About Mario

Here are 10 things you may not know about our favoritevideo game character Mario:

-Mario was first seen in the video game Donkey Kong, but he was called "Jumpman." He was also a carpenter then, not a plumber.
- Mario was named after Mario Segale, the landlord of Nintendo of America's office, who barged in on a company meeting demanding an overdue rent.
- Shigeru Miyamoto drew Mario as wearing a cap because he found drawing hair difficult. He also drew in the moustache, because it was easier to see than a mouth in the crude video game screen resolution back then.
- Mario and his younger brother Luigi are known as the "Mario Brothers." This means that Mario's last name is also Mario, so his full name is Mario Mario.
- Mario is voice-acted by Charles Martinet, who crashed the audition for "an Italian plumber from Brooklyn" character.
- Mario's nemesis is Wario (a combination of "warui", the Japanese word for bad, and Mario). Similarly, Luigi's rival is Waluigi. Both are also voiced by Charles Martinet.
- Mario has appeared in over 200 video games so far, has sold over 193 million units of games (all of the Mario series) and even has his own TV cartoon show. Super Mario Bros. 3 alone grossed over $500 million in USA.

- TV Schmeve, you're nothing till there's an opera done on you. In 2003, Jonathan Mann of California Institute of Arts created The Mario Opera, a rock opera.

- Super Mario Bros. theme music, written by Koji Kondo, is known worldwide. It has inspired countless fan- renditions, including one played by Zack Kim on two guitars (viewed over 4 million times on YouTube!), played by Jean Baudin on 11 string bass, beatboxed by Greg Patillo on the flute, and played by the Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra on the trombones.- Mario is the most famous character in the history of video games, and perhaps is the most famous character ever. In a 1990 poll by Marketing Evaluations, Mario was found to be more popular (and recognizable) among children than Mickey Mouse.

Trivia

RANDOM

A 'clue' originally meant a ball of thread. This is why oneis said to 'unravel' the clues of a mystery.

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The act of snapping one's fingers has a name. It is calleda 'fillip.'

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Measurements have nothing to do with a Ten-Gallon hat. Thename comes from sombrero galon, which means 'braided hat'in Spanish.

Can we say big?

Giant Sequoias in California's Sequoia National Park rangefrom 2,000 to 2,100 years old and can measure 275 feet talland 30 feet across.

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Engineers30 percent of the degrees awarded in China and India are en-gineering degrees. In the US, that number is only 4 percent.

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I always wondered this...Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a powerfactor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful thana 5.

Linked In And Good To Know.

Surf members blog @ blogXplosion found out about all things Jennifer...that's good to know and later I got linked in...... ha-ha, and also by viewing her blog a got my hands on very...very good snappy tools. I am amused :-)

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Male Sportswriter Returns To Work As a Woman

When Mike became Christine, she gave Los Angeles sports fans a courtside view of gender politics.

For all of its trappings of money, fame, and corruption, professional sports has a lot to do with character. Avid sports fans seem to respect those who face up to overwhelming challenge and overcome adversity. So it should not come as a surprise that readers rose in solidarity when a 23-year veteran sports writer announced in the Los Angeles Times that he would return from a short hiatus ... as a woman.

On April 26, Mike Penner wrote what he thought would be the toughest article of his career. "I am a transsexual sportswriter. It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words." The piece ran in the Sports section, next to his regular column.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Penner's story was "by mid-evening, one of the most heavily viewed stories on latimes.com in the last year, with about half a million page views." Nancy Sullivan, executive director of communications for the newspaper, says "There was a massive response to this story, not only on our website, but across the media spectrum." The online message board accompanying the article was closed to comments in less than 8 hours, with 800 comments logged in. Hundreds more messages were sent via e-mail. Responses to the revelation came in three distinct flavors: kudos from sports fans, effusive thanks from other transsexuals and rants from bible-thumpers. Readers' initial shock, however, subsided almost immediately.
Michael Daniel Penner returned to work on May 23 as Christine Michelle Daniels. So far, it appears to be smooth sailing. But Daniels' very public transition has put a spotlight on a culture that is slow to acknowledge, let alone attempt to rehabilitate its ingrained intolerance and bigotry.

