Archive for March, 2008

Why I Hate Running – and Why I Can’t Stop

The weather was so gorgeous this past weekend I went for a run. I don’t know why. I hate running. I have always hated running. I have been running for the best part of 45 years and I still don’t like it one little bit. I know some people talk about getting a “runners high” [...]

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

A man was on trial for murder. The case against him seemed pretty good except for one fact, there was no body. The police had never found the corpse. The defendant’s lawyer tried to use this in his summary of the case saying “Ladies and gentlemen, I have a surprise for you, in one minute [...]

The Knees Go First – and other news

Living in earthquake country you become familiar with one of the early warning signs that a quake may be on the way. It’s GG, which stands for gone gatos. Gatos is Spanish for cat and apparently cats are sensitive to earthquakes, so when they sense one coming they disappear. Now we may have a similarly [...]

Water Water Everywhere But What’s A Chap to Drink

When I was a kid growing up in England we played football (soccer) all the time. At half time we would take a 5 minute break and eat half an orange. At the end of the game we’d have a cup of tea. That was it. And as far as I can remember none of [...]

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

A man is walking along through a field when suddenly he stumbles into a deep mine shaft. He falls a hundred feet before he manages to grasp a root sticking out of the ground. He’s left hanging there, clinging to the root, with a vast drop below him. He calls out for help saying “Is [...]

Eating with a vengence!

Did you know that if you skip breakfast you are more likely to gain weight and become fat? Yeah, think about it, say you have dinner at 6:30pm, so by 7:30pm you are finished with dinner and go about your normal activities and hit the nightlife at 11:00 and sleep till 7:30 in the [...]

Meat, Marriage and Gas Prices – It’s all News to You

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From the Vegetable Counter
If you are what you eat, then a new study suggests that men are meatheads, and women are fresh and fruity.
The research, presented at the 2008 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia, is based on a survey of the eating habits of [...]

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

Two cows are standing in a field. One cow turns to the other and says “Although Pi is usually abbreviated to five figures, it actually goes on into infinity”.
The second cow says “Moo!”

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

And old cowboy is sitting in a bar having a drink when a woman comes up to him and asks “are you a real cowboy’. He says “Well, I’ve spent my whole life working on ranches, herding cows, riding the range, fixing fences, so I guess I am.”

How To Lose Weight But Not Your Mind – and other news

A few more reasons to lose weight and quit smoking
You might think that a journal called General Hospital Psychiatry was an up close and personal look at the stars of the popular day time soap. You might think that. But you’d be wrong. It’s actually a rather learned medical journal and in the latest [...]