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A great article – my two pet peeves are:

Open cubicles
“Where is the privacy?” asks Angela Petitt, an IT professional.

Cluelessness about other coworkers
With the rise in open cubicles comes the inconsiderate coworker. “One lady sits at her desk and talks as loud as possible on personal calls, as if we can all shut our hearing off,” complains one cubicle dweller who prefers to remain anonymous. “It goes on for 20 minutes, several times a day. Annoying. Disturbing.”

LOL!  My wife and I were actually just talking about genetics…

Dude, it’s a “miracle” and never stop telling yourself that

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The things our tax dollars pay for – reading isn’t exercise – except for the brain.   So now you don’t even have to get off yer arse to take books out:

ublic Library Drive-Thru

Ottawa Public Library in Ontario, Canada, opened a drive-thru window in 2005. It was the first library to open a convenient and quick way to drop the books – with a drive-thru to drop books open 24hrs.

Found that one on Odee along with all these

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Couldn’t Agree More – Nuff Said…

Forcing teen pot smokers to go to rehab may cure them. Or it could make things ten times worse once they’re exposed to other teens who have real drug problems

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I told people this could happen…why I hate travelling in planes/trains with other peoples’ young kids

The good news is that the 3 year old wasn’t able to injure anyone else one the plane

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Ah Beer, is there anything you can’t do? (read the first entry)

5 world changing decisions made for ridiculous reasons

Dude, it’s a “miracle” and never stop telling yourself that

Things you hope not to see while perusing the job ads…but I would like to work at that place in Auckland, NZ.  C’mon, a place called Murder Burger?  That’s just awesome.

Where did Piss Poor come from?Interesting History
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery.  If you had to do this to survive you were “piss poor.”

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot, they “didn’t have a pot to piss in” and were the lowest of the low.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be.  Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.  However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.  Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.  The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children.  Last of all the babies.  By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.  Hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water!”

Houses had thatched roofs – thick straw piled high, with no wood underneath.  It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.  When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.  Hence the saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.  This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed.  Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.  That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt.  Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.  Hence the saying, “Dirt poor.”  The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing.  As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside.  A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way.  Hence:  a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren’t you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.  Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.  They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat.  They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.  Hence the rhyme:  Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.  When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.  It was a sign of wealth that a man could, “bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”

Those with money had plates made of pewter.  Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death.  This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status.  Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or “the upper crust.”

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.  The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days.  Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.  Hence the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people.  So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave.  When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive…so they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.  Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be “saved by the bell” or was considered “a dead ringer.”

And that’s the truth!  Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !

Bahahahahahahaha!

(Some Guy)

Mom refuses to let her fifth-grade son attend a sex-ed class at school and then gets mad when his friends tell him what he missed during lunch

Ahhhh…only in Quebec.   Sure we’ll pay you to have babies, but we’re not helping you rescue them when in danger ma’am

“Hello, this is 9-1-1. Yes? Your baby is locked in the car, and it’s 90º out? Yeah, we can’t help you. Please call back when the kid is unconscious. Thank you for calling. ” *click*

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Will wonders never cease!  Next thing you know OJ will be convicted of killing his wife or something wild-ass crazy like that

♫ LiLo, LiLo, it’s off to jail you go. ♫

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How to make the world never take your country or radical religious views seriously in 1 easy step

Iran Launches Holy War on Haircuts…Iranians dudes can still style their hair like the dude from 300, so that’s kinda cool

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Amazing what we put into our bodies during the 90’s.  And they though pot was bad for the kids in the 60’s!  And we ate this crap on a mass marketed basis.   Mmmmmmm….Orbitz (hack, gag!).

(Eating Our Words)

Anal leakage and other food fads from the ’90s we don’t miss at all

And people wonder why kids end up with a sense of self-entitlement with all the uber-conservative overprotectionism rampant in our society..

Parents allow 5 and 8 year-old children to ride one mile to school on their their bikes to teach them independence. School says it’s dangerous and will contact child services if the kid’s bike rides aren’t supervised

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Waaaaaaay to go Toronto Police and RCMP – the larpers were Surely behind the protests at the G20 summit.   Man Toronto sure knows how to make us look good on the global stage….

Those confiscated weapons that cops displayed at G20 press conference included foam ones taken from a larper who wasn’t even near the protests

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Ewww Ewww Ewww indee…..wait a minute…I’m closing in on 50…

(Bangor Daily News)

Dr. Dorree Lynn would like everyone to know that sex after age 50 is a natural and…ewww ewww ewww

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Of course the US Gov’t can’t let anyone get a leg up on the Beef Industry

After eating buffalo meat for almost 200 years, the FDA is now saying it’s not healthy. Cancel the bisontennial

Hope I’m still that spry when I get to that age….

Grampa Gaga

No longer can we celebrate Canada day.  Thanks Dalton

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As of Tomorrow  we taxpayers will receive an ‘ HST Compensation” payment.     This is indeed a very exciting program,  and I’ll explain it by using a Q & A format:

Q.  What is an ‘HST Compensation’ payment ?
A.  It is money that the provincial government will send to taxpayers.

Q..  Where will the government get this money ?
A.  From taxpayers.

Q.  So the government is giving me back my own money ?
A.  Only a smidgen of it.

Q.  What is the purpose of this payment ?
A.  The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set,  thus stimulating the economy.

Q.  But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China ?
A.  Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the economy by spending your compensation cheque wisely:

*  If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart,  the money will go to China or Sri Lanka …
*  If you spend it on gasoline,  your money will go to the middle east.
*  If you purchase a computer,  it will go to India , Taiwan or China .
*  If you purchase fruit and vegetables,  it will go to Mexico , Honduras and Guatemala ..
*  If you buy an efficient  car,  it will go to Japan or Korea .
*  If  you purchase useless plastic stuff,  it will go to Taiwan .
*  If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock,  it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead,  keep the money in Canada by:

1)  Spending it at yard sales,  or
2)  Going to hockey  games,  or
3)  Spending it on prostitutes,  or
4)  Beer or
5) Tattoos.

(These are the only Canadian businesses still operating in Canada. )

Conclusion:
In order to be a true Canadian – go to a hockey game with a tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard sale and drink beer all day !

No need to thank me,  I’m just glad I could be of help.