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Schedule Our Monthly Meetings Monthly meetings are held in the hall at 10 am on the 2nd Sunday of the month. Come along and listen to some interesting speakers. Gold coin donation appreciated and everyone is welcome. We provide free refreshments at all Discussion Groups, Tutorials and monthly Sunday meetings. Please wear your name tag to all sessions so we know who you are. Session Times AM sessions 10:00am to 12:00 noon PM sessions 1:00pm to 3:00pm (unless stated otherwise) Our Schedule We have a diverse schedule of events, tutorials and discussion groups planned every month. Click anywhere on schedule to download a copy for viewing or printing How To Book A Class Check out the TUTORIALS tab and select a topic which appeals to you. Look at the Schedule below to see whether it is a Tutorial or Discussion Group. T's & D's T = TUTORIALS FIRST email or phone tutor at least a week ahead Pay $5 at the door D = DISCUSSION GROUPS Just turn up! All welcome Pay $3 at door Anchor 1

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Computer Tuition for Seniors, North Shore, IPad, Genealogy, PhotoShop, Proshow, Websites, Word, Excel, Digital Photos Cards 12 Feb 2012 1/12 HOME ABOUT US WHAT WE DO MEMBERSHIP TECHNICAL Seniornet North Shore Inc. clubrooms at Shea Terrace since 1977 Community learning and friendship. Technology, Genealogy and Internet. Computers, Art, Photography, Film Appreciation, Card Playing, Handcraft Cryptic Crosswords and Sudoku Monthly Meetings and Outings Room 3 St John Centre North Shore 2 Shea Terrace, Takapuna, Auckland Telephone: (09) 486 2163 email: snetns@xtra.co.nz LATEST NEWSLETTER CURRENT SCHEDULE

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VOCAL REMOVER AI (Artificial Intelligence) What is AI? Artificial intelligence is a machine’s ability to perform the cognitive functions we usually associate with human minds. Twentieth-century theoreticians, like computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing, envisioned a future where machines could perform functions faster than humans. The work of Turing and others soon made this a reality. Personal calculators became widely available in the 1970s and they are now just an ordinary part of our lives and culture. Those smart machines are getting faster and more complex. Some computers have now crossed the exascale threshold, meaning that they can perform as many calculations in a single second as an individual could in 31,688,765,000 years. But it’s not just about computation. Computers and other devices are now acquiring skills and perception that have previously been our sole purview. AI is a machine’s ability to perform the cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, interacting with an environment, problem solving, and even exercising creativity. You’ve probably interacted with AI even if you didn’t realize it—voice assistants like Siri and Alexa are founded on AI technology, as are some customer service chatbots that pop up to help you navigate websites. THE BEST EXPLANATION OF CHATGPT CHATGPT CHATGPT PROMPS WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TINY WOW AI WRITING TOOLS AI FOR YOUTUBE IMAGE GPT CHAT GPT GETIMG HOW TO USE CHATGPT DEEP STORY ANIMATE PHOTO COLOURISE PHOTO RESTORE PHOTO CLEAN UP PHOTOS ENHANCE PHOTO TIME MACHINE WHITE BACKGROUND

Keeping in Touch While we are in shutdown due to the COVID-19 we thought it would be a good idea to have a place on our website where we could, on a regular basis, keep you informed, provide fun things to do, excite your mind, provide links to interesting places, inject some humour, share some ideas and generally brighten up your day. So, on a regular basis while we are all sitting at home, our webmaster, Ian Handricks, will update this page for you and he would welcome your input, ideas and anything else you might like to share on the page and he will do his best to include your ideas in the next post. Ian can be contacted on ianhandricks@gmail.com - Click on buttons below to go to a specific day or scroll down for a journey through the days DAY 1 DAY 6 DAY 11 DAY 21 DAY 16 DAY 26 DAY 31 DAY 36 DAY 41 DAY 46 DAY 51 DAY 2 DAY 7 DAY 12 DAY 17 DAY 22 DAY 27 DAY 32 DAY 37 DAY 42 DAY 47 DAY 52 DAY 3 DAY 8 DAY 13 DAY 18 DAY 23 DAY 28 DAY 33 DAY 38 DAY 43 DAY 48 DAY 53 DAY 4 DAY 9 DAY 14 DAY 19 DAY 24 DAY 29 DAY 34 DAY 39 DAY 44 DAY 49 DAY 54 DAY 5 DAY 10 DAY 15 DAY 20 DAY 25 DAY 30 DAY 35 DAY 40 DAY 45 DAY 50 DAY 55 n.b. When viewing the videos use these controls ... click on in bottom left of video to start video and click on in bottom right of video to expand to full screen Day 19 day 19 KIT INDEX The Royal Family is Indian! Favourite Things Become a Google Search Expert A masterclass in using Google effectively Google, the world’s most powerful search engine, has changed the way we find information. Use these advanced Google tips & tricks and you’ll become a search ninja. Click on Green Button Link below and scroll down the website to learn some really useful techniques! GOOGLE TIPS & TRICKS AppAdvice A fantastic up-to-date news site which shows all the latest apps for you iPad, iPhone, Android along with the best gadgets and accessories and every day shows a number of apps which are free for the day! WorldCat WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. Interment This website contains 25+ million cemetery records, transcripts, and burial registers, from tens of thousands of cemeteries across the world, all contributed by genealogists, cemeteries, government agencies, and private organizations. APP ADVICE WORLDCAT INTERMENT Pencil Sketch This website lets you convert any photo to a pencil sketch. There are many options and can be a fun way to present your images. Knights A great genealogy site which gives details of knights from Continental Europe to England/Ireland, to Philadelphia (PA), to France. You might discover that you're related to Sir Marmaduke de Champlain! 