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Friday, June 8, 2001
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing,
quiet activities that will help you relax.
-- Dianne Hales
If you haven't forgiven yourself for something, how can you forgive
others?
-- Dolores Huerta
I do believe one ought to face facts. If you don't they get behind
you and may become terrors, nightmares, giants, horrors. As long
as one faces them one is top dog.
-- Katherine Mansfield
Successful people do all the things unsuccessful people don't want
to do.
-- John Paul DeJoria
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding,
but his memory.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci
Freedom comes when you are without anxiety about non-perfection.
(Zen Buddhist tradition)
If we had no winter,
the spring would not be so pleasant;
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
-- Anne Bradstreets
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
-- Judy Garland
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is
being a bore.
-- Sir Cecil Beaton
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things
to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
-- Gerald Brenan
***
Norway Pub Hires 91-Year-Old Bouncer
OSLO, Norway (AP) - What the new bouncer at a Norwegian pub lacks
in brawn, she more than makes up in experience: She's a 91-year-old
great-grandmother.
''I can be pretty strict if I have to. In fact, I am good at talking
to people, much better than using my fists,'' Marta Aurenes was
quoted as saying in the Rogalands Avis newspaper on Thursday.
Police in the west coast city of Stavanger are imposing a rule that
all bars and pubs must have bouncers on the weekends to prevent
trouble.
So Odd Noreger, owner of the Skjenkestuen pub, offered the job to
his oldest regular guest.
''We have a little pub off the beaten track with a lot of regulars.
We've operated for 15 years without any trouble, but now we have
to have a bouncer we don't need. So this is kind of a mild protest,''
Noreger said by telephone from Stavanger, about 185 miles west of
the capital, Oslo.
Noreger said Aurenes started coming to the pub when she was 86.
She discovered that she loved jazz and kept coming back.
''She is a fantastic woman in every way,'' Noreger said.
Aurenes doesn't expect any trouble, although she has been working
out with weights three times a week and will go through a required
police training course for bouncers.
''It's an advantage that I know the guests,'' she was quoted as
saying. ''Everyone is so nice that I want to tell all grandmothers
and great-grandmothers who don't feel secure out on the town: come
here to a safe place.''
***
Why do we call those grotesque figures on medieval buildings gargoyles?
Gargoyles served a mundane purpose. Water ran off buildings into
a gutter and from there flowed out through the gargoyles mouth,
which was actually a spout. In Latin, "gutter" is a word
for throat. "Garg" is a Latin prefix that also means throat
(think of the word "gargle"). Old French for throat was
"gargouille," from which we get gargoyle.
So, the most grotesque thing about gargoyles is that they expectorate
in public all day.
***
VIP Doctor
Boca Raton, FL (AP) - For a flat annual fee, an upscale south Florida
doctor is offering VIP service to his patients. For $1,500 a year,
Doctor Robert Colton's patients can expect appointments by the next
day, less time in the waiting room and more one-on-one time with
him.
Colton and a group of investors started MDVIP this spring. He is
believed to be the only South Florida doctor charging an annual
fee.
But industry experts say other physicians may soon follow. They
say more doctors are becoming frustrated with cuts in Medicare and
with health insurance reimbursement rates that are forcing them
to see more patients in less time.
Colton does accept patients on Medicare and from preferred provider
organizations -- but they, too, have to pay his annual fee and any
office visit co-payment requirred by the insurance.
***
Deadly Humans
Washington (AP) - Scientists have long debated what killed off
the big animals in the Americas and Australia. They now blame people.
Two new studies in the journal Science say ancient human hunters
using fire and spears drove the animals to extinction within a few
thousand years.
In the Americas, 73 percent of the large plant-eaters and the saber-toothed
tigers were gone within 1,200 years of humans' migrating to the
continents.
Mammoths, camels, mastodons, large ground sloths and a strange creature
called the glyptodont -- all gone. In Australia humans wiped out
elephant-sized marsupials, giant snakes and huge lizards.
John Alroy of the University of California, Santa Barbara, wrote
the study of the American extinctions. He says human population
growth and hunting almost invariably leads to mass major extinctions.
Alroy says the results show "how much havoc" human beings
can cause, without anyone realizing what is happening or intending
to do harm.
***
In July of 1956 the Italian Ocean Liner Andrea Doria sank near
Nantucket after a collision with the M.V. Stockholm on a dark and
foggy night (25 the of July). Most of the passengers and crew were
rescued, including Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth and his
wife, Ann. 52 passengers were killed in the collision.
