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My Kind of Clock

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:42:03 GMT

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Coffee Cup Analogy

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:33:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”

So please, don’t let the cups drive you…enjoy the coffee instead.

Being happy does not mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to see beyond the imperfection.

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Myriad Hues

Blue as peace, Vibrant as red; Life unravels its myriad hues, Yet another day.

Coffee Cup Analogy

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: “If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other’s cups.”

Copykat Recipes

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:29:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Winter is here, let's eat.

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Welcome to Copykat Recipes

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Creme de Menthe brownies are easy to make, and taste like you put more effort into them than what you really do. This is a wonderful way to bring box mix brownies to a new level. Simply bake the brownies, and add something more for a cool and refreshing taste. I like to take these [...]

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Raglan Road Bread and Butter Bread Pudding – a unique and delicious bread pudding.

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Epcot Food and Wine Festival Mushroom Stew representing Vienna, Austria

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Red Robin Freckled Lemonade

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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Cherry Chocolate Cobbler

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Red Lobster Bacon Wrapped Sea Scallops

The Red Lobster bacon wrapped sea scallops have been on the menu at Red Lobster for a long time. The reason is that they are so tasty. Sea scallops are marinaded in wine and butter, and then wrapped in bacon before cooking.
1 1/2 lbs. sea scallops
1/3 lb. bacon, cut slices in half
1/4 lb. butter, melted
1/2 [...]

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Brennan’s Banana Foster

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Red Lobster Cajun Shrimp

What Was Number 1 The Day You Were Born?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:29:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Aww it didn't clip properly! If you enter your birth date and the country of your choice find out what was number 1 on the the day you were born. My number 1 was "The Battle Of New Orleans" by Johnnie Horton in the US and in the UK "Roulette" by Russ Conway. (I'm 21 and a bit)

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Joy of Baking

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:16:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pecan pie looks yummy. I'm off to try it....

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Red Velvet Cake

Apple Crisp

Fall brings a change in weather and it also brings a change in our baking. Gone are the days of eating slices of juicy watermelon or a bowl of sweet cherries. The fruits that were available during the long hot summer months have disappeared and in their place we have apples, pears, plums, pumpkins, and cranberries

Pecan Pie

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Banana Bread

Rum Balls

Shortbread Cookies

Shortbreads are traditionally a Christmas cookie that blends butter, sugar, and flour to make a rich and delicate tasting cookie. more

Abraham Maslow Quotes

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:31:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow

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Abraham Maslow Quotes

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Similarities Between the Assassinations of Kennedy and Lincoln

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:47:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lincoln was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife

Kennedy was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife

Lincoln shot in the Ford Theatre

Kennedy shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford

He was shot on a Friday

He was shot on a Friday

The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was known by three names, comprised of fifteen letters

The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was known by three names, comprised of fifteen letters

Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse *3

Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater

Booth was killed before being brought to trial

Oswald was killed before being brought to trial

There were theories that Booth was part of a greater conspiracy

There were theories that Oswald was part of a greater conspiracy

Lincoln's successor was Andrew Johnson, born in 1808

Kennedy's successor was Lyndon Johnson, born in 1908

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Similarities Between the Assassinations of Kennedy and Lincoln

American presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both tragically assassinated during their terms in office. Both men were admired by many but actually hated by those who opposed their political views. Shortly after Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963, a comparison of the circumstances of his death and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865 surfaced. That comparison pointed out some amazing coincidences.

Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846

Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946

He was elected President in 1960

He was elected President in 1860

His wife lost a child while living in the White House

He was directly concerned with Civil Rights

Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theater *1

Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who told him not to go to Dallas *2

2012 Is Already Here

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:40:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It started off same as always; coupla fossils saying how our Banjo Patterson was a better poet than Walt Whitman, how Con the Fruiterer is funnier than Seinfeld, only they're Aussies so no one knows about 'em," recalled witness Kevin Porter. "Then this bloke Martin pipes up and says Australia's main problem is that it's stuck in Australia, and everybody says 'Too right!'"

"Well, it made sense at the time," Porter added.

By 2 a.m., powered by national pride and alcohol, the 3-million-square-mile land mass was barging eastward through the Coral Sea and crossing into the central Pacific, leaving a trail of beer cans and Chinese take-away in its wake.

When dawn broke over the Northern Hemisphere, the continent suddenly found itself, not only upside down, but smack in the middle of the Atlantic, and according to most of its 19 million inhabitants, that's the way it's going to stay.

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AUSTRALIA GETS DRUNK, WAKES UP IN NORTH ATLANTIC

Sydney, 800 miles S. of Nova Scotia (SatireWire.com) — After what witnesses described as an all night blinder during which it kept droning on about how it was always being bloody ignored by the whole bloody world and would bloody well stand to do something about it, Australia this morning woke up to find itself in the middle of the North Atlantic.

"Good Lord, that was a booze up," said a bleary-eyed Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, speaking from his residence at Kirribilli House, approximately 600 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

According to Australians and residents of several countries destroyed or lewdly insulted during the continent's nearly 7,000-mile saltwater stagger, the binge began just after noon yesterday at a pub in Brisbane, where several patrons were discussing Australia Day and the nation's general lack of respect from abroad.

National Writing Day

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:23:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now there's the computer and the internet. In the digital age, anyone with a laptop, a wi-fi card, and a place to sit at Starbucks can put material into cyberspace. The digital revolution means everyone's an author, every day is National Writing Day. And this sudden democratizing of the writing process generates its own set of complaints:

* it's wrong to give so many people access to authorship -- after all, most people won't be very good at, and some people are going to write things that we don't agree with

* computers make writing too easy -- something so important should only come with effort -- no pain, no gain -- maybe we should increase the entrance fees?