1000 facts This website has 1000's of random facts about everything and anything. Fun to read and useful in conversation. facts like A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto” PENCIL SKETCH KNIGHTS 1000 FACTS The Mozart Group - Popis! The Mozart Group - The Four Seasons MORE LIKE THESE - CLICK HERE TO THE TOP Domestic Dominoes - Some COVID action! Eggs-actly Nobody knows for sure when origami was invented. The invention of paper is credited to Ts’ai Lun of China in 105 C.E. Some believe that paper folding must have happened soon afterward.One of the most famous origami designs is the Japanese crane. The crane is auspicious in Japanese culture. Legend says that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their heart’s desire come true. Click on green button link below to learn how to do origami - when at website click on any of the icons (animals, birds etc) to get instructions... HOW TO MAKE ORIGAMI STUFF Folded! What a great loss ... No more Listener, Woman's Weekly, Metro ... but wait ... here's your replacement ... NZ TV GUIDE MAGAZINES WEATHER NEWS NZ HERALD Silk Drawing SketchPad Spirograph TO THE TOP Quotes From Phyllis Diller As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. The best way to get rid of kitchen odours … eat out. A bachelor is a guy who never makes the same mistake, once. I want my kids to have all the things I could never afford, then I want to move in with them. Most children at times, threaten to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives, teaching them to walk and talk, and the next twelve years to sit down and shut up. Burt Reynolds once asked me out ... I was in his room. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. His finest hour, lasted a minute and a half. Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. My photographs don’t do me justice - they look just like me. Tranquilizers only work if you follow the instructions on the bottle: “Keep away from children “. The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down, is so you can’t see him laughing. You know you're old, if they’ve discontinued your blood type. Literal Translations of Foreign Words NACKTSCHNECKE - "Slug" in German Is "Naked Snail" SEESCHWEIN - "Manatee" in German Is "Sea Pig" STINKTIER - "Skunk" in German Is "Stink Animal" SCHILDPAD - "Turtle" in Dutch Is "Shield Toad" KRANKENWAGEN - "Ambulance" in German Is "Sick People's Car" DUDELSACK - "Bagpipes" in German Is "Yodel Sack" CHUỘT TÚI - "Kangaroo" in Vietnamese Is "Rat Pocket" PAPIER VAMPIER - "Stapler" in Afrikaans Is "Paper Vampire" SMORGAS - "Sandwich" in Swedish Is "Butter Goose" STROZZAPRETI - A Type of Pasta in Italian Is "Priest Strangler" - According to legend, this semi-twisted noodle got its name after a priest ate his pasta dish so quickly that he choked on it. Next time you order this meal, eat slowly or you’ll end up like the priest. DIANNAO - "Computer" in Mandarin Chinese Is "Electric Brain" HABLEANY - "Mermaid" in Hungarian Is "Foam Girl" SPIJKERBROEK - "Jeans" in Dutch Is "Nail Pants" PINDAKAAS - "Peanut Butter" in Dutch Is "Peanut Cheese" SYUT GWAIH – “Refrigerator” in Cantonese is “Snow Cupboard” DEDOS DO PE – “Toes” in Portuguese is “Foot Fingers” BERGMAL – “Echo” in Icelandic is “Rock Language” SCHLAGZEUZ – “Drums” in German is “Hit Stuff” SPOOKASEM – “Candy Floss” in Afrikaans is “Ghost Breath” GAESALAPPIR – “Quotation Marks” in Icelandic are “Goose Feet” And the best for last …. AIN HTAUNG – “Marriage” in Burmese is “House Prison” Glorious Insults A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress." "He had delusions of adequacy " -Walter Kerr "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." -William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." -Moses Hadas "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -Mark Twain "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -Oscar Wilde "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one." -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "Cannot possibly attend first night, but will attend second .... if there is one." -Winston Churchill, in response "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -Stephen Bishop "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." -John Bright "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -Irvin S. Cobb "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." -Samuel Johnson "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." -Charles, Count Talleyrand "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." -Forrest Tucker "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" -Mark Twain "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -Mae West "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination." -Andrew Lang (1844-1912) "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." -Billy Wilder "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it." -Groucho Marx The Devil is in the Detail! TO THE TOP Highly Strung Ladies! Karma Karma Chameleon Step to it, Lads! Twinkle Toes! Roll Over Beethoven! Stayin' Alive Alma Deutscher Alma Deutscher (born 2005) is an English composer, soprano opera singer, arranger, librettist, pianist and violinist who lives with her parents in Dorking, Surrey, England. At age six she composed her first piano sonata . At age seven, she completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. At the age of ten she wrote her first full-length opera , Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta . The U.S. premiere a year later at Opera San Jose was released on DVD by Sony Classical . At the age of twelve, Deutscher premiered her first piano concerto. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall in December 2019. Below is a selection of some of her work - in all cases she composed and arranged for all instruments and performs as the principal soloist - the piano and violin concertos were performed in the same concert. (note the second movement of the piano concerto in particular has gained international critical praise. Alma Deutscher (aged 11) , piano concerto (world premiere, July 2017) QWERTY QWERTY (Pronounced kwer-tee) refers to the arrangement of keys on a standard English computer keyboard or typewriter. The name derives from the first six characters on the top alphabetic line of the keyboard. The QWERTY layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In October 1867, Sholes filed a patent application for his early writing machine he developed with the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé. The first model constructed by Sholes used a piano-like keyboard with two rows of characters arranged alphabetically. The construction of the "Type Writer" had two flaws that made the product susceptible to jams. Firstly, characters were mounted on