ALL THE REST –    May 16
  

 

Today's Quotations –  Insults to US Presidents 

 

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Theodore Roosevelt thought with his hips.  

– Lincoln Steffens

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When Theodore attends a wedding, he wants to be the bride, and when he attends a funeral, he wants to be the corpse.  

– Alice Roosevelt Longworth on Teddy  Roosevelt

 

 

quote Harding was not a bad man. He was just a slob. 

 

–  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

quote I'd rather be right than Roosevelt. 

–  Heywood Broun  on F. D. R.

 

quote Many persons have difficulty remembering what President Franklin Pierce is best remembered for, and he is therefore probably best forgotten.  

–   Richard Armour

 

Today's Short Words of  Wisdom



Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

 

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  Today's Word – OBSTINATE 
   

 


ob·sti·nate

adjective. 1. Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, an opinion, or a course of action; obdurate. 2. Difficult to manage, control, or subdue; refractory. 3. Difficult to alleviate or cure: an obstinate headache.

Maybe I'll head back right away under a different name and make it look, to whoever cares, like I'm being obstinate and staying here.

Left Behind
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

Besides, our histories of six-thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu, which two mighty Powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Jonathan Swift

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 Life Cycle

Everyone knows the life cycle of a frog -- or think they do. In school one learns that the frog is the typical amphibian. It lays numerous eggs in water. The unattended eggs hatch into a larval stage called tadpoles. The tadpoles quickly metamorphose into frogs. The adult may live either on land (called toads) or water (called frogs). The adult then returns to water to lay its eggs and the cycle begins anew. That is a nice simple story. Unfortunately, nothing is ever quite so simple. Surprisingly, 30 percent or more of all frog species have a life history that differs in some way from the conventional. Somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all frog species do have a larval stage interposed between the egg and the mature body form.

A great number of frogs omit the free living tadpole stage completely. These frogs deposit a few relatively large eggs in a moist place out of the water. Such places as a rotting log, a burrow in the ground, or in an epiphytic air plant that holds moisture are chosen by some species. Usually these eggs are attended by one of the parents, often the male. The development of the frog occurs within the membrane of the egg, and the hatchling is a fully metamorphosed froglet.

Among most of the glass tree frogs of Central and South America the female lays her eggs on the underside of leaves overhanging the water. The male then guards the eggs until they hatch and fall as tadpoles into the water. There is almost no end to the variety of forms that the life cycle of frogs might take. God has certainly created some unique variations on the frog life cycle theme. We'll look at a few more next time on the DM.

 


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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Grandma said

A little girl says, "Grandpa, can I sit on your lap?

"Why sure you can." her grandfather replied.

As she is sitting on grand dad's lap she says, "Grandpa, can you make a sound like a frog?"

"A sound like a frog? Well, sure Grandpa can make a sound like a frog."

The girl says, "Grandpa, will you please please MAKE a sound like a frog?"

Perplexed, her granddad says, "Sweetheart, why do you want me to make a sound like a frog?"

And the little girl says, "'Cause Grandma said that when you croak, we're going to Florida!"


The Reliable Press

A reporter from the NY Times is taking his lunch break in Central Park where he is watching two young men throw a football to each other, after a couple of throws a very large Rottweiler dog attacks the smaller young man knocking the ball out of his hands and knocking him to the ground. The other young man runs to a nearby picket fence and pulls a plank off then starts to beat the dog to death saving his friends "LIFE".

The reporter runs over and says"That was amazing, this story will make the front page" then he says "I can see it know GIANTS FAN SAVES FRIEND FROM MAN-EATER on the front page"

The young man says "But I'm not a Giants fan"

The reporter says " O.K.. BILLS FAN"

The young man says "I'm not a Bills fan either my team is Americas Team"

The reporter says "Americas Team?"

The young man replies " Yes the Dallas Cowboys"

The next day the young man asks his father to buy a paper so he can read about himself. He opens the NY Times to read the front page, where it reads "REDNECK PUNK KILLS BELOVED FAMILY PET" 

From:  Gary Tooze QotD   


Cute Kid's Jokes :

Some Q and A's


1.Q: What's grey on the inside and pink and white on the outside?
A: An inside out elephant.

2.Q: What is grey and not there.
A: No elephants.

3.Q: Why are elephants large, grey and wrinkled?
A: Because if they were small, white and smooth they'd be aspirins.

4.Q: Why are elephants wrinkled?
A: Have you ever tried to iron one?

5.Q: Why do elephants wear small green hats?
A: So they can sneak across pool tables unobserved.

6.Q: How many legs does an elephant have?
A: Four, two in the front, two in the back.

7.Q: How do you know Tarzan is in the fridge?
A: You can hear Tarzan scream: "OYOYOYOIYOIYOOOOOO!!!"

8.Q: How do you get two Tarzans in the fridge?
A: You can't, silly, there is only one Tarzan!

9.Q: Why are there so many elephants running around free in the jungle?
A: Tarzans fridge is not large enough to hold them all.

10.Q: How many elephants can you actually put in a fridge?
A: Depends on the number of elephants.

11.Q. What do you call two elephants on a bicycle?
A. Optimistic!

12.Q. What do you get if you take an elephant into the city?
A. Free Parking.

13.Q. What do you get if you take an elephant into work?
A. Sole use of the elevator.

14.Q: How does an elephant get down from a tree?
A: It doesn't, you get down from a duck.

15.Q: How do you get an elephant out of a tree?
A: Stand it on a leaf and wait 'till autumn.

16.Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a kangaroo?
A: Bloody great holes all over Australia.

17.Q: How do you know if there is an elephant under the bed?
A: Your nose is touching the ceiling.

18.Q: Why do elephants wear sandals?
A: So that they don't sink in the sand.

19.Q: Why do ostriches stick their head in the ground?
A: To look for the elephants who forgot to wear their sandals.

20.Q: What did Hannibal say when he saw 1,000 elephants coming over the hill?
A: "Look, there's 1,000 elephants coming over the hill."

21.Q: What did he say when he saw 1,000 elephants with sunglasses on, coming
over the hill?
A: Nothing, he didn't recognize them.

22.Q: Why shouldn't you go into the woods at 5 o'clock?
A: Because that is when the elephants do their parachute jumping.

23.Q: What is a furry alligator?
A: A bear that went into the woods at 5 o'clock.

24.Q: Why do elephants paint the soles of their feet yellow?
A: So that they can hide upside-down in bowls of custard.

25.Q: Did you ever find an elephant in your custard?
A: No? Well, it must work then.





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 and it practically has.

 


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