Archive for the ‘Trivia’ Category.

September 2, 2009

FW: Stress Test

1 stress

2 stress

1a stress

One teacher said, “I felt like they were all moving…but slowly. Kind of like, they were breathing.”


The above pictures are used to test the level of stress a person can handle.
The slower the pictures move, the better your ability to handle stress.

Criminals that were tested see them spinning around madly…
Senior citizens and kids see them standing still.
None of these images are animated – they are perfectly still.

P.S. If you do happen to see the images spinning around madly,
please take me off your mailing list.

Thank You.

August 29, 2009

FW: Yes, I Can

To my ‘selected’ strange-minded friends:

If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you with ‘yes’ in the subject line.

Only  great minds can read this.
This is weird, but
interesting!

fi yuo cna
raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe
out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht
I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch
at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the&nb sp;
wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
if you can raed tihs forwrad it


FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT

August 14, 2009

FW: Chocolate Cake (duhhh)

No Cheating. Pick your dessert, and then look to see what psychiatrists think about you. Make your choice before you check the meaning. After taking this dessert personality test send this e-mail on to others, but when you do, be sure to put your choice of dessert in the subject box above.

Here are your choices:

Angel Food Cake
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Brownies
brownies

Lemon Meringue Pie
lg lemon mering

Vanilla Cake With Chocolate Icing

lg vanilla cake choc

Strawberry Short Cake
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Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Icing
LG choc cake choc

Ice Cream
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Carrot Cake
LG carrot-cake-safeway

No, you can’t change your mind once you scroll down, so think carefully about what your choice will be.

OK – Now that you’ve made your choice, this is what the researchers say about you…

ANGEL FOOD CAKE – Sweet, loving, cuddly. You love all warm and fuzzy items. A little nutty at times. Sometimes you need an ice cream cone at the end of the day.. Others perceive you as being childlike and immature at times.

BROWNIES — You are adventurous, love new ideas, and are a champion of underdogs and a slayer of dragons. When tempers flare up you whip out your saber. You are always the oddball with a unique sense of humor and direction. You tend to be very loyal.

LEMON MERINGUE — Smooth, sexy, & articulate with your hands, you are an excellent caregiver and a good teacher.. But don’t try to walk and chew gum at the same time. A bit of a diva at times, you set your own style because you do your own thing. You shine when it comes to helping others and have many friends.

VANILLA CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING — Fun-loving, sassy, humorous, not very grounded in life; very indecisive and lacking motivation. Everyone enjoys being around you, but you are a practical joker. Others should be cautious in making you mad.. However, you are a friend for life.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE — Romantic, warm, loving. You care about other people, can be counted on in a pinch and expect the same in return. Intuitively keen. You can be very emotional at times but a true person in every way. You like to do things for yourself and help others learn about themselves.

CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING–Sexy; always ready to give and receive. Very creative, adventurous, ambitious, and passionate. You can appear to have a cold exterior but are warm on the inside. Not afraid to take chances. Will not settle for anything average in life. Love to laugh.

ICE CREAM — You like sports, whether it be baseball, football,basketball, or soccer. If you could, you would like to participate, but you enjoy watching sports. You don’t like to give up the remote control. You tend to be self-centered and high maintenance.

CARROT CAKE — You are a very fun loving person, who likes to laugh. You are fun to be with. People like to hang out with you. You are a very warm hearted person and a little quirky at times. You have many loyal friends. You were meant to lead and teach others. A wonderful role model.

SEND TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS…..INCLUDING ME!
DON’T FORGET – PUT YOUR CHOICE OF DESSERT IN ‘SUBJECT BOX’ ABOVE BEFORE
YOU FORWARD

June 14, 2009

FW: THE COFFEE FILTER

Coffee  filters …who knew!   And you can buy 1,000 at  the  Dollar Tree for almost  nothing.

1. Cover  bowls or dishes when cooking in the  microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.

2. Clean windows and  mirrors..  Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows  sparkling.

3.  Protect China. Separate your good dishes by putting a  coffee  filter between each dish

4.  Filter broken cork from wine.  If you break the cork when  opening a wine  bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.

5.  Protect a cast-iron skillet.  Place a coffee filter in the  skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.

6.  Apply shoe polish.  Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.

7.  Recycle frying oil.  After frying, strain oil through a sieve  lined with a coffee filter.

8.  Weigh chopped foods.  Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a  kitchen scale.

9.  Hold tacos.  Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy  foods.

10.  Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot.  Line a plant  pot with a coffee filter to prevent
the soil from going through  the drainage holes.

