judy chop!

The optimist claims the glass is half full; the pessimist claims it is half empty. An engineer observes that the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

regular can of skoal says you...not says I....lol and a ninjy star

haha! Most of that *has* to be fake, but he's pretty funny anyways

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

HAHA, yeah, try going through a construction area using your GPS... My sister in law's told us "You have arrived" and we were stopped at a dead end with 5 dump trucks and about 10 pyramids of dirt.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison

a little late for Easter, but nonetheless relevant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFhS0dAduc

Thanks Joel, good to see you

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(It was actually under the cap of a Black Forest Berry Honest Tea. )

In honor of Earth Day, Arbor Day and Spring in general, here's a couple good ones courtesy once again from Honest Tea.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. (Anonymous)

No shade tree? Blame not the sun but yourself. (Chinese Proverb)

We planted a tree for Rachel when she was born. It will be 20 years ago this summer. Where has that time gone? *sigh*

We've planted one for David, we need to do the same for Elise

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Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.


As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.


Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.


WHY?

Because we were always outside playing...that's why!



We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.



No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times,we learned to solve the problem.



We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.


We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.


We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.


We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment..


Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.


The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.



We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.


While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?

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The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

This one's for the ladies:

Be the kind of woman
that when your feet
hit the floor each
morning the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"

does it count if that comes out of your mouth first ?

ROFL

teehee. just saying .... maybe ill get points for that one!

Procrastinators: Leaders of Tomorrow

We are not human beings going through a
temporary spiritual experience.

We are spiritual beings
going through a temporary human experience.

That is hard to grasp sometimes when all we can remember is our human experience.