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Wow! I've just viewed the site that AuntieB found. There are some amazing constructions displayed.

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These seem to get better year by year. LOVE the red KitchenAid mixer.
Gives a whole new meaning to CANtilevered. Still haven't found the ones in my email, which were from this March, I believe.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Chris Brown, Adele!!!, Terrence Wheatley, Scott Ware, Randall Gay, John Lee, Hiroshi Hase, Brian Williams, John Rhys Davies!!!, Tammy Wynette, Ann B. Davis, Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, James Beard, Blind Willie McTell, Freeman Gosden, Nellie Bly, John Batterson Stetson, Karl Marx and Emperor Uda of Japan.

mdawrcn

I just received this e-mail and thought it was interesting. Have not checked to see if it is completely accurate.

Stuff you didn't know you didn't know!



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Every day more money
is printed for Monopoly than the U.S.
Treasury.



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Men can read smaller
print than women can; women can hear better.



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Coca-Cola was
originally green.



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It is impossible to lick
your elbow.



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The State with the
highest percentage of people who walk to work:

Alaska

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The percentage of
Africa that is wilderness: 28%
(now get this...)



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The percentage of
North America that is wilderness: 38%

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The cost of raising
a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:

$ 16,400


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The average number
of people airborne over the U.S. in any given
hour:

61,000

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Intelligent people
have more zinc and copper in their hair..



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The first novel ever
written on a typewriter, Tom Sawyer.



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The San Francisco
Cable cars are the only mobile National
Monuments.



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Each king in a deck
of playing cards represents a great king from history:




Spades - King David


Hearts - Charlemagne


Clubs -Alexander,
the Great

Diamonds - Julius
Caesar


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111,111,111 x
111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321

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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse
has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air,
the person died because of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died
of natural causes



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Only two people
signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4,
John Hancock
and Charles Thomson.
Most of the rest signed on August 2,
but
the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.




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Q. Half of all
Americans live within 50 miles of what?



A. Their birthplace


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Q. Most boat owners
name their boats. What is the most popular boat name
requested?



A.
Obsession

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Q.. If you were to
spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you
would find the letter 'A'?



A. One thousand
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Q. What do
bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers have in common?



A. All were invented
by women.



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Q. What is the only
food that doesn't spoil?


A. Honey


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Q. Which day are
there more collect calls than any other day of the
year?



A. Father's Day


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In Shakespeare's
time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened,
making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the
phrase...'Goodnight , sleep tight'



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It was the accepted
practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that
for a month
after the
wedding,
the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with
all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because
their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the
honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.




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In English pubs, ale
is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England , when
customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind
your pints and quarts, and settle down.'



It's where we get
the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'



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Many years ago in
England,
pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle
of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill ,
they used the whistle to get some service. 'Wet your whistle'
is the phrase inspired by this practice.



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At least 75% of
people who read this will try to lick their
elbow!




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YOU
KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2011 when...



1. You accidentally
enter your PIN on the microwave.



2. You haven't
played solitaire with real cards in years.



3. You have a list
of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of
three.




4. You e-mail the
person who works at the desk next to you.


5. Your reason for
not staying in touch with friends and family is that they
don't have e-mail addresses.



6. You pull up in
your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is
home to help you carry in the groceries...



7. Every commercial
on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen




8. Leaving the house
without your cell phone, which you didn't even have the first
20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic
and you turn around to go and get it.