Translating her world

"The concept of one day having to come out publicly, as an LA Times sports columnist, was a paralyzing fear that, looking back, kept me from transitioning at least 5 years sooner," Daniels tells In These Times. She says she was "bracing for the worst."
Many of Daniels' colleagues have gone out of their way to champion her cause. "Some sportswriters," she says, "have written column items of support, some who know me pretty well have spoken to others on my behalf, without my knowledge, delivering the message that, 'This is just another writer, a normal person, facing a difficult challenge.'"

Sports blogs almost uniformly expressed admiration for her courage and wished her well. Overall, readers seem to be mildly bemused, but focused on her return to work. One commenter summed up the majority consensus: "Yea yea yea and all that girlie stuff, no problema. ... But how 'bout them Angels this weekend? Gonna get back to bizz? Need you back Christine."
Some response has been negative. It's difficult to assess where it originates -- within the sports community or those drawn by the spectacle. TheAngryT.com, an obscure sports blog, rants, "I am a straight male ... Do you care what I look like or whether I wear high cut panties out of the Sears women's wear catalogue? LA Times readers should no longer look for Mike Penner's column when they want hard-hitting sports journalism."

Sportswriters frequently express passion and enthusiasm for their subject, exposing more personality than reporters covering different beats. They often develop loyal followings and become a trusted voice that keeps readers up-to-date. In a world of high ticket prices, the sportswriter functions as the reader's passport to the field, court or stadium. For Daniels, this connection to her fans, and the known quality of her writing, may have smoothed her transition.
"I just always liked the spark in his writing, his wit and his use of language," says fellow Southern California journalist Joel Beers. "Penner's done a lot: covered the Olympics, wrote about media, NFL lead writer. But, after 23 years, it'd seem he'd be a dean of the Times sports section as opposed to just another very good writer in a section that has a lot of them. I always wondered why he seemed to bounce from beat to beat but never got what would seem to me the choicest of assignment: columnist."

It would seem that Daniels' bravery has yielded that opportunity twofold. She has two columns: Day in L.A., which the paper describes as "a daily column on the sports events, personalities and themes that matter most to Southern Californians," and Woman in Progress, a blog on latimes.com in which she chronicles her transformation, comments on the angst that accompanied her public "coming out," and describes re-connecting with friends and colleagues she had kept at a distance since beginning hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in December.
Her first few weeks of posts indicate that each blog retains its distinct focus. Based on the heavy traffic to both blogs, much of her original audience has stayed on, in order to catch a glimpse of her personal journey. Daniels is making sports history by creating a space where questions of intolerance and bigotry can be posed and, through online comments, discussed.
Daniels knows that the average sports-page reader experiences cognitive dissonance when imagining a man donning a wig, a dress, pumps and lipstick to head out for a day at the mall. In a recent post, she related why many male-to-female "transwomen" are focused on the exterior. "We never had a girlhood. We missed out on all the fun (dolls, sleepovers, mother-daughter outings) and the rites of passage natural-born females take for granted. ... [It's] just a normal part of growing up female."

Her employer's approach to the situation helped normalize Daniel's gender-switch. When she revealed to her supervisor, Sports Editor Randy Harvey, that she would be transitioning, he insisted that she write the piece in order to stay in control of the story. Some critics thought that personal narrative belonged in the Op Ed section and not in the Sports section. Others believed she should be fired. One post to a blog sponsored by CBS SportsLine.com put it this way: "When a reporter makes himself the story, which he is clearly doing, he is definitely not serving the interests of his reading public and quite honestly should be fired for these ego-driven actions."
In the majority of states, being fired would be a distinct possibility. In February, the city of Largo, Fla., fired its city manager of 14 years after he revealed his plans to undergo sex reassignment surgery, also known as SRS. California, however, is one of the eight states (along with Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Hawaii, as well as Washington D.C.) that have passed laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. Oregon will join the list on January 1, 2008, and the legislatures of Vermont, Iowa and Colorado have passed bills that await their governors' signatures.

