Fact & Fantasy 7
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Fact: Eye portraits were exchanged among clandestine lovers in 1800's England.

 



LANGUAGE and DEFINITIONS
Eye halve a spelling chequer, it came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques, four my revue, miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word and weight four it two say
As soon as a mist ache is maid, it nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite. Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this hole poem threw it - I shore your pleased two no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh! My chequer tolled me sew.

-Martha Snow, from The Funny Times

THE ALTERNATIVE SPELLING OF ‘FISH’ is ‘GHOTI”:
-the ‘gh’ comes from ‘cough’
-the ‘o’ comes from ‘women’
-the ‘ti’ comes from ‘action’

If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it’s good enough for me. (An Arkansas congressman to the Joint National Committee on Language)


SIZE MATTERS

For the man who has not quite everything, there’s THE BULGE, a plenty large polypropylene penis that fits (barely) in your Speedos or tight jeans and is designed to drive passersby [presumably female] mad with desire. The price is reasonable ($19.95) but .... What happens when you unveil the real thing?

IN MARCH, THE BRITISH FIRM GOSSARD INTRODUCED THE $40 ULTRABRA AIROTIC THAT INFLATES (VIA ACCOMPANYING PUMP) UP TO TWO CUP SIZES FOR THE WOMAN WHO, ACCORDING TO A SPOKESPERSON DOESN’T WANT “HUGE BREASTS THROUGH THE DAY BUT DOES WANT TO HAVE THEM IN THE EVENING.”

Medical authorities in Swaziland are appealing for men with small to average-size penises to use up a stock of condoms donated to the African State. They are too small for most Swazi men and keep splitting. A spokesman for the national Aids programme told MPs: ‘Those that CAN should use these condoms because they were sent to us by foreign donors. It would be very rude to send them back.

RESEARCHERS at the Harvard Business School concluded a three year, $7.6 million study of American corporate workers. The study, a 23,000-page document, which focused on the recreational preference of those workers, is thus summarised:
1. Sport of choice for maintenance level employees: bowling
2. Sport of choice for front line workers: football
3. Sport of choice for supervisors: baseball
4. Sport of choice for middle management: tennis
5. Sport of choice for corporate officers: golf
CONCLUSION: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls.

· 80% of fourth grade girls are dieting.
· Today the average model weights 23% less than the average woman (USA). Twenty years ago the differential was 8%. Marilyn Monroe (size 16) and Kate Moss (size 6)!


RACE

When I was born, was black.
When I grew up, I was black.
When I’m sick, I’m black.
When I go in the sun, I’m black.
When I’m cold, I’m black.
When I die, I’ll be black.
But YOU:
When you’re born, you’re pink,
When you grow up, you’re white,
When you’re sick, you’re green.
When you go in the sun, you turn red.
When you’re cold, you turn blue.
When you die, you turn purple
AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO CALL ME COLORED!
(Anyone know who made this one up?)


RACES

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. (For the source of this quote, see the end of Fact and Fantasy section ***)

AND NOW for something similar: Thoughts on VIOLENCE, war, humanity and other age-old terrestrial DISASTERS

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Hitler's #2 Man, Hermann Goering


I do unto others what they do unto me, only worse. (Jimmy Hoffa)


OPEN WAVES ACT - A legistlative proposal in California pending from last year, the Open Waves Act, would guarantee that local surfers had no greater right to a wave than visiting surfers. At times in California, surfers brawl over waves, using their boards as clubs.

Poverty is not the problem.
Wealth is the problem.
Poverty is the solution.

(Satish Kumar)


Americans comprise only about 5% of the world’s population. But during the 1990s 36% of all terrorist attacks were directed at US interests.

There’s nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind and no scruples whatsoever.


Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.
-Orrin Hatch, Utah Senator

Iran’s supreme leader decreed that the punishment for politically opposing the death penalty would be the death penalty. (Funny Times)

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar but you cannot murder the lie nor establish the truth. Through violence you merely increase hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.


Every day four women are beaten to death by their male partners.


USA BOMBINGS SINCE WORLD WAR II
Japan (1943-45): conventional; incendiary; nuclear
China (1945-49): conventional; biological
Korea (1950-53): conventional; biological; chemical; incendiary
China (1951-52): conventional; biological; chemical
Guatemala (1954): conventional
Indonesia (1958): conventional
Cuba (1959-61): conventional; (biochemical attacks in other years)
Guatemala (1960): conventional
Vietnam (1961-73): conventional; chemical; biological; cluster
Congo (1964): conventional
Peru (1965): conventional
Laos (1964-73): conventional; chemical; biological; cluster
Guatemala (1967-69): conventional
Cambodia (1969-70): conventional; chemical; biological
Cambodia (1975): conventional
El Salvador (1980-89): conventional
Nicaragua (1980-89): conventional
Grenada (1983): conventional
Lebanon (1983-4): conventional
Syria (1984): conventional
Libya (1986): conventional
Iran (1987): conventional
Panama (1989): conventional; chemical; biological
Iraq (1991-2002): conventional; chemical; biological; cluster; DU
Kuwait (1991): conventional; chemical; biological; cluster; DU
Somalia (1993): conventional
Bosnia (1993-95): conventional; cluster; DU
Sudan (1998): conventional; biological
Afghanistan (1998): conventional
Yugoslavia (1999): conventional; chemical; biological; cluster; DU
Afghanistan (2001-02): conventional; chemical; biological; cluster; DU

FROM www.whatreallyhappened.com/usinterventionism.html

Little Johnny goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?" Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way. I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me Capitalism. Mommy is the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you The People.The nanny-well, consider her The Working Class. Your baby brother, we'll call him The Future. Now go think about this and see if it makes sense."

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying and runs to his room only to find that his diapers are very soiled. So the little boy goes to his parents room. Mom is sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he looks through the peephole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand what politics is now." "Good son, tell me in your own words then what politics are." The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit."


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· a windbreaker equipped with built-in cellular phone, MP3 player, headset
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A new CD consisting of 64 minutes of lawn mower noise, designed for those wishing to retaliate against annoying neighbors. Previously, Marsland [the company involved] released 64 minutes worth of a crying baby for couples trying to talk themselves out of becoming parents.


what the hell

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

A snail can sleep for three years.

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Things get worse.

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

lastest and mostest
(S)HE WHO DRINKS GETS DRUNK
(S)HE WHO GETS DRUNK GOES TO SLEEP.
(S)HE WHO GOES TO SLEEP DOES NOT SIN.
(S)HE WHO DOES NOT SIN GOES TO HEAVEN
So let’s all drink and go to heaven.
(Anon)


*** races quote was by .... JOSEF STALIN


 

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