The world is so large that one cannot even
estimate the number of people residing here.
Forget the world population, a person is surrounded
by countless relations and close associates. You
have parents, brothers, sisters, husband, wife,
friends, kids, girlfriend, boyfriend... the list goes on
and on. You know a spectrum of people cutting
across different age groups and different interests
and hobbies. Just as there are a plethora of different
people belonging to different categories, there is an
overabundance of occasions celebrated throughout
the year, beyond our knowledge. For every
relation you share with someone and relationships
you are involved in, you have a special day to
celebrate. These are one of the few ways to
expressing your love and affection towards your
near and dear ones.
Gifts are a token of our feelings. But choosing an
appropriate gift for a person is not an easy task.
With so many categories of gifts and occasions
existing, you need to think carefully and finalize a
gift that will be highly appreciated and cherished
by the recipient for a long time. For this, you need
to consider the tastes and preferences of the
person whom you wish to delight with your
thoughtful and amazing gift. To save you from the
trouble of taxing your mind over the choice of a
gift, we have brainstormed and have come up with
some distinct and wonderful people-wise gift ideas
that you can use while narrowing down to a gift.
Go through this section and see what suits you and
the recipient the best. Read on and make your pick!
Baby
Babies are a bundle of joy. They bring happiness
and hopes to our lives. Everyone loves and adores
babies. They are delicate and cute with loads of
upcoming bliss and enjoyment embedded in them.
Whether you have been invited to a baby shower
or plan to make a visit to the new mother and
baby,
Book Lovers
Books are a man's best companion. They enlighten
us, broaden our horizons, and help in making us a
better person. Whether it is festive time or holiday
season, bookseller chains have a field day selling all
sorts of books, novels, biographies, comics, and
others. Reason being, there exist some bookworms
in the
Boyfriends
Whether it is your one-month anniversary or your
boyfriend's birthday, you always want to surprise
your boyfriend and make him feel special. Often
regarded as poor specie, a boyfriend is, practically,
the only person who bears all your tantrums,
cajoles you when you are angry, and is there to
help you whenever
Brothers
One of the closest relationships that humans share
is brotherhood amongst siblings. Very often,
brothers are closer to us than our parents. We
share things, meals, clothes, and beds with them. A
brother is the best friend with whom you can share
your darkest secrets and know that they are safe
with him. Brothers motivate us, cheer us and of all,
give us a sense of security and assurance.
Business Executives
In business, it is very common to meet clients,
customers, executives, and vendors. The main
objective of such meetings is strictly restricted to
business purposes, but it can also be used to build a
good reputation and rapport. A good understanding
is very important for long-term business
associations.
Cat Lovers
From the early evolution of mankind, animals, like
dogs and cats, have been very close companions to
humans. The association of cats with humans can be
trailed back to over nine thousand years. Cats are
currently the most popular of all pets and are
widely domesticated throughout the world.
Sunday, 25 September 2011
MUSIC LOVER
Music Lovers Gift Ideas
Imagine life without music, doesn't it sound like a
video without audio? Without a second thought, life
is actually a silent movie in the absence of music.
Music fills every moment of life, be it the crying of
the new born child or the melancholic tone of a
person departing. Music can bring peace and solace
to a turbulent mind. Music has the power to
communicate with god. It is a language that
requires no words but still can reach out to every
stranger. Good music is a creation of a beautiful
mind with pure emotions from heart and has the
power to melt the heart of even the most callous
person in the world. Music connects people from
different races, religions, ethnicities, languages, and
countries. Even though music touches everyone in
varying degrees, some people are more passionate
about it. These people carry music in their hearts all
the while. They don't wait to see other people's
reactions and start swinging and swaying on the
tones, the moment given a chance. If you are
looking for a gift for music lovers, you will have to
sensibly pick up a gift, something that can relate to
music. Here are some unique music lovers' gift
ideas that you can look upon.
You are thinking of gifting to a music lover and
what could be a better idea than gifting him/her
a music instrument of their interest. You can
present a guitar, piano, violin, mouth organ, and
so on.
For someone who is interested in music, you can
get him/her enrolled in music classes and
sponsor the entire course. He/She will be highly
pleased with your generous effort.
Another very considerable gift that you can
give are tickets to a live concert of his/her
favorite artist.
If you can manage to get autographed photos of
their favorite artist, you could give them one of
the best gifts of their lifetime.
