Re: BITS AND BOBS..Funny, serious, mad, bad, inane, insane...anything goes here.

**Dame Edna** Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:12 pm

Wow dolly, I didnt know that!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well bugger me affraid

**Dame Edna** Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:20 pm

This girl is good, check her out.. Very Happy

**EarthsAngel** Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:10 am

Jo/Burg by night. The Stadium where SPAIN WON last night is looking beautiful with all the lights shining out of the calabash.

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**Dame Edna** Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:53 pm

Wow, great pic EA! A friend of mine told me last night that his dad is in spain, and the streets were deserted! But all the bars were heaving lol Very Happy

Bet the atmosphere was electric! cheers

**Dame Edna** Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:51 pm

Rare Bee Species Lives Alone, And Makes Nest Out of Flower Petals..
These chambers, constructed of mud and potpourri, are barely over a half-inch long and house only one egg. The mom collects pollen and nectar which she transports back in her digestive tract. After depositing the mixture at the bottom of the cocoon, she then lays the egg right on top of it.
Unfortunately, her larvae never enjoy the brilliant colors of the nest's walls because they have no eyes-- pale

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**Jimmy Saville** Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:22 am

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'Say Hi to Wins Dog!!

**Jimmy Saville** Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:28 am

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Up the Hammers!! lol

**Dame Edna** Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:31 pm

Lovely pics of your doggy winston, shes adorable.. Very Happy

**Dame Edna** Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:40 pm

Lucky you. You survived a nuclear war! Well, don't be too glad. What happens after it is so gruesome, you'll wish you had died on the spot... pale

Today, it all goes out of hand. The East-West conflict revived. China waged war on Japan. The Muslim nations joined forces against the USA. Or someone simply made a mistake -- whatever, it doesn't really matter. The only thing that does matter right now is that the inconceivable has happened. There's nuclear war. And now, the SBM's, ICBM's and SLBM's cross the sky, like oddly shaped, featherless birds of destruction.

All hell breaks loose. There's eye-popping flashes of light everywhere and ear-ripping bangs as the bombs go off. Cities evaporate. Infrastructures crumble. Everywhere, huge mushroom-shaped clouds tower up into the sky. All electricity goes out because of electro-magnetic effects. And of course, many die: according to even the mildest scenario's, hundreds of millions die instantaneously as the nukes go boom.
But you -- you survive all that. Better take shelter: for the next days, it will rain highly radioactive fall-out particles only. For almost three days and three nights in a row, it will rain radioactivity in a region several hundreds of kilometers around each impact site. And to be honest: it's best you stayed indoors for a whole year, patiently waiting until radioactivity levels finally begin to drop.

But wait, there's more trouble. As the mushroom clouds begin to fade, the REAL consequences of nuclear war become apparent. From the explosion sites, huge amounts of evaporated stuff, smoke and soot rise up into the sky. It's quite different from the usual smoke columns that come from fires. The intense heat from the nuclear impact sites pushes the debris straight into the highest parts of the atmosphere, the so-called stratosphere. There, it slowly starts to disperse, covering ever bigger portions of the world. But what's worse -- the soot blocks the Sun.

Within days, a weird and unprecedented climate shift sets in. Total darkness covers everything. Temperatures drop rapidly. And chances are the soot blanket that prevents the Sun from shining spreads across the globe, transforming even the Latin Americas, Asia and Africa into chilly shadow worlds. There you have it: the infamous, dreaded Nuclear Winter.

Within weeks, it's minus 23 to 30 degrees Celsius everywhere. Do you live near the shore? Consider yourself lucky: since oceans cool so slowly, temperatures near the sea will drop `only' some five to ten degrees. But there is a downside: because of the big temperature differences between the sea and the inland, unimaginable storms and hurricanes will harass the coastal areas.

Big Winter: After a nuclear war, dust and soot may blanket the Earth

Oh, and that's just the beginning of your Winter out of Hell. Slowly, particle-by-particle, the soot will begin to fall back to the Earth. The results are not what you call pleasant. When it rains, the rain consists of burning sulphuric acid. And when it doesn't rain, the wind blows huge amounts of tiny particles of radioactive dust into your face. There's not enough radioactivity there to kill you. But it won't do you much good either.

