Quiz Kids

I found some quizzes where the expected responses weren't the only correct answers,in fact some of these kids came up with better answers than what was expected. I only hope the teachers didn't grade them to severely since basically their questions left room for invention.

I saved my favorite for the end! 

Quotes For the Occasion

"When your mother asks,'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." Erma Bombeck
"My mother loved children-she would have given anything if I had been one." Grocho Marx
"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease." Lisa Alther
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." Calvin Trillin
"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." Phyllis Diller
"My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million,you don't get any attention." Woody Allen




Happy Mother's Day all you Mothers! 

Nail Biter

Once again today's post is out of my area of expertise as it roughly comes under the heading of fashion. Though I don't personally see any reason to have fake nails painted in interesting designs I often enjoy some of the more whimsical ones I've seen which no doubt warrant the amount spent as they are quite artistic. Though that isn't the case with the nails/teeth I found to include as today's topic in fact if anything they border on the creepy and never mind with all the layers of acrylic applied to make the nails look like teeth they would have to make normal activities cumbersome at best.

In Stitches

Today's post could be subtitled "Things No One Thinks About" but it's your lucky day because now you will know. I had always figured that people in the medical fields would learn their trade over the years from practical experience,never did I consider that practicing stitching on fruits would enter their education. To my further surprise the types of fruits favored for practicing on are oranges and bananas,if I had guessed I would have went with peaches or nectarines thinking that would be more skin like,but according to medical trainees oranges and bananas are more skin like to stitch,in fact one exercise is to keep an orange's peel in one piece while peeling then stitch it back together. Who knew?

Hazardous Spill?

My first thought on today's post is why were they transporting liquid chocolate instead of making it at wherever this load was destined for? Driving liquids around is always a tricky proposition but maybe there is a piece of information that is missing that would explain the why of it,but once again I digress. Tons of liquid chocolate spilled onto a highway in Poland causing two lanes to be closed. Another thing I didn't know is liquid chocolate is similar to driving in snow which seems odd given how sticky chocolate can be. The road crew had to wait for hot water to arrive in order to flush the mess off of the road surface. I wonder if any chocoholics were at the scene? 

Ad Fails

Maybe I'm just easily amused but these "professional" ads failed to realize what they were really saying until the public,or pubic according to one fail,pointed out their errors.

That's one way to deal with an over population of rabbits!

Jumping Through Hoops

Arachnophobes may want to skip today's post as it could drive you over that thin line. Scientists have trained a regal jumping spider named Kim to jump on demand so they can study how to possibly engineer a mini robot with the same capabilities. Kim can jump six times her body length from a standing start and the force from the legs is five times the spider's weight. I wasn't aware spiders could be trained but they trained Kim to jump different distances and heights so they could study the bio-mechanics and apply it to other areas of research. They also did a CT scan and developed a 3 D model of Kim to further their studies.