When you're feeling stupid read this

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." --Mariah Carey






"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign .





"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward .






"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.




"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." -- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.




"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," --A congressional candidate in Texas .






"Half this game is ninety percent mental." --Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark





"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." --Al Gore, Vice President
And ...
"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." -- Al Gore, VP




"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Dan Quayle







"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?" --Lee Iacocca






"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - --Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.





"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people." -- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor .








"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --Bill Clinton, President






"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." --Keppel Enderbery





"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." --Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina





"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

U2 - With or Without you

Vocabulary: colors

Em algumas expressões em inglês, as cores nem sempre seguem a mesma “lógica” do português. Observe as expressões a seguir e suas respectivas traduções.

GRAY HAIR
cabelos brancos

BLACK EYE
olho roxo

BLACK AND BLUE MARK
mancha roxa (hematoma)

IN THE BLACK
no azul (diz-se da empresa próspera)

IN THE RED
no vermelho


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Happy Easter!!

May Easter this year
Be your happiest yet,
May it bring you
Bright moments
You'll never forget,
May its beauty and meaning
Bring pleasure to you,
And may loved ones share
In your happiness, too.

Learn Chinese in 5 minutes (You MUST read them aloud)

Thought

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."

Buddha

International Women's Day

International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.

The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies.

Happy Women's Day!!!

Did you know...

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

2. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were thirty.

3. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

Do you wanna know more about MOTH? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth