Stopover

from a forwarded email

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“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I
drink I feel shamed. Then I look into the glass
and think about the workers in the brewery and
all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink
this beer, they might be out of work and their
dreams would be shattered. Then I say to
myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and
let their dreams come true than be selfish and
worry about my liver.” ~ JACK HANDEY

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“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When
they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as
they’re going to feel all day.” ~FRANK SINATRA

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“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave
up reading.” ~ HENNY YOUNGMAN

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“24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case.
Coincidence? I think not.” ~ STEPHEN WRIGHT

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“When we drink, we get drunk. When we get
drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we
commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to
heaven. Sooooo, let’s all get drunk and go to
heaven!” ~ BRIAN O’ROURK

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“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to
be happy.” ~ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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Gotcha!
by: Ross

These four friends, Ernie, Fred, Joey and Rolly, were so confident that the weekend before the finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party. They had a great time, but after all the hearty partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn’t make it back to the Campus until early Monday morning.

Rather than taking the final exam, they decided that after the final, they wouild explain to their professor why they missed it. They would say that they visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire. As a resiult, they missed the final. The professor agreed they could make up the final the next day.

The four guys were exited and relieved. They studied that night for the exam. The Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a test booklet. They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool, they thought! Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to be easy…..then they turned the page. On the second page was written….

For 95 points: Which tire?____

our place is surrounded with open-cut mining which involve digging a large open hole into the earth’s surface to reach the coal/lignite. so let us glance the opencast mines that supply energy for the entire households and industry of this land.

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29 per cent of the country’s power generation is based on coal

The Excavator

the world’s largest mobile machine
gigantic bucket wheel excavators dig the brown gold out of the earth
standing 90 meters tall and 200 meters long and weighing some 13,000 tons

Around 10 per cent of the coal is upgraded to produce solid fuels, such as briquettes, pulverized lignite and coke, or fluidized bed lignite for industry and households

lignite is located just under the surface, it is mined in opencast operations

Some 90 % of the lignite goes into power plant generators

napagaralan na natin ang mga ito noon. magandang ating muling sariwaain…

BABALA: mahaba po ang listahan… pero kung interesado kayo ipagpatuloy ang pagbasa!

72 Facts

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.

Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.

By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.

If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

If you go blind in one eye, you’ll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)

In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.

In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.

It takes 17 muscles to smile — 43 to frown.

Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.

Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.

Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

Pregnancy in humans lasts on average about 270 days (from conception to birth).

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.

The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.

The body’s largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet

The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.

The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body’s weight.

The human brain is about 85% water.

The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.

The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.

The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.

The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.

The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation of the adjective “sartorial,” a reference to what was the traditional cross-legged position of tailors (or “sartors”) at work.

The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.

The Neanderthal’s brain was bigger than yours is.

The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.

The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the epidemic of the plague ‘Black Death’ in Europe.

The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.

The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.

The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US - Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.

Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.

from: corsinet

last weekend, i visited my family and friends sa zoo, guess what i found this coypu/nutria.

The coypu somewhat resembles a very large rat in appearance. Adults are typically 5–9 kg (10-20 lbs) in weight, and 40–60 cm (15-24 in) in body length, with a 30–45 cm (12-18 in) tail. They can also be identified by their bright orange-yellow incisor teeth (unlike rats, which have brownish yellow incisors).

a collegue from hub-hub gave an entrance ticket to visit an orchidarium. we went there last weekend. the plants were grown inside a big glass house where they made it into a tropical garden. outside is a rocks garden and a small shop for gardeners.

aha! sounds interesting baka may makita akong halaman galing ng pinas.
meron nga these orchid species:

Phalaenopsis stuartiana

Phalaenopsis aphrodite
Phalaenopsis amabilis
Tropical plant (dapo)
Figurine for the garden at the shop

got as souvenir.

*******want more pictures********

its back to school here but in other places sometime in mid august or september. first day of school is a very special event which signifies a child’s formal education at six years old. parents prepare a “sugar bag” or “candy bag”, a big colorful cardboard shape into cone then filled with candy, sweets and school supplies such as fountain pen (they learn to write using a fountain pen) this sugar bag is the gift of the parents to their children so they can feel special on this important day.

letters

i got this letter today from friend’s forwarded email.

Dear Husband:

I’m writing you this letter to tell you that I’m leaving you for good. I’ve been a good woman to you for seven years and I have nothing to show for it. These last two weeks have been hell. Your boss called to tell me that you had quit your job today and that was the last straw.
Last week, you came home and didn’t notice that I had gotten my hair and nails done, cooked your favorite meal and even wore a brand new negligee. You came home and ate in two minutes, and went straight to sleep after watching the game.
You don’t tell me you love me anymore, you don’t touch me or anything. Either you’re cheating or you don’t love me anymore, what ever the case is, I’m gone.

P.S. If you’re trying to find me, don’t. Your BROTHER and I are moving away to West Virginia together! Have a great life!Your EX-Wife

The response of the poor husband:

Dear Ex-Wife

Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter. It’s true that you and I have been married for seven years, although a good woman is a far cry from what you’ve been. I watch sports so much to try to drown out your constant nagging. Too bad that doesn’t work.
I did notice when you cut off all of your hair last week, the first thing that came to mind was “You look just like a man!” My mother raised me to not say…
anything if you can’t say anything nice.
When you cooked my favorite meal, you must have gotten me confused with MY BROTHER, because I stopped eating pork seven years ago. I went to sleep on you when you had on that new negligee because the price tag was still on it. I prayed that it was a coincidence that my brother had just borrowed fifty dollars from me that morning and your negligee was $49.99.
After all of this, I still loved you and felt that we could work it out.
So when I discovered that I had hit the lotto for ten million dollars, I quit my job and bought us two tickets to Jamaica. But when I got home you were gone. Everything happens for a reason I guess. I hope you have the filling life you always wanted.
My lawyer said with your letter that you wrote, you won’t get a dime from me. So take care.

P.S. I don’t know if I ever told you this but Carl, my brother was born Carla. I hope that’s not a problem.