An unexamined culture

Traditionally, the sports world is quick to minimize and ignore issues of bigotry when they arise and instead "focus on the game." In so doing, it misses a chance to discuss the issues and identify the underlying symptoms. Some would sweep Daniels' revelation under the rug in order to maintain the status quo and avoid what might be unsettling self-examination.
U.S. sports history is rife with examples of a pervasive culture of racism, sexism and homophobia. Football commentator Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired by the CBS network in 1988 after describing on the air how African Americans were naturally superior athletes because they had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery. The words that got him fired were, "During the slave period, the slave owner would breed his big black with his big woman so that he would have a big black kid -- that's where it all started."

Although primarily criticized as racist, Don Imus' April 4 reference to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos" revealed an insidious sexism that has been at the core of the sports world's resistance to professional female athletes. Just months before, retired NBA player Tim Hardaway was suspended from participating in NBA publicity events after saying on a local radio show: "Well, you know I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it." Homophobia has persisted like a healed-over injury that acts up when gender roles are challenged.

"That culture is very real," says Daniels. But she sees her proactive "coming out" and the i> blog as an opportunity for fans to examine their discomfort with transsexuals in sports. Her blog holds up a magnifying glass for those who are willing to peer through it.
Daniels is in the process of getting new press credentials from local teams. "I have not ventured into a press box or locker room as Christine yet. But soon," she said with anticipation. "Most of the publicity directors from the local pro sports teams have contacted me to say, 'Welcome back, Christine, we look forward to working with you.'"

Transsexuals in sports

Daniels is not the first transsexual to emerge from the sports world. In 2003, Chris Kahrl, sportswriter and founding columnist of the annual Baseball Prospectus, the gold standard for baseball analysis, became Christina. At the time, Kahrl wrote, "nobody has batted an eye," calling sports "the ultimate American social bridge," transcending "race, gender, class, and culture." The history of transsexuals as sports players, however, hasn't always borne out such triumphant optimism.

In 1972, Richard Raskind reached the final of the men's national 35-and-over tennis championships. Three years later, he underwent sex-reassignment surgery, becoming Renée Richards. In 1976, the U.S. Tennis Association denied her entrance into the U.S. Open. In 1977, the New York Supreme Court ruled in her favor, allowing her to reach the doubles final at that year's competition. She went on to coach Martina Navratilova to win two of her 20 Wimbledon championship titles.

For nearly 20 years, women's golf, which has a significant number of lesbian players and fans, has excluded transsexuals from competition. Two years after transsexual Charlotte Wood placed third in the U.S. Senior Women's Amateur in 1987, the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) added a "female at birth" clause in its entry forms and many other golf organizations around the world followed suit.
In 2004, however, the Australian Ladies Professional Golf Association (ALPGA) reversed its 1991 "female at birth" decision and allowed Mianne Bagger to join. Bagger, who was born male and had SRS in 1995, was ranked sixth on the national amateur circuit before turning professional in 2004. She currently plays on the ALPGA and Ladies European Tours. Bagger's success has had an international impact, as well. In 2005, the USGA changed its policy, allowing transgender athletes to compete in the U.S Women's Open. The same year, the Ladies Golf Union did the same, which allowed Bagger to play in the Women's British Open.

And in May 2004, the International Olympic Committee published its "Stockholm Consensus," outlining eligibility for participation in gender-classified competitions. It states that eligibility of transgender athletes to compete should begin no sooner than "two years after gonadectomy," that "verifiable" hormone therapy has been administered, and that "legal recognition of their assigned sex has been conferred by the appropriate authorities."

Changing medical consensus

The confusion manifested in the sports world over transsexuality is understandable when one considers the lack of settled opinion in the medical world. Much has changed in the past 50 years and definitive classification is still in flux.

