Archive | September, 2009

Ezzy’s Joke of the Day: Test

26 Sep

Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result.

This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has got it right..

While at the funeral of her own mother, a woman met a man who she did not know. She thought he was ‘amazing’. She believed him to be her dream partner
so much that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him.

A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What was her motive for killing her sister?

Give this some thought before you answer, see answer below..

Answer:

She was hoping the guy would appear again at her sister’s funeral. If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath.

This was a test developed by a famous American psychologist, used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer.

Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly… If you didn’t answer the question correctly, good for you.

If you got the answer correct, please let me know so I can take you off my e-mail list.

Giant Baby In Indonesia Draws Spectators

25 Sep

Giant baby in Indonesia draws spectators

Friday, September 25, 2009

KISARAN, Indonesia — Indonesia’s heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to a hospital where the boy named Akbar – or the Great in Arabic – came
into the world at a record 19.2 pounds (8.7 kilograms).

Akbar Risuddin was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute cesarean delivery that was complicated because of his unusual weight and size, Dr. Binsar Sitanggang
said.

“I’m very happy that my baby and his mother are in good health,” father Muhammad Hasanuddin said Friday. “I hope I can afford to feed the baby enough, because
he needs more milk than other babies.”

Crowds pushed to get a peek of the extraordinary boy, who measured nearly 24 inches (62 centimeters) when he was born Monday, at the Abdul Manan hospital
in the northern town of Kisaran on the island of Sumatra.

“This is fantastic,” Dewi Miranti, a mother from a nearby village, said as she peered through a window with about a hundred other people. “He looks very
well and is cute.”

The baby’s extreme weight was the result of excessive glucose from his mother during pregnancy, Dr. Sitanggang said.

“He is greedy and has a strong appetite, nursing almost nonstop,” the doctor said.

The boy was the third child of Hasanuddin, 50, and mother Ani, 41, who like many Indonesians goes by a single name. His two “little” brothers weighed 11.6
pounds (5.3 kilograms) and 9.9 pounds (4.5 kilograms) at birth.

The former Indonesian record holder was a 14.7-pound (6.7-kilogram) baby boy born on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, in 2007.

Guinness World Records cites the heaviest baby as being born in the U.S. in 1879, weighing 23.75 pounds (10.4 kilograms). However, it died 11 hours after
birth. The book also cites 22.5-pound (10.2-kilogram) babies born in Italy in 1955 and in South Africa in 1982.

Quotes of the Day: Memory

25 Sep

“Memory is what tells a man that his wife’s birthday was yesterday.”
- Mario Rocco

“A happy childhood can’t be cured. Mine’ll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that’s all, instead of a noose.”
- Hortense Calisher, Queenie, 1971

“The heart that truly loves never forgets. We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called
dreams.”
- Jeremy Irons

“A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
- James Matthew Barrie

“We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
- Cesare Pavese

“Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.”
- Oscar Wilde

“I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.”
- Diane Sawyer

“[Memory is] a man’s real possession…In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
- Alexander Smith

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”
- Mark Twain

“He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.”
- Michel de Montaigne

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
- Michel de Montaigne

Ezzy’s Joke of the Day: I Am the Law

25 Sep

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch or you’ll have to pee.

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Law of Probability: The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

Law of the Telephone: If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

Variation Law: If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

Law of the Bath: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.

Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will.

Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Law of the Theatre: At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, you boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Murphy’s Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Law of Rugs and Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost
of the carpeting.

Law of Location: No matter where you go, there you are.

Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.

Brown’s Law: If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.

Oliver’s Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Wilson’s Law: As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

Quotes of the Day

24 Sep

By Ed Freeman
If Dad had been around for me, I’d have told him a lot more. Unfortunately, he didn’t wait.

By Mark L
Once when I was complaining to my father about the rat race and how crowded the world was becoming he told me a story he had once heard. There was a man
who had worked on Wall Street during the 1920s. He made a great deal of money, and was fortunate enough to get out before the great depression of 1929.
He too was tired of the rat race and how crowded the world was becoming. So, he took his money and bought property in the South Pacific. The property was
on the Island of Iwo Jima and the rat race, along with WWII, quickly came to him in ways he never imagined.

Michael
Don’t use the word CAN’T.

By Samantha C
Think of the things that make you feel happy, and that is what you will get.

Dream big, keep your mind focused on the end result and the way to achieve it will present itself.

By Viola Webster from Jackson, MI
When I was a young girl of about 7 or 8 I wanted 2 goldfish and my Dad got them for me. He told me that I had to feed them and clean their bowl when it
needed it, and if I didn’t that he would get rid of them. I didn’t clean their bowl because I didn’t know how and I didn’t ask him how to do it. So he
gave them away to my cousins. I really didn’t think he would give them away. It was a good lesson for me to learn. It taught me that if I want any kind
of pet that I have the responsibility of taking care of it. After that he got me a poodle and I took good care of her. Since then I have had a few dogs
and now I have 7 cats. He really taught me two lessons. The other lesson was that he keeps his word.

