How Embarrassing Was It?
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Embarrassment comes in all shapes and sizes. For example, police forces across the country use unmarked cars in undercover work. The Dallas police recently used a 2004 Infinity they’d seized in a drug raid. They used the car for 2 months before discovering $400,000 worth of cocaine hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments of the car. [...]
Discover a Great Reason to Laugh Out Loud Now
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Serious people Beware! You are entering an area where your seriousness is under threat.
If seriousness is your forte, be alert to the symptoms of laughter that’s contagious. Run for cover as you feel your mouth corners twitch and unexpected giggles push themselves up continuously - sure signs you’re becoming addicted to laughter.
No! The laughter [...]
How Can We Cut Costs Without Bleeding?
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One way to cut the cost of living is to cut the amount of electricity we use. A brick, the box that’s attached to a power cord, consumes electricity even when the laptop, cell phone or other piece of electronics isn’t plugged into it. Televisions and cable boxes use power even when they are turned [...]
Who Rules The Animal Kingdom?
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It used to be thought that only chimpanzees, dolphins, elephants and humans could recognize their reflection in a mirror. Now German scientists have added magpies to that list. When magpies were marked with a red or yellow dot that was visible to the birds only in a mirror, they scratched the dot. To prove the [...]
Where Has All The Good News Gone?
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More and more professionals are moving to small towns. The good news is they’re not having to move back in with their parents. These professionals are responding to Web-based recruitment campaigns from rural areas - campaigns that offer both good jobs and a better quality of life. In rural southwest Virginia the program’s called “Return [...]
Making Your Magic Performance Mysterious and Humorous
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All human knowledge take the form of interpretation. - Walter Benjamin
As both a seasoned magician and stand-up comic, I have a relatively unique, first-hand experience of the perplexing relationship between the mysterious and the humorous.
Sometimes, the apparently impossible can be very funny because a performance of strong magic can create the tension required for a [...]
Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?
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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder - and when I read women’s magazines, I behold beauty product ads on almost every other page. The creams, lotions and oils have various money-back guarantees - some are celebrity endorsed, some are supposedly newly revealed, European secrets and some are meant to be scientific [...]
In 2008 Should Economy Be Spelled Econome?
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Eighty percent of Americans are feeling financially stressed by the economy. This was one of the findings of the American Psychology Association survey conducted April-September 2008. Approximately half the 7,000 respondents worried most about providing for their families and the other half worried most about job security, but women worried more than men. This was [...]
Isn’t There A Pill To Prevent Gas Problems?
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Every time the price of gas goes up 1 cent a gallon it costs the U.S. Postal Service another $8 million for fuel. While the USPS waits for a breakthrough in automotive technology so it can increase its fleet of 45,000 alternative-fuel vehicles, the Postal Service has to find better ways to use - or [...]
Is There A Specific Ocean?
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Without doubt, one of the biggest gripes I have is the pronunciation of the word ’specific’ as ‘Pacific’. Geography may not be my strong point, but I’m pretty certain there is no Specific Ocean, so why the confusion when asking somebody to do something in a precise and clearly identified manner?
Having worked as a professional [...]