The term "transsexual" entered popular parlance in the '50s to describe a person who identified and often presented as a member of the opposite gender. In 1980, the American Psychological Association added "Transsexualism" to its Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM-III). In 1994, the group replaced the diagnosis with "Gender Identity Disorder" (DSM-IV). The term "transgender" emerged around the same time to describe those with unusual gender identities without psychopathologizing them as "disordered." This is considered an umbrella term covering all types of "gender dysphoria," which literally means being uncomfortable with one's gender.

Medical professionals have different opinions as to the appropriateness of hormones, surgeries, transition counseling and even conversion therapy, which would seek to reverse the gender dysphoria and reconcile the individual to his or her biological gender. Treatments can cost between $15,000 and $50,000 and are not covered by most U.S. health insurance policies. Many countries that have comprehensive nationalized health care, including Canada and most European countries, do cover the cost of treatment, to varying degrees.

Surgery and legal recognition

Legal recognition of gender change varies around the world. In the United States, only Idaho, Ohio and Tennessee prohibit the change of sex on a birth certificate. Every province in Canada permits this, as do most western European countries. The latter, however, require proof of a diagnosis and HRT, in addition to SRS. Spain requires proof of HRT for two years, but not surgery. Germany will grant the official change of gender only if the person is unmarried, permanently infertile, and has had surgery changing the "outer sexual characteristics." The United Kingdom requires only that the person prove s/he suffers from gender dysphoria. Japan will grant the legal change, but only if the person is unmarried and childless. Australia is one of the few countries that will issue a new birth certificate, as opposed to amending an existing one.

Thailand has become a haven for inexpensive SRS procedures for transsexuals from around the globe, making it a hotspot for this type of "medical tourism." Ironically, Thailand does not grant changes in gender in official records for its own citizens.
The small town of Trinidad, Colo., is known as the gender reassignment capital of the United States, due to the work of former Army surgeon Stanley Biber, who specialized in the surgeries in the late '60s. Before his death in 2006, he estimated that he had performed 5,800 such procedures and trained hundreds of other surgeons. The International Foundation for Gender

Education estimates that more than 30,000 Americans have undergone SRS.
Unlike the rest of the Muslim world, Iran sanctions SRS, as it has been valid under Islamic Shariah since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa in 1983. Since homosexuality is punishable by death, however, it appears that surgery is the only option for many who might otherwise be hanged for being gay. As a result, an unregulated and marginally underground surgical industry has developed, leaving in its wake many post-operative patients who are not technically transsexual.

Life goes on

Discussing her public transition with In These Times, Daniels acknowledges that hard work lies ahead. "The overwhelming warm, positive and supportive response I have received has done much to buoy my spirits and get me emotionally prepared for the next career hurdle: covering sporting events and interviewing athletes and coaches as Christine," she says. "You know, for more than 20 years now, I have been a woman sportswriter going into locker rooms all the time. Only then, nobody, myself included, realized it."

Daniels will likely remain an expert in two realms. On her Woman in Progress blog, she will continue to share her own journey and transition from male to female, educating and provoking thousands of casual onlookers, while providing support and comfort to those on a similar journey. In her "Day in L.A." column, she will remain the first stop on many a fan's morning read-through of the Sports section, continuing to digest and contextualize the world of sports with her characteristic wit.

In a recent blog entry, Daniels addressed, if indirectly, the many questions people have asked about the extent and timetable of her transition. She wrote, "Gender identity is not about genitals. It is about what's in your head and in your heart. I am not taking a vacation to have SRS. I am taking a vacation to have a vacation."

Regardless of what comes her way, Daniels will do what she does best: churn out 2,000-plus words a day that speak to her readers. For reporter and reader alike, there's not much better than that.

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Voodoo Enronomics

Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.

Communism: You have two cows. You must take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

Enron Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt-equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred through an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The Enron annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.

Signs You're Going to Have a Bad Day

You know it's going to be a bad day when...

* your twin sister forgets your birthday.

* you wake up face down on the pavement.

* you put your bra on backwards and it fits better.

* you call suicide prevention and they put you on hold.

* you see a "60 Minutes news team" waiting in your outer
office.