metal arms or type bars, which would clash and jam if neighbouring arms were pressed at the same time or in rapid succession. Secondly, its printing point was located beneath the paper carriage, invisible to the operator, a so-called "up-stroke" design. Consequently, jams were especially serious, because the typist could only discover the mishap by raising the carriage to inspect what had been typed. The solution was to place commonly used letter-pairs (like "th" or "st") so that their type bars were not neighbouring, avoiding jams. Sholes struggled for the next five years to perfect his invention, making many trial-and-error rearrangements of the original machine's alphabetical key arrangement. The study of bigram (letter-pair) frequency by educator Amos Densmore, brother of the financial backer James Densmore, is believed to have influenced the array of letters. In November 1868 he changed the arrangement of the latter half of the alphabet, O to Z, right-to-left. In April 1870 he arrived at a four-row, upper case keyboard approaching the modern QWERTY standard, moving six vowel letters, A, E, I, O, U, and Y, to the upper row. In 1873 Sholes's backer, James Densmore, successfully sold the manufacturing rights for the Sholes & Glidden Type-Writer to E. Remington and Sons. The keyboard layout was finalized within a few months by Remington's mechanics. After they purchased the device, Remington made several adjustments, creating a keyboard with essentially the modern QWERTY layout. These adjustments included placing the "R" key in the place previously allotted to the period key. Apocryphal claims that this change was made to let salesmen impress customers by pecking out the brand name "TYPE WRITER QUOTE" from one keyboard row are not formally substantiated. Vestiges of the original alphabetical layout remained in the "home row" sequence DFGHJKL. The QWERTY layout became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, the first typewriter to include both upper and lower case letters, using a shift key. Alma Deutscher (aged 11) , Violin concerto in G minor (world premiere, July 2017) OTHER WORKS BY ALMA DEUTSCHER TO THE TOP Click on link above - then click on Alma's photo when you are transferred to the website Flocking to the farm!.. ... and speaking of sheep! Cat Trivia - And you thought you understood your pusycat! A house cat’s genome is 95.6 percent tiger, and they share many behaviours with their jungle ancestors. These behaviours include scent marking by scratching, prey play, prey stalking, pouncing, chinning, and urine marking. Cats are believed to be the only mammals who don’t taste sweetness. Cats are near-sighted, but their peripheral vision and night vision are much better than that of humans. Cats are supposed to have 18 toes (five toes on each front paw; four toes on each back paw). Cats can jump up to six times their length. Cats’ claws all curve downward, which means that they can’t climb down trees head-first. Instead, they have to back down the trunk. Cats’ collarbones don’t connect to their other bones, as these bones are buried in their shoulder muscles. Cats have 230 bones, while humans only have 206. Cats have an extra organ that allows them to taste scents on the air, which is why your cat stares at you with her mouth open from time to time. Cats have whiskers on the backs of their front legs, as well. Cats have nearly twice the amount of neurons in their cerebral cortex as dogs. Cats have the largest eyes relative to their head size of any mammal. Cats make very little noise when they walk around. The thick, soft pads on their paws allow them to sneak up on their prey — or you! Cats’ rough tongues can lick a bone clean of any shred of meat. Cats use their long tails to balance themselves when they’re jumping or walking along narrow ledges. Cats use their whiskers to “feel” the world around them in an effort to determine which small spaces they can fit into. A cat’s whiskers are generally about the same width as its body. (This is why you should never, EVER cut their whiskers.) Cats walk like camels and giraffes: They move both of their right feet first, then move both of their left feet. No other animals walk this way. Male cats are more likely to be left-pawed, while female cats are more likely to be right-pawed. Though cats can notice the fast movements of their prey, it often seems to them that slow-moving objects are actually stagnant. Some cats are ambidextrous, but 40 percent are either left- or right-pawed. Some cats can swim. There are cats who have more than 18 toes. These extra-digit felines are referred to as being “polydactyl.” Cats typically sleep for 12 to 16 hours a day. Cats are crepuscular, which means that they’re most active at dawn and dusk. Cats are fastidious creatures about their “bathroom.” If you have more than one cat, you should have one litter box for each. Cats can spend up to a third of their waking hours grooming. Cats live longer when they stay indoors. Cats’ purring may be a self-soothing behaviour, since they make this noise when they’re ill or distressed, as well as when they’re happy. Cats will refuse an unpalatable food to the point of starvation. Despite popular belief, many cats are actually lactose intolerant. Female cats have the ability to get pregnant when they are only 4 months old! Grapes and raisins, as well as onions, garlic, and chives, are all extremely harmful foods for cats. Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure — although the reasoning behind that isn’t clear. Meanwhile, onions, garlic, and chives wreak havoc on your cat’s gastrointestinal system and can cause anaemia. If you keep your cat active during the day, he will sleep better at night. If you’re not free-feeding your cat, you can also help her get a good night’s sleep by providing her with a substantial evening meal. It’s believed that catnip produces an effect similar to LSD or marijuana in cats. The effects of nepetalactone — the chemical in catnip that can makes cats crazy — wears off within 15 minutes, and won’t surface again for a few hours, even if your cat remains in sniffing distance. Kittens can be spayed or neutered when they are only eight weeks old. If possible, these procedures should be performed in the first 5 months of your cat’s life. Male cats who have been fixed need fewer calories to maintain their weight. Spaying and neutering