Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Retarded grandparents - Forwarded by Lakshman Karalliedde


Sunil Liyanage

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RETARDED GRANDPARENTS
(this was actually reported by a teacher)

After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holiday away from school.

One child wrote the following:


We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa.

They used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Batemans Bay where everyone lives in nice little houses, and so they don't have to mow the grass anymore!

They ride around on their bicycles and scooters and wear name tags because they don't know who they are anymore.

They go to a building called a wreck center, but they must have got it fixed because it is all okay now. They do exercises there, but they don't do them very well.

There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with hats on.

At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it.
He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out, and go cruising in their golf carts!

Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And, they eat the same thing every night --- early birds.

Some of the people can't get out past the man in the doll house.
The ones who do get out, bring food back to the wrecked center for pot luck.

My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded someday too.

When I earn my retardment, I want to be the man in the doll house. Then I will let people out, so they can visit their grandchildren. 
 

 
PRICELESS!

Remember to send this to all your "retarded grandparent" friends and give
them a laugh too!


Patti Page - "Changing partners", "Tennessee waltz"

Patti Page was a singer with a beautiful voice. Here are two sentimental songs by her popular in the 1960s.


Watch "Changing partners" - Patti Page on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pvOtiZxZ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Watch Patti Page - "Tennessee Waltz" on YouTube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44B6B1OycgI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The underwater world, email sent by Sunil Liyanage

HD video - The world underwater, Click on web-link below:-

http://www.youtube.com/embed/mcbHKAWIk3I

Tube-well antics, Sri Lanka.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "J. K. S. Weerasekera"
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:18:05 +0530
Subject: FW: A PRIZE WINNER
These are my favourite things…
Likely down south in arid area.
These artisan wells are not too deep, not more than 20 feet.
 I too used one 15 years ago, in Nugegoda  building a house at a new plot, the water not supplied for 5 months by official means.
jksw

From: Baylon Perera <baylonm@gmail.com>
Date: 28 January 2013 00:43:24 GMT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Fwd: A PRIZE WINNER
  

Aren't you laughing?




Monday, January 28, 2013

Billy Vaughn, Silvery moon, La Paloma

Billy Vaughn - These two pieces were played again and again to much appreciation on the radiogramme in the male medical students common room, in the early 1960s in Colombo. I hope it makes you feel nostalgic.
Click on each of the web-links below and relax:-

1. Silvery Moon:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5yyQu1m1c&feature=youtube_gdata_player


2. La Paloma:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGMNYh9Na4

'The spoon' - email from Sunil Liyanage







Subject: The spoon: A lesson on how consultants can make a difference in an organization. Very Impressive!

Last week, we took some friends to a new restaurant, 'Steve's Place,' and
noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt
pocket. It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought our water and
utensils, I observed that he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I
looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When
the waiter came back to serve our soup I inquired, 'Why the spoon?'

'Well,' he explained, 'the restaurant's owner hired Andersen Consulting to
revamp all of our processes. After several months of analysis, they
concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It
represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If
our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to
the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.'

As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he replaced it with his spare.
'I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an
extra trip to get it right now.' I was impressed.

I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly.
Looking around, I saw that all of the waiters had the same string hanging
from their flies. So, before he walked off, I asked the waiter, 'Excuse me,
but can you tell me why you have that string right there?'

'Oh, certainly!' Then he lowered his voice. 'Not everyone is so observant.
That consulting firm I mentioned also learned that we can save time in the
restroom. By tying this string to the tip of our you-know-what, we can pull
it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands,
shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39%.

I asked quietly, 'After you get it out, how do you put it back?'

'Well,' he whispered, 'I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon.'