1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
3. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
4. When you say, ‘I love you,’ mean it.
5. When you say, ‘I’m sorry,’ look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don’t judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, ‘Why do you want to know?’
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Say ‘bless you’ when you hear someone sneeze.
16. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
17. Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
18. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
19. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
20. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
21. Spend some time alone (I don’t mean taking one of these Vegas vacations, but REAL alone time)

Which of these can you learn from?

They also do loads in the community too, both in terms of protecting the environment and giving back to the community. Now, when I think of Johnson & Johnson, I’ll be thinking of a lot more than just baby lotion.

It’s by a company called ShuttleLift, a specialist in the field of material handling.

Broken Glass
Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken glass pieces of Glass-the fibers catch ones you can’t see!

Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the Glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill it with hot Water. Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry the cup. Next, add your Ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes Right out.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all Broken up Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up Mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into Egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with Your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. you get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar/calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

Sensible shoes
If you wear platform shoes, you’re asking for a broken neck.

Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers: put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some Gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.

Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Voila! It unseals easily.

It’s MINE!!!!!
If you purchase a new bike for your child, place their picture inside the handle bar before placing the grips on. If the bike is stolen and later recovered, remove the grip and there is your proof of who owns the bike.

Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or from under the fridge add an empty paper towel or gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.

Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a Clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and – voila – static is gone.

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket it will keep the mosquitoes away.

Take baby powder to the beach
Keep a small bottle of baby powder in your beach bag. When you’re ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and kids with the powder and the sand will slide right off your skin.

Easier Thank You’s
When you throw a bridal/baby shower, buy a pack of thank you cards for the guest of honor. During the party, pass out the envelopes and have everyone put their address on one. When the bride/new mom sends the Thank you’s, they’re all addressed!

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s a lot cheaper than Shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair…

Good-bye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2″ with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it “home,” & can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

If that doesn’t help, how about checking out the O’Mara’s Facebook Group? You need to be signed up to Facebook, but if you are you’re bound to find someone there you can help you.

• People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
• Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
• People with blue eyes see better in dark.
• Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
• The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
• The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
• There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
• A male baboon can kill a leopard.
• When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
• Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
• Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
• Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
• Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
• American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.
• The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
• In the 1930′s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
• There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
• Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
• Human birth control pill work on gorillas.
• The right lung takes in more air than the left.
• It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
• A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
• Astronauts cannot burp in space.
• The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon, California
• Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
• Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
• The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having sex.
• No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
• SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
• A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
• DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
• BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
• The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
• The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
• DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
• CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
• The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
• OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
• POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
• KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
• ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
• OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
• Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
• On average, most people tend to use their bedding sets for 10 years.
• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

Enjoy!

As someone put it: “The Internet has brought me many wierd and wonderful things.Today it brought me a video of a monkey doing a handstand on the head of a tightrope-walking goat”

What’s next? An elephant who can turn your bedding into a car?

• In tech parlance, ‘chip jewellery’ is an outdated computer.
• The term ‘bug‘ was probably coined after Admiral Grace Hopper found a moth in the Mark II computer at the US Naval Surface Warfare Center, causing the machine to malfunction.
• Adobe Pagemaker 7, one of Adobe’s flagship products, was made at a development centre in New Delhi, India.
• The ‘Quiet Zone’ is the blank margin on either side of a bar code that is used to tell the bar code reader where a bar code’s symbology starts and stops.
• The first object-oriented language was Simula, although it was not completely object-oriented. It was developed by Kristan Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl in the mid 1960s.
• The term ‘Silicon Valley’ was coined by journalist Don Hoefler.
• Among Unix users, a bang is an exclamation point.
• In the summer of 1969, UNIX was developed. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, was born the same year.
• In 1970, a team of researchers at Corning Glass Works in New York made fibre optic communications a reality, using fiber optic cables which could carry 65,000 times more information than copper wire.
• In 1993, Intel released the Pentium processor. It was a 60 MHz processor, incorporating 3.2 million transistors. It sold for $878 apiece.
• Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee (London, England) is the father of World Wide Web.
• A hard disk is very vulnerable to vibrations; a minor bump can make the head crash into the disk’s surface. The damage usually cannot be repaired, causing data loss and hard disk damage.
• A special parallel-processing cluster called ‘Beowulf‘ was used for the special effects in the multi Oscar winning movie Titanic.
• ‘Adobe’ (pronounced a-DOE-bee) of Adobe Systems (Headquarter : San Jose, California, USA) came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of its founder John Warnock.
• The Windows95/98 logos were created with Freehand on a Macintosh.
• American inventor Elisha Gray and Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell filed patents for the telephone within hours of each other. Bell got there first, and later won a legal battle against Gray.

Amazing stuff, isn’t it ?

If you’ve never heard of Cher, here’s some information about her in a few words. Cher found fame in 1965 as half of the pop duo Sonny & Cher and hs since gone on to become one of the most successful solo recording artists, releasing over 25 albums and earning a Grammy Award®, Emmy Award, Academy Award, three Golden Globes and several Billboard Music Awards as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her real name is Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre and her hits include “I got you babe” (with Sonny), “If I could turn back time”, “Believe” and a whole bunch of others.

Any Cher fans out there?

1. Why does your gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed?

2. If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?

3. Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

4. Is it possible to brush your teeth without wiggling your arse?

5. Why is it called Alcoholics Anonymous when the first thing you do is stand up and say, ‘My name is Bob, and I am an alcoholic’?

6. Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?

7. Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

8. Why does mineral water that ‘has trickled through mountains for centuries’ have a ‘use by’ date?

9. Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?

10. Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

11. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, ‘I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out’?

12. What do people in China call their good plates?

13. Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don’t point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

14. What do you call male ballerinas?

15. Why is a person that handles your money called a ‘Broker’?

16. If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

17. If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

18. Why is it that when someone tells you that there are over a billion stars in the universe, you believe them, but if they tell you there is wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?

19. Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

20. Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out of the window?!

What do you think?