Most Iconic SLANG Used For Every Generation

 

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Who Am I?

I am your constant companion.

I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.

I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.

I am completely at your command.

Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me,

and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.

Show me exactly how you want something done, 

and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of all great men.

And, alas, of all failures as well.

Those who are great, I have made great.

Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine.

Plus, the intelligence of a man.

You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin;

it makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me 

and I will put the world at your feet.

Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.

Who am I?

HABIT!

Short Riddles That Will Still Stump You

Short easy riddles

1. Riddle: Mississippi has four S’s and four I’s. Can you spell that without using S or I?
Answer: T-H-A-T!

2. Riddle: There’s a one-story house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. All the furniture is yellow. The house has yellow beds and yellow couches. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs—it’s a one-story house!

3. Riddle: A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. How?
Answer: She fell off the bottom step.

4. Riddle: Grandpa went out for a walk, and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible?
Answer: Grandpa’s bald!

5. Riddle: You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
Answer: Second place.

6. Riddle: What four-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON.

7. Riddle: What is at the end of the rainbow?
Answer: The letter W!

8. Riddle: Name three consecutive days without naming any of the seven days of the week.
Answer: Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

9. Riddle: You are in a dark room with a box of matches. On a table are a candle, an oil lamp and a log of firewood. What do you light first?
Answer: The match! Can’t light any of those things without a lit match.

10. Riddle: Two people were playing chess. They both won. How is this possible?
Answer: They were playing two different games, against other opponents.

11. Riddle: What word is always spelled wrong?
Answer: “Wrong.” Well, if you want to get technical, it’s not always spelled W-R-O-N-G … if you spell it wrong! So then, is it still spelled wrong? Phew! Short riddles can still make you think a whole lot.

12. Riddle: Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
Answer: The “C.”

13. Riddle: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window!

14. Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: In the dictionary.

15. Riddle: Three doctors all say Robert is their brother. Robert says he has no brothers. Who is lying?
Answer: No one—the doctors are Robert’s sisters.

16. Riddle: What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A relationship.

17. Riddle: A man is holding exactly $5.25 but only has one coin. How is this possible?
Answer: He has a quarter and a $5 bill.

18. Riddle: I called my dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crossed the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge, a boat or a raft. How is that possible?
Answer: The river was frozen.

19. What two words, added together, contain the most letters?
Answer: Post office.


Short “What am I?” riddles

20. Riddle: You can hold me in your left hand but not your right. What am I?
Answer: Your right elbow (or right hand)!

21. Riddle: I go around all the places, cities, towns and villages, but never come inside. What am I?
Answer: A street.

22. Riddle: You go at red and stop at green. What am I?
Answer: A watermelon.

23. Riddle: I have married many times but have always been single. Who am I?
Answer: A priest.

24. Riddle: I am higher without a head. What am I?
Answer: A pillow.

25. I have 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach. What am I?
Answer: A deck of cards.

26. Riddle: I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: A feather. (A piece of paper or a leaf would certainly qualify too!)

27. Riddle: I break but never fall. And I fall but never break. What are we?
Answer: Day and night.


Short hard riddles

28. Riddle: Bella is outside a shop. She can’t read the signs, but she knows she needs to go in to make a purchase. What store is she at?
Answer: An eyeglass store.

29. Riddle: Wednesday, Bill and Jim went to a restaurant. They ordered and ate their food. Then they paid the bill, but neither Bill nor Jim paid. Who did?
Answer: Wednesday did!

30. Riddle: What are the next three letters in this sequence: O, T, T, F, F, S, S—what comes next?
Answer: E, N, T. The letters are the first letters of the written numbers: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. “Eight, nine, ten” are next.

31. Riddle: How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?
Answer: You and your father are standing back-to-back.

32. Riddle: What type of cheese is made backward?
Answer: Edam.

33. Riddle: A girl throws a ball as hard as she can. It comes back to her, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?
Answer: She throws it straight up in the air!

34. Riddle: An electric train is headed east. Where does the smoke go?
Answer: Electric trains don’t produce any smoke!

35. Riddle: What is the one thing everyone can agree is between heaven and earth?
Answer: The word “and.”

36. Riddle: When is “L” greater than “XL”?
Answer: When you’re using Roman numerals.

37. Riddle: How can the number four be half of five?
Answer: IV, the Roman numeral for four, is half (the middle two letters) of the word “five.”

