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For those of you running MS/Windows 95, 98 & NT, this is a fix for a small Y2K problem *almost* everyone should have...
The Check
Double click on "My Computer".
Double click on "Control Panel".
Double click on "Regional settings" icon.
Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page.
Where it says, "Short Date Sample", look and see if it shows a "two digit" year.
Unless you've previously changed it - it does. That's because Microsoft made the 2 digits the default setting for Windows 95, Windows 98 and NT.
This date is the date that feeds *ALL* application software and will not rollover into the year 2000. It will roll over to the year 00. (*)
The Fix Click on the button across from "Short Date Style" and select the option that shows, "mm/dd/yyyy" or "m/d/yyyy".
Be sure your selection has four y's showing, not just two.
Then click "Apply".
Then click "OK" at the bottom.
Easy enough to fix. However, every "as distributed" installation of Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K rollover...
(*) NOTE: Some application software would (naturally) expect the year "00" to be the year "1900". Some of those applications might function (seemingly) OK... with merely the "day of the week" being misinterpreted UNTIL: 29 Feb, 2000 -- which the software will think is : 01 Mar, 1900 -- because 1900 was NOT a Leap Year...
Distribute this to everyone you know.
A recent service started by Godrej GE. Could be of use to you some time.
Dial 5181717 - It can save you from a jam!!!
Welcome to the Godrej-GE Traffic Helpline!
The Traffic Helpline is a special facility for all Mumbaites during the monsoons. A facility being sponsored by Godrej Refrigerators with the cooperation of the Mumbai Traffic Police.
A computerised voice system can now give you the latest update on the state of the roads, rails and the weather in Mumbai helping you to avoid water logged roads and traffic jams. The message is updated every hour between 8.30 am to 9 pm everyday.
So the next time you want to save yourself from a jam, just dial 5181717. Do pass on this message across to others so that it can help them as well.
I read that a child laughs 400 times a day on the average, while an adult laughs only 15 times each day. Which is puzzling since laughter feels so good and is so good for us!
You may know the benefits of laughter on the mind and spirit, but are you aware of how much a good laugh can help you physically?
Norman Cousins used to say that laughter is so beneficial physically that it is like "inner jogging." Mayo Clinic (Mayo Clinic Health Letter, March 1993) reports that laughter aids breathing by disrupting your normal respiration pattern and increasing your breathing rate. It can even help clear mucus from your lungs. Laughter is good for your heart. It increases circulation and improves the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to tissues throughout your body. A good laugh helps your immune system fight off colds, flu and sinus problems by increasing the concentration of immunoglobulin A in your saliva. And it may help control pain by raising the levels of certain brain chemicals (endorphins). It is also a natural stress reliever. Have you ever laughed so hard that you doubled over, fell off your chair, spit out your food or wet your pants? You cannot maintain muscle tension when you are laughing!
The good news is that you are allowed more than 15 laughs a day! Go ahead and double the dose and make it 30 times today. (You may begin to notice your relationships improving!) Then double it again!
You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you.
Laughter : it's good medicine, it's completely organic, it can be shared, it is recyclable and absolutely free!
Shivaji Nimase (nsj@godrej.com)
Godrej Infotech Limited
Ever need to write a complaint letter about someone
But just didn't have the time
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And your complaint letter is generated for you
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Thought it might be time to interrupt your daily grind with a little history lesson. Here's a little part of US history which makes you wonder about life's coincidences.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are comprised of fifteen letters.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Kennedy'.
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln'.
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
Must be a coincidence?
If you receive any CELCOM Screen Saver Pls. do not install it!!! This screensaver is very cool. It shows a NOKIA handphone, with time messages. After it is activated, the PC cannot boot up at all. It goes very slow. It destroys your hard disk. The filename is 'CELLSAVER.EXE'.
Beware! If someone named
If you get an E-mail titled : "Win A Holiday", DO NOT open it. Delete it immediately. Microsoft just announced it yesterday. It is a malicious virus that WILL ERASE YOUR HARD DRIVE. At this time there is no remedy as of today, January 5, 2000.
DO NOT OPEN ANY EMAIL FROM Sassyced@aol.com!!!