11.  Prevent a Popsicle from dripping.  Poke one or two holes as  needed in a coffee filter.

12.  Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows?  Use  strips of coffee filters.

13.  Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken  fingers, etc on them.
Soaks out all the grease

14.  Keep in the bathroom.  They make great “razor nick  fixers.”

OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS

March 13, 2009

FW: The Bathtub Test

The BathtubTest

During a visit to the mental asylum, I

asked the director how do

You determine whether or not

a patient should be institutionalized.

 

 

 “Well,” said the director, “we fill up a

bathtub, then we offer a
teaspoon,
a teacup and a bucket to

the patient and ask him or her to

empty the bathtub.”

 

 

 

“Oh, I understand,” I said. “A normal

person would use the bucket because

it’s bigger than the spoon or the

teacup.”

 

 

“No.” said the director, “A normal

person would pull the plug.

Do you want a bed near the window?”

 

 

ARE YOU GOING TO PASS THIS ON, OR DO YOU WANT THE BED NEXT TO MINE??

February 24, 2009

FW: The Man Test

real-man

Note: All “real men” answer “C” to all of these questions.  Knowing this, women will have come far in understanding men and enriching their own lives.


1.  Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth and you are the first human they encounter.  As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently eliminating oppression and violence all over the entire Earth.  You decide:

A.  Present it to the President of the United States.
B.  Present it to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
C.  Take it apart.


2.  As you grow older, what lost quality of your youthful life do you miss the most?
A.  Innocence.
B.  Idealism.
C.  Cherry bombs.


3.  When is it okay to kiss another male?

A.  When you have decided to switch teams.
B.  When he is the pope. (Not on the lips.)
C.  When he is your brother and you are Al Pacino and this is the only really sportsmanlike way to let him know that, for business reasons, you have to have him killed.


4.  What about hugging another male?

A.  If he’s your father and at least one of you has a fatal disease.
B.  If you’re performing the Heimlich Maneuver.
C.  If you’re a professional baseball player and a teammate hits a home run to win the World Series, you may hug him provided that:
(1) He is legally within the base path,
(2) Both of you are wearing sufficient protection, and
(3) You also pound him fraternally with your fist hard enough to cause fractures.


5.  In your opinion, the ideal pet is…

A.  A cat
B.  A dog
C.  A dog that eats cats


6.  You have been seeing a woman for several years.  She’s attractive and intelligent, and you always enjoy being with her.  One leisurely Sunday afternoon the two of you are taking it easy.  You’re watching a football game; she’s reading the papers.  Suddenly, out of the clear blue sky, she tells you that she thinks she really loves you but she can no longer bear the uncertainty of not knowing where your relationship is going.  She says she’s not asking whether you want to get married; only whether you believe that you have some kind of future together.  What do you say?

A.  That you sincerely believe the two of you do have a future, but you don’t want to rush it.
B.  That although you also have strong feelings for her, you cannot Honestly say that you’ll be ready anytime soon to make a lasting commitment, and you don’t want to hurt her by holding out false hope.
C.  That you cannot believe the Jets called a draw play on third and seventeen.


7.  Okay, so you have decided that you truly love a woman and you want to spend the rest of your life with her – sharing the joys and the sorrows the world has to offer, come what may.  How do you tell her?
A. You take her to a nice restaurant and tell her after dinner.
B.  You take her for a walk on a moonlit beach and you say her name. When she turns to you, with the sea breeze blowing her hair and the stars in her eyes, you tell her.
C.  Tell her what?


8.  One weekday morning your wife wakes up feeling ill and asks you to get your three children ready for school.  Your first question to her is:
A.  “Do they need to eat or anything?”
B.  “They’re in school already?”
C.  “There are three of them?”


9.  When is it okay to throw away a set of veteran underwear?
A.  When it has turned the color of a dead whale and developed new holes so large that you’re not sure which ones were originally intended for your legs.
B.  When it is down to eight loosely connected underwear molecules and has to be handled with tweezers.
C.  It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear.  A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody (and we are not naming names, but this would be his wife) is quietly trying to discard them.


10.  What, in your opinion, is the most reasonable explanation for the fact that Moses led the Israelites all over the place for forty years before they finally got to the Promised Land?
A.  He was being tested.
B.  He wanted them to really appreciate the Promised Land when they finally
got there.
C.  He refused to ask for directions.


11.  What is the human race’s single greatest achievement?
A.  Democracy.
B.  Religion.
C.  The remote control.