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Dawn

@Dawn Idol

Voyager

Posted: 16 years ago

#731

Thanks Skep ...........

Wonderful post ............

It is so true ........ a good teacher is worth her weight in gold !!!!!

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Sri_Nidhi

@Sri_Nidhi

Navigator

Posted: 16 years ago

#732

Wonderful post Skepti. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Dawn

@Dawn Idol

Voyager

Posted: 16 years ago

#733

Hi Friends ......

Here's one of the numerous "time-pass" mails I receive daily ......

Thot ...... you guys would like this !!!!

A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with
golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.

He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full.

They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.

Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

He asked once more if the jar was full.

The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.

The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor, as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.

'The golf balls are the important things - your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favourite passions - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

'The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car.

'The sand is everything else--the small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.

'The same goes for life.

'If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

'Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Play with your children.

'Take time to get medical checkups.

'Take your partner out to dinner.

'Play another 18.

'There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.

'Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter.

'Set your priorities.

'The rest is just sand.'

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled. 'I'm glad you asked.

'It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a cup of coffee with a friend.'

Please share this with someone you care about.

I JUST DID

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skeptical

@skeptical

Inactive

Posted: 16 years ago

#734

Absolutely true Sprite.......................

Sand in our life is positively 🤢 and we cant do anything about it either 😡

But that meeting over coffee to take care of the golf balls was a super idea. 😃

Please visit the forum more often than before.......consider it to be a pebble 😆

So when shall we meet for coffee.......Walter? 😉

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Dawn

@Dawn Idol

Voyager

Posted: 16 years ago

#735

Originally posted by: skeptical
Absolutely true Sprite.......................

Sand in our life is positively 🤢 and we cant do anything about it either 😡

But that meeting over coffee to take care of the golf balls was a super idea. 😃

Please visit the forum more often than before.......consider it to be a pebble 😆

So when shall we meet for coffee.......Walter? 😉

Dear Skep ...

Coffee with friends !!!!!!

Nothing can beat that ............

My work in the off. has nearly doubled ..... not able to come online as much .....

But ....... It's always in my thots ......... this forum is not a pebble ...... to me its a golf ball ........ 🤗

I may be a little late to reply ...... but i'll always visit !!!!!

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vasantha

@vasantha_rao07

Stunner

Posted: 16 years ago

#736

hey D I !!!!!!!! good to see u after a long while😆 u seem to be a flying viistor here😆 anyways..nice to see u r post😊

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Dawn

@Dawn Idol

Voyager

Posted: 16 years ago

#737

Originally posted by: vasantha_rao07
hey D I !!!!!!!! good to see u after a long while😆 u seem to be a flying viistor here😆 anyways..nice to see u r post😊

Hey Vasu ....

Like I said ..... not able to come online as much as before .....

Now I'm waiting for my bro to pick me up from off. ............ grabbed this oppor to get online .... 😆😆

How r things with u ?

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skeptical

@skeptical

Inactive

Posted: 16 years ago

#738

Here is some fun thing to read ...........................

50 things you probably never knew

01. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

02. Your stomach has to produce a new layer
of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

03. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

04. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh
champagne will bounce up and down

continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

05. A female ferret will die if it goes into
heat and cannot find a mate.

06. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

07. A 4 x 2 piece of wood is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.

08. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small

red car can be seen in the distance.

09. On average, 12 newborns will be given to
the wrong parents daily worldwide!

10. Donald Duck comics were banned from
Finland because he doesn't wear pants..

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars
given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. The number of possible ways of playing
the first four moves per side in a game of chess is
318,979,564,000.

13. There are no words in the dictionary
that rhyme with orange,purple and silver.

14. The name Wendy was made up for the book
"Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.

5. The very first bomb dropped by the
Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

16. If you place a tiny amount of liquor on
a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting
itself to death.

17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually
had to s-l-o-w film.

18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce
Springsteen's "Born in the USA.

19. The original name for butterfly was
flutterby.

20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is
derived from an old English law which stated that you
couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

21. The first product Motorola started to
develop was a record player for automobiles. At
that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola,

so they called themselves Motorola.