You can also gift a music CD collection of his/her
favorite artist.
Gifting a MP3 player or I-pod to listen songs is
another considerable gift that will certainly
delight them.
Headphones and earphones are other considerate
options in terms of gifting to music lovers. They
can use them to listen to their favorite music
numbers.
Gifting a good stereo receiver is a good choice
that you consider giving to a music lover. You
need not to buy a very expensive system; there
are various affordable and quality options
available from other decently good brands.
Imagine life without music, doesn't it sound like a
video without audio? Without a second thought, life
is actually a silent movie in the absence of music.
Music fills every moment of life, be it the crying of
the new born child or the melancholic tone of a
person departing. Music can bring peace and solace
to a turbulent mind. Music has the power to
communicate with god. It is a language that
requires no words but still can reach out to every
stranger. Good music is a creation of a beautiful
mind with pure emotions from heart and has the
power to melt the heart of even the most callous
person in the world. Music connects people from
different races, religions, ethnicities, languages, and
countries. Even though music touches everyone in
varying degrees, some people are more passionate
about it. These people carry music in their hearts all
the while. They don't wait to see other people's
reactions and start swinging and swaying on the
tones, the moment given a chance. If you are
looking for a gift for music lovers, you will have to
sensibly pick up a gift, something that can relate to
music. Here are some unique music lovers' gift
ideas that you can look upon.
You are thinking of gifting to a music lover and
what could be a better idea than gifting him/her
a music instrument of their interest. You can
present a guitar, piano, violin, mouth organ, and
so on.
For someone who is interested in music, you can
get him/her enrolled in music classes and
sponsor the entire course. He/She will be highly
pleased with your generous effort.
Another very considerable gift that you can
give are tickets to a live concert of his/her
favorite artist.
If you can manage to get autographed photos of
their favorite artist, you could give them one of
the best gifts of their lifetime.
You can also gift a music CD collection of his/her
favorite artist.
Gifting a MP3 player or I-pod to listen songs is
another considerable gift that will certainly
delight them.
Headphones and earphones are other considerate
options in terms of gifting to music lovers. They
can use them to listen to their favorite music
numbers.
Gifting a good stereo receiver is a good choice
that you consider giving to a music lover. You
need not to buy a very expensive system; there
are various affordable and quality options
available from other decently good brands.
GIFT
Gifts are a wonderful way to convey our feelings.
They are a symbol of love and affection for
someone you admire and value in your life. An
appropriate gift for an occasion expresses a lot
more than thousand words put together. But
choosing the correct gift for an occasion often lands
us into a dilemma, especially when you have no
clue about what the recipient would love to accept.
Then, isn't it better to wait for a minute and think
over certain factors before you splurge out a
hundred greens from your pocket? With occasions
that arrive just once a year or probably once in a
lifetime, make your task of picking up the
appropriate gift even more puzzling. After all, you
want to divulge your best wishes and just can't let
the person down by presenting him/her with
anything you find attractive in the market.
There are so many different occasions and there are
so many different people for whom we have to
choose a gift. Each person differs in age, likes,
dislikes, and temperament. Our relation dynamics
and interpersonal relations also vary from person to
person. As such, you have to select the gift while
taking into consideration all these parameters. To
make your task easier, we have brainstormed and
have come up with a collection of unique and
personalized gift ideas for all situations possible -
special days, special occasions, gifts according to
different categories, and gifts according to different
people. No matter what occasion it is and to whom
you are gifting, these wonderful gift ideas are sure
to delight your loved ones. Dive into this section as
it narrows down your search, giving you what
exactly you are looking out for.
They are a symbol of love and affection for
someone you admire and value in your life. An
appropriate gift for an occasion expresses a lot
more than thousand words put together. But
choosing the correct gift for an occasion often lands
us into a dilemma, especially when you have no
clue about what the recipient would love to accept.
Then, isn't it better to wait for a minute and think
over certain factors before you splurge out a
hundred greens from your pocket? With occasions
that arrive just once a year or probably once in a
lifetime, make your task of picking up the
appropriate gift even more puzzling. After all, you
want to divulge your best wishes and just can't let
the person down by presenting him/her with
anything you find attractive in the market.
