13
  

 

Today's Quotations –  Insults to Americans 

 

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Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

–   Pierre Trudeau

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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

– Dan Rather

 

 
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Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

– Richard Benner

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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

–  P. J. O'Rourke

 

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For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say Canada


–  Sondra Gotlieb

 

Today's Short Words of  Wisdom



Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln 

 

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  Today's Word – CAPRICIOUS 
   

 


ca·pri·cious adjective. Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable. Synonym arbitrary.

Madame- a coquette, I fear, and yet a coquette who is herself in love- has her moments of kindness; a coquette who is as capricious and uncertain as life or death, but who causes De Guiche to say that he is the happiest of men.

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
Alexandre Dumas

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 May is frog Month on the Daily Miscellany - I hope you enjoy these facts about amphibians. God is a marvelous architect and his sense of humor and creativity is expressed in these interesting creations.

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Amphibians and FROGS

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Frog Skin (part 1)

The skin of frogs is often the first feature to claim one's attention. Not all frogs are green. Not all toads are brown. The array of colors just among the frogs of Central and South America encompasses the entire visible spectrum. The skin of the frog does more than provide beauty. It is the first line of defense for infection and protection. The colors and markings, produced by skin pigments, enhance a frog's chance of survival. The colors will help it to blend into its surroundings or sometimes to advertise with bright colors the presence of toxins. The colors can change as pigments move within the cells. The gray tree frog can transform from green to gray to brown or black. The squirrel tree frog can swiftly change from spotted to unspotted and from chocolate brown to olive or yellow green.

The skin also is a temperature regulator, a respirator, an organ for water absorption, and the site of glands that secrete mucus and poisons. The ability of a frog to change color is often more of a temperature regulator, rather than a camouflage. On a hot dry day, a frog will be lighter in color than on a cool wet day. Light colors reflect more of the sun's rays and dark colors absorb them. The color changes to suit the temperature and humidity of the frog's surroundings. A frog's color will also change due to other factors such as: diet, mood, season, and the texture of the surface on which the frog is perched.

Another way that a frog can deal with extreme heat is to lubricate the skin. Secretions from mucous glands, located all over the body, keep the skin moist and slow evaporation. In South America some species of tree frogs can secrete a waxy substance to coat their body and inhibit water loss. Some tree frogs have the ability to excrete a gluelike substance on their adhesive foot pads, enabling them to cling tighter to trees and leaves.  


Sources for the Amphibian - Frog series include:

Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians - Editors: Dr. Harold G. Cogger, Dr. Richard G,.Zweifel, Academid Press
Frogs - Text: David Badger, Photography: JohnNetherton; Voyageur Press

Groliers Encyclopedia
Microsoft(R) Encarta(R)
Encyclopedia Britanica

Let every created thing give praise to the Lord,
for he issued his command, and they came into being.
Psalm 148:5 (NLT)

 

 

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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   


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A frog is looking for a loan, so he goes into a bank. He sits down at a desk and the name plate says "Patty Whac". He talks to Patty about the loan and she asks him what he has for collateral. The frog replies well I have this vase. He pulls the vase out of a bag to show her. Patty says "well thats just a cheap knick-knack". Then the owner notices the vase and says to himself "gee that's from the 17th century, it's worth tons of money" So he walks over to patty and says "Thats no knick-knack Patty Whac give the frog a loan".

 


 

YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN...

Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

Your knees buckle, but your belt won't.

You look forward to spending a quiet evening at home.

Your back goes out more often than you do.

You know all the answers, but no one asks you the questions.

Your mind makes agreements your body can't keep.

You finally get it all together and can't remember where you put it.

You start having bran flakes and prune juice for breakfast.

You remember today that your birthday was yesterday.

You get worn-out dialing long distance.

You have more hair on your body than on your head.

Your favorite newspaper column is "25 Years Ago Today."   


It's True

A young woman had given birth in the elevator of a New Delhi hospital, and was embarrassed about it. One of the nurses, in an effort to console her, said, "Don't feel bad. Why, only two years ago a lady delivered in the front yard of the hospital." With that the new mother burst out crying.'I know," she said, 'that was me, too.'

(Shared by Chalapathi Rao Poduri via HUMOR Digest)


Sharing a Car

A priest and a rabbi operated a church and a synagogue across the street from each other. Since their schedules intertwined, they decided to go in together to buy a car. After the purchase, they drove it home and parked in on the street between their est
ablishments.

A few minutes later, the rabbi looked out and saw the priest sprinkling water on their new car. It didn't need a wash, so he ran out and asked the priest what he was doing. "I'm blessing it," the priest replied.

The rabbi considered this a moment, then said, "Oh," and ran back inside the synagogue. He reappeared a moment later with a hacksaw, ran to the back of the car and cut off the last two inches of the tailpipe..

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The Smuggler

While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man was stopped by a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders. "What's in the bags?", asked the guard.

"Sand," said the cyclist.

"Get them off - we'll take a look," said the guard.

The Cyclist did as he was told, emptied the bags, and proving they contained nothing but sand, reloaded the bags, put them on his shoulders and continued across the border.

Two weeks later, the same thing happened. Again the guard demanded to see the two bags, which again contained nothing but sand. This went on every week for six months, until one day the cyclist with the sand bags failed to appear.

A few days later, the guard happened to meet the cyclist downtown. "Say friend, you sure had us crazy", said the guard. "We knew you were smuggling something across the border. I won't say a word - but what is it you were smuggling?"

"Bicycles!".

Source: Roshan's Humour Lis




It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

 


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