~pt. 1~DONKEY TRACKS"
~~
from: The White Donkey
Society
February
9,
2005
~TRAILS
of
INSPIRATION~
MY FUNNY VALENTINE
http://www.dobhran.com/greetings/GRvalentine9-ea.htm
Mud Puddles & Dandelions
http://members.shaw.ca/mcinnes-hume/mud_puddles__dandelions.htm
~TRAILS of WISDOM~
"How wonderful it is that no one need wait a
single
moment before starting to change the world."
-- Anne
Frank
"If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough
to go even farther." -- John
Wooden
The poor man is not he
who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. --Harry
Kemp
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens
of another." -- Charles
Dickens
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n
puttin' it back in." âauthor
unknown
"Excellence can be attained if you Care more than
others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than
others think is practical,and Expect more than others think is possible."
âauthor
unknown
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot
do
everything, but still I can do something; and because
I cannot do
everything, I will not refuse to do
something that I can do." -- Edmund
Everett Hale
~TRAILS of
KNOWLEDGE~
Significance of Fat Tuesday & Ash
Wednesday?
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"
Mardi Gras" is French for "Fat Tuesday," and that this festive occasion is the
last day before the Catholic observance of Lent. Lent is a period of penitence
before Easter. In the early Christian Church, the ritual of baptism was
primarily performed on Easter Sunday, and people would fast and pray for several
days or more before they were baptized. This practice and similar traditions
grew into the Lent season that lasts 40 days before Easter. In the Middle Ages,
faithful Christians eliminated meat, eggs, milk, and other luxurious foods from
their diet during Lent, and spent additional time in prayer. Lent begins on Ash
Wednesday, so named because priests place an ash mark on worshippers' foreheads
to symbolize mortality.
Human nature being what it is, people began holding
indulgent pre- Lent celebrations at an early date. The word "carnival" comes
from the Latin for "farewell to flesh" -- so Carnival (another name for Mardi
Gras) can be seen as a time to say good-bye to fleshly pleasures that will soon
be denied. Early Christians in Rome used the old pagan festivals
as a model for their Carnival, and European Christians continued the
celebration. The day before Ash Wednesday became known as Fat Tuesday because
people indulged in the meat and fatty foods that they would forsake during
Lent.
Fat Tuesday is also known as Shrove Tuesday. The word "shrove" is
derived from the Latin scribere, meaning "to prescribe penance," a fitting
description for the day before Lent. Pancakes somehow became associated with
this day, perhaps because people needed to use up the eggs and lard that were
forbidden during Lent.
Because the date of Fat Tuesday is determined by the
date of Easter (calculated on the lunar calendar), it falls on a different date
between February 3 and March 9 every year.
Carrots can cut the risk of
cancer
Eating a carrot a day helps cut the risk of developing
cancer by a
third.
Research, led by Dr Kirsten Bradnt from Newcastle University, found a natural
pesticide called falcarinol - which controls fungal diseases in the vegetable -
warded off cancer in rats. It could be used to develop anti-cancer drugs reports
The Sun.-- ananova
~TRAILS of
HE-HAWS~
#1
A couple
was touring the capitol in Washington, DC, and the guide pointed out a tall,
benevolent gentleman as the Congressional Chaplain.
The lady asked, "What
does the Chaplain do? Does he pray for the Senate or House?"
The guide
answered, "No, he gets up, looks at both houses of Congress, then prays for the
country!" #2
As most young, weak and smart kids are,
Ken was picked on constantly by the bullies in school. They stole his
lunch, they beat him up and just downright made his life miserable. It
took him a couple of weeks to find a way to get back at these bullies and when
he found out what would get them back, he went all out. He was on the bus where
he normally gets his lunch stolen when he brought out a bottle that had what
looked like small brown balls in it. He then, making sure no one was
looking, secretly took from his pocket some milk duds and started popping them
in his mouth as obvious to the rest of the kids as possible making yum yum
noises. The bully without asking snatched the jar from Ken's hand and asked,
"What's in the bottle that you are making such a big deal
of?"
"Well, they're smart pills."
"Smart pills?" the bully asked, then opened the jar and popped a couple
of the foreign brown balls in his mouth."Pweeuuweppblahhh!!" he reacted.
"What is this stuff? It tastes like rabbit turds!!"
"See, you're getting smarter already."
#3
A man hated his wife's cat and he decided to get rid
of it. He
drove 20 blocks away from home and dropped
the cat there. The cat was already
walking up the
driveway when he approached his home.
The next day, he
decided to drop the cat 40 blocks
away but the same thing happened. He kept
on
increasing the number of blocks but the cat kept on
coming home before
him. At last he decided to drive a
few miles away, turn right, then left,
past the
bridge, then right again and another right and so on
until he
reached what he thought was a perfect spot
and dropped the cat
there.
Hours later, the man calls his wife at home and asked
her, "Jen is
the cat there?"
"Yes, why do you ask?" answered the wife.
Frustrated the
man said, "Put that cat on the phone, I
am lost and I need
directions."
#4
After being with her all evening, the man couldn't stand another
minute with his blind date. Earlier, he had secretly arranged to have a friend
call him on the phone so he would have an excuse to leave if something like this
happened. He was relieved when the waiter told him he had a phone call. When he
returned to the table, he lowered his eyes, put on a grim look and said, "I have
bad news. My grandfather has just died." "Thank goodness," his date said. "If
yours hadn't, mine would have had to."
~continued
pt.2~
