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Interesting Facts about You and Your Body

Dear Butter & Toast,   "Murphy drops some buttered toast on the kitchen floor. It lands butter-side-up. He looks at what he has done in astonishment, for he knows it's a law of nature.   that buttered toast always falls butter-down. He rushes round to the presbytery to fetch the priest. He tells the priest that he thinks a miracle has happened round at his flat. He won't say what it is but wants Fr Flannagan to see it with his own eyes. He brings Fr Flannagan into the kitchen and asks him what he sees on the floor." "Well, says the priest, "it's pretty obvious what we have here. Someone dropped some buttered toast, and then for some reason flipped it over so that the butter was on top." "No, Father, I dropped it and it landed like that." "Well, Fr Flannagan says, "it's certainly a natural law of the universe that dropped toast never falls butter side up. But it's not for me to say it's a mir...

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself and doesn't feel even the least bit weird shutting your  'beer/Pepsi drawer' with her foot! A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend shoulder is soggy from your tears..  A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.. A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party. A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean. A simple friend hates it when you call after they've gone to bed. A real friend asks you why you took so long to call. A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems. A real friend seeks to help you with your problems. A simple friend wonders about your romantic history. A real friend could blackmail you with it! ;)     A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend calls you af...

A young man wished to marry the farmer's beautiful daughter. He went to the farmer to ask his permission.   The farmer looked at him and said, "Son, go stand out in that field. I'm going to release three bulls, one at a time. If you can catch the tail of any one of the three bulls, you can marry my daughter."   The young man stood in the field awaiting the first bull. The barn door opened and out came the biggest, meanest looking bull he had ever seen.   He decided that one of the next bulls had to be a better choice than this one, so he ran over to the side and let the bull pass through.   The barn door opened again. Unbelievable. . He had never seen anything so big and fierce in his life. It stood pawing the ground, it eyed him. Whatever the next bull was like, it had to be a better choice than this one he thought. He ran to the fence and let the bull pass through.   The door opened a third time. A smile came across his face. This was the weakest bull he had ...

© India Today   Another study revealed one in two people born after 1960 will develop cancer during their life. Photo: Daily Mail A UK study has revealed 10 symptoms that indicate you could be suffering from cancer, and they range from a persistent cough to unexplained bleeding. Cancer Research UK has warned people not to dismiss the symptoms as trivial, as they could be signs of something more life threatening, reports Daily Mail. The study, which was recently published, revealed that one in two people born after 1960 is likely to develop cancer at some point in their lifetime, and with the risk increasing so quickly, experts fear as many as two-thirds of today's children will be diagnosed with the disease. A survey conducted by researchers on behalf of Cancer Research UK found that most of those who had at least one symptom did not visit their doctor, as they dismissed it as nothing important. But experts have adviced that if any of the symptoms should arise, one sho...

It doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time, and this should help get you started.  During a visit to the mental asylum,   a visitor asked the Director what the criterion was which defined  whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.   "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a   teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."   "Oh, I understand," ! said th e visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."   "No." said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you   want a bed near the window?"

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DETECTING NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES  

                                            A good one  An old Brahmin in USA had a teenage son, and it was getting high time the boy gave some thought to choosing a profession. Like many young men his age, the boy didn't really know what he wanted to do, and he didn't seem too concerned about it. One day, while the boy was away at school, his father decided to try an experiment. He went into the boy's room and placed on his study table four objects:   1. A copy of the RAMAYANA,   2. A silver dollar,   3. A bottle of malt whiskey,   4. And a Playboy magazine. "I'll just hide behind the door," the old preacher said to himself, "and when he comes home from school, I'll see which object he picks up. If it's the Ramayana, he's going to be a pujari like me, and what a blessing that would be! If he picks up the coin, he's going to be a businessman, and that w...

Mr. Lamborghini was born in 1916 to a working class farmer family. He grew up as a highly skilled mechanic and started his own tractor manufacturing business. His business was very successful with the production rate of 400 tractors per month in 1960. Being a wealthy man he bought a Ferrari 250GT and joined the league of those limited number of people who owned Ferrari at that time. He continually had mechanical problems with his Ferrari and soon he became embarrassed. After so many visits to Ferrari workshop he decided to meet Mr. Enzo Ferrari to complain in person. He went to Ferrari office and had to wait for hours tomeet Enzo Ferrari. He told Mr. Enzo that their car is poor. Mr Ferrari said to Elio Lamborghini that he can end up with driving a tractor but won't be able to handle a Ferrari properly.  That was the moment Mr. Lamborghini decided that he would design his own sports V12 engine car and that's what he exactly did in coming da...