ALL THE REST –    May 15
  

 

Today's Quotations –  Insults to US Presidents 

 

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As an intellectual he bestowed upon the games of golf and bridge all the enthusiasm and perseverance that he withheld from books and ideas.    

Dean Acheson on Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The air currents of the world never ventilated his mind. 

– Walter Page Hines on Woodrow Wilson

 

  

quoteHis speeches leave the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. Sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork. 

– William McAdoo on Warren G. Harding
quote The moral character of Jefferson was repulsive. Continually puling about liberty, equality and the degrading curse of slavery, he brought his own children to the hammer, and made money of his debaucheries. 

–  Alexander Hamilton

 

quote A chameleon on plaid. 

–  Herbert Hoover on F. D. R.

 

Today's Short Words of  Wisdom



If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

 

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  Today's Word – JUGGERNAUT 
   

 


 jug·ger·naut noun. 1. Something, such as a belief or an institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed. 2. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: "It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt). 3. Juggernaut. Used as a title for the Hindu deity Krishna.

The half-mile stood now before the sick and weary woman like a stolid Juggernaut. It was an impassive King of her world.

Far from the Madding Crowd.
Thomas Hardy

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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Frogs

Frog Skin (part 3)

The amphibians more commonly refereed to as 'frogs' also produce poisons, but in general they are less potent than the toxin from the amphibians commonly referred to as 'toads.' Humans who handle frogs should be advised to avoid rubbing their eyes or touching their lips after handling frogs, since the secretions can sometimes irritate or sting.

The most toxic of the families of frogs are the brightly colored dart-poison frogs of Central and South America. The skin secretions from these frogs have been used for centuries by hunters of certain groups natives of western Colombia, who rub the poisons on the tips of their blow-pipe darts (not arrows as sometimes reported). The toxicity of these frogs varies from species to species. Secretions from the yellow-and-black Dendrobates tinctorius, are especially potent. The poison attacks the nervous system in much the same way as the venom of cobras and coral snakes. Just holding this frog in your hand can be dangerous. The toxin from a single specimen of Phyllobates terribilis contains enough poison to kill more than 20,000 laboratory mice, or 10 humans.

Presumably the poisons are a defense against predators, and the bright color patterns act as a warning to predators. Of course, this visual-display function requires a learned response from the frogs' enemies, which have to associate the colors with distasteful prior encounters. This bright defense must also assume that the predator can see in color -- a gift not so freely found in the animal kingdom. Perhaps God just showed us His creativity and blessed us humans with a delightful surprise of color in an animal that might have been overlooked.

Scientists have identified many of the toxins that give the poison-dart frogs their lethal quality. Some may later be quite useful in medicine. The question still remains, where did the skin get the toxins in the first place? Scientist Kathryn Phillips reports that "researchers are still stumped," by this question. Some scientists, she says, "speculate that something specific to the frogs' natural home -- perhaps in the diet of wild insects -- provides the toxins." Roger Prince speculates that dart-poison frogs may have "an ability to culture toxin-producing bacteria on their skins, and the presence or absence of such bacteria would explain the range of toxicities."

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 Day at the Library

A chicken enters a library, walks up to the librarian and says "Book book"

The librarian hands the chicken two books, which it tucks under its wing and leaves the library.

A few minutes later, the chicken re-enters the library, walks up to the desk, hefts the two books onto the counter and says to the librarian "Book book".

The librarian is puzzled, but nonetheless replaces the two books with two more books, which the chicken tucks under its wing, and leaves the library....

A few more minutes pass, and the chicken reappears with the two books. It places them on the counter, looks earnestly up at the librarian and says "Book book?"

Perplexed, librarian gives the chicken two more books, and the chicken once again leaves the library. However, by now the librarian is so overcome with curiosity that she hurries out of the building just in time to see the chicken disappear into the woods across the street. She follows the chicken a short ways through the woods until it arrives at a small pond at the edge of a swamp, where a large frog is sitting on stump. The chicken presents the books to the frog, who looks at them closely and says "Reddit Reddit".

David A. Rinke II- Funny Pages Mailing List 

ORIGINAL ENDINGS:

Jimmy A teacher gave her fourth-grade students the beginning of a list of famous sayings and asked them to provide original endings for each one. Here are some examples of what they submitted:

  • The grass is always greener when you leave the sprinkler on.

  • A rolling stone plays the guitar.

  • The grass is always greener when you remember to water it.

  • A bird in the hand is a real mess.

  • No news is no newspaper.

  • It's better to light one candle than to waste electricity.

  • It's always darkest just before I open my eyes.

  • You have nothing to fear but homework.

  • If you can't stand the heat, don't start the fireplace.

  • If you can't stand the heat, go swimming.

  • Never put off 'til tomorrow what you should have done yesterday.

  • A penny saved is nothing in the real world.

  • The squeaking wheel gets annoying.

  • We have nothing to fear but our principal.

  • To err is human. To eat a muskrat is not.

  • I think, therefore I get a headache.

  • Better to light a candle than to light an explosive.

  • It's always darkest before 9:30 p.m.

  • Early to bed and early to rise is first in the bathroom.

  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a blister.

  • There is nothing new under the bed.

  • The grass is always greener when you put manure on it.

  • Don't count your chickens -- it takes too long.

  • Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and someone yells, "Shut up!"

Dilbert's Rules of The Workplace

  • A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the rear.

  • Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

  • It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've done and what you're going to do.

  • After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.

  • The more mess you put up with, the more mess you are going to get.

  • You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.

  • When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.

  • If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a dummy about it.

  • Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back.

  • Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous."

  • To err is human, to forgive is devine, but is NOT company policy.

  • Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he/she is supposed to be doing.

  • Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.

  • If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are REALLY good, you will get out of it.

  • You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.

  • People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.

  • If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

  • At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.

  • When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

  • Following the rules will not get the job done.

  • Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules.

  • When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

  • No matter how much you do, you never do enough.

  • The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.

  • Do something brilliant and no one is watching. Do something stupid and the boss is sure to see it. Reddit".

From:  Gary Tooze QotD 

For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never  opened, small stain.

 


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