If you receive an email titled "JOIN THE CREW" or "PENPALS", DO NOT open it!!! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! PENPALS appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal.... but by the time you read this letter it is TOO late. The Trojan horse virus will have already infected the boot sector of your hard drive, destroying all the data present. It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone whose e-mail address is present in your box!
Hi everyone,
Hi everybody!! CHECK THIS OUT!! ITS REALLY COOL!!!
Hi All,
Hey guys,
Hi,
PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
We have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER. It will arrive on an e-mail titled "How to Give a Cat a Colonic."
Y2K Professionals will be required once more in the year 2038 - to be known as Y2K38 Professionals. The how and why...
Some of you may have watched the recent taping of the Oprah Winfrey show where her guest was Tommy Hilfiger. On the show, she asked him if the statements about race he was accused of saying were true.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales!
There are some VERY bizarre facts in this list... facts you may not have known.
It may surprise you that the word "nice" does not have a nice background. In fact it comes from the Latin word nescius, which means ignorant. In addition to foolish and stupid, the word nice, in the English spoken in the Middle Ages, also meant wanton. By the 15th century it meant "coy." A hundred years later it also meant "dainty." And only in the 18th century does it finally mean agreeable. Have a nice day, I think.
It may surprise you that the word "nice" does not have a nice background. In fact it comes from the Latin word nescius, which means ignorant. In addition to foolish and stupid, the word nice, in the English spoken in the Middle Ages, also meant wanton. By the 15th century it meant "coy." A hundred years later it also meant "dainty." And only in the 18th century does it finally mean agreeable. Have a nice day, I think.
A North Carolina man, having bought several expensive cigars, insured them against... get this... fire.
Take care friends
- WRITTEN ON 13/11/1999 -
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Hi all,
READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON
For those of you who love Coke/Pepsi...
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A true story from the Japanese Embassy in US :
To all sugarcane juice drinkers. Another FOOD for thought.
As we know, we see discrimination in some form or another almost everyday and often times it leaves a sour taste in our mouths. The following story shows us the side of diversity that we are all working for. It is a pleasant twist to see that there are companies and individuals who face discrimination head on, if only one small step at a time. Enjoy reading the positive side of diversity. I applaud British Airways for their action in this situation.
We ask the Chinese government for compassion.
1) There is a man that lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining!
2) A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!"
3) A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off too but somehow manages to stop in time.
4) Title : The Elder Twin
5) Title : Manhole Covers
6) Title : The Deadly Party
7) Title : Trouble with Sons
8) Title : The Man in the Bar
1) The man is very very short and so can only reach half way up the lift buttons! However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella with him and so can press the higher buttons with it.
2) The surgeon is the boy's mother.
3) It was day time.
4) At the time she went into labor, the mother of the twins was travelling by boat. The older twin, Terry, was born first early on March 1st. The boat then crossed a time zone and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother.
5) A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So for safety and practicality, all manhole covers should be round.
6) The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted, poisoning the punch.
7) They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets etc.) This puzzle stumps many people. They try outlandish solutions involving test-tube babies or surrogate mothers. Why does the brain search for complex solutions when there is a much simpler one available?
8) The man had hiccups. The barman recognized this from his speech and drew the gun in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured the hiccups - so the man no longer needed the water.
But why do the Chinese use chopsticks in the first place? They developed this custom because they didn't need anything resembling a knife and fork at the table. They cut up food into bite-sized pieces in the kitchen before serving it. This stemmed from their belief that bringing meat to the table in any form resembling an animal was uncivilized and that it was inhospitable, anyway, to ask a guest to cut foodwhile eating. And you thought they were just sticking it to you.
So often when we search for the origins of everyday expressions we have to go to sea. Here's another one that stems from the days of sailing ships. Sailors in that era lived constantly with risk. They had less control over their vessels, faced a greater threat from icebergs, were more meagerly equipped to deal with rough and dangerous weather, and were considerably less able to predict the weather in the first place. Close calls were frequent, especially when it came to, say, striking an object or running aground. A delicate or risky situation, then, was one in which a ship touched something - brushed it, perhaps - but could still keep going : "touch and go." I guess the sinking of the Titanic was an example of "touch and no go."
