ALL THE REST –    May 18
  

 

Today's Quotations –  Life Is:

 

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May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

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Man is born to live, not to prepare to live.

Boris Pasternak

 

 

 

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Charlotte Bronte

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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

Helen Keller

 

quote Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

 

Today's Short Words of  Wisdom



Washington is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm.

 John F. Kennedy

 

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  Today's Word – ephemeral 
   

 


e·phem·er·al adjective 1. Lasting for a markedly brief time: 2. Living or lasting only for a day, as certain plants or insects do. Synonym transient. --e·phem·er·al noun. A markedly short-lived thing.

A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity.

Les Miserables
Victor Hugo

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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The Frog Life Cycle 2

The marsupial tree frogs have a very unique life cycle. Examples of the marsupial frogs are those of the genus Gastrotheca found in tropical America. The female has a brood pouch on her back. As she extrudes the eggs in the course of breeding, the male uses his feet to guide the eggs into her pouch. Depending on the species, the eggs may develop with baby frogs being born from the pouch, or they may develop into tadpoles to be released into water for further development.

Two Chilean frogs also display a rather unusual life history. The female Darwin's frog (Rhinoderma darwini) lays her eggs on land. The male watches over the eggs. When they hatch as tadpoles, he picks them up in his mouth and they go into his vocal sac. There they develop into adults to be released on their own. The species Rhinoderma rufum have a similar life history. The eggs are once again deposited on the ground to hatch. The male picks up the hatched tadpoles into his mouth, carries them to water, where they are deposited as tadpoles to make it on their own.

Puerto Rico and Africa have their own species of frogs that are live-bearing. In these two species the eggs remain in the female's oviducts, where they undergo development through metamorphosis, before live froglets are born.

Perhaps the most bizarre deviation from the standard is found in the two species of gastric breeding frogs of Australia (genus Rheobatrachus). In these totally aquatic species the female swallows the fertilized eggs. The eggs hatch and develop in her stomach. They eventually emerge fully metamorphosed as froglets from her mouth. The stomach's normal digestive mechanism and the urge for the mother to eat is suppressed during the time of development by a special chemical. Unfortunately these unusual animals have not been seen since 1980 and are now thought to be extinct.

The loss of the gastric breeding frogs of Australia is a sad story, if only for the loss of another amazing creation of God. It is also a major loss to millions of humans who may have benefited from research of this animal. Excess stomach acid is a cause of discomfort for millions of people. Perhaps this frog excreted a compound that chemists may have used to develop a drug to relieve some human stomach ailments.


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

 

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OLD FROGS never die, they just croak



Q. What do frog princes like to eat with their hamburgers?
A. French flies.

 

 

 

 


Two poodles were chatting.

"I can't figure it out," said the first dog. "I'm in perfect physical shape, but I'm constantly anxious."

The second dog says, "Why don't you go to a psychiatrist?"

To this the first dog remarks, "How can I? I'm not allowed on the couch!!"


A man needs a heart transplant and is put on the top of the priority list. Days are passing by, but there is still no available compatible heart. As death becomes imminent, his doctor presents him with a possible life-saving alternative.

"Jim, we want to help you, but we cannot find a compatible human heart. However, we are testing animal hearts in humans and can offer you a sheep heart. Are you willing?"

The man agrees after weighing the options, and the surgeon transplants the sheep heart into him. A few days after the operation, the man comes in for a checkup. The doctor asks him "How are you feeling?" The man replies "Not BAAAAD!"


The Have you heard about the man who got the job driving the bus for Sesame Street? He was really looking forward to meeting all the Sesame Street characters, and so he was filled with great anticipation his first day on the job. As he stood outside the bus waiting for his riders to begin to arrive, the first person he saw approaching the bus was an *extremely* large woman. Before she boarded the bus, he asked her her name. Huffing and puffing from the exertion of walking, she replied, "My name is Patty."

"Well, Patty, climb on board. We'll be leaving shortly." The next passenger, a man just as big as the woman, was wearing a large green suit. When asked his name by the new driver, he replied with a noticeable accent, "My name is Patrick...I'm Irish, you know. My friends all call me 'Patty'."

"Patty, meet Patty. You two can get to know each other while I await several more passengers that I see coming."

As the new driver stood there, he found himself thinking, "Where are Bert and Ernie???" The next passenger was a little retarded boy. "Hi, little boy. What's your name?"

"My name is Ross, and my parents tell me I'm special."

"Ross, I'm really glad to have a nice boy like you ride on my bus today. Climb on, and we'll leave in just a minute." The last person to approach the bus was a really strange looking man. "Hello, sir. What's your name?"

In a surly manner he answered, "My name is Lester Creep!" For lack of anything better to say, he told him, "Lester, we're about to leave so please have a seat."

Now the driver was really thinking, "I thought I was going to meet Big Bird and Cookie Monster!!!" As he was pulling away from the curb, he looked in his rear view mirror. Much to his horror, he saw Lester sitting there with his shoe off, picking at a bunion or something on his big toe. "Oh, gross!" he thought. "This is nothing like I thought it would be! No Bert, no Ernie! Just a bunch of weirdos!!!"

He mulled it all over for a while, then suddenly he began to smile. He thought to himself, "Who would ever believe that, the first day on my new job I have two obese Patties, special Ross, and Lester Creep pickin' bunions on a Sesame Street Bus?!?!"


There is an Indian tribe near here that has a problem: they can't sleep. It is a small tribe; only 500 members, but every one has insomnia. They are called the Indian-napless 500.





Seven days without puns makes one weak.

 


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