One woman to another talking about her husband: "On our wedding day, the two of us became one. Unfortunately, we both wanted to be the one."
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One day Johnny comes home from school and asks his father, "Dad, what is a weapon?"
Father says, "That's something you fight with."
Johnny replies, "Is mom your weapon?"
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From the world of medicine…
What percentage of antibiotics goes to farm animals?
An estimated 80% of all antibiotics are used on cattle, pigs and chickens in the factory farm industry. These animals are fed antibiotics to keep them from getting sick due to their unsanitary, crowded conditions in factory farms. This is how antibiotic resistance develops.
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Not sleeping early in the night worsens heart health, by upsetting your BP and cholesterol levels.
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Apples are rich in a flavenoid called phloridzin, which protects post-menopausal women from osteoporosis.
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Your pee could quickly reveal your health.
After seven years of research, scientists have determined the chemical composition of human urine, which can reveal a lot about a person's health. The study is significant because it will allow a generation of fast, cheap and painless medical tests to be performed using urine.
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Tiny robots could kill deadly brain tumours.
Scientists and engineers are teaming up with neurosurgeons to develop technologies that enable less invasive, image-guided robotic removal of hard-to-reach brain tumours.
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Lack of sleep will make you buy more food next day: study.
Washington: People, who are deprived of good night's sleep, buy more calories and grams of food the next day: study.
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Believe it a lot!
Humble coconut 'detained' over rigging votes in Maldives!
Male: A coconut has been detained by Maldivian police on suspicion of vote-rigging in a key presidential election. The coconut, described as 'young', was found near a school that will be used as a polling station on Saturday on the remote Kaafu atoll, one of the hundreds of islands that comprise the Indian Ocean archipelago state.
Most of the population continues belief in magic. Coconuts are often used in rituals and inscribed with spells.
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A medal awarded to a dog for urinating on an incendiary bomb to extinguish it during World War II was found during a house clearance in Bristol. Juliana, a great dane, took action when the device fell through the roof her owner's home during the Blitz in 1941. In 1944, she got a second Blue Cross Medal for alerting customers about a fire in her master's shop.
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Job seekers forced to dance on daft punk..
Cardiff: A graduate has told his 'humiliation' after being forced to do a David Brent-style dance during a job interview at Currys. The company was forced to apologise after jobseekers were asked to dance to a song by Daft Punk.
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10,000 condom machines missing…
The CAG has taken the union health ministry to task for having invested Rs.21 crore on installing nearly 22,000 condom vending machines, out of which 10,000 were missing..
(Me: Who were stole them won't need the rubber 'protective' sheaths for selves or their entire neighbourhoods for a lifetime…)
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25-year-old woman sets rapist ablaze in MP…
Bhopal: A woman exacted revenue on her rapist by setting him ablaze in a village in MP's Katni district on Thursday. The man succumbed to his burn injuries in hospital on Friday.
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Quote of the day…
"My sister returned to Afghanistan after Jaanbaz (her husband) convinced her that the situation had changed.. We warned her, but she was determined." Gopal Banerjee, brother of writer Sushmita Banerjee.
(Comments: Mindless bravados in the face of real danger to life are often acts of utter foolishness, not bravery. Discretion and judiciousness are always the better part of valour)
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Think it over…
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Tongue very much in cheek…!
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others!
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"Golf is a good walk spoiled" – Mark Twain..
(Me: hahahaha. Absolutely spot-on! It is kinda billionaire-club sport that only those actually play seem to enjoy. A distant second, I may venture to say, is cricket! Arre bhai, why else is the 40+ Sachin not just playing, but is still rated one of the finest, even as Tennis legend, Federer, just 32, flounders in the 2nd or 3rd round…)
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A very old man lay dying in his bed, when he smelt the aroma of chocolate chip cookie. Gathering all his strength, he slowly walked and reached the kitchen to see hundreds of his favourite cookies spread on the table. Was it heave? Or was it his beloved wife's effort to see that he left this world a happy man?
Mustering one final effort, his withered hand made its way to a cookie, when he was smacked with a spatula by his wife. "Stay out of those," she said. "They're for the funeral"
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Driving the nail hard into the head…
"A socialist country cannot turn market-friendly overnight. A corrupt nation cannot be competitive in the world. A divided population cannot arrive at decisions fast" – Chetan Bhagat in TOI today
HT headline today: "West must share onus in helping rupee: Singh"
(Me: Fiddlesticks! Since time immemorial – not exactly but since Independence – when domestic situation turned a hot potato, our leaders cry wolf and find a convenient scapegoat in a hidden 'foreign hand'. One wouldn't understand how we can blame the West – meaning the US – when the economy and rupee disaster is of our own making: when the economy was on fire, the political Neros were fiddling – sectarian and worse politicking, personality clashes, and ego battles)
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City news of the day..
81-year-old man – named Ashwin Parekh – arrested for molesting minor, neighbour's kid, at his residence.
(Me: looks there are any number of dirty old men prowling around for easy preys..)
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News of the day…
Indian-American becomes first South Asian to be US state judge..
Los Angeles: Indian-American lawyer Sunil Kulkarni (41) hjas been appointed as a state judge in Northern California, becoming the first South Asian to assume the position.
(Me: It's more a tribute to the US culture of appointing the right person for the right job – merit being the sole criterion for any appointment for any job. In sharp contrast we in India consider everything but merit : quotas and reservations rule in education, jobs and anything else..and no wonder, we find ourselves in an unenviable situation)
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Believe it or not!!
What the Brits mean…
The British habit of understatement can sometimes tip over to complete misstatement. A table of what English people say and what they actually mean has gone viral on the net. Supposedly prepared by a Dutch company to help employees working in the UK, the table tells you not feel pleased when an Englishman tells you that your idea is 'brave.' What he means is 'you're insane'. And when an Englishwoman says "With the greatest respect," she is calling you an idiot!.
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Word of honour…
When Robert Campbell, an English World War I prisoner, asked permission from the German Kaiser to visit his dying mother, he was stunned to get an okay. The only condition imposed on him was that he give his word of honour as a British army officer that he would return to imprisonment. Campbell visited his mother in November 1916 and stayed with her for a week. The Brit then returned to jail, keeping his word.
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