* your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the
candles.

* you turn on the TV news and they're displaying emergency
routes out of your city.

* you wake up to discover that your water bed broke and
then you realize that you don't have a water bed.

* your horn goes off accidentally and remains stuck as you
follow a group of Hell's Angels on the freeway.

* you get a rejection notice from the HUMOR Listserver say-
ing that you're no longer funny.

* your doctor tells you, "Well, I have bad news and good
news..."

* you open the paper and find your picture under a caption
that reads: "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE!"

I Kicked A Fork Because Voices Told Me

FUNNY LITTLE GAME
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Pick the month in which you were born:

January--I kicked
February--I loved
March--I did the macarena with
April--I played with
May--I choked on
June--I murdered
July--I sang to
August--I had lunch with
September--I danced with
October--I smoked with
November--I yelled at
December--I ran over

Pick the day (number) you were born on:

1-------a paperclip
2-------a monster
3-------a phone
4-------a fork
5-------a gangster
6-------a Mexican
7-------my cell phone
8-------my dog
9-------my best friend's boyfriend
10-------my neighbor
11-------an ipod
12-------a banana
13-------a cop
14-------a stuffed animal
15-------a goat
16-------a pickle
17-------your mom
18-------a spoon
19-------myself
20-------a football player
21-------a ninja
22-------a fireman
23-------a noodle
24-------a squirrel
25-------a baseball bat
26-------my sister
27-------my brother
28-------my science teacher
29-------a permanent marker
30-------a llama
31-------A homeless guy


Pick the color of shirt you are wearing:

White------Because I was high.
Black-------Because that's how I roll.
Pink--------Because I'm gay.
Red--------Because the voices told me to.
Blue--------Because I'm sexy and do what I want.
Green------Because I hate myself.
Purple------Because I'm cool.
Gray-------Because I was drunk
Yellow------Because someone offered me $1,000,000.
Orange-----Because I hate my family.
Other------Because that's how I roll.
none-------Because I can't control myself.

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3 Things To Think About

Three Things

Three things to be
- pure, just and honest

Three things to govern
- temper tongue and conduct

Three things to have
- courage, affection and gentleness

Three things to love
- the wise, the virtuous and the innocent

Three things to commend
- thrift, industry and promptness

Three things to despise
- cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude

Three things to attain
- goodness of heart, integrity, and cheerfulness

Tongue Twisters

This method is to give a good group of tongue twisters to people in speech therapy, to people who want to work on getting rid of an accent, or to people who just plain like tongue twisters.
I got no problem, I do this for fun.
Here goes:

Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.

Unique New York.

Betty Botter had some butter,"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.If I bake this bitter butter,it would make my batter bitter.But a bit of better butter--that would make my batter better."So she bought a bit of butter,better than her bitter butter,and she baked it in her batter,and the batter was not bitter.So 'twas better Betty Botterbought a bit of better butter.

Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.

Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?

A big black bug bit a big black bear,made the big black bear bleed blood.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.

One smart fellow, he felt smart.Two smart fellows, they felt smart.Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.

Pope Sixtus VI's six texts.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.The shells she sells are surely seashells.So if she sells shells on the seashore,I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop.

"Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised."Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."

A Tudor who tooted a flutetried to tutor two tooters to toot.Said the two to their tutor,"Is it harder to tootor to tutor two tooters to toot?"

Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.

Three free throws.

I am not the pheasant plucker,I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.I am only plucking pheasants'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.

Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.

A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.Said the flea, "Let us fly!"Said the fly, "Let us flee!"So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Knapsack straps.

Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

A bitter biting bitternBit a better brother bittern,And the bitter better bitternBit the bitter biter back.And the bitter bittern, bitten,By the better bitten bittern,Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"

Inchworms itching.

A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

The myth of Miss Muffet.

Mr. See owned a saw.And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesawBefore Soar saw See,Which made Soar sore.Had Soar seen See's sawBefore See sawed Soar's seesaw,See's saw would not have sawedSoar's seesaw.So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.But it was sad to see Soar so soreJust because See's saw sawedSoar's seesaw!

Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.

Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.

Cheap ship trip.

I cannot bear to see a bearBear down upon a hare.When bare of hair he strips the hare,Right there I cry, "Forbear!"

Lovely lemon liniment.

Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.

Tim, the thin twin tinsmith

Fat frogs flying past fast.

I need not your needles, they're needless to me;For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,I then should have need of your needles indeed.

Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

Greek grapes.

The boot black bought the black boot back.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuckif a woodchuck could chuck wood?He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck wouldif a woodchuck could chuck wood.

We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

Moose noshing much mush.

Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought herback some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup.

My dame hath a lame tame crane,My dame hath a crane that is lame.

Six short slow shepherds.

A tree toad loved a she-toadWho lived up in a tree.He was a two-toed tree toadBut a three-toed toad was she.The two-toed tree toad tried to winThe three-toed she-toad's heart,For the two-toed tree toad loved the groundThat the three-toed tree toad trod.But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.He couldn't please her whim.From her tree toad bowerWith her three-toed powerThe she-toad vetoed him.

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos.

The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooedshilly-shallied south.These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;sheep should sleep in a shed.

Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.Gray were the geese and green was the grass.

Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.

Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

Peggy Babcock.

You've no need to light a night-lightOn a light night like tonight,For a night-light's light's a slight light,And tonight's a night that's light.When a night's light, like tonight's light,It is really not quite rightTo light night-lights with their slight lightsOn a light night like tonight.

Black bug's blood.

Flash message!

Say this sharply, say this sweetly,Say this shortly, say this softly.Say this sixteen times in succession.

Six sticky sucker sticks.

If Stu chews shoes, should Stuchoose the shoes he chews?

Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.

Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

Six sharp smart sharks.

What a shame such a shapely sashshould such shabby stitches show.

Sure the ship's shipshape, sir.

Betty better butter Brad's bread.

Of all the felt I ever felt,I never felt a piece of feltwhich felt as fine as that felt felt,when first I felt that felt hat's felt.

Sixish.

Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.

Swan swam over the sea,Swim, swan, swim!Swan swam back againWell swum, swan!

Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins.
I thought a thought.But the thought I thought wasn't the thoughtI thought I thought.

Brad's big black bath brush broke.

Thieves seize skis.

Chop shops stock chops.

Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashesas the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.

Strict strong stringy Stephen Stretchslickly snared six sickly silky snakes.

Susan shineth shoes and socks;socks and shoes shines Susan.She ceased shining shoes and socks,for shoes and socks shock Susan.

Truly rural.

The blue bluebird blinks.

Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.

When a twister a-twisting will twist him a twist,For the twisting of his twist, he three twines doth intwist;But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist,The twine that untwisteth untwisteth the twist.

Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between,He twirls, with his twister, the two in a twine;Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine,He twitcheth the twice he had twined in twain.

The twain that in twining before in the twine,As twines were intwisted he now doth untwine;Twist the twain inter-twisting a twine more between,He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.

The Leith police dismisseth us.

The seething seas ceasethand twiceth the seething seas sufficeth us.

If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctorwho doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way thedoctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctorthe doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

Two Truckee truckers truculently trucklingto have truck to truck two trucks of truck.

Plague-bearing prairie dogs.

Ed had edited it.

She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter.

Give me the gift of a grip top sock:a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.

While we were walking, we were watching window washerswash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

Freshly fried fresh flesh.

Pacific Lithograph.

Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers.

The crow flew over the riverwith a lump of raw liver.

Preshrunk silk shirts

A bloke's back bike brake block broke.

A pleasant place to place a plaice is a placewhere a plaice is pleased to be placed.

I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning.

Good blood, bad blood.

Quick kiss. Quicker kiss.

I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau,he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.

Cedar shingles should be shaved and saved.

Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup.

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,he thrusts his fist against the postsand still insists he sees the ghosts.

Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.

Listen to the local yokel yodel.

Give Mr. Snipa's wife's knife a swipe.

