Learning from Mistakes

Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained,

“All our work is in Vain. We have Learned Nothing.”

Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, We have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.”

Moral: We can also Learn from Our Mistakes.

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Stupid Questions with the Smart Answers 03

Teacher : What do You call a Person who keeps on talking when People are no longer Interested?
Student : A Teacher.


Teacher : Which is More Important to Us, the Sun or the Moon?
Student : The Moon.
Teacher : Why?
Student : The Moon gives us Light at Night when We need it but the Sun gives us Light only in the Day Time when We Don't Need It.


Teacher : Chintu, You talk a lot!
Chintu  : It's a Family Tradition.
Teacher : What do You Mean?
Chintu  : Teacher, My Grandpa was a Street Hawker, My Father is a Teacher.
Teacher : What about Your Mother?
Chintu  : She's a Woman.

 
Chintu : How should I convey the news to My father that I've Failed?
Pintu  : You just send a Telegram:- Result Declared, Past Year's Performance Repeated.


Teacher: Now, Pintu, tell Me frankly do You say Prayers before Eating?
Pintu  : No Teacher, I don't have to, My Mom is a Good Cook.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote

Man's Mind,

Once stretched by a New Idea,

Never Regains its

Original Dimensions.

>--->> Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Tongue Twisters 10

01. A Cheap Ship Trip.

02. The Blue Bluebird Blinks.

03. Fat Frogs Flying Past Fast.

04. Tim, the Thin Twin Tinsmith.

05. A Box of Biscuits, a Batch of Mixed Biscuits.

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The Best of Murphy's Law 06

01. When all else fails, read the instructions.

02. If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.

03. The first myth of management is that it exists.

04. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

05. Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.

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Puzzle to Puzzle You 03

01. Find a simple method of solving:
6751X + 3249Y = 26751
3249X + 6751Y = 23249

02. Two friends decide to get together; so they start riding bikes towards each other. They plan to meet halfway. Each is riding at 6 MPH. They live 36 miles apart. One of them has a pet carrier pigeon and it starts flying the instant the friends start traveling. The pigeon flies back and forth at 18 MPH between the 2 friends until the friends meet. How far does the pigeon travel?

03. Nick and John were exercising when the subject of weight came up. Nick had no problem telling John his weight, but John said he had more "mass" than he wanted. He wouldn't come right out and reveal his weight; so he told Nick this riddle. " I weigh 147 pounds plus half of my weight," he said. How much does he weigh?

04. A farmer knows that 20 of his hens, housed in 3 coops, will hatch 30 eggs in 18 days. How long will it take 30 hens, housed in 4 coops to hatch the same number of eggs?

05. How can you measure 1 gallon of juice out of a barrel, if all you have available is a 3-gallon and a 5-gallon pitcher?

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01. Add the equation to give: 10000X + 10000Y = 50000
Divide by 10000 to give: X + Y = 5
Subtract to give: 3502X - 3502Y = 3502
Divide by 3502 to give: X - Y = 1
Therefore: X = 3 and Y = 2

02. It takes 3 hours for the friends to meet; so the pigeon flies for 3 hours at 18 MPH=54 miles.

03. If John weighs 147 pounds plus half of his body weight, the 147 pounds represents the other half. John weighs 294 pounds.

04. You can't shorten the process of egg-hatching by increasing the number of chickens. Therefore, 30 hens will also need 18 days to hatch their eggs.

05. Fill the 3 gallon pitcher and pour it into the 5 gallon pitcher. Now fill the 3 gallon pitcher again and fill the 5 gallon pitcher to capacity. What remains in the 3 gallon pitcher is one gallon of juice.

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Palindromes 01

What is Palindrome?
Palindrome is a word or phrase or sentence that reads the same backward as forward. For Example :- Anna, Eve, etc.

01. Don’t nod.

02. To Idiot.

03. Sir, I’m Iris.

04. Seven eves.

05. Won’t it now?

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Microsoft Word Trick

This is something Pretty Cool and Amazing.

Try the following 3 Steps with Yourself and see What Happens.

Step 1: Open Microsoft Word.

Step 2: Type “=rand (200, 99)” (without the Quote).

Step 3: Press ENTER and see What Happens.

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Mother Teresa's Quote

Smile at Each Other,

Smile at Your Wife,

Smile at Your Husband,

Smile at Your Children,

Smile at Each Other - it doesn't matter Who it is -

and that will help You to Grow Up in Greater Love for Each Other.