By Sheila from NY
I learned from my dad if I couldn’t do things right then I shouldn’t do them at all. So I had to quit drinking alcohol. That was 25 years ago.

Bonus Joke of the Day: Last Days of Summer

24 Sep

A couple lived near the ocean and used to walk the beach a lot. One summer they noticed a girl who was at the beach pretty much every day.

She wasn’t unusual, nor was the travel bag she carried, except for one thing. She would approach people who were sitting on the beach, glance around, then
speak to them.

Generally, the people would respond negatively and she would wander off, but occasionally someone would nod and there would be a quick exchange of money
for something she carried in her bag. The couple assumed she was selling drugs and debated calling the cops, but since they didn’t know for sure they just
continued to watch her.

After a couple of weeks the wife asked, “Honey, have you ever noticed that she only goes up to people with boom boxes and other electronic devices?”

He hadn’t and said so. Then she said, “Tomorrow I want you to get a towel and our big radio and go lie out on the beach. Then we can find out what she’s
really doing.”

Well, the plan went off without a hitch, and the wife was almost hopping up and down with anticipation when she saw the girl talk to her husband and then
leave. The man walked up the beach and met his wife at the road. “Well, is she selling drugs?” she asked excitedly.”

No, she’s not.” he said, enjoying this probably more than he should have.

“Well, what is it, then?” his wife fairly shrieked.

The man grinned and said. “Her name is Sally and she’s a battery salesperson.”

“Batteries?” cried the wife.

“Yes,” he replied. “Sally sells C cells by the seashore.”

(Groan)

Ezzy’s Joke of the Day: If You Gotta Go, Start Early

24 Sep

Subject: If You Gotta Go, Start Early

This story is about a rather strange reply for a
campground reservation. It is said to be true,
but you be the judge.

A woman who was rather old-fashioned, delicate,
and elegant – especially in her language – was
planning a week’s vacation in Florida so she wrote
to a particular campground and asked for a
reservation.

She wanted to make sure the campground was fully
equipped, but didn’t quite know how to ask about
the toilet facilities. She just couldn’t bring
herself to write the word ‘TOILET’ in her letter.
After much deliberation, she finally came up with
the old-fashioned term ‘BATHROOM COMMODE.’ But
when she wrote that down, she still thought she
was being too forward. So, she started all over
again, rewrote the letter and referred to the
bathroom commode merely as the B.C. ‘Does the
campground have it’s own B.C.?’ is what she
actually wrote.

Well, the campground owner wasn’t old-fashioned at
all and when he got the letter, he just couldn’t
figure out what the woman was talking about. That
B.C. business really stumped him.

After worrying about it for a while, he showed the
letter to several campers, but they couldn’t
imagine what the lady meant either. So the
campground owner, finally coming to the conclusion
that the lady must be asking about the location of
the local Baptist Church, sat down and wrote the
following reply:
‘Dear Madam: I regret very much for the delay in
answering your letter. I now take the pleasure in
informing you that a B.C. is located nine miles
north of the campground and is capable of seating
250 people at one time. I admit it is quite a
distance away if you are in the habit of going
regularly, but no doubt you will be pleased to
know that a great number of people usually take
their lunches along and make a day of it. They
usually arrive early and stay late.’
‘The last time my wife and I went was six years
ago and it was so crowded that we had to stand up
the whole time we were there. It may interest you
to know that right now, there is a supper being
planned to raise money to buy more seats. They’re
going to hold it in the basement of the B.C.’
‘I would like to say it pains me very much not to
be able to go more regularly but it is sure no
lack of desire on my part. As we grow older, it
seems to be more of an effort, particularly in
cold weather.’
‘If you do decide to come down to our campground,
perhaps I could go with you the first time you go,
sit with you, and introduce you to all the other
folks.’
‘Remember, this is a friendly community.’

