Sunday, July 15, 2012

Pixar Highlights

College Son Wants Money


Letter Sent By College Student To His Dad

Dear Dad,

     $chool i$ really great.  I am making lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very
hard.  With all my $tuff, I $imply can't think of anything I need, $o if you
would like, you can ju$t $end me a card, a$ I would love to hear from you.

     Love,
     Your $on.
      
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Dear Son,
 
     I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep
even an hoNOr student busy.  Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is
a NOble task, and you can never study eNOugh.

     Love,
     Dad

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Airline Joke

It was mealtime during an airline flight.  
'Would you like dinner?', the flight attendant asked John, seated in front.  
'What are my choices?'  John asked.  
'Yes or no,' she replied.

If you think so...


Inner Strength 

If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills, 
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, 
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, 
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it, 
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,

If you can overlook when people take things out on you when, 
           through no fault of yours, something goes wrong, 
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, 
If you can face the world without lies and deceit, 
If you can conquer tension without medical help, 
If you can relax without liquor, 
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, 
If you can do all these things,


 

Then you are probably the family dog. 

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Quotes

"Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are."
Theodore Roosevelt


"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward."
Author Unknown


"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Will Rogers


"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."
Abraham Lincoln


"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be a friend."
Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, July 8, 2012

English Lesson


here is no egg in the eggplant,
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England,
French fries were not invented in France.
We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that:
Quicksand takes you down slowly,
Boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If writers write, how come fingers don't fing?
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?
If the teacher taught,
Why hasn't the preacher praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
What the heck does a humanitarian eat?
Why do people recite at a play,
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways?
How can the weather be as hot as hell on one day
And as cold as hell on another?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down,
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!
English was invented by people, not computers,
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn't a race at all.)
That is why:
When the stars are out they are visible,
But when the lights are out they are invisible.
And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts,
But when I wind up this poem
It ends.