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Did You Know the following 5 Facts

01. Women blink nearly twice as much as Men.

02. A Crocodile cannot stick out its Tongue.

03. Rubber Bands last longer when Refrigerated.

04. The Electric Chair was invented by a Dentist.

05. It's physically impossible for You to lick Your Elbow.

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You Can Not Please Everyone

One day, a Man was going to Market with his Son and his Ass. They met a couple on the way.

"Why walk when you have an ass to ride?" called out the husband, "seat the boy on the ass."

"I would like that," said the boy, "help me up father." And the father did that willingly.

Soon they met another couple. "How shameful of you!" cried the woman, "let your father ride, won't he be tired?"

So, the boy got down and the father rode the ass. Again they marched on.

"Poor Boy", said the next person they met, "why should the lazy father ride while his son is walking?"

So, the boy got onto the ass too. As they went on, they met some travellers.

"How cruel of them!" They are up to kill the poor ass." cried one of the travellers.

Hearing this, the father and the son got down. Now they decided to carry the ass on their shoulders. As they did so, the travellers broke into laughter.

The laughter frightened the ass. It broke free and galloped away.

Moral: You Can Not Please Everyone.

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Stupid Questions with the Smart Answers 02

Husband: You remind Me of the Sea.
Wife   : Because I'm Wild, Romantic and Exciting?
Husband: No, because You make Me Sick.


Wife   : You tell a Man Something, it goes in One Ear and Comes Out of the Other.
Husband: You tell a Woman Something,  It goes in Both Ears and Comes Out of the Mouth.


Wife   : Mr. A says I'm Pretty. Mrs.A says I'm Ugly. What do You think, Dear?
Husband: A bit of Both. I think You're Pretty Ugly.


Girlfriend: ...And are You sure You Love Me and No One Else ?
Boyfriend : Dead Sure! I checked the Whole List again Yesterday.


Teacher: Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?
Pintu  : Teacher, My Mother and Father got Married on the Same Day and at the Same Time.

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Tom Blandi's Quote

Our Attitudes control our Lives.

Attitudes are a Secret Power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad.

It is of paramount importance that we know

how to harness and control this great force.

~~> Tom Blandi's Quote

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The Best of Murphy's Law 05

01. If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

02. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

03. If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.

04. We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

05. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

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Tongue Twisters 09

01. Mix a Box of Mixed Biscuits with a Boxed Biscuit Mixer.

02. Please Peel this Peck of Pickled Peppers Peter Piper Picked.

03. A Cuckoo Cookie Cook called Cooper could Cook Cuckoo Cookies.

04. If a Noisy Noise Annoys an Onion, an annoying Noisy Noise Annoys an Onion More!

05. The Skunk sat on a Stump and Thunk the Stump Stunk, but the Stump Thunk the Skunk Stunk.

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Puzzle to Puzzle You 02

6. A jar has 4 amoebas in it to start. Amoebas split their cells in two ( therefore doubling in size) once every minute. The jar will be completely filled in 10 minutes. How long would it take to fill the same sized jar if had 8 amoebas in it to start?

7. There are 100 golfers in the local match play contest. If a player loses a match, he is immediately eliminated from the contest. How many matches will be played to determine the winner?

8. Two trains are on a head on collision course. The trains are currently 65 miles apart. The north bound train is traveling at 55 miles per hour and the south bound train is traveling at 80 miles per hour. What is the distance between the trains two minutes before they collide?

9. A car travels at a speed of 30 mph over a certain distance, and then returns over the same distance at a speed of 20 mph. What is the average speed for the total trip?

10. A woman has 100 yards of cloth on a single roll, and she wants to divide it into 100 lengths of 1 yard each. It takes her 3 seconds to cut each length. Working non-stop, how long will it take her to cut all 100 pieces?
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6. 9 minutes

7. If there is to be only one winner, than there are 99 loses, therefore there were 99 matches. You can also do this with math: in round 1 there would be 50 matches to produce 50 winners, round 2 would have 25 matches to produce 25 winners, round 3 would have 12 matches to produce 12 winners ( one person of the 25 winners would have to wait until later to play again ), round 4 would have 6 matches to produce 6 winners, round 5 would have 3 matches to produce 3 winners, round 6 would have 2 matches ( the player left out before would now play to make it an even field ) to produce 2 winners, these 2 would play for the championship. So: 50+25+12+6+3+2+1=99