can extend a cat’s life. Neutered males live an average of 62 percent longer than unneutered cats and spayed females live an average of 39 percent longer than unspayed cats. Your cat’s grooming process stimulates blood flow to his skin, regulates his body temperature and helps him relax. A cat with a question-mark-shaped tail is asking, “Want to play?” A slow blink is a “kitty kiss.” This movement shows contentment and trust. Cats have a unique “vocabulary” with their owner — each cat has a different set of vocalizations, purrs and behaviours. Cats have up to 100 different vocalizations — dogs only have 10. Cats find it threatening when you make direct eye contact with them. Cats mark you as their territory when they rub their faces and bodies against you, as they have scent glands in those areas. Cats may yawn as a way to end a confrontation with another animal. Think of it as their “talk to the hand” gesture. Hissing is defensive, not aggressive. It’s an expression of fear, stress or discomfort of a threatened cat communicating ‘stay away’ If cats are fighting, the cat that’s hissing is the more vulnerable one, says Wilde. If your cat approaches you with a straight, almost vibrating tail, this means that she is extremely happy to see you. Kneading — which some people refer to as “making biscuits” — is a sign of contentment and happiness. Cats knead their mothers when they are nursing to stimulate the let-down of milk. Meowing is a behaviour that cats developed exclusively to communicate with people. When a cat flops over and exposes his belly, it’s not always an invitation for a belly rub. A cat does this when he’s relaxed and showing trust. When cats hit you with retracted claws, they’re playing, not attacking. When dogs wag their tails, they may be expressing happiness. But this isn’t the case for cats! When your cat wags her tail, it’s her way of warning you that you are getting on her last nerve. When your cat sticks his butt in your face, he is doing so as a gesture of friendship. Whiskers are also good indicators of a cat’s mood. When a cat is scared, he put his whiskers back. But when a cat is in hunting mode, he puts his whiskers forward. Your cat drapes its tail over another cat, your dog, or you as a symbol of friendship. Cats are very fussy about their water bowls; some prefer to ignore their bowls entirely in favour of drinking from the sink faucet. Cats groom other cats — and sometimes people — in a ritual called allogrooming. Cats like to sleep on things that smell like their owners, such as their pillows and dirty laundry. Cats love to sleep in laundry baskets, too, because they’re basically hiding places with peep holes. Cats often attack your ankles when they’re bored. Certain cats go crazy for foods you wouldn’t expect, like olives, potato chips, and the hops in beer. For some reason, cats really dislike citrus scents. If you can’t find your cat, you should look in a box or a bag, as these are some of their favourite hiding spots! Male cats who try to get to a female in heat can show very bizarre behaviour — for example, some have been known to slide down chimneys! Many cats like to lick their owner’s freshly washed hair. Some cats love the smell of chlorine. Thieving behaviour is not uncommon among cats. They will often grab objects like stuffed animals, feather dusters, and other things that remind them of prey. A green cat was born in Denmark in 1995. Some people believe that high levels of copper in the water pipes nearby may have given his fur a Verdigris effect. It turns out that Abraham Lincoln was a crazy cat president! He had four cats that lived in the White House with him. Maria Assunta left her cat, Tomasso, her entire $13 million fortune when she died in 2011. President Bill Clinton’s cat, Socks, was a media darling during the Clinton administration and was said to receive more letters than the President himself. Stubbs, a 17-year-old orange tabby, is mayor of the historic district of Talkeetna, Alaska. A cat’s learning style is about the same as a 2- to 3-year-old child. A cat’s purr vibrates at a frequency of 25 to 150 hertz, which is the same frequency at which muscles and bones repair themselves. A group of kittens is called a “kindle.” A house cat could beat superstar runner Usain Bolt in the 200-meter dash. About half of the cats in the world respond to the scent of catnip. Cat breeders are called “catteries.” Cats can be toilet-trained. Cats can drink sea water in order to survive. (In case you’re wondering, we can’t.) Cats don’t have an incest taboo, so they may choose to mate with their brothers and sisters. Cats dream, just like people do. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 33 different species. Cats perceive people as big, hairless cats Cats were first brought to the Americas in colonial times to get rid of rodents. Collective nouns for adult cats include “clowder,” “clutter,” “glaring,” and “pounce.” Each cat’s nose print is unique, much like human fingerprints. Every Scottish Fold cat in the world can trace its heritage back to the first one, which was found in Scotland in the 1960s It’s not uncommon to see cats in food stores in big cities as a form of free — and adorable — pest control. Kittens in the same litter can have more than one father. This is because the female cat releases multiple eggs over the course of a few days when she is in heat. Male cats are the most sensitive to catnip, while kittens under 3 months old have no response at all. Most world languages have a similar word to describe the “meow” sound. Some 700 million feral cats live in the United States, and many shelters run trap-neuter-release programs to stem the population growth. Studies suggest that domesticated cats first appeared around 3600 B.C. The first known cat video was recorded in 1894. There are about 88 million pet cats in the United States, which makes them the most popular pet in the country! Two hundred feral cats prowl the park at Disneyland, doing their part to control rodents — the ones who don’t wear funny outfits and speak in squeaky voices. White cats with blue eyes are prone to deafness. Cats are one of, if not the most, popular pet in the world. There are over 500 million domestic cats in the world. Cats and humans have been associated for nearly 10000 years. Cats have flexible bodies and teeth adapted for hunting small animals such as