Railroad Tracks
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in England , and English expatriates designed the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were […]
Maxine Said it Again…
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch & lovingly filled it with delicious seeds. What a beauty of a bird feeder it was. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests […]
Ths is Very Interesting!
She (or he for the ladies) will say anything you type. When you move the mouse around, her eyes follow the pointer. When you write something in the left space and then click on ‘Say it,’ she says it! You can also change persons doing the talking and the language they speak. Have fun! http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
The Wonderful English Language
We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house […]
Israel
Israel is the only country in the world where one need not check the ingredients on the products in the supermarket to avoid ending up with things containing pork. Israel is a country where the same drivers who cuss you and flip you the bird will immediately pull over and offer you all forms of […]
Ole, the Business Man
Ole, a furniture dealer from up at Minot, ND , decided to expand the line of furniture in his store, so he decided to go to Paris to see what he could find. After arriving in Paris he visited with some manufacturers and selected a line that he thought would sell well back home. To […]