7a. ALTERNATE ANSWER
The first round is 50 matches eliminating 50 golfers, the second is 25 matches eliminating 25 golfers. For the third round the remaining 25 are divided into pools of 5 at random and face two matches each (each vs. a different randomly selected opponent in the pool). I think you will find that there will be two golfers and two only from each pool who will be dual winners. They will advance. The third round was then 5 pools of 5 matches so 25 more matches (100 total so far). The fourth round will be 5 matches eliminating 5 golfers. These five participate in a pool (fifth round) just like the third round (5 more matches and 2 emerge). The two play the championship match. So by round the matches are: 50+25+25+5+5+1 = 111 matches

8. If the trains are moving toward each other we combine their speeds to give us their speed basis. So: 55+80=135mph. Divide this speed by 60 minutes to give the speed they are traveling each minute=2.25 miles/minute. Therefore: 2 minutes before impact they are 4.5 miles apart.

9. 24 mph. Most people are quick to answer 25 mph, but this is not correct, as we will see. Let the distance traveled be 60 miles each way. Then, the trip out = 60/30 = 2 hours, and the trip back = 60/20 = 3 hours.
Therefore: the 120 mile trip = 120/5 = 24 mph.

10. The answer is 297 seconds, not 300 as most people would suppose. This is because the 100 pieces are made in 99 cuts. The last cut made results in 2 pieces instead of only one piece.

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Hidden Programs of Windows 03

Some of the Hidden Programs of Windows:

Sl. No.	Program	Short Description	Steps
1	Private Character Editor	This Program is for designing Icons and Characters (Alphabet).	a. Click: Start b. Then : Run c. Type : EUDCEDIT
2	iExpress	This Program is for converting your files to Executable Files.	Click : Start Then  : Run Type  : iexpress
3	Disk Cleanup	This Program used for cleaning  Hard Disk to Offer Space	Click : Start Then  : Run Type  : cleanmgr
4	Dr Watson	This Program Is for Repairing Problems in Windows	Click : Start Then  : Run Type  : drwtsn32
5	Windows Media Player 5.1	Opens the Old Media Player	Click : Start Then  : Run Type  : mplay32

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Some Interesting Things 02

1. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

2. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

3. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

4. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

5. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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Dirty Tricks Seldom Work

A Fox was once caught in a trap. It was only after a tough struggle that she could get free. But, to her sorrow, her beautiful tail had been cut off and left in the trap.

"How ugly I shall look!" moaned the fox, "won't the other foxes laugh at me ?"

Thinking hard, the fox hit upon a plan to save herself from being laughed at. She called a meeting of his friends and said, "Brothers! have you ever wondered why after all, we carry these long tails?" Let us cut them off and be free from their nuisance."

But the other foxes had noticed her cut-off tail. They laughed aloud and replied, "You used to say that tails looked very fine when your own was all right. Now that you have lost yours, you want us to lose ours too."

Moral : Dirty Tricks Seldom Work.

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Booker T. Washington Quote

A Man’s Success should be measured

'Not so much by the position he has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.’
 

>> Booker T. Washington.

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Some Interesting Things 01

1. A Cat has 32 Muscles in each Ear.

2. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

3. A Crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

4. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

5. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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Temper Control

Once upon a time there was a little boy who was talented, creative, handsome, and extremely bright. A natural leader. The kind of person everyone would normally have wanted on their team or project. But he was also self-centered and had a very bad temper. When he got angry, he usually said, and often did, some very hurtful things. In fact, he seemed to have little regard for those around him. Even friends. So, naturally, he had few. “But,” he told himself, “that just shows how stupid most people are!”

As he grew, his parents became concerned about this personality flaw, and pondered long and hard about what they should do. Finally, the father had an idea. And he struck a bargain with his son. He gave him a bag of nails, and a BIG hammer. “Whenever you lose your temper,” he told the boy, “I want you to really let it out. Just take a nail and drive it into the oak boards of that old fence out back. Hit that nail as hard as you can!”

Of course, those weathered oak boards in that old fence were almost as tough as iron, and the hammer was mighty heavy, so it wasn’t nearly as easy as it first sounded. Nevertheless, by the end of the first day, the boy had driven 40 nails into the fence (That was one angry young man!). Gradually, over a period of weeks, the number dwindled down. Holding his temper proved to be easier than driving nails into the fence! Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He felt mighty proud as he told his parents about that accomplishment.