Of course, if the gift were literally a white elephant, that would make it pretty useless. To what possible good use could you put a pachyderm, no matter what the color? But we're not being literal, so why do we invoke this big pale beast to describe what you got from your Uncle Irving -- that electric can opener shaped like a washing machine?
This is an interesting expression simply because so many people guess wrong about its origins. They're willing to bet that it was born at the racetrack, where any part of a horse that extends over the finish line first is enough to make it a winner. Given the shape of a horse, that has to be its nose.
Most people when asked to guess about its origins figure that the "mare" in nightmare has something to do with horses. I could live with that. Recently I was given a hot tip on a thoroughbred and got to the betting window at the track just as the race began and the window closed. The nag won and I did not have good dreams that night.
Tennis used to be a sport for ladies and gentlemen. But in recent years we've seen championship caliber players cursing the linesman and throwing both their rackets and temper tantrums on the court. "Love" was hardly the point : tennis had become war.
This page hacks into your C:\drive. DO NOT GO THERE...
FORWARD THIS MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
Warning No. 3
Forward this to everyone IMMEDIATELY!!
Warning No. 4
IT LOOKS LIKE A REAL EMAIL! She ALSO HAS A PROFILE!!! But it crashes all your system and will not open AOL unless you type your address and credit card information!!! And you cannot even delete this virus! The name of the virus is 'SASSY.SHS'.
PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE IN YOUR MAILBOXES. AOL HAS SAID THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS AND THERE IS NO REMEDY FOR THIS YET. FORWARD IT TO ALL YOUR ONLINE FRIENDS A.S.A.P.!
Warning No. 5
This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your box and whose mail is in their box and so on and on!!! So delete any message titled PENPAL or JOIN THE CREW this virus can do major DAMAGE to worldwide networks!!!
PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE IN YOUR MAILBOXES. AOL HAS SAID THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS AND THERE IS NO REMEDY FOR IT YET. FORWARD THIS TO THOSE YOU CARE FOR AND/OR DEPEND ON.
Also do not open the screen saver "BUDDYLIST". It is a cool screen saver but it will destroy all the data from your system and the hard disk.
AND MOST OF ALL IT WILL DISPLAY YOUR INTERNET LOGIN ID AND THE PASSWORD TO THE PERSON WHO HAS SENT YOU THE SCREEN SAVER. SO DELETE THE BUDDYLIST SCREENSAVER IMMEDIATELY.
This is such a good idea. I think we should all do it every day...
This is worth the time. And no, its not a joke.
Quite clever of the UN to do this. Go to the Hunger Site at the UN. All you do is click a button and somewhere in the world some hungry person gets a meal to eat, at no cost to you. The food is paid for by corporate sponsors (who gain advertising in the process because you see their logo).
All you do is go to the site and click on the Donate Food button. But you're only allowed one donation per day so PLEASE spread the word to others and help make a positive difference.
http://www.thehungersite.com
Regards
Ever considered going to the moon? No??? Well if you feel you need a slight practice in learning to walk on the moon then try this.
This one is really good.
1) Open a new/fresh Excel sheet
2) Press F5
3) Type X97:L97
4) Press ENTER on OK
5) Press TAB once
6) Press SHIFT & CONTROL together and click on CHART WIZARD Icon
(note : ALL AT THE SAME TIME)
You will see a fantastic view. Move your mouse Left/right to walk on the surface of moon. To windup the show press the "ESCAPE" key.
Now, if you have Microsoft Office 2000, you need not get disappointed. All you have to do is follow the above steps but instead of X97:L97 you need to type X2000:L2000. Follow all the steps accordingly and see what happens. Although its nowhere near what happens in Excel 97, its still something you can show off and fascinate your friends with.
- MrNiceGuy
Please read the following if you do use the microwave oven to boil water. Take care.
"About five days ago my 26-year old son decided to have a cup of instant coffee. He took a cup of water and put it in the microwave to heat it up (something that he had done numerous times before). I am not sure how long he set the timer for but he told me he wanted to bring the water to a boil. When the timer shut the oven off, he removed the cup from the oven. As he looked into the cup he noted that the water was not boiling but instantly the water in the cup "blew up" into his face. The cup remained intact until he threw it out of his hand but all the water had flew out into his face due to the buildup of energy. His whole face is blistered and he has 1st and 2nd degree burns to his face which may leave scarring. He also may have lost partial sight in his left eye.
