Stupid Quote Of The Day aon Teachers, Partial

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  James McNeill Whistler's best known painting, often called "Whistler's Mother," is actually titled "Arrangement in Black and Gray: The Artist's Mother."
  
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  In every episode of TV's Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere.
  
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  The biggest badminton shuttle in the world can be found on the lawns of the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, in Kansas City – 48 times larger than the real thing at 18 feet tall and weighing 5,000 pounds.
  

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”

"An open foe is a curse; a pretended friend is worse"

“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.”

some one who has soft hands for doing office work & little or no hard labor

From Latin asseverare (to declare in earnest), from severus (serious). Ultimately from the Indo-European root segh- (to hold), which is also the source of words such as hectic, scheme, scholar, and cathect.

This week’s theme: words that are verbs.

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A Hall of Mountain Glory

Explanation: If you tried to enter this hall of fog, you would find it dissipates around you. The hall is actually an the mountain from which this picture was taken. Known as "the glory", the phenomenon is frequently seen from airplanes. The ring's center is not visible, but if it were, the shadow of the observer would appear. This shadow would likely change as clouds passed, creating a faux moving giant known as the Brocken Spectre. Pictured above, several concentric rings of the glory appear to create a hall for this mountain king. The cause of the glory has only been understood recently and is relatively complex. Briefly, small droplets of water reflect, refract, and diffract sunlight backwards towards the Sun. The phenomenon has a counterpart in astronomy, where looking out from planet Earth in the direction opposite the Sun yields a bright spot called the gegenschein.
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Munch, munch, munch, plop, plop, plop - that's how you get good coffee! And we're dead serious. If you love coffee and are brave, read on. Prowling the coffee plantations at night, Paradoxurus Hermaphroditis (better known as the Asian Palm Civet Cat, or Steve to his friends) eats only the finest and ripest cherries (the fruit of the coffee plant). Eventually, it poops out the stones (more commonly called "beans"). These are collected and cleaned and eventually become the coffee beans we know and love. YAY. And we choose to call this culinary marvel Civet Crap Choice Coffee.

Civet Crap Choice Coffee

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  Wednesday 5 May 2010   AM Showers 76°F 48°F

  Thursday 6 May 2010   Partly Cloudy 68°F 47°F

  Friday 7 May 2010   Thundershowers 57°F 41°F

  Packaged by a highly-ethical company who makes routine trips to inspect the animal welfare and quality standards where the poop is. . . .