SIGNS

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Sign, sign

Everywhere a sign

- Lyric, Signs - Five Man Electrical Band

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From Bored Panda, pics and readers’ comments, at:

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Reader comments:

And the movie Idiocracy can now be found under documentaries.

I'll wait until is in history section.

Very accurate

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Contains complementary cookies.

Schrödinger's cookies - there is no chance of knowing if there are cookies in it until you open it

My mum gave me a tin of biscuits for Christmas and said "I thought you could keep your sewing things in it!" It's full of needles and spools of thread now.

Who put cookies in my sewing tin?

I’m Danish and once had a summer job at the factory that made those, and they were really proud about what a popular export they were. And I’m not saying anything bad about Danish butter cookies, but I was thinking that surely you guys would be able to bake this kind of thing yourself? I mean are they really ‘send all the way across the atlantic’ good? And then finally this year I started seeing the sewing kit meme and somehow at least this makes a tiny bit more sense 😄

Yes! Grandma's emergency sewing kit! 9.99! Perfect 🥰

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Sewing? Damn, I thought they were made for storing loose screws and nails.

Sooo everyone does this?! Lol Thought it was just me.

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What's a handicap pole?

A disabled citizen of Warsaw?

Nothing like the righteous indignation of the ignorant.

Why is there a pole in the disabled parking bay?

maybe it carries the sign which says disabled parking spot?

And the ticket for chaining the bike to a handicapped signpost will probably be more than they paid for the bike & lock! As it should be!

That told you...bozo..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🖕

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Should be hot dog and beer.

Ok. Ok. I will just this once.

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What happens if I read it? Huh? HUH!?

You’ll get done for invasion of privacy

hey guys what does the sign say?

Uhhhhhh.... umm.... something....

that was a terrific trap.

Too late. You should have begun with "Please do not read".

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I need this sign

As do I

Go on, git

My husband would love this, he’s against them welcome sign mats, when i asked him why, he said obviously, I didn’t want people over

This is my dream sign!

Go on, git! That's the best part.

I recently purchased my very first welcome mat - it says "Come back with a warrant."

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My Grandfather’s tombstone says: “adios”. Nothing else. He was a dry MF.

Kim had a good sense of humour

Hopefully is wasn't the wrong number!

It's the etched photo that really sells it. 🤣

Jesus only calls if you have an early 1990s brick model cellphone.

She looks like the very definition of a church lady.

'...and Jesus said, "Kim, git yer a*s up here, pronto!".

Go on... git!!!

The imp on my shoulder wants to put a don't text and drive psa on that

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In the Colorado Rocky Mountains. They are well known for their clever signs.

I don't get it. Explanation please?

tinnitus is when you have constant ringing or buzzing in your ear

Trust me tinnitus is no laughing matter however that’s funny.

I agree. To both.

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I want to meet the person who thought of this!

The artistic embellishment makes it! 😄

I want this now, and I don’t even have a car yet

Cute, but I'm sure they get pulled over a lot.

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Where else am I supposed to do my competitive dog grooming? In the elevator!?

" Please use the lifts " is also written

That’s why I only groom my dogs on escalators as an amateur.

Me as well, just some fun grooming with friends.

Aww man, there goes my dream career.

Awww but I’m so much better at grooming than all those other ding dongs....

I'm desperate to know the story behind this sign.

Push chairs?!

Also known as strollers.

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Why are so many people pooping with pens in hand?

I always carry my pooping pen with me wherever I go...

That one cross there is very concerning…

The top tick is very pretty.

that "X" guy wants to watch the world BURN

You cant tell me what to do, do it yourself.

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How did they know?

Experience!

Hey, that was supposed to be top secret.

I want to shake the hand of whoever put up those signs

No. No you dont

Dammit, stop giving away our secrets!!!

Ladies are not slippery when wet thank you!!!!

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QUOTE FOR THE DAY

 

ANECDOTES

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A group of Mark Twain’s friends in New York, having recognised the date as that of his birth, decided to send him a suitable greeting. Unfortunately, the globe-trotting traveller was away and no one knew where he might be reached.

After some deliberation, a letter was simply sent off with the address: “Mark Twain, God Knows Where.”

Several weeks later a letter arrived from Twain: “He did.”