22. Roses may be red, but violets are
violet, not blue.

23. By raising your legs slowly and laying
on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

24. Celery has negative effect on calories.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than
the celery has in it to begin with.

25. For fun, Charlie Chaplin once entered
anonymously a "Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest",
and won third prize.

26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will
keep you from crying.

27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said
"Elementary, my dear Watson".

28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington,
made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps
backwards while dancing.

29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified
kosher.

30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the
record for being the book most often stolen from
Public Libraries.

31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans
before they go into space because passing wind in a
space suit damages them.

32. In the movie Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart
never said "Play it again Sam." What he said was "If you
can play it for her you can play it for me, so play it".

33. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

34. A crocodile can't stick its tongue
out.

35. A shrimp's heart is in its head.

36. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a
period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an
ostrich buried its head in the sand.

37. It is physically impossible for pigs to
look up into the sky.

38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

39. More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a telephone call.

40. Horses can't vomit.

41. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth
sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the
English language.

42. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture
a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can
rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you
keep your eyes open by force,they can pop out.

43. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18
months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

44. Wearing headphones for just an hour will
increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

45. If the government has no knowledge of
aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the
Code of Federal Regulations,implemented on July 16, 1969,
make it illegal for US citizens to have any contact with
extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

46. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a
Superman somewhere.

47. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying
their rear ends.

48. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

49. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue
print is different.

50. Over 75% of people who read this will
try to lick their elbow

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namita25

@namita25

Sparkler

+ 2

Posted: 16 years ago

#739

Originally posted by: skeptical
Here is something a fellow teacher sent me. Thought it might interest you...................

The work of a good teacher and an equally good pupil

Elizabeth was a young Quaker girl - a widow - a school teacher

who wrote children's books.
Her most popular book was Adam on the Road (1942).

At the end of World War Two,
Gen Douglas MacArthur decided not to

charge Japan's Emperor Hirohito with war crimes.

Instead, he asked Elizabeth to tutor Crown Prince Akihito.,

Crown prince, Akihito lived separately from his parents.

She taught him English and stories of the West.

The seeds of independent thinking were planted. Risk orientation .....

Individual effort and reward ..... Breaking the rule ....

Thinking outside the box

........... These ideas were profoundly 'un Japanese.'

In 1950, Elizabeth Vining returned to USA.

Soon after , Akihito married beautiful Michiko in 1959.

He broke a 2,600 years of tradition by marrying a commoner.

........... Elizabeth Vining was the only foreigner allowed

to attend the wedding.

But Akihito wasn't finished surprising the world. All Japan was stunned when when he and Michiko announced they would raise their own children.

Another 2,600 year-old tradition, shattered by the 125th emperor of Japan.

Akihito's attitude gave freedom to other Japanese to begin thinking independently. Take the cases of

Honda, Sony, Toyota, Mitsubishi and their amazing fruits of innovation.

Elizabeth Vining lived to be 97 years old. And each year on her birthday,
a limousine from the Japanese embassy would stop in front of her home,
as a tuxedoed Ambassador delivered a giant bouquet of flowers.

"A simple woman had quietly done a great job."

Awesome post skep………….😃

I thoroughly enjoyed reading it………….😳

Thanks for posting it on the forum…………

It has rightly been said……………………..

Teachers are the architectural designers of nations…infact…..

The builders and moulder's of a nation's destiny………

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vasantha

@vasantha_rao07

Stunner

Posted: 16 years ago

#740

Originally posted by: Dawn Idol

Hey Vasu ....

Like I said ..... not able to come online as much as before .....

Now I'm waiting for my bro to pick me up from off. ............ grabbed this oppor to get online .... 😆😆

How r things with u ?

DI !! I peep into this thread to see either u r's or arwen' s posts😆but seems like u both r not so regular😆I think u r busy attending wedding celebrations😉😆or u r work..

as for me...Just waiting whether Shabir Ahluwalia will accept a new soap but the gentleman is busy partying😆or playing cricket..I log in to read articles abt him and to post in his threads😆but the boy seems to be taking restttttt😆