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Sunday, November 30, 2014

How To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity in retirement.

  1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars...watch 'em Slow Down\
  2. On all your cheque stubs, write 'For Marijuana'
  3. Skip down the street Rather Than Walk and see how many looks you get.
  4. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
  5. Sing Along At The Opera.
  6. When The Money Comes Out of The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!'
  7. When Leaving the Zoo, start Running towards the Car Park, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'
  8. Tell Your Children over dinner: 'Due to the economy,we are going to have to let one of you go...
  9. PICK UP A BOX OF CONDOMS AT THE PHARMACY, GO TO THE COUNTER AND ASK WHERE THE FITTING ROOM IS.
    And : my favorite.to Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity
  10. 10. Go to a large Department store?s fitting room, drop your drawers to your ankles and yell out: “THERE IS NO PAPER IN HERE”!

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Replacing "sex on the beach" with "salt on your sausage”

The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi)  A major tourist destination in the South American country of Bolivia, the Salar is home to an estimated 10 billion tons (9.8 billion LT) of salt  and completely devoid of any vegetation or wildlife.  

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

But what is even more incredible, is where  people who visit this amazing place stay, in the middle of the vast emptiness. The answer is quite remarkable.

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Anyone arriving to visit this exotic part of the world is in for a real treat and a stay in one of the world's most unique hotel experiences. The lack of conventional construction materials see hotels innovatively built entirely of salt blocks cut from the Salar itself. The  most famous is called Palacio de Sal, Spanish for "Palace of salt".

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

The hotel is made of about 1 million 35-cm (14-inch) salt blocks, used for the floor, walls, ceiling and furniture, including the beds, tables, chairs and sculptures. The hotel even has a dry sauna and a steam room, a saltwater pool and whirlpool baths for guests to relax in and enjoy.

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal


Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Imagine what it feels like, sleeping on salt beds, sitting on salt chairs and even eating at salt tables. And while no one can deny how beautiful everything in this hotel is, that beauty is nothing compared to the view…

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal


Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal


Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

The salt flats are so white and clear they often show a perfect reflection of the sky and the objects above them. In fact, because the Salar is so flat and has such a strong reflection, similar to that of ice sheets, it is used for calibrating the distance measurement equipment of satellites in space!

The white, endless flats also offer visitors a unique opportunity to take some truly mind bending pictures. With no other objects in sights, the human eye loses its ability to establish a proper field of depth. The results are some of the most creative and bizarre pictures you will ever see…

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 

Palacio                                                            de Sal

 


 

The Salar is truly a place like no other, a magical kingdom of salt and beauty where one can drive on the endless flats and see the sky both above and below him. It is just one of many places on earth that prove that beauty has no rules and that nature always has one more trick up her sleeve.

Palacio                                                            de Sal

Friday, November 28, 2014

Random thoughts of Man

The wife's back on the warpath again. She was up for making a sex movie last night, and all I did was suggest we should hold auditions for her part.   

I've accidentally swallowed some Scrabble tiles. My next crap could spell disaster. 

My sister-in-law sat on my glasses and broke them. It was my own fault. I should have taken them off.     

I spent a couple of hours defrosting the fridge last night.  (Or "foreplay" as she likes to call it). 

Bought the missus a hamster skin coat last week. Took her to the fair last night, and it took me 3 hours to get her off the Ferris wheel.     

The other night, my wife asked me how many women I'd slept with. I told her, "Only you. All the others kept me awake all night!"

My missus packed my bags, and as I walked out the front door, she screamed, "I wish you a slow and painful death, you bastard!"  "Oh," I replied, "so now you want me to stay!"     

A government survey has shown that 91% of illegal immigrants come to this country so that they can see their own doctor.     

I've just installed strobe lights in the bedroom. It makes the wife look like she's moving during sex.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving

John received a parrot, as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary.

Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, racy or laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to 'clean up' the bird's language.

Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and more obnoxious. John, in desperation, threw up his hands, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer.
For a few minutes, the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Suddenly, there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard.
Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John flung open the freezer. Calmly, the parrot stepped out into John's outstretched arms and said:

"I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I'm sincerely remorseful for my transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my unforgivable behavior."

John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot about the sudden shift in behavior, the bird spoke-up, very softly:

"May I ask what the turkey did?"

Monday, November 24, 2014

Of course we remember when–don’t we ?????

Remember when,
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?  And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's!

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It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?

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Nobody owned a purebred dog?

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When a quarter was a decent allowance?

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You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

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Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

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You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

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Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

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It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

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They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed... and they did it!

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When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?

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No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

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Lying on your back in the grass with your friends... and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?

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Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

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Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger...

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And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.

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When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

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Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

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And our summers were filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

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Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?


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Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.

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How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Candy cigarettes...

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Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside...

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Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles...

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes...

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum...
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Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...

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Newsreels before the movie...

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Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon
2-601). Party lines...
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Peashooters...

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Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records...
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78 RPM records...
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Green Stamps...
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Mimeograph paper...
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The Fort ApachePlay Set...

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Do You Remember a Time When Decisions were made by going...

'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?


Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?


'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

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Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?

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It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best
Friends'...

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Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?

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Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?

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'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
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Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

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The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
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War was a card game?

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Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
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Taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable aspirin?

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Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

 

 

 

And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.