While at the hospital, the doctor who was attending to him stated that this a fairly common occurrence and water (alone) should never be heated in a microwave oven. If water is heated in this manner, something should be placed in the cup to diffuse the energy such as a wooden stir stick, tea bag, etc. It is however a much safer choice to boil the water in a tea kettle. Please pass this information on to friends and family."
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Mike J Tucker
Safety/Security Officer
Ext 2599
There's a new virus in town called as "bubbleboy", "bubbleman". Its actually a screen saver which comes in your e-mail. When you download it, it slowly formats your C:\ drive finally making your computer impossible to boot.
It has greatly affected 45% of the P.C.s in Bangalore. So be careful & just directly delete this if it comes in your mail.
Please visit http://www.causeanaffect.org every day. Your visit adds Rs. 9 to the Orissa Cyclone Relief Fund. This is given by the sponsors of the site.
Forward this mail to friends.
Regards,
All true Indians
If you receive an e-mail titled "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some very sick individual has succeeded in using reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Mircrosoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it.
Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might access the Internet.
CALIFORNIA IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful, more so than Melissa. There is no remedy. It will eat all your information on the hard drive and also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do not open anything with this title and please pass this message on to all your contacts and anyone who uses your e-mail facility. Not many people seem to know about this yet so propagate it as fast as possible. This information was announced yesterday morning by IBM; please share it with everyone in your address book so that the spreading of the virus may be stopped. This is a very dangerous virus and there is no remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all your online friends A.S.A.P.
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The Year 2038 Bug Well, I have bad news for the futurists, as well as all of the COBOL programmers who think that converting their programs to well-written C/C++ will fix the Year 2000 problem. When you write a program that deals with time and dates in C, you may very well use the standard construct time_t, so that you can use the handy difftime() function to compute the difference between two times. Right, so what's the problem, you ask? The problem is that when you use a time_t to represent your time values, the time is actually stored using standard C data types. The most common underlying mechanism for time_t is to define time_t as a 32-bit int. That value represents the number of seconds elapsed since midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970, coordinated universal time, according to the system clock. Since a 32-bit int has a maximum possible value of 2,147,483,647, and since there are about 31,470,000 seconds in a year, a time_t variable will roll over after about 68 years, on January 18, 2038. This means that all of the problems that we have been hearing about from the "Year 2000 Bug" could curse us all over again in 2038, with the "Year 2038 Bug". Loan calculations will be incorrect, network communication equipment will fail, machines will go haywire and impale people at will, you know the drill. Some people say that the solution to the problem is to use a bigger number. If you use an unsigned value instead of a signed value, for instance, you double your range. Does this solve the problem? No, but now instead of a "Year 2038 Bug" alone, we also have a new problem, in the year 2106. Is it silly to consider that the C code that you write today could still be running in the year 2106? Well, no, it's not, considering the fact that your mortgage is very likely currently guarded by a VAX running COBOL code that was written in the 1960's, before the concept of 'code reuse', before microprocessors could easily execute multiple instruction sets, before programs were traded freely and archived on web sites for future use, etc. Your code doesn't even have to live that long to break. Consider all of the code out there already which uses time_t variables to calculate mortgages. Say you take out a 40 year loan in, say, 1998. You calculate your payments with a program which used difftime on time_t values. Guess when the computer thinks your last loan payment is? You guessed it, 1970.
Making statements like : "...if I'd known African-Americans, Hispanics, Jewish and Asians would buy my clothes, I would not have made them so nice. I wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they are made for upper class white people."
His answer to Oprah was a simple "YES."
Whereafter she immediately asked him to leave her show.
My suggestion? Let's give him what he asked for. Let's not buy his clothes! Let's put him in a financial state where he himself will not be able to afford the ridiculous prices he puts on his clothes.