There are so many different occasions and there are
so many different people for whom we have to
choose a gift. Each person differs in age, likes,
dislikes, and temperament. Our relation dynamics
and interpersonal relations also vary from person to
person. As such, you have to select the gift while
taking into consideration all these parameters. To
make your task easier, we have brainstormed and
have come up with a collection of unique and
personalized gift ideas for all situations possible -
special days, special occasions, gifts according to
different categories, and gifts according to different
people. No matter what occasion it is and to whom
you are gifting, these wonderful gift ideas are sure
to delight your loved ones. Dive into this section as
it narrows down your search, giving you what
exactly you are looking out for.
GIFT
Gifts are a wonderful way to convey our feelings.
They are a symbol of love and affection for
someone you admire and value in your life. An
appropriate gift for an occasion expresses a lot
more than thousand words put together. But
choosing the correct gift for an occasion often lands
us into a dilemma, especially when you have no
clue about what the recipient would love to accept.
Then, isn't it better to wait for a minute and think
over certain factors before you splurge out a
hundred greens from your pocket? With occasions
that arrive just once a year or probably once in a
lifetime, make your task of picking up the
appropriate gift even more puzzling. After all, you
want to divulge your best wishes and just can't let
the person down by presenting him/her with
anything you find attractive in the market.
There are so many different occasions and there are
so many different people for whom we have to
choose a gift. Each person differs in age, likes,
dislikes, and temperament. Our relation dynamics
and interpersonal relations also vary from person to
person. As such, you have to select the gift while
taking into consideration all these parameters. To
make your task easier, we have brainstormed and
have come up with a collection of unique and
personalized gift ideas for all situations possible -
special days, special occasions, gifts according to
different categories, and gifts according to different
people. No matter what occasion it is and to whom
you are gifting, these wonderful gift ideas are sure
to delight your loved ones. Dive into this section as
it narrows down your search, giving you what
exactly you are looking out for.
They are a symbol of love and affection for
someone you admire and value in your life. An
appropriate gift for an occasion expresses a lot
more than thousand words put together. But
choosing the correct gift for an occasion often lands
us into a dilemma, especially when you have no
clue about what the recipient would love to accept.
Then, isn't it better to wait for a minute and think
over certain factors before you splurge out a
hundred greens from your pocket? With occasions
that arrive just once a year or probably once in a
lifetime, make your task of picking up the
appropriate gift even more puzzling. After all, you
want to divulge your best wishes and just can't let
the person down by presenting him/her with
anything you find attractive in the market.
There are so many different occasions and there are
so many different people for whom we have to
choose a gift. Each person differs in age, likes,
dislikes, and temperament. Our relation dynamics
and interpersonal relations also vary from person to
person. As such, you have to select the gift while
taking into consideration all these parameters. To
make your task easier, we have brainstormed and
have come up with a collection of unique and
personalized gift ideas for all situations possible -
special days, special occasions, gifts according to
different categories, and gifts according to different
people. No matter what occasion it is and to whom
you are gifting, these wonderful gift ideas are sure
to delight your loved ones. Dive into this section as
it narrows down your search, giving you what
exactly you are looking out for.
Saturday, 3 September 2011
funny fact
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6
days, you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its
size in the human body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The human heart creates enough pressure
when it pumps out to the body to squirt
blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses
150 calories an hour.
A person cannot taste food unless it is
mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-
tasting substance like salt is placed on a
dry tongue, the taste buds will not be
able to taste it. As soon as a drop of
saliva is added and the salt is dissolved,
however, a definite taste sensation
results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer
of mucus every two weeks otherwise it
will digest itself
Humans are the only primates that don't
have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Thirty-five percent of the people who
use personal ads for dating are already
married.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but
not downstairs.
Dogs have four toes on their hind feet,
and five on their front feet.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight,
can pull 30 times its own weight and
always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without
it's head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only mamals that can't
jump.
Starfish don't have brains.
Polar bears are left handed.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one
knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
thirteen seconds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are
virtually indistinguishable from those of
humans, so much so that they could be
confused at a crime scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without
eating
Porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animal besides
humans that can get leprosy.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a
time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A male emperor moth can smell a female
emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-
inch tongue!
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by
torpedoing up into to shark's stomach
from underneath, causing the shark to
explode.
Ten percent of the Russian government's
income comes from the sale of vodka.
The number of possible ways of playing
the first four moves per side in a game
of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The sentence "The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog." uses every
letter in the alphabet. (Developed by
Western Union to Test telex/two
communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is
typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes
with month, orange, silver, and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
If you spell out consecutive numbers,
you have to go up to one thousand until
you would find the letter "a"
Men can read smaller print than women;
women can hear better than men.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers, and laser printers
were all invented by women.
The reason firehouses have circular
stairways is from the days of yore when
the engines were pulled by horses. The
horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the
"American Pie." (Thus the name of the
Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards
represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander
the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if
injected intravenously.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
If you put a raisin in a glass of
champagne, it will keep floating to the
top and sinking to the bottom.
Only one person in two billion will live to
be 116 or older.
It was discovered on a space mission that
a frog can throw up. The frog throws up
its stomach first, so the stomach is
dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog
uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows
the stomach back down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they
would soon die; they need gravity to
swallow.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the
seventh floor of a building, it has about
thirty percent less chance of surviving
than a cat that falls off the twentieth
floor. It supposedly takes about eight
floors for the cat to realise what is
occurring, relax and correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk
backwards, and are on the Australian coat
of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the
Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by
donkeys than die in aircrashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then
thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
A shark can detect one part of blood in
100 million parts of water.
A rat can last longer without water than
a camel.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws,
push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it
will let you go instantly.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will
not be heads 5000 times,but more like
4950. The heads picture weighs more, so
it ends up on the bottom.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They
don't appear until the child reaches 2-6
years of age.
The 3 most valuable brand names on
earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
Coca Cola was originally green.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the
sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The most common name in the world is
Mohammed.
Intelligent people have more zinc and
copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and
9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he
was nine. His parents thought he might
be retarded.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one
hand and draw with the other at the
same time.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary,
my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never
said "Play it again, Sam".
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time: 1/100th
of a second.
Months that begin on a Sunday will
always have a "Friday the 13th."
First novel ever written on a typewriter:
Tom Sawyer
The mask used by Michael Myers in the
original film "Halloween" was actually a
Captain Kirk mask painted white.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander
Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is
missing the entire middle finger of his
right hand.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a
small red car can be seen in the distance.
The first couple to be shown in bed
together on prime time television were
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was
allergic to carrots.
Every day more money is printed for
monopoly than the US Treasury.
The city with the most Roll Royces per
capita: Hong Kong
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness:
28% Percentage of North America that is
wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life
size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the
age of 11: £4000
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid
of their unwanted people without killing
them used to burn their houses down -
hence the expression "to get fired."
The name Jeep came from the
abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The term "whole 9 yards" came from
WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the
ground, the .50 caliber machine gun
ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If
the pilots fired all their ammo at a target,
it got the "whole 9 yards."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived
from an old English law which stated that
you couldn't beat your wife with
anything wider than your thumb.
The US Interstate road system was
designed so that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections
are usable as airstrips in times of war or
other emergencies.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II,
moves only six inches for each gallon of
fuel that it burns.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a
divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from
Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as
medicine
You can tell from the statue of a
mounted horseman how the rider died. If
all four of the horse's feet are on the
ground, he died of natural causes. One
foot raised means he died from wounds
suffered in battle. Two legs raised means
he died in action.
days, you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its
size in the human body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The human heart creates enough pressure
when it pumps out to the body to squirt
blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses
150 calories an hour.
A person cannot taste food unless it is
mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-
tasting substance like salt is placed on a
dry tongue, the taste buds will not be
able to taste it. As soon as a drop of
saliva is added and the salt is dissolved,
however, a definite taste sensation
results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer
of mucus every two weeks otherwise it
will digest itself
Humans are the only primates that don't
have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Thirty-five percent of the people who
use personal ads for dating are already
married.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but
not downstairs.
Dogs have four toes on their hind feet,
and five on their front feet.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight,
can pull 30 times its own weight and
always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without
it's head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only mamals that can't
jump.
Starfish don't have brains.
Polar bears are left handed.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one
knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
thirteen seconds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are
virtually indistinguishable from those of
humans, so much so that they could be
confused at a crime scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without
eating
Porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animal besides
humans that can get leprosy.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a
time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A male emperor moth can smell a female
emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-
inch tongue!
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by
torpedoing up into to shark's stomach
from underneath, causing the shark to
explode.
Ten percent of the Russian government's
income comes from the sale of vodka.
The number of possible ways of playing
the first four moves per side in a game
of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The sentence "The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog." uses every
letter in the alphabet. (Developed by
Western Union to Test telex/two
communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is
typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes
with month, orange, silver, and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
If you spell out consecutive numbers,
you have to go up to one thousand until
you would find the letter "a"
Men can read smaller print than women;
women can hear better than men.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers, and laser printers
were all invented by women.
The reason firehouses have circular
stairways is from the days of yore when
the engines were pulled by horses. The
horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the
"American Pie." (Thus the name of the
Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards
represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander
the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if
injected intravenously.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
If you put a raisin in a glass of
champagne, it will keep floating to the
top and sinking to the bottom.
Only one person in two billion will live to
be 116 or older.
It was discovered on a space mission that
a frog can throw up. The frog throws up
its stomach first, so the stomach is
dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog
uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows
the stomach back down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they
would soon die; they need gravity to
swallow.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the
seventh floor of a building, it has about
thirty percent less chance of surviving
than a cat that falls off the twentieth
floor. It supposedly takes about eight
floors for the cat to realise what is
occurring, relax and correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk
backwards, and are on the Australian coat
of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the
Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by
donkeys than die in aircrashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then
thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
A shark can detect one part of blood in
100 million parts of water.
A rat can last longer without water than
a camel.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws,
push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it
will let you go instantly.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will
not be heads 5000 times,but more like
4950. The heads picture weighs more, so
it ends up on the bottom.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They
don't appear until the child reaches 2-6
years of age.
The 3 most valuable brand names on
earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
Coca Cola was originally green.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the
sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The most common name in the world is
Mohammed.
Intelligent people have more zinc and
copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and
9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he
was nine. His parents thought he might
be retarded.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one
hand and draw with the other at the
same time.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary,
my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never
said "Play it again, Sam".
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time: 1/100th
of a second.
Months that begin on a Sunday will
always have a "Friday the 13th."
First novel ever written on a typewriter:
Tom Sawyer
The mask used by Michael Myers in the
original film "Halloween" was actually a
Captain Kirk mask painted white.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander
Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is
missing the entire middle finger of his
right hand.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a
small red car can be seen in the distance.
The first couple to be shown in bed
together on prime time television were
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was
allergic to carrots.
Every day more money is printed for
monopoly than the US Treasury.
The city with the most Roll Royces per
capita: Hong Kong
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness:
28% Percentage of North America that is
wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life
size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the
age of 11: £4000
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid
of their unwanted people without killing
them used to burn their houses down -
hence the expression "to get fired."
The name Jeep came from the
abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The term "whole 9 yards" came from
WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the
ground, the .50 caliber machine gun
ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If
the pilots fired all their ammo at a target,
it got the "whole 9 yards."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived
from an old English law which stated that
you couldn't beat your wife with
anything wider than your thumb.
The US Interstate road system was
designed so that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections
are usable as airstrips in times of war or
other emergencies.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II,
moves only six inches for each gallon of
fuel that it burns.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a
divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from
Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as
medicine
You can tell from the statue of a
mounted horseman how the rider died. If
all four of the horse's feet are on the
ground, he died of natural causes. One
foot raised means he died from wounds
suffered in battle. Two legs raised means
he died in action.
Friday, 2 September 2011
FALTU VICHAR
The future depends on what we do in the present.
-YB
Everyday is a gift, that’s why they call it the present.
-YB
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
- YB
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
-YB
Nobody ever drowned in sweat.
-YB
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- YB
If the people around you are trying to pull you down, be proud of it..it only means one thing,”you are above them”.
I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no.
- YB
When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.
- YB
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
- YB
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- YB
Inspiration and genius–one and the same.
- YB
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
-YB
Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.
- YB
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- YB
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
- YB
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
- YB
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
- YB
If you would create something, you must be something.
-YB
-YB
-YB
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
-
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
- YB
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
-YB
-YB
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- YB
If the people around you are trying to pull you down, be proud of it..it only means one thing,”you are above them”.
I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no.
- YB
When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.
- YB
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
- YB
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- YB
Inspiration and genius–one and the same.
- YB
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
-YB
Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.
- YB
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- YB
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
- YB
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
- YB
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
- YB
If you would create something, you must be something.
-YB
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