Brain Teaser: Can You Solve It?
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If you cross out all unnecessary letters in the above string of letters, a logical sentence will remain. Can you read what it says?
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Trivia question....
During the Renaissance when Charles VIII's armies entered France, he also brought with him his passion for perfume. Charles even had his own personal perfumer. What were his favorite scents in his court?
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Consider these words of wisdom....
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. -- Thomas Tusser, 1524
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. -- Michel de Montaigne, 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. -- Florence Shinn
I bet ya' didn't know....
Skunk cabbage each spring pushes up through the frozen ground like a rolled-up cigar. The temperature inside the plant is 25 degrees warmer than the outside air.
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Things that make you go Hmmm....
Is there a difference between "fat chance" and "slim chance?"
Jokes & stories....
A husband is watching a football game when his wife interrupts, "Honey, could you fix the light in the hallway? It's been flickering for weeks now." He looks at her and says angrily, "Fix the light? Now? Does it look like I have a "GE" logo printed on my forehead? I don't think so."
"Well then, could you fix the fridge door? It won't close right."
To which he replied, "Fix the fridge door? Does it look like I have "Westinghouse" written on my forehead? I don't think so."
"Fine," she says, "Then could you at least fix the steps to the front door? They're about to break."
"I'm not a darn carpenter and I don't want to fix the steps," he says. "Does it look like I have "Ace Hardware" written on my forehead? I don't think so. I've had enough of you. I'm going to the bar!!!"
So he goes to the bar and drinks for a couple hours. He starts to feel guilty about how he treated his wife, and decides to go home and help out.
As he walks into the house, he notices the steps are already fixed. As he enters the house, he sees the hall light is working. As he goes to get a beer, he notices the fridge door is fixed. "Honey, how'd this all get fixed?"
She said, "Well, when you left, I sat outside and cried. Just then a nice young man asked me what was wrong, and I told him. He did all the repairs, and all I had to do was either have sex with him or bake him a cake."
He said, "So, what kind of cake did you bake him?"
She replied, "Hellooooooo........ Do you see 'Betty Crocker' written on my forehead? I don't think so!"
To err is human, to moo, bovine.
A sign on a bench read, "CROSS-TOWN BUSES RUN ALL DAY."
Some enterprising soul had written under it in large red letters, "DOO-DAH, DOO-DAH!"
My sister-in-law, a truck driver, had decided to get a dog for protection. As she inspected a likely candidate, the trainer told her, "He doesn't like men."
"Perfect," my sister-in-law thought and took the dog.
Then one day she was approached by two men in a parking lot, and she watched to see how her canine bodyguard would react. Soon it became clear the the trainer wasn't kidding. As the men got closer, the dog ran under the nearest car.
You might be a redneck if…
You have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
The teen-aged beauty was telling a friend that she was really worried about her mother. The friend inquired as to the reason for her worrying.
The teen-aged beauty informed her friend that her mom was always fatigued from staying up all night long.
Her friend asked, "What's she doing staying up all night? At her age, that's not good at all!"
The beauty replied, "Waiting for me to come home."
It's not just the stock market that's been telegraphing "trouble" about the economy. The price of thoroughbreds has matched Wall Street's gyrations. Yearlings that sold for an average of $27,295 in 1994 were fetching $54,506 in 2000. But recent sales have seen 20 percent declines from a year ago.
Moral: If you invest in horses, don't expect stable prices.
Trivia answer....
During the Renaissance when Charles VIII's armies entered France, he also brought with him his passion for perfume. Charles even had his own personal perfumer. What were his favorite scents in his court?
During the Renaissance when Charles VIII's armies entered France, he also brought with him his passion for perfume. Charles even had his own personal perfumer. Rose, orange blossom, and rosemary oil were favorite scents in his court.
Charles VIII (June 30, 1470 - April 7, 1498) was King of France from 1483 to 1498, a member of the Valois Dynasty. He achieved prominence by commencing the long series of Franco-Italian wars which so characterized Italian affairs in the first half of the 16th century. He was born at the Royal Chateau Amboise, France, the only son of King Louis XI of France. Charles succeeded to the throne upon his father's demise on August 30, 1483. In poor health and regarded by his contemporaries as of pleasant disposition but foolish and unsuited for the business of the state, the thirteen-year-old king reigned under a regency headed by his eldest sister, Princess Anne de Beaujeu, and her husband Pierre de Bourbon.
On December 6, 1491 Charles married Anne de Bretagne, heiress to the duchy of Brittany, in an elaborate ceremony at Chateau Langeais. The fifteen-year-old Duchesse Anne, not happy with the politically arranged marriage, arrived for her wedding with her entourage carrying two beds. However, Charles's marriage brought him independence from his relatives, and thereafter he managed affairs according to his own inclinations. Queen Anne would live at the Clos Lucé in Amboise.
Having inherited a vague claim to the kingdom of Naples through his paternal grandmother, Marie of Anjou (1404 - 1463), and encouraged by Ludovico Sforza of Milan, he imagined himself capable of seizing that realm, and he thereupon set France's resources toward that goal - starting the Italian Wars. He contracted several unfavourable treaties with Austria, England, and Aragon, in order to free himself of distractions, and then commenced a massive buildup of forces. He entered Italy in 1494, and marched across the peninsula, reaching Naples on February 22, 1495. Crowned king of Naples, he then found himself the subject of an opposing coalition from the League of Venice, involving that republic with Austria, the Papacy, and Ludovico Sforza of Milan. Defeated at Fornovo in July 1495, he escaped to France at the cost of the loss of most of his forces. He attempted in the next few years to rebuild his army, but was hampered by the serious debts incurred by the previous one - he never succeeded in recouping anything substantive. He died two-and-a-half years after his retreat, of an accident - striking himself on the head while passing through a doorway, he succumbed to a sudden coma several hours later.
Charles bequeathed a meagre legacy - he left France in debt and in disarray as a result of an ambition most charitably characterized as unrealistic. On a more positive side, his expedition did broach contacts between French and Italian humanists, energizing French art and letters in the latter Renaissance.
Charles proved the last of the elder branch of the House of Valois, and upon his death at Amboise the throne passed to a cousin, the duc d'Orleans, who reigned as King Louis XII of France.