“As a sign of your success,” his father responded, “You get to Pull Out One nail. In fact, you can do that each day that you don’t lose your temper even once.”

Well, many weeks passed. Finally one day, the young boy was able to report proudly that all the nails were gone.

At that point, the father asked his son to walk out back with him and take one more good look at the fence. “You have done well, my son,” he said. 

“But I want you to notice the holes that are left. No matter what happens from now on, this fence will never be the same. Saying or doing hurtful things in anger produces the same kind of result. There will always be a scar. It won’t matter how many times you say you’re sorry, or how many years pass, the scar will still be there. And a verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. People are much more valuable than an old fence. They make us smile. They help us succeed. Some will even become friends who share our joys, and support us through bad times. And, if they trust us, they will also open their hearts to us. 

That means we need to treat everyone with love and respect. We need to prevent as many of those scars as we can.”

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Martin Buxbaum's Quote

Some People,

No Matter How Old They Get,

Never Lose Their Beauty.

It Merely Moves From Their Faces To Their Hearts.

~~~> Martin Buxbaum.

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Tongue Twisters 08

1. Fresh Fried Fish, Fish Fresh Fried, Fried Fish Fresh, Fish Fried Fresh.

2. Learn to Learn how Learners Learn, then finally You will Learn to Learn what Learners Learn.

3. I Feel a Feel a Funny Feel, a Funny Feel I Feel, if You Feel the Feel I Feel I  Feel the Feel You Feel.

4. A Problem of Solving a Problem is not a Problem but when a Problem solves a Problem without any Problem then the Problem is not at all a Problem.

5. I thought a thought.But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

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The Best of Murphy's Law 04

01. All's well that ends.

02. New Systems generate New Problems.

03. The only perfect science is hind-sight.

04. Everything that goes up must come down.

05. All great discoveries are made by mistake.

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Puzzle to Puzzle You 01

1. Take the number of your fingers multiplied by the number of you toes divided by one half and add it to the number of months in a year. What is the total?

2. A Mother and Father have Six Sons and each Son has One Sister. How Many People are in that Family?

3. Jenn has half the Beanie Babies that Mollie has. Allison has 3 times as many as Jenn. Together they have 72. How many Beanie Babies does each girl have?

4. Kevin is 14 inches taller than George. The difference between Kevin and Richard is two inches less than between Richard and George. Kevin at 6'6" is the tallest. How tall are Richard and George ?

5. A baseball team had just won the championship game and the players wanted to congratulate each other. They began shaking hands, but each player only shook hands with every other player just once. There are, of course, only 9 players on a baseball team. How many times did the players shake hands?
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1. 10x10=100÷1/2=200+12=212.

2. 9(NINE)= [1-Father, 1-Mother, 6-Sons and 1-Sister].

3. If Mollie has twice as many Beanie Babies as Jenn and Allison has 3 times as many as Jenn, then the total of 72 must be divided by 6.{72÷6=12}. Therefore, Jenn has 12 Beanie Babies, Mollie has 24 Beanie Babies, and Allison has 36 Beanie Babies.

4. If Kevin is 6'6" tall, George must be 5'4" tall, and Richard must be 6' tall because he is 6" shorter than Kevin and 8" tall than George.

5. The first player only shakes hands with 8 other players, the second player only shakes hands with 7 other players ( he already shook hands with the first player!), the third player only shakes hands with 6 players ( he already shook hands with the first player and second player ), and so on, until the last player who only has one possibility left. Therefore: 8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1=36.

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Punctuation is Powerful

An English Professor wrote the words...

"a woman without her man is nothing"

...on the whiteboard and asked his
students to punctuate it correctly.

All of the Males in the Class wrote:

"A woman, without her man, is nothing."

All of the Females in the Class wrote:

"A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Punctuation is Powerful.

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A Lady and a Old Man

A Lady noticed an Old Happy Man sitting on his Porch.

“Excuse Me” She said “I just couldn’t help noticing how happy You look.

Tell Me, what is the secret to Your Long Happy Life.”

“Well, the Man responded, “I eat Fatty Foods, Never Exercise. I also Smoke Three Packs of Cigarettes a Day and Drink about a Case of Whiskey a Week”

“Wow”, the Lady said “And How Old are You?”

"Twenty Eight", He said!.

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Burn CD without using any Software in Windows XP

