"By the way, the best line of the convention so far? Ted Strickland of Ohio, when he echoed the 1988 Democratic convention joke about George H.W. Bush, that he was born on third and thought he hit a triple. Strickland said of George W. Bush that he was born on third and then stole second. It didn't get much attention in any of the commentary, but it's all people were talking about in the bars of Denver that night."

"...and John McCain cheered him every step of the way." Yeah, I won't be forgetting that one anytime soon.

http://www.userfriendly.org/

Hey! Look what you can do if you put a spoiler on an emoticon! You give it a black background!













(....and, no, I don't have a life )

Unfortunately..........Ditto!

God I hate using that word!

Interesting Body Facts

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 6 lbs.

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

Women blink twice as often as men.

The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. .. . .they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!

Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.

If you are male, you are still looking at your thumb, aren't you?

George Bush/ Dan Quayle

The question is, can two adults have a meaningful conversation with and elephant on their heads. film at 11:00

Only with each other.

Oh hey! I never made that connection. Larry Craig gets busted at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport so guess where the GOP holds their convention?

Right? And I do mean, right?

But they look so serious.

Right Wing Reaction: Jeebus! Will you look at the tits on that bitch?

(I can say this because I am woman )

I wasn't going to log in today but I just got this in an e-mail and it had me rolling on the floor.
It's not PC. Deal with it.


Standing in line at the window at the local bank.......
Short line. Just one lady in front of me . . an Asian lady who was trying to exchange yen for dollars and she was a little irritated . . .
She asked the teller, 'Why it change?? Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I get hunat eighty?? Why it change?'
The teller shrugged his shoulders and said,

'Fluctuations'.












The Asian lady says, 'Fluc you white people, too'.

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

That vile, nasty creature? And what is she doing to that poor opossum, anyway?

I hate people saying things like that because it implies that being gay is a bad thing.

Well, that's true. It just seemed a funny picture. Will now spank myself and leave you to it.

Typical repug with their head up somethings ass!

What is it with republickens and young boys holding hoses?

The Excitement Factor

K so on memorial day i made the discovery that i have hardwoods, and i spent all weekend pulling up carpet, staples and nails in the dining room and hall. Labor day meant picking out staples, and pulling up more carpet in the study.
THESE FLOORS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME!

Some friends of mine I had did that with a house they bought years ago. They did all the work of refinishing the wood themselves too.

Sounds like a PERSONAL problem to me.

Glad to inspire!

Bushway is right...your pretty dern good at this stuff, no life or not!

Studies point to the intelligence of crows



Crows as Clever as Great Apes, Study Says
James Owen in London
for National Geographic News
December 9, 2004

Anyone who has watched crows, jays, ravens and other members of the corvid family will know they're anything but "birdbrained."

For instance, jays will sit on ant nests, allowing the angry insects to douse them with formic acid, a natural pesticide which helps rid the birds of parasites. Urban-living carrion crows have learned to use road traffic for cracking tough nuts. They do this at traffic light crossings, waiting patiently with human pedestrians for a red light before retrieving their prize.

Yet corvids may be even cleverer than we think. A new study suggests their cognitive abilities are a match for primates such as chimpanzees and gorillas. Furthermore, crows may provide clues to understanding human intelligence.

Published tomorrow in the journal Science, the study is co-authored by Nathan Emery and Nicola Clayton, from the departments of animal behavior and experimental psychology at Cambridge University, England.

They say that, while having very different brain structures, both crows and primates use a combination of mental tools, including imagination and the anticipation of possible future events, to solve similar problems. They base their argument on existing studies.

Emery and Clayton write, "These studies have found that some corvids are not only superior in intelligence to birds of other avian species (perhaps with the exception of some parrots), but also rival many nonhuman primates."

Increasingly, scientists agree that it isn't physical need that makes animal smart, but social necessity. Group living tends to be a complicated business, so for individuals to prosper they need to understand exactly what's going on. So highly social creatures like dolphins, chimps, and humans tend to be large-brained and intelligent.

Large Brains

The study notes that crows are also social and have unusually large brains for their size. "It is relatively the same size as the chimpanzee brain," the authors said.

They say that crows and apes both think about their social and physical surroundings in complex ways, using tools use as an example.

more below

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...crows_apes.html