mice and rats. Domestic cats usually weigh around 4 kilograms (8 lb 13 oz) to 5 kilograms (11 lb 0 oz). The heaviest domestic cat on record is 21.297 kilograms (46 lb 15.2 oz). Cats can be lethal hunters and very sneaky, when they walk their back paws step almost exactly in the same place as the front paws did beforehand, this keeps noise to a minimum and limits visible tracks. Older cats can at times act aggressively towards kittens. Domestic cats love to play, this is especially true with kittens who love to chase toys and play fight. Play fighting among kittens may be a way for them to practice and learn skills for hunting and fighting. Feral cats are often seen as pests and threats to native animals. In terms of development, the first year of a cat’s life is equal to the first 15 years of a human life. After its second year, a cat is 25 in human years. And after that, each year of a cat’s life is equal to about 7 human years. Cats can rotate their ears 180 degrees. The hearing of the average cat is at least five times keener than that of a human adult. In the largest cat breed, the average male weighs approximately 20 pounds. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. Most cats have no eyelashes. Some believe that if you dream about a white cat, good luck will follow. Meows are not innate cat language—they developed them to communicate with humans! Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice. They can also see in near darkness. To aid with navigation and sensation, cats have dozens of movable whiskers over their body, especially their face. These provide information on the width of gaps and on the location of objects in the dark, both by touching objects directly and by sensing air currents. Types of body language, including position of ears and tail, relaxation of whole body, and kneading of paws, are all indicators of mood. The tail and ears are particularly important social signal mechanisms in cats e.g. with a raised tail acting as a friendly greeting, and flattened ears indicating hostility. It has been theorised that the high-pitched sounds house cats make to solicit food may mimic the cries of a hungry human infant, making them particularly hard for humans to ignore. Cats are known for their cleanliness, spending many hours licking their coats. If you have ever been licked by a cat, you have probably noticed that their tongues feel like sandpaper. Cats use their tongue to brush their fur and keep it smooth. Owing to the close similarity between play and hunting, cats prefer to play with objects that resemble prey, such as small furry toys that move rapidly, but rapidly lose interest (they become habituated) in a toy they have played with before. Cats also tend to play with toys more when they are hungry. The mechanism by which cats purr is elusive. The cat has no unique anatomical feature that is clearly responsible for the sound. However, felids of the Panthera genus (tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard) also produce sounds similar to purring, but only when exhaling. Kittens purr to let their mother's know that everything is ok. Adult cats purr when they feel safe and happy. Cats can purr for a long period of time without stopping. Cats have 4 four different meanings for "'meow'". If you listen carefully, you can hear that each meow is different: 1). I'm hungry!, 2). I want to go out!, 3). Help! and 4.) I want attention! Cats will sometimes roll over on their backs when they see you. This is probably the friendliest thing a cat can do. It's his/her way of saying 'I trust you'. Cats often press against you with their paws. Kittens get milk by nursing from their mother. They press against their mother with one paw and then the other. This is called "kneading". Kneading helps the mother cat give milk to the kittens. When adult cats knead with their paws, it reminds them of their mother when they were a kitten. Do cats always land on their feet? Not always, but they have better balance than most animals. When cats spread out their back and front legs they fall more slowly, because their bodies act as a parachute. The tail can also help balance a cat. Cats rub up against your leg to make you smell like a cat. The more you smell like them the more they like being around you. Also, they are letting other cats know that you are their own special friend. They are depositing their scent, or marking their territory, on you. A cat will rub its head or the side of its chin against you, the furniture, or any object. Cats have glands on their forehead, mouth and chin that produce pheromones and they transfer these onto objects. Cats sometimes make mad dashes around the house. This is because they have pent-up energy that needs to be released. Instincts also make them want to hunt and run. Can you train a cat to do tricks? Cats are not like dogs, but they can understand many human words and commands. Many common tricks that cats can learn are retrieving a ball, ring the doorbell, or turn on a tap. Are cats smart? In the animal kingdom, the cat's IQ is surpassed only by monkeys and chimps. Cats think and adapt to changing circumstances and learn by observation, imitation, and trial and error. Interestingly, cats seem to learn more quickly from their own mothers than from examples set by unrelated cats, but imitate humans. They have been shown to exhibit greater problem solving abilities than dogs. Why do cats wag their tails from side to side? The tail moving from side to side in a gentle manner means contentment. If the cat is sitting quietly, she might be focused on something. Fast, whipping back and forth could be anger or annoyance. Tail wagging in between these descriptions could mean he or she's feeling indecisive. Why do cats love boxes so much? When cats explore, one thing they are looking for is a potential hiding space. The experience of jumping and sliding into a box resonates with their instinct to find protected spaces out in the wild where they are able to see their environment without being seen. TO THE TOP DAY 24 Good Line and Length Delivering Some Googlies! 