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 Any given program, when running, is obsolete.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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