Hello

Hope everyone had a wonderful and joyous Christmas. And We wish you a safe and prosperous New Year.
- Jim, Lucy & the Boys

FOOD THAT IS BAD FOR YOU

A dietitian was once addressing a large audience in Chicago. "The material we put into our stomaches is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago.

Red meat is awful. Soft drinks errode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG.

Vegetables can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it.

Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?"

A 75 year old man in the front row stood up and said, " Wedding cake."

- Jill's Joke Line

Trivia Question:

Trivia answer at bottom of newsletter.

JOB APPLICANT

KIDS KIDS KIDS - ENJOY THEM!

• Ever notice that a human baby doesn't walk until it's tall enough to reach a parent's hand?
• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like clearing the drive before it has stopped snowing.
• "There is only one pretty child in the world and every parent has it."- Chinese Proverb.
• Mothers of teens know why animals eat their young.
• I asked Mom if I was a gifted child ...she said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
• Children are natural mimics, who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
• Children will soon forget your presents, but they will always remember your presence.
• Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
• The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.
• Becoming aware of my character defects leads me naturally to the next step of blaming my parents.
• We did have to childproof our home about 3 years ago ... but somehow they still get in!
• Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
• Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your children.
• Who are these kids and why are they calling me Mom?
• Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.
• When mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
• You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool a Mom.
• I love to give homemade gifts ...which one of my kids do you want?
• A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school clothes.
• Anyone who says 'Easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried it.
• Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut-up.
• The best inheritance parents can give their children is a few minutes of their time each day.

- Thanks Diane

3-D Robot Simulator from Lego

Stack graphical blocks to create a robot and program it to do what you want. Then run your program and watch your robot in action. Start by clicking below.
http://kids.msn.com/kidz/featurelego4.asp

- Thanks, Lara

TRIVIA ANSWER

There are all kinds of gradations of conflict and colorful ways to describe them. For example, there's the rhubarb between you and your neighbor over a backyard fence, the parents of kids who have been fighting who go at it themselves hammer and tong, and the brouhaha over who had the right of way on the freeway ramp.

On the spectrum of contentiousness, a donnybrook is helter- skelter and Katy-bar-the-door. And why not? The word comes from a fair begun in medieval times at Donnybrook, on the site of the modern Dublin. The fair was held amid much drinking. One boisterous thing led to another. People were pleased as punch to be having such a grand old time and before you know it they were punching as they pleased in the midst of a general melee. In fact you could call it a real donnybrook.

TRIVIA SHORT

Anyway you slice it . . .

Americans who use the expression "as American as apple pie" ought to pay an import tax on it. Apple pie, in its origins at least, is about as American as fois de gras. William the Conqueror brought apple pie with him from France when he invaded England in 1066. English colonists brought the dish to the New World.

Next thing you know they'll be saying that pizza originated in Italy and not in New Jersey.

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