BOYCOTT!!! PLEASE SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO SPENDS THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY ON CLOTHES MADE BY SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT RESPECT THEM AS A PERSON, OR PEOPLE IN GENERAL FOR WHO THEY ARE -- DESPITE THEIR RACE!
* No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
* Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
* There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
* The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet!
* Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
* Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
* Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
* A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
* Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
* The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
* The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
* A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
* The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
* A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
* Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
* Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
* Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
* There are more people killed by donkeys (annually) than killed in plane crashes.
* "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
* Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
* If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
* The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
* TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
* The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
* A snail can sleep for 3 years.
* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
* China has more English speakers than the United States.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
* If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
* Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a fullmoon.
* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month.
* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
* Cat's urine glows under a black light.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
* You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
* In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
* The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank No.1 for animal having the most taste buds.
* Starfish haven't got brains.
(Source : THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY)
(Source : THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY)
After he had smoked them, he then decided that he had a claim against the insurance company and filed. The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigar normally. The man sued. The judge, stated that since the company had insured the cigars against fire, they were obligated to pay.
After the man accepted payment for his claim, the company then had him arrested for... arson.
This is something unbelievable but true. Just let the others also be aware of the things going around and remain alert. Those of you who need to travel overseas, please be careful. Be careful when traveling to Australia..... The following story is in E-circulation at present. This is a true story, it has been confirmed, the Medical Center phone number at the end of this story is real!
A friend in Australia rang it to confirm it, as he did not believe the story to begin with either. This guy went out on a Saturday night a few weeks ago to a party. He was having a good time and had a couple of beers and some girl seemed to like him & invited him to go to another party. He quickly agreed & decided to go along with her. She took him to a party in some apartment and they continued to drink, & even got involved with some drugs (unknown). The next thing he knew, he woke up completely naked in a bathtub filled with ice. He was still feeling the effects of the drugs, but looked around to see he was alone. He looked down at his chest, which had "CALL 000 or YOU'LL DIE" written on it with lipstick.
He saw a phone was on a stand next to the bathtub so he picked it up & dialed. He explained to the EMS operator what the situation was & that he didn't know where he was, what he took, or why he was really calling.
She advised him to get out of the tub. He did, and he appeared normal, so she told him to check his back. He did, he found two 9 inch slits on his lower back. She told him to get back into the tub immediately, and they sent a rescue team over.
Apparently, after being examined, he found out more of what had happened. His kidneys were stolen. They were worth $10,000 each in the black market. (I was unaware this even existed.)
Several guesses are in order : The second party was a sham, the people involved had to be at least medical students & it was not just recreational drugs he was given. Regardless, he is currently in the hospital on a life support, awaiting a spare kidney. The University of Sydney in conjunction with the RoyalPrince Alfred hospital is conducting tissue research to match the victim with a donor. I wish to warn you about a new crime ring that is targeting business travellers. This ring is well organised and well funded, has very skilled personnel & is currently operating in most major cities around the world and recently very active in Sydney. The crime begins when a business traveller goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the work day. A person in the bar walks up as they sit alone and offers to buy them a drink. The last thing the traveller remembers until they wake up in a hotel room bathtub, their body submerged to their neck in ice, is sipping that drink. There is a note taped to the wall instructing them not to move and to call 000. A phone is on the small table next to the bathtub for them to call. The business traveller calls 000 who have been quite familiar with this crime.
The business traveller is instructed by the 000 operator to very slowly and carefully reach behind them and feel if there is a tube protruding from their back. The business traveller finds the tube and answers "YES". The 000 operator tells them to remain still, having already sent paramedics to help. The operator knows that both of the traveller's kidneys had been harvested. This is not a scam or out of science fiction novel. It is real. It is documented and confirmable. If you travel or someone close to you travels, please be careful. Sadly, this is very true. My friend's husband is a Sydney EMT and they have received alerts regarding this crime ring. It is to be taken very seriously. The daughter of a friend of a fire-fighter had this happen to her. Skilled doctors are performing these crimes! (which, by the way have been highly noted in the Brisbane area).
Additionally, the military has received alerts regarding this. This story blew me away. I REALLY WANT AS MANY PEOPLE TO SEE THIS AS POSSIBLE SO PLEASE BOUNCE THIS TO WHOEVER YOU CAN.