Meanwhile, you're not the only one having a hard time. Plants, living on sunlight and warmth, will die within weeks. Animals, relying on both plants and warmth, die too. Other animals perish because all water is frozen. After a couple of months, there won't be any birds anymore. And what's worse, the animals with the biggest chance to survive are not exactly what you call good company in the pitch-black darkness: insects, rats, flies and cockroaches. They have a great time, having all those dead bodies to feast on and no birds to hunt them down... What a Face

Oh, and talking of dead bodies: there will be outbreaks of all kinds of diseases. The radioactivity will speed up the mutation rate of viruses and bacteria tremendously. There will be outbreaks of all kinds of diseases, while it is more than likely all kinds of new diseases will pop up too. By the way, the radioactivity boosts the mutation rate of your own DNA as well -- which in effect means you'll develop all kinds of cancers and give birth to gruesomely malformed babies.

By now, you may start to wish those mean, black clouds that block the sun would bugger off. And eventually, they will. Depending on how many bombs exploded during the nuclear war, it will roughly take several months to a year before the sky starts clearing up again. But when it does, the end of all endurance is still not in sight.

One particularly nasty problem is that the soot from the impact sites has wiped out most of the ozone layer by chemical reactions. And without the ozone layer, we're exposed to the malignant ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. The UV-radiation kills the plants that may still be there, and causes more cancers and even sores and burns among humans. For years and years to come, you'll have to take shelter when the Sun shines.

And for the long term? The prospects are grim. With society disrupted, the food chain torn apart and humanity diminished, we'll be lucky if we're `only' thrown back into the Stone Age. A lot of species will become extinct. We may very well be one of them.

But wait a minute. Nuclear war, is that still possible? The answer is a plain and clear `yes'. Sure, the Russians and the West more or less like each other now. But the world is still armed to the bone with some 50,000 nuclear warheads. Although there's no finger on the trigger right now, the trigger is still within reach -- and the gun is fully loaded. And of course it doesn't really help more and more countries got nukes. India and Pakistan have at their disposal about a hundred nukes; thousands of nuclear weapons are spread over the many unstable countries that once made up the Soviet Union.

There's one reassurance, however. In principle, since its discovery in the 1980s, everybody knows what a Nuclear Winter is. You'd expect the world leaders to keep that in mind. The biggest nuclear weapons threat facing us right now is a small-scale nuclear war -- or a nuclear bomb attack by terrorists. But although that's awful enough, a small-scale nuclear war isn't enough to trigger a full-scale Nuclear Winter.

But then again, as history demonstrates, things can get out of hand really fast. One moment there's peace, and the next moment, there's war. So better go find those good old `Ban the bomb'-buttons of yours again!...Amen to that Shocked

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**Dame Edna** Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:11 pm

How a Bowl Should be Licked:
How sweet the owner grabbed a camera
instead of chasing the puppy away... cheers

"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains un-awakened."

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**Dame Edna** Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:51 am

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue...Now how do "they" know that? Have they tested every bird on the planet? scratch

**Dame Edna** Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:42 pm

A question..
Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong ? scratch

Guest Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:57 pm

Because if we didn't kill them they would not know it was wrong........Easy

**Dame Edna** Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:03 pm

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**Dame Edna** Mon Aug 02, 2010 6:52 am

Well the big day has arrived!! cheers

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A song for john xx

**El Guapo** Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:17 am

Best wishes to John :-)

Hope you all have a great day and a fabulous party tonight xx cheers

**Dame Edna** Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:23 am

Thank you EL, the old sod knows nothing so should be a great supprise for him.. Very Happy

**dolly** Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:53 am

Nel...wish John a very happy birthday from me !!

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**danmaspethny** Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:55 am

Hi nel, wish john a happy birthday from me, and i hope you both enjoy and have a great day xxx

**Dame Edna** Mon Aug 02, 2010 3:19 pm

Dolly/Dan thankx for the good wishes guys xx It all went off like a dream.! Johns little face lit up when he saw all his friends a family waiting at the restaurant.. cheers

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**Dame Edna** Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:21 pm

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**Dame Edna** Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:55 am

Some of these are very interesting.. Very Happy

Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).

Victor Hugo's Les Miserable contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period.

There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

There are only two sequences of four consecutive letters that can be found in the English language: "rstu" and "mnop." Examples of each are understudy and gynophobia.

There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.

There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.

**Dame Edna** Wed Aug 04, 2010 4:45 pm

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