***
Thursday, June 7, 2001
$64,000 QUESTION DAY
The $64,000 Question, a 1955 summer replacement show, with host
Hal March, premiered on this day. The first show became the most
watched and talked about program on TV. Contestants had to answer
10 questions correctly beginning at $64 and doubling the amount
with each correct answer upward to the $4,000 category. Getting
this far got you a return trip to the show the following week. The
consolation prize for an incorrect answer, after reaching the $8,000
plateau, was a new Cadillac. At this level, you got a free trip
to the Revlon isolation booth where you literally sweated your way
from $8,000 to $16,000 to $32,000, and finally, the big one.
An expert was permitted to accompany the contestant at the $64,000
mark. If neither of them could answer the question correctly, the
contestant received a consolation prize of $4,000. Questions were
compiled by Dr. Bergen Evans.
This, the first of the big-money TV shows, attracted guests with
unusual interests. Some of the better-remembered were Gino Prato,
a Bronx, New York shoemaker who used his knowledge of opera to win
$32,000, Jockey Billy Pearson, an art expert and one of the first
to win $64,000, and psychologist Joyce Brothers, an expert in boxing,
who won big not only in cash, but in her new career as media personality.
***
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting
but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
-- Allyson Jones
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned.
It is not what we intend, but what we do, that makes us useful.
It is not a few faint wishes, but a life-long struggle, that makes
us valiant.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds
and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of
this journey we are on, and what it means to us. It can influence
where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along
the way.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold
of all the temples of science: "The greatest derangement of
the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be
so."
-- Louis Pasteur
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five
minutes longer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom comes more from living than from studying.
(anonymous)
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
-- Mark Twain
***
A "too dumb to be a criminal" award goes to thieves in
Birmingham, UK, who stole 23 homing pigeons which, of course, flew
back to their owner a week later.
***
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker
tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns
that "individuality" is the key to success.
***
Sign on the desk of an airline executive in Chicago:
"Don't bother to agree with me, I've already changed my mind."
***
Long-Burning Bulb
Livermore, CA (AP) - A four-watt light bulb that's been burning
in Livermore, California, for a century is having a party. The bulb
was first installed in 1901 and serves as a night-light at Fire
Station Number Six.
The station now has a backup generator to make sure that the light
will keep burning, power shortages or not.
The city will celebrate the ancient bulb tomorrow as it basks under
the lens of a web cam on loan from Sandia National Laboratory in
Livermore.
There will be a barbecue, and three bands will provide entertainment.
The Guinness Book of Records recognizes the light as the longest-burning
bulb in the world.
***
Wrecker's Mistake
Miami (AP) - It wasn't enough that a Florida preservation group
failed in its bid to stop the demolition of a 102-year-old historic
home.
While wreckers were tearing down the home, they made a wrong turn
with their bulldozer -- and smashed into the group's headquarters
next door.
The Dade Heritage Trust building suffered damage to a porch, a window
and a dozen roof tiles. It happened as the wreckers were tearing
down the home of pioneer doctor James Jackson.
A trust member who happens to be the brother of Miami-Dade County's
mayor jumped onto the debris of Jackson's home and temporarily blocked
wreckers from continuing their work.
As for the damage to the trust's building, the demolition company
says "it happens from time to time. Sometimes you hit the house
next door."
***
A penny saved is... a Congressional oversight.
~~~
British Rail ingeniously solved the problem of lateness in the
InterCity express train service by redefining "on time"
to include trains arriving within one hour of schedule.
~~~
Observation.....by Ginny Manning
"To open, press here"
So often appears
On the boxes of things that one buys.
But all of us know
That's really not so....
You have to use scissors or knives!
~~~
Lets be teddy bears in our next lifetime. Everybody loves them,
nobody cares if they're fat, and the older they get, the more they're
worth!
~~~
It's easy enough to be pleasant
When life goes by like a song.
But the man worthwhile,
Is the man who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
***
How come bright sunlight makes people sneeze?
Not all of us sneeze when we go out into bright sunlight, but up
to a quarter of us do. It's called the "photic sneeze reflex,"
which basically means "sneeze caused by light." Nobody
knows what causes it, though some scientists have suggested it might
be a mix-up between the nerves of the eye and the nose (which run
pretty close together).
Wednesday, June 6, 2001
To be successful, grow to the point where one completely forgets
himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.
-- Booker T. Washington
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think...
When the mind is pure;
joy follows, like a shadow that never leaves.