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In 1951, photographer Arthur Sasse captured this image of Einstein leaving a 72nd birthday celebration held in his honour in Princeton, New Jersey. At the time the photo was taken, Sasse had been attempting to get the Nobel Prize-winning physicist to smile, but instead Einstein stuck out his tongue as he sat in the back seat of a car. As it turned out, Einstein liked the shot so much he had some prints made for himself.  It became an iconic image.

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James A Michener was once invited by President Eisenhower to a dinner at the White House. He wrote a letter to Eisenhower explaining why he couldn’t accept:

I received your invitation three days after I had agreed to speak a few words at a dinner honouring the wonderful high school teacher who taught me how to write. I know you will not miss me at your dinner, but she might at hers. In his lifetime, a man lives under fifteen or sixteen presidents, but a really fine teacher comes into his life but rarely.

Eisenhower wrote back to say that he understood.

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George Bernard Shaw was once asked by a manufacturer of electric razors to endorse their new product – by shaving off his trademark beard. Shaw explained that, like his father before him, he had grown a beard for a very good reason:

“I was about five at the time and I was standing at my father’s knee whilst he was shaving. I said to him, ‘Daddy, why do you shave?’ He looked at me in silence, for a full minute, before throwing the razor out of the window, saying, ‘Why the hell do I?’ He never did again.” 

 

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The celebrated dancer Isadora Duncan once wrote to George Bernard Shaw declaring that, given the principles of eugenics, they should have a child together.

“Think of it!” she enthused. “With my body and your brains, what a wonder it would be.”

“Yes,” Shaw replied. “But what if it had my body and your brains?”

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George Bernard Shaw is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name), respectively.

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Unable to take his Spanish royalties out of the country, W Somerset Maugham decided to use the money to pay for a luxury holiday there. He chose one of the best hotels and dined extravagantly every evening, until he felt satisfied that he had spent most of the accumulated sum. He informed the manager that he would be leaving the following day, and asked for his bill.

The manager beamed at his distinguished guest. “It has been an honour having you here,” he replied. “You have brought much good publicity to us. Therefore, there is no bill.”

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Thomas Mann was introduced to an American writer of some note who abased himself before the famous novelist, saying that he scarcely considered himself to be a writer in comparison with Mann.

Mann answered him civilly, but afterward he remarked, “He has no right to make himself so small. He’s not that big.”

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A local anecdote, from the vault . . .

The Australian political party now known as the National Party of Australia, representing graziers, farmers, and rural voters generally, began as the Australian Country Party.

Sir Winton George Turnbull (1899 – 1980) was an Australian Country Party Member of parliament in Canberra.

On one occasion Turnbull became irate during a parliamentary debate and shouted 'I am a Country member.'

Prime Minister Gough Whitlam interjected 'I remember'.

According to Whitlam later, Turnbull could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides."

Winton Turnbull

Gough Whitlam

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

 

MOTHER'S DAY 2022

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A Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there.

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Some Mother’s Day Facts and trivia . . .

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Mother’s Day is celebrated on different dates in different countries.

In Australia, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Australia celebrated Mother’s Day for the first time in 1910 with special church services, however, it was not popularly observed until the 1920s.

The United Kingdom celebrates Mother's Day on the Fourth Sunday in Lent (27 March 2022), the day having its roots in the religious Mothering Sunday celebration and being originally unrelated to the international Mother's Day holiday. Most historians believe that Mothering Sunday evolved from a medieval practice of visiting one's mother church annually.

The United States also celebrates Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May.

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The day is not just a celebration of mothers. It is also a celebration of motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society.

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News report Saturday May 5, 2022:

A transgender activist is calling for Mother's Day to be renamed to reflect how men are now classified as giving birth. Norrie May-Welby, who was born a male and had gender reassignment surgery at age 28, said the term 'mother' was not exclusive to females

According to Norrie:

'Mother' is a verb. One can be mothering without being a biological birther. Mother's Day, before Hallmark hijacked it, was Mothering Sunday, when one returned to the church one was baptised in.

Norrie has suggested the day be renamed 'Nurturer's Day'.

Norrie, 60, won a High Court battle in 2014 to be identified as belonging to neither gender in New South Wales. In a unanimous decision, the High Court allowed the state's Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages to register a person's sex as 'non-specific'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10788221/Call-Mothers-Day-renamed-transgender-men-classified-giving-birth.html

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Ancient myths allude to the fact that Greeks and Romans celebrated Mother's Day by honouring the goddess Cybele, personifying Mother Earth (Gaia) and the goddess of fertility, and Rhea, mother of the Gods.