Whereat with blade,with bloody, blameful blade,he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.

Are our oars oak?

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie managerimagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

A lusty lady loved a lawyerand longed to lure him from his laboratory.

The epitome of femininity.

She stood on the balconyinexplicably mimicing him hiccupping,and amicably welcoming him home.

Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes.

Please pay promptly.

On mules we find two legs behindand two we find before.We stand behind before we findwhat those behind be for.

What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?

One-One was a racehorse.Two-Two was one, too.When One-One won one race,TWO-TWO

Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle.

Pick a partner and practice passing,for if you pass proficiently,perhaps you'll play professionally.
Once upon a barren moorThere dwelt a bear, also a boar.The bear could not bear the boar.The boar thought the bear a bore.At last the bear could bear no moreOf that boar that bored him on the moor,And so one morn he bored the boar--That boar will bore the bear no more.

If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot totTo talk ere the tot could totter,Ought the Hottenton totBe taught to say aught, or naught,Or what ought to be taught her?If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot totBe taught by her Hottentot tutor,Ought the tutor get hotIf the Hottentot totHoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?

Will you, William?

Mix, Miss Mix!

Who washed Washington's white woolen underwearwhen Washington's washer woman went west?

Two toads, totally tired.

Freshly-fried flying fish.

The sawingest saw I ever saw sawwas the saw I saw saw in Arkansas.

Just think, that sphinx has a sphincter that stinks!

Strange strategic statistics.

Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet,All she does is sits and shifts,All she does is sits and shifts.

Hi-Tech Traveling Tractor Trailor Truck Tracker

Ned Nott was shot
and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott
than Nott.
Some say Nott
was not shot.
But Shott says
he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott
was not shot,
or
Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott,
Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,
then Shott was shot,
not Nott.
However,
the shot Shott shot shot not Shott --
but Nott.

Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.

Three twigs twined tightly.

There was a young fisher named FischerWho fished for a fish in a fissure.The fish with a grin,Pulled the fisherman in;Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.

Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.

Suddenly swerving, seven small swansSwam silently southward,Seeing six swift sailboatsSailing sedately seaward.

The ochre ogre ogled the poker.

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,Or some stickler who is slickerWill stick you of your liquorIf you fail to lock your liquorWith a lock!

Shredded Swiss chesse.

The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.

Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
Now.....if Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

Success to the successful thistle-sifter!

Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side.

They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw.

Irish wristwatch.

Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.

Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves.

Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades,blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- balancing them badly.

Tragedy strategy.

Selfish shellfish.

They have left the thriftshop, and lost both their theatre tickets and thevolume of valuable licenses and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills.

These are in Dutch

Ik zag de zon zakken in de Zuiderzee.

Hoor de kleine klompjes klepperen op de klinkers.

To en Tom aten tomaten; To at en Tom vrat.

Soldatententententoonstelling.

These are in French and might show up incorrectly on your browser.

Un chasseur sachant chasser chassait sans son chien de chasse.

Ton th? t'a-t-il ??ta toux?

?ant sorti sans parapluie, il m'e? plus plu qu'il pl? plus t?.

These are in Pinoy

Minimekaniko ni Monico ang makina ng Minica ni Monica.

Botica, Bituka, Butiki.

This one is in Hebrew.

Sara shara shir sameyach.

This one is Japanese.

Namamugi, Namagome, Namatamago.

Source: Came from this site
And more tongue twisting here

Flattering E-mail To Me.

Somebody sent to me an e-mail and told me to read.....damn! surely I have to read to know its contents...dumb!

The sender wrote:

"Good looks catches the eye but a GOOD personality catches the heart. You're blessed with both!"

It was sent to me a few years ago.......I guess somebody finally figured me just right...haha!

Early Changes

New profile ID pic.




Made some changes to my profile id pic, this is more appropriate, making my identity hard to figure out.

This might help me to keep a low profile.

And visited some old place at sites that I have accounts since I started blogging here back during 2004 like Blog Soldiers, Wolf Surfer and Blog Lines.