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Tuesday 15 March 2016

The Nude Men Clock

How clever.
I like the way
the guys on the minute
hand are tapping their foot
as they wait for the minute to
pass. Somebody had way too much
time on their hands! Be sure to click on
the clock to make it digital. It's actually the
correct time even counting the seconds !!! What kind
of computer engineer-mind person thinks of these things ?
THE NUDE MEN CLOCK - A MUST SEE FOR YOURSELF


This is a masterpiece!!! This is extremely clever and
it does actually work, in BOTH formats!!!! Digital
and Analogue. And it's actually on YOUR correct
time. This human clock is fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!
Click anywhere in the clock and it
becomes digital, another click

and it returns to normal.

Thursday 10 March 2016

The History of 'APRONS'


I don't think our kids know what an apron is. The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses, and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.  

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks and Sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. And when the weather was cold, Grandma wrapped it around her arms.

·         Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
·         Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
·         From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.
·         After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
·         In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
·         When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
·         When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes. Send this to those who would know (and love) the story about Grandma's aprons.

REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron, but love.

Useless Facts Facts You Never Knew Till Now




Money isn't made out of paper,  it's made out of cotton.
The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle"

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up
and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the  top.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
  
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will  kill a small sized dog.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing  up into the  shark's 
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Ketchup (tomato sauce) was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in  the days when
all original print had to be set in individual letters the 'upper case' letters were stored
in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case'  letters.

Leonardo da Vinci
could write with one hand and  draw with the other at the same time (an early multi-tasker).
Leonardo Da Vinci
invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II  were made of wood.

There are no clocks in  most Las Vegas gambling casinos.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before .

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver.

A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you  can't sink in quicksand.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law
which stated that  a man couldn't beat his wife with anything wider than his thumb.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles.
At that time the most  popular player on the market was the
Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece
of  celery than the celery contains.  It's the same with apples.

Did you know when driving and you get sleepy, an apple helps?
Chewing gum, while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before going into  space because

passing wind in a space suit damages  it.