Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
FOFL.. I thought you'd appreciate the artistic value of that one. :)
Four men were bragging about how smart their cats are. The first man was an Engineer, the second man was an Accountant, the third man was a Chemist, the fourth was a Government Employee.
To show off, the Engineer called to his cat, "Tsquare, do your stuff." Tsquare pranced over to a desk, took out some paper and a pen and promptly drew a circle, a square, and a triangle. Everyone agreed that was pretty smart.
But the Accountant said his cat could do better. He called his cat and said, "Spreadsheet, do your stuff." Spreadsheet went out into the kitchen and returned with a dozen cookies. He divided them into 4 equal piles of 3 cookies each. Everyone agreed that was good.
Then the Chemist said his cat could do better. He called his cat and said, "Beaker, do your stuff." Beaker got up, walked over to the fridge, took out a quart of milk, got a 10-ounce glass from the cupboard and poured exactly 8 ounces without spilling a drop. Everyone agreed that was good.
Then the three men turned to the Government Employee and said, "What can your cat do?".
The Government Worker called to his cat and said, "CoffeeBreak, do your stuff." Coffee Break jumped to his feet, ate the cookies, drank the milk, peed on the paper, screwed the other three cats, claimed he injured his back while doing so, filed a grievance report for unsafe working conditions, put in for Workers Compensation, and went home for the rest of the day on sick leave.
Obviously, the government worker didn't work for CPS.
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lol.....sounds like the Government cat was a liberal! : )
Obviously, the government worker didn't work for CPS."
NO, guess not but that Gubmit cat is clearly a democrat. LOL
*smootch*
Might be of interest.....
Red Herring
This term for deliberate misdirection comes from hunting. Poachers would interpose themselves between the prey and the hunting party and drag a red herring across the trail to mislead the dogs. This would give them the opportunity to bag the prey themselves.
A red herring was chosen because dog trainers often used the pungent fish to create a trail when training their hounds. The dogs, upon encountering the herring scent, would follow that trail as it was the one they had been trained with
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
This nonsensical phrase first appeared in the English-language release of the Japanese video game Zero Wing in 1991. It's a shoddy translation that became an in-joke among video gamers, who in the spirit of Kilroy and Mr. Chad copied it as grafitti wherever there was a flat surface. In 1998 the phrase began to be posted to the Internet and what had been an in-joke among gamers went mainstream.
Kilroy Was Here
Kilroy was a mysterious World War II soldier, probably American, who traveled all over the world scrawling the immortal phrase Kilroy was here wherever a flat surface presented itself. Often, the phrase was accompanied by a simple drawing of a big-nosed man peering over a wall. Clearly, the graffiti were scrawled by thousands of different soldiers, not a single one named Kilroy. But did Kilroy actually exist? And if so, did he start the fad?
The New York Times, on 24 December 1946, credited James J. Kilroy of Quincy, Massachusetts with starting the craze. Kilroy was an inspector at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in that city, and used a yellow crayon to write Kilroy was here on items that he had inspected. The graffiti became a common sight around the shipyard, and was imitated by many of the other 14,000 shipyard workers when they were drafted and sent around the world.
Bryson cites the above account and also mentions another possible origin. A Sergeant Francis Kilroy of the US Army Air Transport Command who scrawled the immortal phrase on boxes that were to be shipped abroad. Again, the phrase was picked up by other GIs and spread to everywhere from Murmansk to Espiritu Santo.
The cartoon usually associated with Kilroy has quite a different origin. It is originally British, named Mr. Chad, and apparently predates the Kilroy phrase by a few years. It commonly appeared with the phrase Wot, no ------? underneath, with the blank filled in with whatever happened to be in short supply at the time (example: Wot, no spam?). Sometime during the war, Chad and Kilroy met and in the spirit of Allied unity merged, with the British drawing appearing over the American phrase. The OED2 lists Chad's origin as "obscure," but it may have been created by George Edward Chatterton, a cartoonist in civilian life who spent the war years in the Royal Air Force.
I hope Westy keeps his KillRoy pic as his signature. I love it and it suits him, don't you think?
Back to eagles..This afternoon 1 or 2 eagles spent at least 3 hours in or around the the Kent,WA. eagle nest that has a web cam aimed at it...
At times I thought eggs were being laid or incubated, but not yet it appears....
On that thought I'll say Goodnight all...Hope you had a good day after Valentines Day....LOL..
.....Westy.....
Hmmmm...I know I am a bother, but I did not put the eagle cam on my favorite list. Can you, just one more time, give me the link? I do so hope they choose that nest.
I agree it was cute and it was is signature!
Ruins Support Myth of Rome's Founding
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/rome_s_origins
By SARAH BARDEN, Associated Press Writer
ROME - Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of Mars, the god of war, who were suckled as infants by a she-wolf in the woods.
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Now, archaeologists believe they have found evidence that at least part of that tale may be true: Traces of a royal palace discovered in the Roman Forum have been dated to roughly the period of the eternal city's legendary foundation.
Andrea Carandini, a professor of archaeology at Rome's Sapienza University who has been conducting excavations at the Forum for more than 20 years, said he made the discovery over the past month at the spot where the Temple of Romulus stands today.
It is next to the Sanctuary of Vesta — the Roman goddess of the hearth — just outside the Palatine walls, site of the earliest traces of civilization in Rome.
Where previously archaeologists had only found huts dating to the 8th century B.C., Carandini and his team unearthed traces of regal splendor: A 3,700-square-foot palace, 1,130 square feet of which were covered and the rest courtyard. There was a monumental entrance, and elaborate furnishings and ceramics.
The walls were made of wood and clay, with a floor of wood shavings and pressed turf. It was tests on the clay that allowed the archaeologists to confirm the age of the find.
Carandini said the residence had "absolutely extraordinary dimensions, dimensions not formerly known."
"It could be nothing other than the royal palace," he said, adding that during that period the average abode was about one-tenth the size.
Carandini also found a hut where vestal virgins are believed to have lit a sacred flame.
Eugenio La Rocca, the superintendent for monuments for the city of Rome, said Carandini's interpretation of the ruins appears to be accurate.
"It seems to me that what is emerging from the excavation of Carandini, who can be considered the highest authority in this field, is a very coherent archaeological reading," La Rocca told the newspaper Il Messaggero.
"Whoever created the legend did so with the knowledge that behind it there was a historical foundation," he told the newspaper. "That doesn't mean the story of Romulus and Remus necessarily happened that way, but only that memory as it was handed down by the majority of the Latin writers is much more than a hypothesis."
In Rome's founding myth, the daughter of a king deposed by his brother was forced to become a vestal virgin to prevent her from having children. But Rhea Silvia became pregnant with sons of the god Mars.
When the infants were discovered, the princess was imprisoned and the babies were set adrift in a basket on the Tiber River — which today winds its way through Rome.
The twins floated ashore safely and were suckled by a she-wolf until they were rescued by a shepherd, who raised them.
When they learned the story of their past, they killed the usurper Amulius, restored Rhea Silvia's father — Numitor — to the throne, and set off to found a city on the site where they were taken care of by the wolf.
The image of the two naked babies looking up to drink the milk of the she-wolf became a recurrent theme in Roman art, and sculptures of the scene are scattered around museums throughout the nation.
While there is little evidence of the historical existence of twins called Romulus and Remus who founded Rome, the discovery of the palace offers tantalizing indications the legend had roots in fact.
Carandini began his career as an art historian before becoming involved in archaeological digs.
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Thank you Westy,
I love looking at your Eagle pictures.
Stay well.
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