* we need to control, license, censor what's on the 'net: after all, the web is full of lies, misinformation, nonsense, pornography, fraud, Nigerian money scams, and hate, not to mention all those pictures of little cats

But despite the complaints, writers everywhere are grabbing their keyboards...

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It's National Writing Day: I wrote today, did you?

Senate Resolution 310 proclaims today, Oct. 20, as the National Day on Writing.

With everybody except a few conservatives celebrating writing, it might surprise us to look back and see that people once thought writing was actually a bad thing

Socrates also objected to writing because it wasn't interactive -- this was long before instant messaging -- and because the written word gave only a distant and incomplete picture of the reality to which it referred. Writing, Socrates complained, can't answer questions the way a real live human being can. If you ask a piece of paper something, all it can do is repeat the same words over and over. Writing, Socrates told his companion Phaedrus, is like a broken record.

And it's not just writing. Every time a new communication technology comes along, critics complain about it.

And the typewriter? Even worse -- it not only increased the distance between the author, the written word, and the reader,

Stephen Leacock Quotes

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:18:24 GMT

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Stephen Leacock Quotes

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Coffee Is GOOD For You

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:05:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The best news of the week

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Studies: Cup of coffee rich in beneficial antioxidants

MANILA, Philippines - It is said that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” but how about a cup of coffee? As more and more international studies show that a cup of coffee is rich in health-giving antioxidants, somebody may soon come up with a new health proverb about coffee as well.

The Institute of Coffee Studies in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA, has found that a cup of coffee is rich in antioxidants — natural substances that slow down the effects of premature aging and may help prevent degenerative diseases.

Polyphenols are plant-based antioxidants which are found in fruits, vegetables, soya beans, red wine, green and black tea, spices like sage and rosemary, citrus fruits, onions and olives and, yes, in coffee as well.

Coffee has most polyphenols

As further studies reveal the health benefits of coffee, coffee drinkers might find themselves not keeping their doctor away, but instead inviting him or her for a cup of coffee.

Your Brain On Words

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:45:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is no one brain part which when taken away would suddenly rob you of your ability to read. We rely on the same old brain — the same brain that we inherited from our Homo Sapiens ancestors 200,000 years ago when they appeared in Africa. This means that the same brain that hunted wildlife and walked thru Ice Ages is the same brain that can now read a book a day.

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Your brain on words

We are born with genes but we are raised with words. Our parents give us the genes to form the biological pieces that would spell life but it is with language — what we utter, read and write — that we make that life our own. I appreciated this even more after I spent a weekend engaged in a dual accidental tribute to words. I finished reading a book called Proust and the Squid The Story and Science of the Reading Brain at day and read/wrote poetry at night with some souls who also felt that the weekend presented itself as a good moment to write. I learned that indeed, reading is an unnatural act and that if we meet our ancestors of 200,000 years ago, they would probably ask us: how did you do it?

Reading is unnatural because while there are brain parts for breathing, walking, seeing, hearing, smelling or tasting, feeling or fleeing, there is no particular brain part for reading.

Farthering Our Grammar Skills

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:37:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Here is the first reader's comment:

Sep 24 2009
7:27 AM

The Tim people went FURTHER; not farther!

It's funny to have a grammar-related article use a wrong word.

(Funny, he used a semicolon AND an exclamation mark)

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National Punctuation Day: 24-hour mark of our failure

There’s no question that Canada urgently needs a federal Punctuation Improvement Program

The chief symbol of our shameful failure as punctuators is the doughnut chain celebrated by the late Pierre Berton as the essential Canadian story, a tale of “success and tragedy, of big dreams and small towns, of old-fashioned values and tough-fisted business, of hard work and of hockey.” And, we might add, of incompetent punctuation.

In a better world it would of course be called “Tim Horton’s,”

Early on, his coffee shops used an apostrophe in their name;

Like many traditions, the Horton apostrophe was a victim (so goes the accepted story) of Quebec nationalism. When Quebec decided that commercial signs should eliminate their possessive apostrophes, in the French manner, most companies hurried to comply.

In Quebec, Eaton’s became Eaton, until both Eaton and Eaton’s went out of business. The Tim people went farther.

Banned Books Week

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:27:57 GMT

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During the last week of September every year, hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2009 celebration of Banned Books Week will be held from September 26 through October 3.

The purpose of this Web site is to help the public join the celebration of our freedom to read. The easiest way is to visit a participating library or bookstore. There is a list of Events, to help you find one in your community. (If you want to post information about an event in your community, please click here.) There is also a list of suggestions of other activities that will help remind people of the importance of free speech, What You Can Do. If you want further information about BannedBooksWeek.org, contact us at info@abffe.com or bbw@ala.org.

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Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read!

Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than a thousand books have been challenged since 1982. The challenges have occurred in every state and in hundreds of communities. Click here to see a map of book bans and challenges in the US from 2007 to 2009. People challenge books that they say are too sexual or too violent. They object to profanity and slang, and protest against offensive portrayals of racial or religious groups--or positive portrayals of homosexuals. Their targets range from books that explore the latest problems to classic and beloved works of American literature.

According to the American Library Association, out of 513 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom in 2008.

The 10 most challenged titles were:

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:18:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Tar, me boys

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International Talk Like a Pirate Day Type Parodic Date September 19

International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,^[1] U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.^[1] For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, me hearty!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy. The holiday is a major observance in the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Examples of pirate sayings

He styl'd us 'young puppies' and shouted 'May the Devil take my soul if I ever gives quarter or asks it of ye!'

"Damn ye, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, I'm a better man than all of ye milksops put together" - Blackbeard^[7]

"Bring me one noggin of rum, now, won't you, matey."^[8]

"Avast, there!"

"Dead men don't bite."