38. Riddle: A man was driving his truck. His lights weren’t on. The moon was not out. There were no streetlights. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. Luckily, the truck driver stopped in time—how did he see her?
Answer: It was daytime!

39. Riddle: A horse attached to a 24-foot chain wants an apple that is 26 feet away. He reaches the apple and munches on it, no problem—how is that possible?
Answer: The other end of the chain isn’t attached to anything.

Funny short riddles

40. Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.

41. Riddle: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Answer: Wet.

42. Riddle: What color is the wind?
Answer: Blew.

43. Riddle: What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue.

44. Riddle: What can jump higher than a building?
Answer: Anything that can jump—buildings can’t jump!

45. Riddle: Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: “Short.”

46. Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.

47. Riddle: A monkey, a squirrel and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first?
Answer: None of them—coconut trees don’t produce bananas!

48. Riddle: I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.



From READER'S DIGEST

Rare Historical Photos - Moving Entire Houses By Horses, 1890-1910

Original Website HERE

Settlers move a house with the help of horses during the late 1800s.

These vintage photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States show teams of horses being used to move entire houses to new locations.

With the rapid railway and urban development boom, a lot of people found themselves looking to relocate their log cabins, houses, Victorian mansions, and other abodes, and it looks like all they needed were some powerful horses.

Although many people find it hard to believe, a two-horse team was normally used to accomplish house moves. These incredible photos show how even fairly large structures could be moved from one place to another using plain old horsepower.

First of all, the house was jacked up off its foundation and was placed on heavy wooden beams. The ends of these beams were pointed and tended to act as runners similar to those on a sleigh.

An entire family gets involved with a house move, 

with children watching on as the horses cart their heavy load.

A temporary wooden track was put down in the street and the greased runners slid along it. The track consisted of flat planks, supported by cross ties, similar to those used on railroad tracks.

As the house inched along the street, the planks and ties left behind it were picked up and manually carried to the front of the house and laid down ahead of it. Numerous cross ties and planks, ready for reuse, are visible in the photos.

Obviously, you couldn’t hitch a team directly to the front of a house, crack the whip, yell giddeeyapp and expect anything to happen. Horses just weren’t that strong. Instead, it was necessary to mount a capstan in the middle of the street.

This capstan was anchored to some very strong objects well ahead of the house. It would appear that the capstan shown in some of the pictures was anchored to trees by means of heavy chains.

A team of horses started trotting over a bridge,

but the house was too wide. 1915.

A pulley was fastened securely to the front of the house, probably to a cross beam between the wooden runners. One end of a very strong rope, or steel cable ran from this pulley to a tree trunk or other highly immovable object. It then went through the pulley and was wrapped around the capstan.

The capstan was then turned by the horses which walked in a circle and tugged on a pole connected to the capstan. As they walked, the cable would slowly wind up on the capstan and pull the house forward. And yes, the horses had to step over the cable each time they encountered it.

If the structure was small, then it was just pulled by the horses without the need of using a capstan. One photograph shows six horses straining as they pull a two-storey abode forwards, with a group of men steering them as they go.

Another image shows an entire family getting involved with the house move, with children watching on as the horses cart their heavy load. Even when gas-powered trucks were available, horses were still used because they were able to step over the large cables as they circled, something that would halt a truck at the time.

The moving of houses and even churches and schools was briefly a big industry in the United States. There were a lot of companies offering their services to move your home to a new address.

As the country’s infrastructure became more established and building materials became cheaper, traffic, telephones lines and other services put an end to the era of moving buildings.

Moving a house during the winter. 

Twenty four horses all harnessed together to provide the 

‘horsepower’ to get the job done. 1915.

Horses rotating the capstan.

An engraving dating from 1877 shows a horse 

being used to move a three-story house in New York.

Moving a house using horses. San Francisco, 1908.

A house marching along the river. 1900s.

A group of men move a house down a street with a horse and capstan.

(Photo credit: Library of Congress / Museums Victoria).

Incredible Montage of Famous Dancers - Dancing to "I'm So Excited"

The guy who created this video used over 80 movies and still managed to synchronize the timing to the musical hit, “I’m So Excited!”

Lots of stars, nostalgia and amazing costumes! 

See how many stars you can recognize from our past!

How many movies can you name from this montage?

Simply Brilliant!!

A brilliant librarian set up these books for a message . . . 