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In 1870 female activist, writer and poet Julia Ward (who wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) suggested a day of peace and strongly advocated other women to stand up against war. From this plea she was able to get Boston to recognise mothers on the second Sunday of June.

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Anna Jarvis, who never had any children, wanted to carry out her own mother’s wishes of having a day just for mothers. She tirelessly campaigned until in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

Jarvis later became campaigned against the commercialisation of Mother’s Day. By the early 1920s, Hallmark Cards and other companies had started selling Mother's Day cards. Jarvis believed that the companies had misinterpreted and exploited the idea of Mother's Day and that the emphasis of the holiday was on sentiment, not profit. As a result, she organised boycotts of Mother's Day. Jarvis argued that people should appreciate and honour their mothers through handwritten letters expressing their love and gratitude, instead of buying gifts and pre-made cards. At one of her protests she was arrested.

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By the way:

In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrase "Second Sunday in May, Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, Founder".

She specifically insisted that "Mother's" should "be a singular possessive, for each family to honour its own mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers in the world."

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In certain traditional branches of Christianity, the holiday is strongly associated with revering the Virgin Mary.

In Islam there is no concept of Mother's Day, but the Quran teaches that children should give priority to loving their mother over their father.

In Hindu tradition, Mother's Day is called "Mata Tirtha Aunshi" or "Mother Pilgrimage fortnight", and is celebrated in countries with a Hindu population, especially in Nepal, where mothers are honoured with special foods.

In Buddhism, the festival of Ullambana (Ghost Festival) is derived from the story of Maudgalyayana and his mother.

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Carnations are very popular flowers for Mother’s Day and are thought to be made from the tears of Jesus’ mother Mary when she wept at his feet the day He was crucified.

Pink and red carnations are given to mother’s that are still alive, while white ones are for those that have passed away.

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In 1939 in Lima, Peru, the youngest mother on record delivered a baby boy by C-section. She was 5 years-old and the baby was raised as her brother.

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Though there has always been some confusion over who exactly is the oldest mother in the world, there are quite a few women who have given birth at ages that would surprise us. Rajo Devi Lohan, from a remote village of Hisar, Haryana, India, hit the headlines in 2008 when she gave birth to a baby girl named Naveen, following the controversial IVF treatment. Lohan was 70 when she gave birth.

Rajo Devi Lohan with her son

Another report claims that Omkari Panwar, also from India, gave birth to twins at the age of 66 in December 2006. She died in 2009. Till then, Satyabhama Mahapatra, a retired schoolteacher in India was the oldest mother when she gave birth to a baby boy in April 2003, at the age of 65.

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Before Octomom (Nadya Suleman) Bobbie McCaughey had septuplets – four boys and three girls – on November 19, 1997. The babies were born via C-section after 31 weeks.

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Nadya Suleman (1975 - ), known as Octomom in the media, gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. All survived. In March 2019, the Australian current affairs program Sunday Night interviewed Suleman for the octuplets’ tenth birthday. She conceded that although at the time she was "absolutely [...] young, dumb, irresponsible, selfish, reckless", she does not regret any of her children. The feature noted that the household is run with "military precision", and the children are "happy, healthy, and well-mannered".

Octomum Nadya Suleman with the octuplets

Suleman had married in 1996, separated in 2000 and divorced in 2008. Suleman began IVF treatments at age 21 in 1997, under the supervision of Dr. Michael Kamrava. In 2001 Suleman gave birth to her first child, a son. In 2002 she gave birth to her first daughter. Suleman continued IVF treatments which resulted in three further pregnancies, including one set of fraternal twins, for a total of six children: four sons, two daughters.

The circumstances of their high order multiple birth led to controversy in the field of assisted reproductive technology as well as an investigation by the Medical Board of California of the fertility specialist involved. In 2011 it was found that Dr Kamrava had transferred twelve embryos, which the board found to be an "extreme" departure from standard of care. After reviewing Suleman's case, in combination with three other cases, the Medical Board of California voted to revoke Kamrava's medical licence.

Dr Kamrava and Nadya Suleman

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The shortest span between two babies is by mother Jayne Bleackley, who gave birth to a son on September 3, 1999. Then only 208 days later gave birth to her daughter on March 30, 2000.

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Elizabeth Ann Buttle gave birth to her first child (a girl) on May 19,1956. Then when she was 60 years-old, she gave birth to her son on November 20, 1997, making the babies 41 years 185 days apart.

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The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.

Feodor Vassilyev with all his children

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