Tuesday, November 27, 2012

email from Gallege de Silva




Truly special!

We really take life for granted sometimes hey?
 
This is a wonderful, one minute clip
Full of wisdom. . . . and very brief.
It's not a joke, it's not religious, it's not political.
It's just . . . special.
I think you'll agree.
Please enjoy this one minute clip.
It has a meaning for all of us.
  
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Hzgzim5m7oU&vq=medium
 
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email from Dawood

This is the Captain speaking


Monday, November 26, 2012

email from Lawrance Ratnam - Getting old.


LawrenceRatnam@aol.com
17:41 (12 hours ago)
to undisclosed recipients
SWEET OLD LADY PRAYS:
A sweet old lady is asked to say Grace at a gathering of "Seniors at Home" caregivers, and she brought down the house about 90 seconds into her prayer. Enjoy !
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story).

email from Sunil Liyanage

Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens
at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum
velocity.

The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne
fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the
Windshields of their new high speed trains.

Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the American engineers.

When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled
out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to
smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's
back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an
arrow shot from a bow..

The horrified Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the
experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the British
scientists for suggestions.


Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:


"Defrost the chicken."

Friday, November 23, 2012

email from Lawrence Ratnam

When I was young, my intention was to go to medical school. The entrance exam included several questions that would determine eligibility. One of the questions was "Rearrange the letters "PSNEI"to spell out an
important part of the human body that is more useful when it is erect."
Those who spelled "SPINE" became Doctors. The rest ended up in Politics.

Email from Chitra Gallege - Old Ceylon.

Subject: FROM LORD VETERAN DUDLEY JAYASEKKERA - Fw: Life of Sri Lankans, more than 100 years ago on YouTube.
Click on the web-link below with internet connection on:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pCtjnhxXfw

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Finished and Complete - Meaning of the words, email from Kamalini Kanapathippilla




Finished and Complete: No English dictionary has been able to explain adequately the difference between the two words.


In a recently held linguistic competition held in London, England attended by the best in the world, Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese man from Bachelors Adventure, was the clear winner with a standing ovation lasting over 5 minutes.

Here is his answer which made him receive an invitation to dine with the Queen who decided to call him after the contest. He won a trip to travel the world in style and a case of 25 year old Eldorado rum for his answer.

His final question was this.... How to explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand. Some people say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED .

Here is his astute answer ....
When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. And when you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED.
And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!