The Atheist and The Cowboy

An atheist was seated next to a dusty old cowboy on an airplane and he turned to him and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The old cowboy, who had just started to read his book, replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” said the atheist. “How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?” as he smiled smugly.

“Okay,” he said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”

The atheist, visibly surprised by the old cowboy's intelligence, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”

To which the cowboy replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don’t know crap?”

This Incredible Woman Gave Wounded WWI Veterans A Second Chance In Life

Anna Coleman Ladd 

made masks for Veterans who suffered 

horrific face injuries during World War I

I have tried to upload this video from youtube, but for some reason, 

it is not coming up as a playable  video.  So here is the link:

Click Here

1:55 minutes

Sculptor Made Masks for Wounded 

WWI Soldiers with Disfigured Faces

1:58 Minutes

Robin Williams as the American Flag

Grains of Sand . . .

. . .  Magnified 240 Times!

The pictures and short video are simply incredible!

All this is what we are walking on....unique grains of color.
Looking deep into Mother Earth and we find such Beauty.

Grains of sand magnified 240 times!

This is totally incredibly unbelievably amazing!
YOU WILL NEVER VIEW A SANDY BEACH IN THE SAME WAY AGAIN.

Grains of sand magnified 240 times!
Please click on this link to see more pictures

http://www.inspirationgreen.com/index.php?q=magnified-grains-of-sand.html

Don't forget to watch the 1 1/2 minute video half way down!

 The glacially deposited sands around Lake Winnibigoshish, Minnesota, contain abundant sediments from the igneous and metamorphic minerals of the Lake Superior basin. A sample includes pink garnets, green epidote, iron-rich red agates, black magnetite, and hematite. Image Copyright © 2008 Dr. Gary Greenberg.

The tip of a spiral shell has broken off and become a grain of sand. After being repeatedly tumbled by action of the surf this spiral sand grain has become opalescent in character. It is surrounded by bits of coral, a pink shell fragment, a foram (a type of protozoa) and volcanic material. Photo copyright Dr. Gary Greenberg.

 Sand Magnified by Yanping Wang www.nikonsmallworld.com

Sand Magnified 250x.

 Puffy Stars -- Star-Shaped Sand Grains from Okinawa. These tiny foram, a type of protozoa, secrete beautiful star-shaped, calcium carbonate shells, or tests.www.sandgrains.com

 Magnified 250 times. Every grain of sand in the world is unique when viewed through a microscope.

A handful of sand grains selected from a beach in Maui and arranged on a black background. Photo copyright Dr. Gary Greenberg.

WONDERFUL PLAY ON WORDS!!!

TEACHER ARRESTED

A Vacaville public school teacher was arrested today at the Vacaville International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-Gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. They use secret code names like "X" and "Y" and refer to themselves as "unknowns" but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country."  As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, "If Allah had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes." White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President. It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.

Add Some Drama To Your Life!!

THIS IS REALLY QUITE A VERY UNIQUE “COMMERCIAL”!!

OH MY GOSH - I FOUND IT -

THIS IS GREAT!!!

Best Commercial: 

TNT - 

Push to Add Drama HD

CRAIG'S LIST AD

Craig's List Ad - too  good to not to forward

YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT INTERESTED IN  USED FARM EQUIPMENT,
BUT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS AD TAKEN FROM CRAIG'S LIST.

FIFTY YEAR OLD MANURE  SPREADER - $1 (WASHINGTON, DC)
 Fifty-year old manure  spreader. Not sure of brand. Said to have been produced in Kenya.   Used for a few years in Indonesia before being smuggled into the  US via Hawaii.  

Of questionable pedigree. Does not appear to have  ever been worked hard. Apparently, it was pampered by various  owners over the years. It doesn't work very often, but when it does it can sling manure for amazing distances. I am hoping to retire the  manure spreader this November.

I really don't want it  hanging around getting in the way. I would prefer a foreign buyer to relocate the manure spreader out of the country. I would be willing  to trade it for a nicely framed copy  of the United States  Constitution.

Location: Currently being stored in a  big white house in Washington, D.C.

 
  

Ultimate Space Saver!

Take a look at this!

Made in Japan.

January 2013

This is beyond brilliant!

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

And this is why we have added over 200,000 new federal employees in the past two years, and no one can explain why we are still in a recession.    It's not a good time to be an ant. 

February 2012