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1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half o f them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends ...Boxing
2. North American landmark constantly moving backwards Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons Aspargaus and rhubarb.
4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside ...Strawberry.
5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)
6. Three English words beginning with 'dw' Dwarf, dwell and dwindle .
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S' Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

I hope you enjoyed that decade from 1998 to 2008. It's just been erased.

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So I've been a member of Postcrossing.com for a little over 4 months now. I've sent 12 post cards and have received 9 back. This is a cool website that lets you sign up and click a button to get another member's address from anywhere in the world. You send them a postcard, and when they receive it they put in the special code you write on it to register it. After someone receives it, your address is given to someone else and then you get one back in the mail. It's really fun! I've sent postcards to Finland, China, Germany, Italy, Belarus, and the US. I've gotten cards from Portugal, Finland, the US, the UK, Taiwan, Germany, Lithuania, and Finland. Super fun!
Here are some pictures of the card's I've received:

I am reposting this verbatim from Salon.com because I think it's an important reminder in the face of bailouts. Trillions of dollars are a lot of money people.

A sage Washington observer with whom I dined this week pointed out to me something that politicians and even the media are not allowed to say, so I will: Too many Americans struggle with basic math and, knowing this, politicians prey on widespread innumeracy to manipulate facts and distract people from more important debates.

Take, oh, John McCain, he of the repeated stump line about the government wasting $3 million to study bear DNA. For the sake of argument, let's concede that money spent studying bear DNA is wasteful. But $3 million during a week in which the government is set to approve a $700 billion bailout -- are you kidding me? McCain had the audacity in last Friday's debate to fret publicly about that? What a joke.

Millions, billions and trillions all sound the same. But a million seconds takes about 11 days to expire; because a billion is a thousand million, a billion seconds takes about 30 years to expire; because a trillion is a thousand billion, a trillion seconds takes about 30,000 years to expire. These are not interchangeable orders of magnitude, folks.

Our federal debt is headed toward $10 trillion, which means if we stopped adding to it immediately, and all credit holders (yeah you, China) stopped charging us interest, and we started paying down the debt at $1 per second, it would take about 300,000 years to retire. In fact, we are adding to it and accruing interest. Don't worry, though: All the government growth and job creation and stock market surges the Bush era's tax-cutting policies generated will solve the problem.

Meanwhile, McCain cheerily romps around the country making bad jokes about bear DNA ("I'm not sure if that's a criminal matter or a paternity matter" is the standard punch line), as if somehow eliminating that program and every other one like it, tomorrow and irrevocably, would even cover the interest piling up on our national debt.

Millions, billions, trillions -- they aren't the same. But McCain doesn't care about that, and he is perfectly happy to suggest that ridding the budget of small pork-barrel projects is a big idea. In a campaign already scarce on big ideas, it isn't. And a million more ideas like it wouldn't make much difference, either.

God she is so stupid. I'm sorry but any person who get's so confused when put in front of a camera shouldn't be that close to the presidency, let alone being offered the chance. What happened to politics in America, where it used to be a choice of Palin would be immediate death for a campaign so stupid and idiotic to make it?

If you're like me, you wanted to see how your rep. voted today on the Bailout bill. Since it seems that house.gov is down from traffic, I found a list of results here:

http://stockmarketcrash08.com/?p=374

Apparently MSNBC has resorted to taking webpage formatting tips from the Drudge Report. I suspect everything will be in all caps Arial font soon...

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Due to a recent spate of adding coworkers as 'friends' on Facebook, a coworker and I have decided to come up with a new version of Facebook that has some special rules. We decided to call it:

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In all seriousness, I get superbly creeped out that people who aren't your friends in real life try to be your friends online. Why is it that some mouth breathing coworker you wouldn't be caught dead with in the same space for more than a moment with thinks Facebook is the place to be your pal? The only way life would bring us two together is if we are trapped in a broken elevator together for hours on end, and the likelyhood of your survival of that incident is low. And then comes the poking. Please creep-o, think about the poking and you not doing it to me. *shudders*

Hello creep-o. Meet the Block List.

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Apparently Domo loves candy corn like I do. Just thought I would put this on here for all to enjoy.

Candy Domo

Today's fun quiz: How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed With a Velociraptor?

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