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Human Mysteries

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Some of these  I already knew; about the lungs, the number of bones in the feet, and about saliva.

Human Mysteries Part 1
The Human Body is a treasure trove of mysteries, one that still confounds
doctors and scientists about the details of its working. It’s not an
overstatement to say that every part of your body is a miracle. Here are
facts about your body, some of which may leave you stunne d.
1. It’s possible for your body to survive without a surprisingly large fraction
of its internal organs. Even if you lose your stomach, your spleen, 75% of
your liver, 80% of your intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every
organ from your pelvic and groin area, you wouldn’t be very healthy, but you
would live.
2. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming
pools. Actually, Saliva is more important than you realize. If your saliva
cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
3. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is
the male sperm. The egg is actually the only cell in the body that is visible
by the naked eye.
4. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue and the hardest
bone is the jawbone.
5. Human feet have 52 bones, accounting for one quarter of all the human
body’s bones.
6. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of
sweat a day.
7. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades. The
reason it doesn’t eat away at your stomach is that the cells of your stomach
wall renew themselves so frequently that you get a new stomach lining every
three to four days.
8. The human lungs contain approximately 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) of
airways and 300 to 500 million hollow cavities, having a total surface area
of about 70 square meters, roughly the same area as one side of a tennis
court. Furthermore, if all of the capillaries that surround the lung cavities
were unwound and laid end to end, they would extend for about 992
kilometers. Also, your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room
for your heart.
9. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph, while coughs clock in at about 60 mph.
10. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of
water to a boil.
11. Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.
12. Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. It protects the
delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also cleans
and lubricates the ear canal.

TV: The Programs I Like

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Here is a list of the TV programs, that I enjoy watching. Also I miss some of the ones that are no longer on, the ones that are in syndication.

First the ones that are on now.
NCIS
NCIS LA
Golden Boy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Chicago Fire
Persons of Interest
Elementary
Blue Bloods
Burn Notice
Major Crimes
Suits

Syndication
Cold Case
Monk
Psyche
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Sports
Baseball Tonight on ESPN
MLB Network
When September arrives, I watch quite a few football games, right up through to the Super Bowl.

There is more that I watch, or it watches me, so the list above tells you what I like.

The Darwins Are Out

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I sometimes wonder if this stuff is true, or partially true…. You decide.


The Darwins are out!!!!
Yes, it’s that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us .


Here is the glorious winner:


1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.


And now, the honorable mentions:


2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef’s claim was approved.


3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.


4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.


5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.


6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer… $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]


7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly.. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.


8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, “Yes, officer, that’s her. That’s the lady I stole the purse from.”


9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. [A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]


10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had.


In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with friends and family….unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.


*** Remember…. They walk among us!!!***

Favorite Words

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These fit so well they should be in a dictionary.

ADULT
A person who has stopped growing at both ends

And is now growing in the middle.

BEAUTY PARLOR
A place where women curl up and dye.


COMMITTEE
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST
Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

HANDKERCHIEF
Cold Storage.

INFLATION
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

MOSQUITO
An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN
A grape with a sunburn.

SECRET

Something you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE
The pain that drives you to extraction.

TOMORROW
One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

YAWN
An honest opinion openly expressed.

And MY Personal Favorite!!

WRINKLES
Something other people have,
Similar to my character lines.

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I received this in an email. So I’m just passing it along.

Concerning Boston Marathon Bomber Manhunt

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Concerning the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bomber, I decided not blog about  it, as I felt that just about every living person on the planet has seen, heard and read about it. The Boston TV stations have been on it since it this awful event happened. Myself, I can only watch it for so long, and then change the channel to watch something else. Also, am very selective to read online, and in the local newspaper, which is a joke, but that’s story for another time.

I feel bad for the families that lost relatives, and also for the injured, severe and the less severe.

As for the Westboro Baptist Church assholes, the ones that picket certain funerals, want to come to Boston. My advice, stay the fuck away, as you are not wanted.

For the readers of my blog want to read anything about the bombing and manhunt, here is a link (in bold) for The Boston Globe. For the time being, it is free for anyone to peruse. It has all the up to date info, plus videos, photos and slide shows.

Be strong Boston

You Know It Will Be Bad Day

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You know it will be a bad day when….
….the gypsy fortune teller offers to refund your money.
….your kids start treating you the same way you treated your parents.
….you have to borrow from your VISA to pay off your MASTERCARD.
….you realize that you just sprayed spot remover under your arms
instead of deodorant.
….your car payment, house payment, and girlfriend are three months
overdue.
….your horn sticks on the freeway behind 32 Hell’s Angels.
….the worst player on the golf course wants to play you for money.
….your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the candles.
….you turn on the evening news and they are showing emergency routes
out of the city.
….your twin sister forgets your birthday.
….your 4-year-old tells you that it’s almost impossible to flush a
grapefruit down the toilet.
….you discover that your 12-year-old’s idea of humor is putting crazy
glue in your Preparation H.
….you have to sit down to brush your teeth in the morning.
….you start to pick up the clothes you wore home from the party last
night……. and there aren’t any.
….it costs more to fill up your car than it did to buy it.
….you wake up to the soothing sound of running water…. and remember
that you just bought a waterbed.
….you call suicide prevention and they put you on hold.
….everyone avoids you the morning after the company office party.
….the bird singing outside your window is a vulture.
….you wake up and your braces are stuck together.
….you call your answering service and they tell you it’s none of your
business.
….your blind date turns out to be your ex-wife/ex-husband.
….your income tax refund check bounces.

Coffee

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I’m a coffee lover, and one of those that drinks it morning, noon and night. I enjoy it black and no sugar or artificial sweeteners.

But having a head cold that past couple of days, coffee essentially tastes like shit. And because it has a shitty taste, I end up dumping a good portion of the java that I brew, down the kitchen drain. At least the rats and whatever else resides in the main that goes to the sewerage plant, get to enjoy the Starbucks Coffee,

It sucks having a miserable cold, and the coffee tastes like shit.

Anyways, I will survive.

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Pure and impure thoughts… – Ribhu Gita

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Pure and impure thoughts are a feature of the mind. There are no wandering thoughts in the Supreme Being. Therefore, abide as That and, free from the pure and impure thoughts of the mind, remain still like a stone or a log of wood. You will then will always be happy.

-Ribhu Gita