-- Buddha
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-- Aristotle
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
-- Charles Buxton
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind
word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act
of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-- Leo Buscaglia
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.
-- John Mason
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to
see the world with completely fresh eyes.
-- Barbara Sher
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging
my own character.
-- Isabelle Eberhardt
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel
a certain void; nothing in the paper today, we sigh
-- Paul Valery
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes
or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little
things.
-- Ernest Dimnet
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless,
but planning is indispensible.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
***
Silencing the Slurp
Tokyo (AP) - Young Japanese are declaring war on food-slurping.
Slurping, loud and long, is what most Japanese over the age of 40
were taught was the polite way to eat hot noodles and just about
anything else that's slurpable.
But now, the tradition is considered uncouth -- with the battle
being waged between generations, and between genders.
Many middle-aged and older Japanese believe noodles taste better
if slurped quickly while they're hot and drenched in broth. A loud
slurp is also a way of showing you're enjoying the meal. But younger
Japanese reared on Western manners and a more Western diet, are
likely to be offended by the practice. They're also more concerned
about dribbling on their clothes.
But slurpers can take heart that they're in good company. A spokesman
for Japan's popular prime minister says the 59-year-old leader is
a dedicated and unapologetic noodle-slurper.
***
May 18 (WCBS) Laughter clubs are the latest rage when it comes
to beating daily stress. Just like a good workout can clear your
mind, regular hearty laughter may not only lift your spirits: A
growing body of scientific evidence suggests it can also fight disease
by actually boosting the immune system.
At the Healing Works Laugh Club, one of 80 laughter clubs in the
nation, complete strangers come together for forced laughter. The
club's goal is to allow deliberate laughing exercises to flow into
spontaneous laughter.
***
What is the origin of the word "dunce"?
Poor John Duns Scotus! He hoped to go down in history as a wise
scholar, but instead he gave us the word "dunce." John
Duns Scotus was a thirteenth-century scholastic theologian. His
teachings couldn't have been TOO lame, because he still had followers,
called "Dunses" or "Dunsmen," as late as the
sixteenth century. Unfortunately, the Dunses were laughed at by
the sixteenth-century humanist scholars and religious reformers
who felt the followers of Scotus were behind the times and resistant
to the new learning. By the time the sixteenth century had drawn
to a close, the word "dunce" had come to mean one opposed
to learning or "a stupid person."
***
Why do people who lose their temper "fly off the handle?"
The geographical origin of this phrase is 19th century rural America,
where the handle in question was likely to be attached to a hammer,
hatchet, ax or similarly sharp or heavy-headed instrument.
Tool handles were made from wood, which shrinks over long periods.
The shrinking wood loosened the head of the instrument. The first
good swing could send that head flying, with serious consequences
for anyone standing nearby. Similarly, someone metaphorically flying
off the handle is momentarily irrational and perhaps even dangerous
to those near them.
***
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
HOPALONG CASSIDY DAY
Today is the anniversary of the birth of William Boyd, born in
Cambridge,
Ohio in 1895.
Boyd is better known to movie-goers and TV audiences throughout
the world as
Hopalong Cassidy. He first played the role of the cowboy hero in
the 1935
movie, Hop-a-long Cassidy.
What most of us don't know is that Clarence E. Mulford, the author
and
creator of the original Hopalong, described him as a rather unsavory
character rather than the straight-thinking, straight-shooting cowboy
that
William Boyd portrayed.
Boyd was Hopalong Cassidy in 66 films through 1948 (he bought the
rights to
the character in 1945), and then he starred as Hopalong in the successful
TV
series in the 1950s. For over twenty years, children and adults,
alike,
thrilled to the adventures of Hopalong Cassidy, his horse Topper,
and his
sidekick played by George 'Gabby' Hayes, and later, by Andy Clyde.
Although William Boyd starred in Cecil B. DeMille's Volga Boatman;
and in
many silent movies and a slew of westerns other than the Hopalong
Cassidy
series; he will always be remembered as 'Hoppy'.
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1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier were brothers. They made
their first balloon ascension on this day. Their balloon successfully
climbed to 1,500 feet and stayed there for about ten minutes.
1876 - For one thin dime, visitors to Philadelphia's Centennial
Exposition were able to buy foil-wrapped bananas, a popular taste
treat in the United States.
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set a pair of world records in swimming
events. Weissmuller, who would soon become Tarzan in the movies,
set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, free-style swimming competition.
***
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
-- Robert F. Kennedy
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge,
and dares forgive an injury.