In this Trick, You will know about - How to Burn/Write Files to a CD/DVD or Erase Re-writable CD/DVD WITHOUT Software.

First of all, you should Enable CD Recording Feature on Windows XP to Burn the Files to a CD/DVD.

How to do?

• Follow the 4 Steps given below:

1. Double Click on My Computer.

2. Right Click on the CD Drive and Select Properties.

3. Select the Recording Tab and Select the option "Enable CD recording on this Drive" and Select "Fastest" for Write Speed.

4. Click on "OK". Now Your CD Drive CD Recording Feature is enabled.

Next, you should know How to Burn?

• Simply, follow the below Steps:

1. Double Click on My Computer.

2. Then Your Selection that You want to Copy to CD, Press Ctrl + 'C' to Copy.

3. Browse the CD-ROM, and press Ctrl + 'V' to Paste.

4. Now see on the CD-Rom Left Panel and Select "Write these Files to CD".

5. Next Step takes to "CD Writing Wizard",

6. Change the CD Name and Click 'NEXT'.

7. Now, the "CD Writing Wizard" starts Burn to the CD.

8. After Completion of Writing Process, CD-Rom will be ejected automatically.

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Understand Things Better

On a cold winter day Akbar and Birbal took a walk along the lake. A thought came to Birbal that a man would do anything for money. He expressed his feelings to Akbar. Akbar then put his finger into the lake and immediately removed it because he shivered with cold.

Akbar said “I don’t think a man would spend an entire night in the cold water of this lake for money.”

Birbal replied “I am sure I can find such a person.”

Akbar then challenged Birbal into finding such a person and said that he would reward the person with a thousand gold coins.

Birbal searched far and wide until he found a poor man who was desperate enough to accept the challenge. The poor man entered the lake and Akbar had guards posted near him to make sure that he really did as promised.

The next morning the guards took the poor man to Akbar. Akbar asked the poor man if he had indeed spent the night in the lake. The poor man replied that he had. Akbar then asked the poor man how he managed to spend the night in the lake. The poor man replied that there was a street lamp near by and he kept his attention affixed on the lamp and away from the cold. Akbar then said that there would be no reward as the poor man had survived the night in the lake by the warmth of the street lamp. The poor man went to Birbal for help.

The next day, Birbal did not go to court. The king wondering where he was sent a messenger to his home. The messenger came back saying that Birbal would come once his Khichri(Rice) was cooked. The king waited hours but Birbal did not come. Finally the king decided to go to Birbal’s house and see what he was up to.

He found Birbal sitting on the floor near some burning twigs and a bowl filled with Khichri(Rice) hanging five feet above the fire. The king and his attendants couldn’t help but laugh.

Akbar then said to Birbal “How can the Khichri(Rice) be cooked if it so far away from the fire?”

Birbal answered “The same way the poor man received heat from a street lamp that was more than a furlong away.”

The King understood his mistake and gave the poor man his reward.

Moral: Understand Things Better.

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Andy Warhol's Quote

They always say

Time Changes Things,

but,

You actually have to

Change them Yourself.

-->--> Andy Warhol.

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Alphabets, which Sound as Words

Alphabets, which Sound as Words are as follows:

B	Bee
C	Sea/See
G	Zee
I	Eye
Q	Queue
R	Are/Or
S	Yes
T	Tea
U	You
Y	Why

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Believe in Yourself

A Bird sitting on the Branch of a Tree

is Not Afraid by the Shaking Branch,

Because the Bird Trusts not Branch but her Wings.

So Believe in Yourself.

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Tongue Twisters 07

1. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

2. How much Pot, could a Pot Roast Roast, if a Pot Roast could Roast Pot.

3. A Skunk Sat on a Stump and Thunk the Stump Stunk, but the Stump Thunk the Skunk Stunk.

4. I Wish to Wish the Wish You Wish to Wish, but if You Wish the Wish the Witch Wishes, I won't Wish the Wish You Wish to Wish.
 

5. A Flea and A Fly Flew up in a Flue Said the Fly “Oh What Should We Do” Said the Flea, “Let us Fly!” Said the Fly, “Let us Flee!” So they Flew through a Flaw in the Flue.

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The Best of Murphy's Law 03

01. Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File."

02. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

03. Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.

04. The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

05. The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

06. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

07. In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m. On Friday.

08. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

09. The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

10. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

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