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Ian can be contacted on ianhandricks@gmail.com - Click on buttons below to go to a specific day or scroll down for a journey through the days DAY 1 DAY 6 DAY 11 DAY 21 DAY 16 DAY 26 DAY 31 DAY 36 DAY 41 DAY 46 DAY 51 DAY 2 DAY 7 DAY 12 DAY 17 DAY 22 DAY 27 DAY 32 DAY 37 DAY 42 DAY 47 DAY 52 DAY 3 DAY 8 DAY 13 DAY 18 DAY 23 DAY 28 DAY 33 DAY 38 DAY 43 DAY 48 DAY 53 DAY 4 DAY 9 DAY 14 DAY 19 DAY 24 DAY 29 DAY 34 DAY 39 DAY 44 DAY 49 DAY 54 DAY 5 DAY 10 DAY 15 DAY 20 DAY 25 DAY 30 DAY 35 DAY 40 DAY 45 DAY 50 DAY 55 Day 6 day6 n.b. When viewing the videos use these controls ... click on in bottom left of video to start video and click on in bottom right of video to expand to full screen KIT INDEX Adventures for the faint-hearted Close to the edge, brain scramblers and assorted humour BRAIN SCRAMBLER (for the faint-headed) 1. On the TV sitcom The Munsters, what was Lily Munster's maiden name? A. Ponduke B. Spinehedge C. Dracula D. Cruella E. Madriga 2. What foreign government contributed the greatest amount of money for the relief of victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake? A. China B. Luxembourg C. Japan D. Russia E. Canada 3. Which is the only U.S. state to produce coffee? A. Missouri B. Alaska C. Illinois D. Hawaii E. New York 4. What famous actress once said, "The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after"? A. Tallulah Bankhead B. Hayley Mills C. Shirley Temple D. Gladys George E. Helen Hayes 5. Whose appearance in a nearly transparent white fishnet bathing suit in the 1978 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue led an editor to promise, "We never have, and never will run anything so revealing again?" A. Jessica Gomes B. Alina Puscau C. Ana Beatriz Barros D. Cheryl Tiegs E. Michaela Kocianova 6. The name of what American state capital means "sheltered harbour"? A. Albany B. Honolulu C. Tallahassee D. Raleigh E. Columbia 7. When the bald eagle was first named, what was the meaning of the word "bald'? A. Regal B. Strong C. Feathered D. White E. Hairless 8. What two cities were linked by the Orient Express? A. Brussels and Damascus B. Ankara and Athens C. Pyongyang and Seoul D. Beijing and Tokyo E. Paris and Istanbul 9. In England, what's a "bap"? A. A hamburger bun B. A gallon of water C. A bouquet of flowers D. A banana peel E. A toothbrush holder 10. How many sides are there to a snow crystal? A. Three B. Four C. Six D. Eight E. Sixteen 11. What are the only two letters that are not on a telephone dial? A. M and P B. D and Q C. Q and Z D. H and R E. I and J 12. Together, baseball-playing brothers Hank and Tommy Aaron hit 768 home runs. How many were Tommy's? A. 668 B. 7 C. 357 D. 13 E. 49 13. What capital is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world? A. Brasilia, Brazil B. Ankara, Turkey C. Damascus, Syria D. Paris, France E. Moscow, Russia 14. What French city was home to Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the famous gastronome? A. Lille B. Normandy C. Marseilles D. Belley E. Paris 15. What is philematology? A. The science of animal feces B. The science of kissing C. The science of sex D. The science of architecture E. The science of shopping 16. What is a "tittle"? A. The dot over the letters "i" and "j" B. A cucumber seed C. A tiny hair found on the body of an insect D. A section of a sandwich cut into 15 pieces E. A stitch mark on a football 17. What percentage of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects? A. 50 percent B. 60 percent C. 70 percent D. 80 percent E. 90 percent 18. What fruit did early Greek Olympians eat for their health and sometimes even wear as medals? A. Grapes B. Figs C. Pomegranates D. Olives E. Pears 19. What was the average yearly salary of an American public school teacher at the turn of the 20th century? A. $445 B. $1,050 C. $325 D. $4,300 E. $110 20. What was the name of the daughter Lady Emma Hamilton bore Admiral Horatio Nelson? A. Hamiltonia B. Emma C. Norma D. Horatia E. Admiralia 21. What does Yoko Ono's first name mean when translated from Japanese? A. Swift Spirit B. Peace Maker C. Ocean Child D. Music Bringer E. Mountain Wolf 22. What was used to erase lead pencil marks before rubber came into use? A. Pieces of bread B. Pineapple skin C. Pieces of cotton cloth D. Saliva E. Sandpaper 23. What childhood name was shared by General George A. Custer and Chief Crazy Horse, the Oglala Sioux leader he faced at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? A. Shan Shan B. Junior C. Timmy D. Skinny E. Curly 24. Where were Panama hats- woven from jipijapa leaves- first made? A. Panama B. Peru C. China D. United States E. Mexico 25. The name of what South American capital city means "I see a hill"? A. Asuncion, Paraguay B. Buenos Aires, Argentina C. Montevideo, Uruguay D. Bogota, Colombia E. Paramaribo, Suriname Answers TO THE TOP World's Most Dangerous Hike ... and some more in case you run out! Donkey Kong got his name because his creator believed ‘donkey’ meant ‘stupid’ in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a “Stupid Ape”. People can suffer from a psychological disorder called Boanthropy that makes them believe that they are a cow. They try to live their life as a cow. The name for the shape of Pringles is called a ‘Hyperbolic Paraboloid’. There is a McDonald’s in every continent except Antarctica. Mr Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV. A duel between three people is actually called a truel. The stage before frostbite is called “frostnip”. The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip. In South Korea there is an emergency number (113) to report spies. Japan is facing a ninja shortage. There is a high demand for “ninja shows,” but it is a dying tradition and companies have trouble time finding properly trained ninjas. The process by which bread toasts is called the ‘Maillard Reaction’. Snails have 14,000 teeth and some can even kill you! Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog. Even though Froot Loops are different colours, they all have exactly the same flavor. Most toilet paper sold for home use in France is pink. Marmite was one of most confiscated items at airports from the U.K. – to overcome this issue, Marmite made smaller ones for traveling. The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents. The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread. Bullfrogs do not sleep. The dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor. Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas. It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; as of June 2018 the world record is 4.22 seconds. Japanese square watermelons are ornamental plants and are not edible. Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern. Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’. In Morse Code -.- means k. In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc. correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved. If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin, and no friends or family to prepare funeral or mourn over the body, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral. The Himalayan Honey Bee – the largest of the honey bees – makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect. The collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently. The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991 (Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004. In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself. If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet. Both Nicholas Cage and Michael Jackson shared the same wife, Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature in Google search actually cost Google $110 million a year, as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising. Magpies are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test. Baked beans are actually not baked, but stewed. Rowan Atkinson – also known as Mr. Bean – is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King. The most popular item at Walmart is bananas. They sell more bananas than any other single item they have in stock. Sunsets on Mars are blue. The small indents in the bottom of frozen pizzas are there to prevent air bubbles forming inside the dough. The term ‘footage’ comes from films being measured in feet, when being edited in the early days of film making. Improve your Knowledge - Become the dinner table conversation guru!.. There is an opposite of albino animals, which aren’t white, but black. These are known as Melanistic animals. Some areas in Scotland and Japan switched to blue street lights at night, and saw a decrease in crime & suicide rates. ‘Digging a hole to China’ is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina. Strawberries can also be white or yellow, and some can even taste like pineapples! Elephants make friends, bury their dead, travel for ‘funerals’, speak to each other, and show extreme intelligence. As of 1998, over 50% of Iceland’s population believed in the existence of elves. The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972. When watermelons are grilled or baked, they lose their granular texture and can even be used as meat substitute, a ‘watermelon steak’. Some cat breeds (called ‘puppy cats’) are bred specifically to exhibit dog-like behaviour. “Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway – just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones. All dogs are banned from Antarctica since April 1994. This ban was made because of concern that dogs might spread diseases to seals. Hart Island is the final burial place to over a million of New York City’s unclaimed bodies, and thought to be the largest government sponsored mass grave on the earth. Banks have therapists known as ‘wealth psychologist’ who help ultra-rich clients, who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth. In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the web”. A small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed. The state of Ohio gives out different coloured license plates for those convicted of DUI. The Flintstones was the most profitable network cartoon franchise for 30 years, that’s before The Simpsons came along. The University of Minnesota is older than Minnesota the state itself! In Japan, you are equally likely to die from being struck by lightning as you are from being shot by a gun. If you made $1 every second, it would take you 2,921 years to have more money than Bill Gates (over $92.1 billion dollars). The word “Jurassic,” which we so often associate with dinosaurs, comes from the Celtic word for “forest”. The brain is our fattiest organ, being composed of nearly 60% fat. February used to be the last month of the year, which is why it has the shortest number of days. Dead people can get goosebumps! In September 2007, a guy named Kevin Shelley broke 46 wooden toilet seats with his head in one minute to create a world record. In 1945 the first atomic bomb was created, and was nicknamed “The Gadget”. For every child born in Wales since April 2014, the Welsh Government have donated a fruit tree to Ugandan families, to celebrate the birth or adoption of every child. Although Australia is home to the largest number of venomous snakes in the world, it averages only one fatal snake bite per year. Shoe shops used X-Ray machines to measure shoe sizes in the 1940’s before the risks of X-Rays were fully understood. Iguanas have three eyes. Two normal eyes and a third eye on top of their head that only perceives brightness. Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) in London is leaning over so much it can now be seen with the naked eye. In 4,000 years it will be at the same angle as the tower in Pisa is now. Horsing around in a VW advert ... Navel Suite TO THE TOP 10 year-old Emanne Beasha explores magical Petra with stunning scenery and mind-blowing opera ... ... and Emanne at her AGT audition MORE MUSIC LIKE THIS Life on Pitcairn Island Let's go for a bike ride! Money-making ideas you can do from home while in self-isolation using the internet 7 Realistic Ways to Make Money Online 70 Genius Ways How to Make Money Online 15+ Realistic Ways to Make Money Online in NZ 24 Easy Ways To Make Money On The Internet 51 Legit Ways to Make Money Online 35 Real Ways to Actually Make Money Online 11 Free Ways To Earn Money From Internet Google Adsense 16 Lucrative ways to make money online in NZ Exercising with a friend! Something for ANZAC DAY “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?… He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!” – Billy Connolly OK, here's some interesting stuff to discuss with your fellow bubble partners ... It is impossible to lick your elbow A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in it's head. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die. Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road. Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced. Hot water is heavier than cold. Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity. Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper. Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass. At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length. The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick. Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions. Sloths take two weeks to digest their food. Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat. Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage. The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet. Deer can't eat hay. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years. North American oysters do not make pearls of any value. Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day. There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting. A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule of thumb' If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died because of wounds received in battle.. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples! Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions! "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath There is a city called Rome on every continent except Antarctica. It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day. Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump! One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it. On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! Earth is the only planet not named after a god. It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food! Dolphins sleep with one eye open! The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! The average person laughs 10 times a day! An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. Butterflies taste with their feet. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. Starfish have no brains. Polar bears are left-handed. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before! There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver! Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.son In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase....'Goodnight , sleep tight' TO THE TOP Club Sandwiches At a Lois for words (Thank you Lois for your contributions!) Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, You should have remained a virgin...' - Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter) I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.' - Eleanor Roosevelt Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.. - Mark Twain The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible - George Burns Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - Victor Borge (webmaster’s note : I met Victor Borge when I worked at His Majesty’s Theatre in Auckland during the late 1960’s – he was one of the most grumpy, opinionated, bad-mooded and miserable people I have ever met!) Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. - Zsa Zsa Gabor Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. - Alex Levine My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. - Rodney Dangerfield Money can't buy you happiness.... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP . - Joe Namath I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. - Bob Hope I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.. - W. C. Fields We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.. - Phyllis Diller By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal And the cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good spit it out. Not sure if this rings a bell! Die, Die, Coronavirus TO DAY 10 Boogie Woogie Country Girl Something Fishy happening Here! TO THE TOP Tough Quiz Answers 1. Answer: 28 days – on the 28th day he is at the top and has no need to slip back 2. Answer: They will both be exactly the same distance from London when they meet 3. Answer: Subtract, don’t add the $2 the waiter steals 4. Answer: White. It’s a polar bear – the only place on earth where you can walk 10 km due south, then 10 km due west and then 10 km due north and be back where you started from is the North Pole! Only polar bears at north pole. 5. Answer: Mary! It starts off by saying “Mary's mum ….” Therefore the 4th child must be Mary. 6. Answer: The doctor is the son’s mother. 7. Answer: You don’t bury survivors – they are still living 8. Answer: “your name” or the name of whoever is reading the question …. It does say “You're the pilot of an airplane …” 9. Answer: Never … the ladder moves up and down with the ship 10. Answer: Obviously 4 … it does say “there are 6 apples..” (it does not say that YOU have the 6 apples just that there are 6 apples) and you “take 4..” therefore you must have 4 11. Answer: Just one! One long continuous groove on each side. 12. Answer: The baby. He or she is “a little Bigger” 13. Answer: Obviously none. It is a hole – a hole has nothing in it! 14. Answer: Coal or charcoal 15. Answer: Yesterday, today and tomorrow 16. Answer: No letter “e” in the paragraph 17. Answer: “SNOWING” - sowing, swing, sing, sin, in, I 18. Answer: “Strengths” 19. Answer: “Sequoia” 20. Answer: Meat 21. Answer: Mt Everest – it was still the highest mountain in the world before and after it was discovered – discovering it did not change its height 22. Answer: “incorrectly” 23. Answer: You cannot take a picture with a wooden leg – you need a camera to take a picture! 24. Answer: 2nd place 25. Answer: Neither - Egg yolks are yellow - not white 26. Answer: One stack – if you combine all stacks you will get 1 stack 27. Answer: He’s a short person or dwarf and cannot reach the button for floor 28 – unless he has an umbrella (rainy day) to press it 28. Answer: They are 2 sons of triplets – not twins 29. Answer: Lions. After 3 years of not eating they will be dead! 30. Answer: 50 pence. Wine is £9 more so equals £9.50 plus bottle at 50p = £10 RETURN TO QUIZ DAY 10 TO THE TOP A carefree motorcycle ride ! Perhaps should have got off the bus at the last stop? day 7 More Adventures for the faint-hearted Let's go for a leisurely stroll, soak up some facts, join the Navy and sit back and watch the advert! Petra-Fried An eclectic journey from opera in Petra, wood-carving in Pitcairn to dinner with Campbell & Cherry (and a lot more besides!!) day8 day9 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 tqa

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