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Today's Reading is about ........ Smile

                                       Friends

          

 This was enjoyable reading.  Hope you think so too. Have a good day either way. 

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." 

--- Winnie the Pooh 

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." 

---Charles Caleb Colton 

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." 

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." ---Mencius 

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us." 

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." 

---Stone Temple Pilots 

"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." 

---Dave Matthew's band 

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them." 

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say.Best friends listen to what you don't say." 

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." 

--- Tim McGraw 

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." ---Lee Iacocca 

"Hold a true friend with both your hands." 

---Nigerian Proverb 

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." 

---unknown 

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Here is Today's Fun Read and is about... Children's science exam answers!! 

These are real answers given by children!

How funny!  I wonder how old the kids were who answered these questions.  Enjoy!  

Children's Science Exam Answers. These are real answers given by children.

Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large
pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.

Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?
A: Keep it in the cow. (My favorite)

Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and  nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.

Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.

Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery

Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.
A: Premature death.

Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? (e.g., abdomen.)
A: The body is consisted into three parts---the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels, A, E, I, O, and U.

Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie.

Q: What does "varicose" mean?
A: Nearby. (I do love this one...)

Q: Give the meaning of the term "Caesarean Section"
A: The Caesarean Section is a district in Rome.

Q: What does the word "benign" mean?'
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.




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                A Beautiful Story!!

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

"You don't owe me anything," she replied.

"Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness."
He said....."Then I thank you from my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Year's later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors
were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at
once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to
save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the
business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at
it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room.
She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her
life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her
attention on the side of the bill. She read these words.....

"Paid in full with one glass of milk" Signed, Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You,
God, that Your love has spread abroad through human hearts and hands."

 Just a thought:  "To fix a broken life, use the tools of the heart."

 


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*sniffle* *sniffle*

repeat

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Got goose bump after reading "A Beautyful Story!!".
So imotional and heart touching.

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The story of a blind girl ~ True Love

There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her boyfriend. Her boyfriend asked her, “now that you can see the world, will you marry me?”

The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying:

“Just take care of my eyes dear.”

 

This is how human brain changes when the status changed. Only few remember what life was before, and who’s always been there even in the most painful situations.

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Wonderful story….with POWERFUL lesson

A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words:
 

“The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself… “Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?” One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. “I shall get rid of this hunchback,” she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him!

As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. “What is this I am doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”

The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!”

” As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life!

 

It was then that she realized the significance of the words: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” Do good and Don’t ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time.

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The miracle of Pure Selfless Helping Heart costs… one dollar and eleven cents …~


Tess was a precocious eight year old when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They were moving to an apartment complex next month because Daddy didn’t have the money for the doctor bills and our house.

Only a very costly surgery could save him now and it was looking like there was no-one to loan them the money. She heard Daddy say to her tearful Mother with whispered desperation, “Only a miracle can save him now.”

Tess went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured all the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes.Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall’s Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door.

She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good.

Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it!

“And what do you want?” the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice. “I’m talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven’t seen in ages,” he said without waiting for a reply to his question.

“Well, I want to talk to you about my brother,” Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. “He’s really, really sick… and I want to buy a miracle.”

“I beg your pardon?” said the pharmacist.

“His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?”

“We don’t sell miracles here, little girl. I’m sorry but I can’t help you,” the pharmacist said, softening a little. “Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn’t enough, I will get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs.”

The pharmacist’s brother was a well-dressed man. He stooped down and asked the little girl, “What kind of a miracle does your brother need?”

“I don’t know,” Tess replied with her eyes welling up. “I just know he’s really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can’t pay for it, so I want to use my money.”

“How much do you have?” asked the man from Chicago. “One dollar and eleven cents,” Tess answered barely audibly. “And it’s all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to.

“Well, what a coincidence,” smiled the man. “A dollar and eleven cents – the exact price of a miracle for little brothers.” He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her mitten and said, “Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let’s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.”

That well-dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed without charge and it wasn’t long until Andrew was home again and doing well. Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place.

“That surgery,” her Mom whispered. “was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost?”

Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost… one dollar and eleven cents …plus the faith of a little child.

Claimed to be a true story ~ Author Unknown

Your faith, your love, your beauty, your truth is a hundred times more powerful than doubt. Have faith in yourself and be kind hearted. It helps.

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*sob*

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good stories, CGS. Thx for posting. 

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EVENING CLASSES FOR MEN!!!
ALL ARE WELCOME OPEN TO MEN ONLY


Note: due to the complexity and level of difficulty,

each course will accept a maximum of eight participants

The course covers two days, and topics covered in this course include:



DAY ONE

TOILET ROLLS- DO THEY GROW ON THE HOLDERS?