Ohio Couple Giving Up Baby After Clinic Mix-up

23 Sep

Ohio couple giving up baby after clinic mix-up
By JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press Writer

  (09-23) 14:00 PDT Toledo, Ohio (AP) –
  Carolyn Savage didn’t know what to think, what to say, where to look as
the ultrasound wand glided over her belly. It was supposed to be her baby
inside. Not someone else’s.
  Yet here she was in her doctor’s office with the baby’s biological mother,
both brought together by a terrible error at a fertility clinic. A doctor,
they said, had given Savage the wrong embryo, and now she was carrying the
other woman’s child.
  “The wand is on my abdomen and the technician’s talking to someone else:
‘There’s your baby’s nose. There’s your baby’s head,’” she said. “It was
surreal.”
  Embryo mix-ups at fertility clinics are extremely rare. In those few
instances, they’ve degenerated into custody battles, ugly lawsuits and at
least one abortion. But not this time. Savage and her husband decided that
the right thing — the only thing — to do was to give the baby
to the biological parents.
  “This was someone else’s child,” she told The Associated Press on
Wednesday. “We didn’t know who it was. We didn’t know if they didn’t have
children or if this was their last chance for a child.”
  “We knew if our child was out there, we’d go to the ends of the earth to
get our child back,” she said.
  Savage, 40, is due to give birth to a boy within the next two weeks via
cesarean section. When it happens, biological parents Paul and Shannon
Morell, of Michigan, will be nearby, waiting to meet their son.
  “How do you thank somebody for what they’ve done?” Shannon Morell said. “I
could say thank you a million different ways.”
  The Savages say the fertility clinic transferred the wrong frozen embryo
to Carolyn’s womb in early February. Ten days later, Sean Savage got a
call from a doctor saying his wife was pregnant with someone else’s child.
  “By God’s grace, there was never a moment where we thought we were going
to have another baby of our own,” Carolyn Savage said.
  The doctor told them they could abort, but the couple didn’t consider that
a viable option.
  “It wasn’t even something we had to discuss,” said Sean Savage, 39.
  The Savages won’t reveal the name of the fertility clinic, saying only
that it’s not in Ohio. They have hired attorneys who say they are working
to make sure the clinic will accept full responsibility.
  A message was left Wednesday for the Savages’ Detroit attorney, Brian
McKeen.
  The Morells, who live north of Detroit, learned of the mistake a day after
the Savages. They were just about to start the process of having another
baby with their last embryos when the clinic called.
  The two couples knew nothing about each other. Shannon Morell feared that
the pregnant woman would choose abortion, ending their chance to give
their 2-year-old twin girls a sibling.
  “I didn’t think she’d want to carry the baby to term,” Shannon said. “I
felt helpless.”
  A few days passed before they learned that the Savages were not only
willing to continue with the pregnancy, but also to hand over the baby
without hesitation.
  In the first few weeks, the Savages sent e-mail updates after every
doctor’s visit. The couples finally met about three months into the
pregnancy.
  They shook hands, held back tears and began to form a bond. Phone calls
followed.
  Then in August, Carolyn Savage asked Shannon Morell whether she wanted to
be with her for the ultrasound.
  Shannon felt funny, too, being in the same room with Carolyn and her
husband. She didn’t want to show too much excitement, knowing how
conflicted they must be feeling.
  “I felt like the third wheel,” she said. “Although I knew that child
inside her was mine, it wasn’t the same feeling I had with the twins.”
  The American Society for Reproductive Medicine doesn’t track how many
women have been given the wrong embryos, said Eleanor Nicoll, a
spokeswoman. Only a few cases have popped up the past decade or so.
  A California woman was awarded $1 million in 2004 to settle a lawsuit
against a fertility specialist who accidentally gave her the wrong embryos
and hid the mistake until her baby was 10 months old.
  A white New York woman gave birth to a black couple’s baby in 1998 after
an embryo mix-up that set off a two-year court fight between the couples
over visitation rights. And just this year, a Japanese woman aborted her
pregnancy after she was told there had been a mistake at a government-run
hospital.
  Each fertility clinic has its own system for identifying and tracking
embryos. Most patients get an identification number that also is kept with
the embryos while they are stored. Names are double-checked. So are the
numbers.
  The Savages and the Morells say they have not been told what exactly went
wrong at their clinic.
  Neither family is sure what will happen after the baby is handed over to
the Morells. They plan on approaching it like they have so far —
with caution and care — making sure not to cause any more pain.
  Carolyn Savage won’t have another chance to carry her own baby because of
her age and difficulties during her earlier pregnancies. She and her
husband plan to hire a surrogate and try again for a fourth child.
  The Morells don’t have a name picked out for their son and aren’t likely
to make it public.
  His mom doesn’t want him to be known as the baby who got switched at the
clinic. She wants to tell him about that herself. And she wonders if
someday he’ll want to meet the woman who gave birth to him.
  Carolyn Savage said she knows she’ll always think about him, and Shannon
Morell plans to send the Savages updates as the baby grows.
  “We’ll always have a bond,” she said. ———————————————————————-
Copyright 2009 AP

iPhone Accessibility

23 Sep

Check this out! As you may know, the iPhone 3GS is accessible to those with disabilities. Click Click here to see a basic description and to watch a video covering the basics of the iPhone. Hope it helps!

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