"Heinz" Makes More Then Just Ketchup

Spotted dick is a steamed pudding, containing dried fruits, usually currants. The dessert originates in and continues to be especially popular in the United Kingdom, usually served either with custard or with butter and brown sugar. Spotted refers to the currants (which resemble spots) and dick may be a contraction/corruption of the word pudding (from the last syllable) or possibly a corruption of the word dough.

Where Red Headed Babies Comes From..........

After their baby was born, the panicked father went to see the obstetrician.
"Doctor," the man said, "I'm a little upset because my daughter has red hair.
She can't possibly be mine."

"Nonsense," the doctor said.
"Even though you and your wife both have black hair, one of your ancestors may have contributed red hair to the gene pool."

"It isn't possible," the man insisted.
"This can't be, our families on both sides had jet-black hair for generations."

"Well," said the doctor, "let me ask you this. How often do you have sex?"

The man seemed a bit ashamed.
"I've been working very hard for the past year.
We only had sex few times over the past year."

"Well, there you have it!" The doctor said confidently. "It's rust".

China opens longest sea bridge in the world

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=464471&in_page_id=1811

A 22-mile bridge that its builders claim is the world's longest sea-crossing structure was formally linked-up Tuesday just south of the business hub of Shanghai. The bridge links Shanghai to the industrial city of Ningbo across Hangzhou Bay, cutting the distance between them from about 250 miles to just 50 miles. Costing 11.8 billion yuan (£0.77 billion), the structure will open to traffic next year following completion of the six-lane roadway that will permit vehicles to travel at speeds of up to 62 miles per hour. The bridge, a mix of viaducts and cable-stayed spans to allow shipping to pass beneath, lies just south of the Yangtze River Delta, one of China's most economically vital regions which is undergoing a massive construction boom aimed at boosting transport links.

This guy has an interesting job

Someone should check Granny's pulse.

Look at that funny guy on the toilet

Why Math is Important in Life

The other night, a friend and I ordered a 12″ round pizza for the two of us. (Pepperoni, sausage, green peppers, and onions, though the toppings are immaterial.) A little while later, the waitress came by with an 8″ round pizza, explaining that another waitress had mistakenly given our pizza to someone else. She said we could have this 8″ pizza now, and she’d have the cook throw another 8″ pizza in the oven for us. She claimed that we’d be getting more total pieces of pizza, so this was a good deal for us.
After doing some quick mental math (area of a circle = pi*radius². Two 8″ pizzas = 2*pi*(4)² = 32*pi square inches, One 12″ pizza = pi*(6)² = 36*pi square inches), I told her we’d be missing out on over 12 square inches of pizza, so we’d rather just have the one 12″ pizza. She complied, and as a nice bonus (probably because she was impressed by my quick geometry skills), she let us have the extra 8″ pizza anyways. Score one for geometry! I know that math is used all of the time in personal finance situations - calculating per unit prices in the grocery store, figuring out payments on credit cards or mortgages, preparing your tax return, etc., but for some reason I was really proud of my quick math skills at thebar that night. I think sometimes the simplest things can be the most rewarding.


You could have worked that out without having to use pi at all, 12″ is 1.5 times bigger than 8″, so the area of a 12″ is (1.5 * 1.5) 2.25 times that of an 8″.
Two 8″ pizzas won’t cut it; you need a 4″ pizza too!

Thief gets stuck while burglarizing college

This man faces a burglary rap after getting stuck behind bars — of a window he was trying to climb through. Nicholas Forster, 35, was caught red-faced after getting wedged in security grilles.
Firemen spent 30 minutes trying to free him — and he was arrested by cops as soon as he was released from the window at Peterborough Regional College, Cambs. An onlooker said: He was so embarrassed he wouldn’t even lift his head to face the firemen. He was with his girlfriend — and she claimed he was trying to retrieve his watch that she’d thrown through the window. Forster and Natalie Leach, 24, both of Peterborough, were charged with burglary.

This is your brain while using cocaine

This was made by a drug user who attempting to escape from police in his father's car. Four police cars were damaged in a desperate attempt to prevent the crazed driver from reaching public roads, but they could not save the crop from irreparable damage. In the end, the man was captured when he crashed the car into a ditch.

Is your computer little slow?

You Want Speed............
U.S. places 6th in Internet speed at 1.97 megabits per second.
No. 1 Japan offers users 61 mbps at the same price as U.S. service.

Would You Look At That

I never want to find myself in this position.