10. You get up in
the morning and go on line before getting your
coffee.




11. You start
tilting your head sideways to smile. : )



12 You're reading
this and nodding and laughing.



13. Even worse, you
know exactly to whom you are going to forward this
message.



14. You are too busy
to notice there was no #9 on this list.



15. You actually
scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this
list


~~~~~~~~~~~AND
FINALLY~~~~~ ~~~~~~~

NOW U R LAUGHING at
yourself.


Go on, forward this
to your friends. You know you want to! Go lick your
elbow.

marius

Tee hee mdawrcn, this was fun. And no, I did not try to lick my elbow. Haha, that's because someone told me the elbow thing a long while ago.

marius

Here's an email link someone sent today. I enjoyed it, hope you all do too.

http://www.andrewkelsall.com/spectacular/ibex-dam-climbing-goats-italy/

mdawrcn

Those goats are pretty amazing.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Scott Colton, George Clooney, Tom Bergeron, Tony Blair, Bob Seger, Willy Mays, Orson Welles!, Stewart Granger, Carmen Cavallaro, Weeb Ewbank, Toots Shor, Rudolph Valentino, Motilal Nehru, Robert Peary, Sigmund Freud, Maximillien Robespierre, Pope Innocent X and Pope Marcellus II.

clorophilla

I wonder - what yummy thing are those goats eating there?

Dragon

Those goats are amazing. I saw a thing on BBC's Planet Earth specials about mountain goats and an incredible bit of footage they had was of a baby mountain goat trying to escape some kind of big cat (I can't remember which kind). They were going straight up a nearly 90 degree slope until the baby found a spot that the cat couldn't get to. It was amazing and harrowing.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Traci Lords, Reuben Davis, Owen Hart, Leslie O'Neal, Ronnie Harmon, Michael E. Knight, Ray Fernandez, Pat McInally, Marv Hubbard, Bill Kreutzmann, Thelma Houston, Jimmy Ruffin, Johnny Maestro, Bobby Joe Green, Johnny Unitas, Gene Wolfe, Teresa Brewer, Totie Fields, Babe Parilli, Anne Baxter, Darren McGavin, Eva Peron, Edwin H. Land, Gary Cooper, Josip Broz Tito, Gabby Hayes!!!, Tom Norman, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms and Robert Browning.

Baldur

Happy Mother's Day to all of the Mothers here on Thinkdraw.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Felix Jones, Marvell Wynne, Lawrence Vickers, Korey Stringer, Akebono Taro, Jamie Summers, Bobby Labonte, Melissa Gilbert, Akira Taue, Ronnie Lott, Lovie Smith!!!, Bill Cowher, Alex Van Halen, Keith Jarrett, Gary Glitter, Toni Tennille!, Ricky Nelson, Peter Benchley, Princess Elizabeth of Denmark, Sonny Liston, Don Rickles, David Attenborough, Tom of Finland!, Red Nichols, Fulton J. Sheen, Harry S. Truman, Oscar Hammerstein I and Miquel Hidalgo.

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Thank you Baldur.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Audrina Patridge, Jake Long, Rosario Dawson, Ghostface Killah, Billy Joel, Candice Bergen, Glenda Jackson, Albert Finney, Mike Wallace, Hank Snow, Denham Fouts, Howard Carter, J.M. Barrie and John Brown.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Bono, Sid Vicious, Tito Santana, Dave Mason, Pat Summerall, Nancy Walker, T. Berry Brazelton!, Maybelle Carter, David O. Selznick, Fred Astaire, Ariel Durant, Leon Bakst, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Emperor Fushimi of Japan and Claudius II.

Dragon

Dragon is excited. Received the wedding cake topper that I ordered online today. I'm also supposed to be getting my hair pins too but UPS is giving me the run around, I was supposed to get them on Thurs, then on Fri then on Mon too, so we'll see.

Here's a picture of the cake topper.
http://www.weddingaccessories.net/the-love-pinch-bridal-couple-figurine-3090

Dragon

Along with the topper I had also ordered a pair of flip-flops with "Just Married" carved in the bottom so when I walk down the beach I'll leave a trail of footprints that say Just Married behind me. They're terribly cute.

We're also waiting to hear from a real estate agent who is appraising our condo to see what it's worth. If it's enough we can go ahead and start building a new home. The builder has a gaurantee that if we don't sell our place by 60 days to move in date they will sell it for us. We just have to be able to get enough out of it to have a down payment. I'm trying not to get too excited but we've been wanting a house for so long it's hard not to.

mdawrcn

Your topper is soooo cute. Good luck to you. So glad to hear of happiness.

Baldur

You must be getting terribly excited as the date approaches Dragon.
My best wishes to both of you