-- E. H. Chapin
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character
-- and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
-- Ezra Taft Benson
Wealthy people miss one of life's greatest thrills. Making the
last car payment.
(unattributed)
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit.
In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon I
Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life
in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
(unknown)
A word to the wise is unnecessary.
-- La Rouchefoucauld
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of
wine.
-- Eduardo Galeano
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we
are.
-- Thomas ã Kempis
Temptation is a woman's weapon and a man's excuse.
-- H. L. Mencken
If it must be Richard, let it be Wagner,
If it must be Strauss, let it be Johann,
But let it never be Richard Strauss
(unknown)
No one knows what he can't do until he has tried.
(unknown)
***
Signs you might be a grown-up already...
-- You carry an umbrella. You watch The Weather Channel.
-- Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed-up.'
-- You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
-- You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast.
-- You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
***
It's worth noting that barely one month after U-47s successful
penetration of Scapa Flow, the British visited a worse humilation
on the Italian fleet at Taranto. On the night of Nov. 12-13, Swordfish
torpedo bombers launched from HMS Illustrious severely damaged three
battleships at anchor. One was put out of commission permanently.
For all intents and purposes, the Italian fleet ceased to be a factor
in the war.
Some historians think the attack at Taranto encouraged Admiral
Yamamoto in his plans for an aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, by proving
the feasibility and effectiveness of such an approach.
***
Crypto Cell Phone
New York (AP) - There's no status in having a cell phone anymore.
Even those itty-bitty mobile phones are commonplace. If you really
want to be a VIP -- a Very Important Phoner -- you need a crypto-phone.
The German company Rohde und Schwartz is marketing a cell phone
that uses military-grade scrambling technology. For about three-thousand
dollars you get a hand-held phone that 007 would love. The company
says the phone is just the thing for captains of industry to discuss
their corporate secrets. The TopSec phone is only for use on the
European cell network. But security experts say it's only a matter
of time before a top-secret cell phone is available in the US, too.
***
Watch Your Car
Yakima, WA (AP) - Stop my car, please! That's the message some
Washington state drivers are giving police. They're asking to be
pulled over between one and five in the morning. The cars carry
a "Watch Your Car" sticker. Participants register with
the police and say their cars aren't normally used during the wee
hours. The idea is to deter auto theft and teens who might want
to take the family sedan out for a late night joy ride.
***
Why do we "bless" somebody after they sneeze?
Sneezing has long been regarded as a dangerous thing. The ancient
Greeks feared that a sneeze could accidentally dispel the soul.
People tried hard to hold back their sneezes and one that happened
anyway was greeted with chants to bestow good fortune. The Romans
held an almost opposite view. They felt a sneeze was the body's
attempt to dispel sinister spirits that could cause illness. Holding
BACK a sneeze made you vulnerable to sickness. Still, benedictions
were in order. A person who sneezed was congratulated and one about
to sneeze was urged on with "Good luck to you!" The Christian
expression "God bless you," was begun by papal fiat in
the sixth century. Pope Gregory the Great issued the fiat in response
to a deadly plague sweeping through Italy. Sneezing was one of the
symptoms of the plague. Pope Gregory urged healthy people to pray
for the sick and he told them to say "God bless you" whenever
someone sneezed. If a person sneezed and had no one around to bless
him, he was instructed to call directly on God by saying "God
help me!"
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How come bright sunlight makes people sneeze?
Not all of us sneeze when we go out into bright sunlight, but up
to a quarter of us do. It's called the "photic sneeze reflex,"
which basically means "sneeze caused by light." Nobody
knows what causes it, though some scientists have suggested it might
be a mix-up between the nerves of the eye and the nose (which run
pretty close together).
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Can your eyes pop out when you sneeze?
Not a chance. You simply CANNOT keep your eyes open during a sneeze.
The reflex to close them is too great.
***
Distributors See Nothing Wrong With Invisible Doll
LONDON, England - A toy firm in England is literally making money
out of thin air with its latest doll for children, called Invisible
Jim. The action figure is nothing but an empty packet and is sold
around the world by US firm What-If-Atlas-Got-An-Itchy-Bum Company
for a few dollars. The pack- aging reads: "Invisible Jim. As
not seen on TV." The blurb goes on: "Batteries not included.
A gripping hand would be nice. Camouflage suit sold separately.
Includes other great features - apparently." Representatives
at Trading Standards said this product if perfectly legitimate because
as long as people can see that the package is empty and are still
willing to pay for it, then no laws are being broken.
