"Cat Antics" 

I love the scene where the cat chases the bear. 

MOUSE OVER Starts Video! 

Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any  word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of  one letter, and supply a new definition.

1.  Cashtration  (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially  impotent for an indefinite  period.

2.  Ignoranus: A  person who's both stupid and an  asshole.

3.  Intaxication:  Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you  realize it was your money to start  with.

4.  Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a  hillbilly.

5.  Bozone (n.): The  substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from  penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking  down in the near  future.

6.  Foreploy: Any  misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting  laid.

7.  Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8.  Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9.  Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10.  Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

12. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

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What's up with this MSN group.  I can't upload pictures to my space.  Thank God for photo bucket...

One year at Thanksgiving my mom went to my sister's house for the traditional feast.  Knowing how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to play a trick.  She told my sister that she needed something from the store. When my sister left, my mom took the turkey out of the oven, removed the stuffing, stuffed a Cornish hen, and inserted it into the turkey, and re-stuffed the turkey. She then placed the birds back in the oven.

 

 

When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled the turkey out of the oven and proceeded to remove the stuffing. When her serving spoon hit something, she reached in and pulled out the little bird.

With a look of total shock on her face, my mother exclaimed,

 

"Patricia, you've cooked a pregnant bird!"

 

At the reality of this horrifying news, my sister started to cry.  It took the family two hours to convince her that turkeys lay eggs!  By the way, my sister is a blond.

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 take off your shoes, relax and enjoy the fire. 

You're in my living room now.....  

Finally, a day with time to just sit around.....

I came across some of these services that say they can increase your blog's visibility.  Well, time will tell if my hit rate goes up or not...

Hope you enjoy me playing my flute.  Of coarse, that's not a picture of me.  I only wish I was so thin. 

Maybe this will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!  The year is 1905, one hundred years ago.  What a difference a century makes!  Here are some of the U.S. statistics for 1905: 

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.

Only 14% of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.

Only 8% of the homes had a telephone.

A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost $11.00.

There were only 8,000 cars in the US, and only 144 miles of paved roads.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.  With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.

The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour.

The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.

A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year.

A dentist $2,500 per year.

A veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year.

A mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More than 95 per cent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.

Ninety per cent of all U.S. physicians had no college education.

Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."

Sugar cost four cents a pound.  Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.  Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.

Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason.

The five leading causes of death in the US were:

1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke

The American flag had 45 stars.  Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska had not been admitted to the Union yet.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30!

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea had not been invented.

There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.

Two of 10 U.S. adults could not read or write.  Only 6% of all Americans had graduated from high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores.  According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." 

Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time servant or domestic.

There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.

I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you in a matter of seconds!

Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years...it staggers the mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!