PLEASE forward this to everyone you know.
Odd days :
Today is an ODD day : 13/11/1999 - all digits odd!
Day before Yesterday, 11/11/1999, was also an Odd day.
We have another 4 Odd days,
13/11/1999, 15/11/1999, 17/11/1999 until the last one which will be 19/11/1999.
After that, we won't see an odd day until 1/1/3111.
The next even day will be 2/2/2000, the first since 28/8/888.
Have Nice Odd & Even Days!
PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR A MAIL MESSAGE YOU MAY RECEIVE WITH THE SUBJECT, "PHANTOM MENACE" NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NAME OF THE FILM EPISODE ONE.
PLEASE DO NOT OPEN AS IT IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL VIRUSES KNOWN TO DATE.
IT IS ONLY AROUND 3 DAYS OLD AND IS ON THE INTERNET.
MICROSOFT ESTIMATE THAT IT WILL CAUSE SOME US $100 MILLION OF DAMAGE BEFORE AN ANTI-VIRUS IS DEVELOPED. IT WILL DESTROY ALL MICROSOFT PROGRAMMES AND MEMORY AND ENTERS THROUGH MAIL ON THE INTERNET.
THE FILE NAME IS : Att1.unk
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS.
I am sending this to everyone on my contact list because this is how the virus travels. This virus may look like it is from someone on your contact list... titled "hey you" and describes how to download pictures. Don't do it!!!
Unfortunately... I learned the hard way (my motto). So... I have a new virus scanner now.
Have a good day.
Chris
Date : 22 March 2000 05:14
Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs.
If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password!
DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!
It just went into circulation yesterday, as far as we know. Please distribute this message. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it.
This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft.
Please share it with everyone that might access the Internet. Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that this may be stopped.
AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this time.
Regards Richard
Coke and Pepsi
Just when you thought you knew everything....
To clean a toilet :
Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers :
Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
To clean corrosion from car battery terminals :
Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
To loosen a rusted bolt :
Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
To bake a moist ham :
Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy
To remove grease from clothes :
Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
AND WE DRINK THIS STUFF!
Coke & Pepsi
For your info :
Look at the wrapper on a Coca-Cola 1.5 liters pet bottle and in ingredients, you will find phosphoric acid in it. Minute quantities of ethylene glycol is also used (which is acknowledged in the soft drink world for making it "really chill"). This is popularly known as anti-freeze which prevents water from freezing at 0 deg C and instead drops it by 4-5 degrees with minute quantities. This chemicals is a known slow poison in the caliber of arsenic. So, if you manage to drink about 4 liters coke within an hour or so, you can die.
Read along and give up these dangerous things. Be natural, have flavored milks, tender coconuts, butter milk, lassi, and plain water instead of these cold drinks. Guess what's the pH for soft drink, e.g. Coke? pH 3.4! This acidity is strong enough to Dissolve Teeth and Bones! Our human body stops building bones at the age of about 30. After that, it'll be dissolving about 8-18% of the bones each year from the urine, depending on the acidity of food intake (acidity does not depends on the taste of the food, but the ratio of potassium / calcium / magnesium etc. to (phosphorus).
The dissolved calcium will be accumulated & composted in the arteries, veins, skin, organs e.g. Affecting the kidney functioning (kidney stone). Soft drinks do not have any nutrition value (in terms of vitamins & minerals). It is high in sugar content, carbonic acid, chemical e.g. Coloring etc. Some like to take cold soft drinks after each meal, guess what's the impact? Our body needs an optimum temperature of 37 deg. Celsius for Digesting enzymes functioning. The temperature of cold soft drinks is very much below 37 deg or even close to 0 deg Celsius. This will dilute the enzymes & stress the digesting system, the food taken will not be digested. In fact it will be fermented! The fermented food produces gases, decays and becomes toxin, gets absorbed by the intestine, circulates in the blood stream and is carried to the whole body. Hence toxin is accumulated in other parts of the body, developing into various diseases. Think before you drink Coke/Pepsi (or any soft drinks) again. Have you ever thought what you drink when you drink an aerated drink? You gulp down Carbon Dioxide, whom nobody in the world would advise you to drink CO2. Two months back, there was a competition in the Delhi University - "Who could drink more Cokes?" The winner drank 8 bottles and fainted on the spot - too much CO2 in the blood. Thereafter, the principal banned all soft drinks from the college canteen! Did you know that soft drinks use chemicals in them that cause immense harm to you. Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days it DISSOLVED! Can you believe it? Teeth and bones are the only human parts that stay intact for years after death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to your soft intestines and stomach lining. Request to All: Forward this message to your friends to increase the awareness of the great USA made soft drinks. In India, people hesitate to pay Rs. 5/- for a tender coconut but prefer to pay Rs. 10/- and drink these dreadful products.
