ALL THE REST –    March 2, 2001
  

In the United States of America, one tends to think of milk as cow's milk exclusively. This is not the way the rest of the world views milk. A number of animals are used as a dietary source of milk. Goat's milk is the number one 'milk' beverage. Among the people of the world that drink milk 55 percent drink goat's milk, 45 percent drink cow's milk. Yaks, buffalo, pigs, sheep and goats are all raised as a source of milk. The rest of the world drink various other types of milk. Egypt and India prefer buffalo milk. The Chinese drink donkey and horse milk. Some of Africa and Asia drink camel milk. The people of Tibet drink yak milk, while those of Lapland drink reindeer milk.

The composition of milks vary from one animal to another. Goats produce a milk that is 4.3 percent butterfat. Cows milk is around 3.9 percent butterfat (depending on the breed of the cow). The richest milk of all animals is that of the killer whale. This milk has a butterfat content of 35 percent.

The richest milk of any domesticated animal is that of the reindeer. The reindeer is raised for its milk by the Laplanders in the Arctic regions. The reindeer milk has a 22.3 percent butterfat content. Reindeer milk is also 10.3 percent protein which is about three times that of cow's milk. Reindeer's milk is only 2.5 percent sugar which is half as sweet as human milk. The Laplanders drink as much of this nourishing milk as they can, but that isn't very much. The female reindeer at the height of the milking season only produces about a cup of milk each day.

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"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 Rose by any other name ...

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4 preachers and their wives went on vacation together traveling in a motor home. On the way, they were involved in a terrible accident and they were all killed.

Upon arriving at the gates of Heaven, the first preacher and his wife approached St. Peter and asked to be let into Heaven. "I'm sure there's no problem but, let me check the great book" said St. Peter. "I have a problem here, the book says you sinned through gluttony, your lust for food. In fact you even married a woman named Candy! I'm sorry, but you can't come in".

The second preacher and his wife approached St. Peter and went through a similar background check. "I'm sorry, but you sinned by greed, your lust for money. You even married a woman named Penny! You can't come in".

The third preacher and his wife approached St. Peter and were told "You've sinned by the bottle, you're an alcoholic. You even married a woman named Sherry.

The fourth preacher, having listened to the fates of the three before him, turned to his wife and said, "It doesn't look like we've got a chance, Fanny!"

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"How was your golf game, dear?" asked Jack's wife Edna. 

"Well, I was hitting pretty well, but my eyesight's gotten  so bad I couldn't see where the ball went."  "Why don't you  take my brother, Ronald, along?," admonished his wife.  "But  he's eighty-five and doesn't even play golf anymore,"   protested Jack.  "But he's got perfect eyesight.  He could  watch your ball," Edna pointed out.
         
The next day Jack teed off with Ronald looking on.  Jack   swung, and the ball disappeared down the middle of the  fairway.  "Do you see it?" asked Jack.
         
"Yup," Ronald answered.
         
"Well, where is it?," asked Jack, peering off into the  distance.
         
"I forgot." Ronald replied.

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A site foreman had ten lazy men working for him, so one day  he decided to trick them into doing some work for a change.  "I've got a really easy job today for the laziest one among  you," he announced. "Will the laziest man please put his hand up."  Nine hands went up.  "Why didn't you put your   hand up?" he asked the tenth man.  "Too much trouble," came the reply.

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          A young teen sent his girlfriend a dozen long stemmed roses.  It had the following note on the attached card: "With all
          my love, and most of my allowance.

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How do you keep an idiot busy for hours?

 

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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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