Roundtable discussion

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LAUNDRY BASKET & FLOOR
Practicing with hamper (Pictures and graphics)

DISHES & SILVERWARE; DO THEY LEVITATE/FLY TO KITCHEN SINK OR DISHWASHER BY THEMSELVES?
Debate among a panel of experts.

LOSS OF VIRILITY
Losing the remote control to your significant other -
Help line and support groups

LEARNING HOW TO FIND THINGS

Starting with looking in the right place
instead of turning the house upside down
while screaming - Open forum


DAY TWO


EMPTY MILK CARTONS; DO THEY BELONG IN THE FRIDGE OR THE BIN?

Group discussion and role play

HEALTH WATCH;
BRINGING HER FLOWERS IS NOT HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH
PowerPoint presentation


REAL MEN ASK FOR DIRECTIONS WHEN LOST
Real life testimonial from the one man who did

IS IT GENETICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SIT QUIETLY
AS SHE PARALLEL PARKS?
Driving simulation


HOW TO BE THE IDEAL SHOPPING COMPANION
Relaxation exercises, meditation and breathing techniques

REMEMBERING IMPORTANT DATES &
CALLING WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE
Bring your calendar or PDA to class


GETTING OVER IT;
LEARNING HOW TO LIVE WITH BEING WRONG ALL THE TIME
Individual counselors available

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And who will be the trainer/teacher for the "evening classes for men"?

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ChessGameSpoiler wrote:

And who will be the trainer/teacher for the "evening classes for men"?

CoolLet's hire someone!

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Will "Powerful Pawns" group make the payment for the trainer?

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hmmm no I ll give my personal trophy for the trainer! 

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ok then let's go for the trainer...:)

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would you like to be a trainer? Cool

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Don't you think we need a female trainer?

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lets hire theresa :) 

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Hearth touching (life is too short....)

Boy: Hi baby!! How are you?

I'm so happy today!!

Girl: Wait, I'll text you later,

I'm still busy with my thesis.

Boy: Can you do it later?

Letter talk first..

I miss you so much baby.

Girl: I have to finish this on time, you know that.

Boy: Please baby, just this once?

You can finish that tomorrow.

Girl: What????

Can't you understand this is my project?

Can't you give me time for myself??

COULD YOU PLEASE?

I ALSO HAVE MY OWN LIFE..

LET ME LIVE FOR MYSELFFOR ONCE!

STOP TEXTING ME!

.

Boy: Sorry baby.

I love you very very much..

I'll just text you later.

Boy: Hi baby,

I can't stay long not texting you.

I really wanted to talk to you..

I want us to be happy again.

Boy: Hi baby, still you are not responding to my texts.

How's your thesis?

Boy: Baby...Please response,

I'm worried already..

Boy: Baby it's already 10pm..

It's been 2 hours but you are still not replying to my text.

I miss you already...i love you so much!

Boy: Uhm baby.. I love you so much..

I'm just here for you always..

The time is near that we'll always be together...

Girl: Didn't I tell you I'll text you after I'm done with my thesis?

Can't you understand that??

Why is it so hard for you to get that I'm BUSY??

It's like there's no tomorrow.

you are overreacting...

WILL YOU JUST SLEEP??

Boy: Sorry baby..

Ok. Goodnight baby..

I love you..

Take care of yourself always..

I'll always here to guide you..

I'm just here..

I'll never leave you. ......

the NEXT DAY....

.

Girl: Baby, wake up..

Sorry about what I've said last night..

i was just really busy..

eat your breakfast baby,

I'll be going to school now..

Girl: Wake up baby,

you still have classes to attend..

text me when you're

awake.

Girl: Hey, why until now you're not texting?

It's already our lunch break..

why didn't you attend your classes?

Don't you have phone credits?

Please text me..

Boy: He left us already..

my son left me already..

your boyfriend left you..

he already left those who are dear to him..

Did he tells you he's sick?

This was the 3rd year his doctor gave him...

we thought it wasn't true..

Because no one can predict how long a

person can live in this world..

but, to our surprised,

his heart didn't make it too..

We tried towake him up this morning but he

never responded...

There was a message for you in his phone

but he wasn't able to send it.

"Take care of yourself always,

I'm happy where I am

going..

please, don't cry..

I'm sorry I didn't tell you about my condition..

i don't want to bother you because I know

how busy you are with your thesis..

i don't wanna add up to your worries..

I'm not sure if I'm lucky enough to still have a

chance to wake up tomorrow...

but, I'm always praying that He'll give me a

chance to see you and be with you everyday

of my life..

I love you so much...

i regret that we didn't have a chance to talk

longer today..

but, I understand you..

you might fail on your thesis if you won't be

able to finish it..

I'm really really sorry...

and I love you very very much..

Please,

promise me you'll be strong..

I'm by your side now..

I'll always be here.