"Kon Banega Crorepati"
Click below to see
http://www.klubq.com/toon/
(Hilarious animated version)
The funniest story told about a Japanese Prime Minister is no doubt the tale of Mori's meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
As the story goes, Mori spoke little English and was worried about embarrassing himself at the pre-meeting photo-op.
His aides tried to coach him. They practiced lines : Mori would say, "How are you?"
Clinton would surely answer, "Fine," and no doubt politely return the question.
All Mori had to say was, "Me too." Then the pair could head off and speak in private, through interpreters.
What happened, the story continues, is that, when the President finally met the Prime Minister, Mori got confused and said, "Who are you?"
Clinton, figuring that his counterpart was joking, teasingly bantered back : "I'm Hillary's husband."
Mori, who had learnt at least one of his lines, confidently retorted : "Me too."
I have a friend whose pal works for the government health inspection. Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their cooked food, their store hygiene, etc. They found sugarcane juice had the highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has exceeded the set limit. Hence, these guys had to find out why. They went around all sugarcane stores and watched the way the hawkers handle their sugarcane, washing their glasses, their entire procedure. But they couldn't find the problem.
One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some shocking facts!! Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would washed the floor with detergent. As we know, the remaining sugarcanes will be placed at the back of the store, vertically standing and as sugarcanes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around them. Besides, the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers boots, cats urine, etc. will all be absorbed.
Now, whenever I ate at hawker centre, I would warn all my friends about this and of course I stopped drinking my favourite sugarcane juice.
A friend was pregnant and she loves sugar cane juice. She was always drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried and the foetus was already like 6 or 7 months I think. When the doctors did an autopsy to find out why all of a sudden the foetus had died inside her, they found traces of some chemical substance, which was found in cat urine. Large traces of it.
While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremely toxic to babies, what more a foetus? So they tried to determine how this cat urine thing could have ended up in the foetus. This meant that it had to be ingested by the mother, right? And the only logical conclusion they could come up with was that since these sugar cane juice stall holders just leave the canes lying around on the wet and muddy floor, it would not be impossible to think that stray cats could have peed on those sugar canes or near those sugar canes.
So think carefully the next time you crave for sugar cane juice. When you're expecting or not.
On a British Airways flight from Johannesburg, a middle-aged, well-off white South African Lady has found herself sitting next to a black man. She called the cabin crew attendant over to complain about her seating.
"What seems to be the problem, Madam?" asked the attendant.
"Can't you see?" she said. "You've sat me next to a kaffir. I can't possibly sit next to this disgusting human. Find me another seat!"
"Please calm down Madam," the stewardess replied. "The flight is very full today, but I'll tell you what I'll do - I'll go and check to see if we have any seats available in club or first class."
The woman cocks a snooty look at the outraged black man beside her (not to mention many of the surrounding passengers). A few minutes later the stewardess returns with the good news, which she delivers to the lady, who cannot help but look at the people around her with a smug and self satisfied grin : "Madam, unfortunately, as I suspected, economy is full. I've spoken to the cabin services director, and club is also full. However, we do have one seat in first class."
Before the lady has a chance to answer, the stewardess continues. "It is most extraordinary to make this kind of upgrade, however, and I have had to get special permission from the captain. But, given the circumstances, the captain felt that it was outrageous that someone be forced to sit next to such an obnoxious person."
With which, she turned to the black man sitting next to the woman, and said : "So if you'd like to get your things, sir, I have your seat ready for you."
At which point, apparently the surrounding passengers stood and gave a standing ovation while the black guy walks up to the front of the plane.