***
Is there any difference between a porpoise and a dolphin?
Both are actually small whales. You have met a porpoise if he or
she has a round snout and flat teeth. When it comes to associating
with people, this mammal is something of a cold fish.
You are dealing with a dolphin if you see more of a beak, nose-wise,
and cone-shaped teeth. Dolphins tend to be longer than their more
aloof porpoise kin. They are more playful as well as more social
than the porpoise.
Monday, June 4, 2001
1812 - The Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
1896 - Henry Ford took a trial run in his Ford automobile around
the streets of Detroit, MI.
1910 - The Hovercraft hovered for the first time as the invention
of Great Britain's Sir Christopher Cockerell.
1935 - Gerald Brown and Edward Pollard of London patented an invention
called invisible glass.
1939 - Sylvan Goldman introduced the first grocery-store shopping
cart in Oklahoma City, OK. The original shopping cart was actually
a folding chair mounted on wheels.
1942 - The Battle of Midway began during World War II.
1944 - Leonidas Witherall was first broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting
System. Witherall was a detective who looked just like William Shakespeare.
***
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else
I knew as well.
-- Henry David Thoreau
When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: "Whose?"
-- Don Marquis
The distance you have gone is less important than the direction
you are going.
-- Tolstoy
So long as you can still be disappointed you're still young.
-- Joyce Cary
There comes a dreadful moment in our lives when foreign friends
we have strongly urged to visit us actually do.
-- Virginia Graham
No one knows what he can't do until he has tried
(unknown)
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when
you look at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we
possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities, and then to treat
them as probabilities.
-- Christian Bovee
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I
had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and
hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
-- Abraham Lincoln
The biggest mistake is believing that there is one right way to
listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship.
-- Deborah Tannen
Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow
it up for himself.
-- Emma Carleton
We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible
to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
-- Barbara Hershey
Why is youth so short and age so long?
-- Ouida
Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three
years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its
very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify,
or obtain by begging.
-- Nina Berberova
Our perception that we have "no time" is one of the distinctive
marks of modern Western Culture.
-- Margaret Visser
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
-- Faith Baldwin
***
Pearl Harbor is the most famous to Americans, but the British fleet
also suffered a surprise attack in their main home fleet harbor,
in which the battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk on 13 October, 1939.
The harbor is Scapa Flow, located in the Orkney Islands north of
Scotland. The German Uboat U47 commanded by Gunther Prien carried
out the attack and escaped back to Germany.
***
To lower your stress level, get a cat:
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being
is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted
-- but his or her entertainment value.
-- Geoffrey Household
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back
to you.
-- Mary Bly
***
Is a "wizard" a "wise man"?
It's true that the word "wizard" is a compound formed
from the adjective "wise" ("learned") and the
suffix "ard." Unfortunately, the suffix "ard"
is generally not a nice one (think of all the words ending in "ard"
like drunkard, coward, laggard). Technically, "ard" means
"one that habitually or excessively is in a specified condition."
But it's almost always used in a pejorative sense. Adding "ard"
to "wise" may have been a way to be contemptuous and imply
the wise man wasn't so wise.
***
Dr. Pepper Birthday
Dr. Pepper, TX (AP) - Don't bother looking for Dublin, Texas, this
week. The town is now Dr. Pepper, Texas. Today, workers will begin
replacing the Dublin city limit signs with Dr. Pepper signs. The
week-long name change is part of the 110th anniversary celebration
for the oldest Dr. Pepper bottling plant. It is also the only one
that continues to use the original pure cane sugar recipe. Other
plants have switched to corn syrup. Officials say they expect up
to five-thousand people who want to be a pepper, too. The town,
about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, will cap the celebration
with the crowning of a new Pretty Peggy Pepper.
***
Who owns the North Pole?
Probably Santa Claus. It's certainly not owned by any country and
no country has ever tried to lay claim to it. Could be the location:
the North Pole is the earth's northernmost point. If you're at the
North Pole, you can ONLY go south. The North Pole lies in the Arctic
Ocean surrounded by freezing water and plenty of drifting ice.
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Do penguins live at the North Pole?
Nope. All species of penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Galapagos penguin is the only penguin that sometimes strays
slightly north of the equator. You'll find them in the Antarctic,
but not the Arctic.
***
The Baltimore Beltway (I-695) is a four lane Interstate Highway
well known for coming to a complete halt during rush hours. The
other week, a motorist stuck his head out the window and yelled,
"Let me through, I have important information about the upcoming
election for President Ford!"
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