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 Wednesday 1 May 2013
  
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       Week Ending 3 May
 2013

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Just How Big IS One Billion? 

 One Billion Dollars

Following on Monday's thought for the day and yesterday's revised budget deficit we are prompted to ask "Just how big is a Billion" (and can you hit one with a sledgehammer?)

 

Well to start with there's the old question of "Is it a million millions, or merely, a thousand millions?", or, more formally is it the "long scale" 10 to the 12th (1,000,000,000,000) or the "short scale" 10 to the 9th (1,000,000,000)?

 

It's clear it's not clear. So just what figure was Howard Hughes talking about on Monday?

 

Thankfully Wikipedia can help and tells us that for Americans (and now it seems for all of us) it is the more modest one thousand million.

 

But it's still a big figure so when politicians talk about billions how can we grasp what they mean?

 

Here are some clues:-

  • A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
  • A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
  • A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
  • A billion days ago no-one walked on earth on two feet.

 To see what Wikipedia has to say Click Here

  

Quirky Quips by David Cummings

 

An Egotist - A person more interested in himself than me.

 
 
 Who Is This Incredible Artist With Amy Keys?  

 

Phil Collins & Amy Keys - Separate Lives (Live at Paris 2004)
Phil Collins & Amy Keys - Separate Lives (Live at Paris 2004)

It's 2004, it's Paris and it's a song by Steven Bishop (You know the guy who wrote the theme song for the movie "Tootsie")

  

The atmosphere is palpable and there will soon be a duet between an established, but relatively unknown artist and an acknowledged super star.

 

Trouble is, it's difficult to say which performance is the most amazing.

  

OK, we nearly all know the opening singer is Phil Collins from Genesis, but now we can see how being around him helps get the best out of people.

  

All the write ups seem to be saying things about inspiring, emotional, tears, faces and streaming, but we expect better than that of our readers.

 

Unless of course they happen to be like us in which case the chosen words seem quite appropriate.

 

To see if you agree Click Here

 

Simply Whimsical

 

If you cSimply Whimsicalan start the day without caffeine,

 

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

 

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

 

If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,

 

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

 

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,

 

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

 

If you can relax without alcohol,

 

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

 

Then You Are Probably....The Family Dog!!!!

 

Strong enough for more? Click Here

 

My Blackberry Is Not Working 

My Blackberry Is Not Working - The Two Ronnies

My Blackberry Is Not Working

The Two Ronnies

 

It seems the British public can be merciless.

 

Following on the heels of the Two Ronnies Four Candles (Fork Handles) sketch we promptly received emails telling us about Ronnie Corbett's frozen blackberry.

 

As if Blackberry weren't having enough problems since the launch of the iPhone, here is a sketch that takes their name in vain and has the audience "laughing in the aisles". (Isles?)

 

Here is a comment posted about this video about 3 months ago "I lived in England when these comedians were so active, the world was a better place with them around . May I also include Harry Secombe. I loved them all especially " the cleaning ladies song" by the two Ronnies Brilliant in every way."

 

To see what the writer means Click Here

 

Baby CHICKS make people GULLible

  

Ok, so it's not Easter, but we can't wait a year to let you see just how gullible people can be.

 

Plus it's a feel good video that will bring a smile to your face.

 

The clip featured on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and featured Michael Carbonaro as the magic clerk.

 

 

To get your giggle for the day Click Here

 

  Well Fancy That
 

Kola BoreholeOne of the deepest holes ever drilled by man is the Kola Super deep Borehole, in Russia.

 

It reached a depth of 12,261 metres. That's about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles.

 

It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen so massive that the mud coming from the hole was boiling with it.

 

The deep core-drilled Kola borehole cannot be directly compared with any other borehole in the world.

 

In a deep core borehole, a section of the rock drilled through is recovered from within the hole.

 

It is this recovered drill core, and the information it represents about the rock that it was retrieved from, that is the most important feature of the borehole.

 

At the depth of about 7 km the rock at that was found to be fractured and saturated with water.

 

The project was finally abandoned in 2005 for lack of further funding.

 

For more info Click Here

 

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