...people will forget what you said.
...people will forget what you did.
...but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Today in China 10,000 (ten thousand) bears are kept prisoner for extracting bile from their gall bladders. The bears are kept in a horizontal position, in cages that look rather like coffins. They wear a metal collar and are held down by pressure bars. A catheter is introduced into their body that continuously absorbs the liquid from their gall bladders. The bears cannot change their position and remain in this condition of permanent pain between 15 and 20 years! We cannot accept this cruelty, torture and barbarism to continue and be part of the life of these poor bears for another minute.
With their paw they take some food through a little opening in the cage. To quench their thirst they have to stretch their tongue to lick the bars of their prison. They suffer excruciating pain as they have to stay for an average of 15 years in the same position that deforms their bones. We are talking about 15 years or 180 months, or 5,475 days, or 131,400 hours or 78,844,000 minutes of continuous pain. The bile serves a disgusting market : it is used to produce shampoos, aphrodisiacs and 'miraculous' remedies. During the extraction of the liquid, a tube is inserted in the gall bladder; one end of the tube stays outside the belly of the bear, linked to a machine that extracts the bile. The suffering of the animal exceeds the imagination : the bear wishes death, mutilates himself and tries to commit suicide.
For further information visit :
http://www.geocities.com/Baja/2324/index.html
To help, you just need to copy this e-mail and sign the list below, which calls for the immediate end of the horrific Bile Farms - then send this message to as many people as possible. Thanks again.
Once this list reaches 100, please send to ramona@unikey.com.br
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WHY?
This is probably the best known and most celebrated of all lateral thinking puzzles. It is a true classic. Although there are many possible solutions which fit the initial conditions, only the canonical answer is truly satisfying.
How can this be?
How did the driver see the man?
One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday.
Why?
Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?
This is logical rather than lateral, but it is a good puzzle which can be solved by lateral thinking techniques. It is supposedly used by a very well-known software company as an interview question for prospective employees.
A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?
A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins.
How could this be so?
A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says 'Thank you' and walks out.
This puzzle has claims to be the best of the genre. It is simple in its statement, absolutely baffling and yet with a completely satisfying solution. Most people struggle very hard to solve this one yet they like the answer when they hear it or have the satisfaction of figuring it out.
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This is a simple puzzle to state but a difficult one to solve. It is a perfect example of a seemingly irrational and incongruous situation having a simple and complete explanation. Amazingly this classic puzzle seems to work in different cultures and languages.
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Why do the Chinese use chopsticks?
Why do we describe a delicate or risky situation as "touch and go?"
Why is a useless gift or possession called a "white elephant"?
White elephants were rare even in Siam (the modern Thailand). If you found one the emperor automatically owned it and you couldn't harm it. When the emperor wanted to punish someone, he gave him or her a white elephant as a "gift." They couldn't ride it or work it, but they still had to take care of it and clean up after it. And you know what elephants do besides eat. So the gift was useless. Hence the expression.
Why do we say that something that is just right is "on the nose"?
Well take a deep breath. Would you believe that "on the nose" comes from radio? When broadcasting began, directors had to communicate with people on the air without making noise, so they developed hand signals. Time is always a key element in live broadcasts. The person at the mike needed to know if the program was on schedule. If things were "just right," the director signaled with a finger to the side of his or her nose.
Why do we call a bad dream a nightmare?
But that's not the etymology of nightmare -- not by a long shot. It comes from the Old English word "maere," which means an incubus, a tiny demon that stands on your chest during the night, suffocating you.
Why would an incubus do that to you? You probably did something to upset nature's laws. Maybe you served white wine with red meat, wore a red suit with brown shoes, or did some other nightmarish thing.
Why do they say "love" instead of "zero" in tennis?
Not that tennis terminology such as "love" ever had anything to do with being polite. In fact, substituting love for zero was a way of saying that the player with no points had laid an egg, and that's not being very nice. The French, who popularized tennis, thought the zero on the scoreboard resembled an egg. French for egg is "l'oeuf," which is what they called zero. When tennis crossed the pond, Americans also called zero "l'eouf." They just slightly scrambled the pronunciation. And that's the story of love.