DailyHaHa Mailing List 7/7/2006
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Videos:
Thanks Comcast : Comcast tech caught sleeping on the job.
Pepsi Girl : Another version of the mentos experiment!.
Flash Games:
Gravity Golf : Very cool golf game with a twist.
Wheel: Cool unique and addicting game called wheel.
Special !! :
Best of Ari Gold : The agent from the HBO show Entourage, the guy who spazzes out every 2 seconds..
--Jokes--
Wisdom of Supermodels
ON COURAGE:
"They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, 'Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.'"
-Cindy Crawford
ON POVERTY:
"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery."
-Beverly Johnson
ON FATE:
"I wish my butt did not go sideways but I guess I have to face that."
-Christie Brinkley
ON SELF-ESTEEM:
"I loved making 'Rising Sun.' I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth."
-Tatjana Patitz
ON ARRIVING
"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."
-Kathy Ireland, star of 'Alien From L.A.' and 'Danger Island'
ON PRIORITIES:
"I would rather exercise than read a newspaper."
-Kim Alexis
ON INNER STRENGTH:
"I love the confidence that makeup gives me."
-Tyra Banks
ON TRAVEL:
"I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care."
-Tyra Banks
ON BREAKTHROUGHS:
"Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling."
-Gabrielle Reece
ON HEREDITY:
"My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him,' What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'"
-Beverly Johnson
ON THE BASICS:
"It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout."
-Cheryl Tiegs
ON PARADOX:
"Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone."
-Tatjana Patitz
ON TRAGEDY:
"The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles but I had on thick tights underneath."
-Naomi Campbell
ON INSTINCT:
"If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers."
-Carol Alt
ON OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS:
"I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up having little scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those with sequins all over them."
-Cindy Crawford
ON ECONOMICS:
"I don't even wake up for less than $10,000 a day."
-Linda Evangelista
ON THOUGHT:
"When I model, I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it just doesn't work."
-Paulina Porizkova
ON DEPRIVATION:
"If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time."
-Linda Evangelista
ON MOTIVATION:
"It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to and I would."
-Kate Moss
ON VERSATILITY:
"I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak."
-Linda Evangelista
Strange But True
A few strange facts and tales compiled in the "Eiples Beleive it or not - Encyclopedia of the Bizzarre" whixh I bought recently, enjoy:
- In 1991, sidewalk vendors in Mexico City began selling oxygen ata cost of 5,000 Pesos to help counteract the smog.
- A small channel steamer, carrying 74 passengers and crew, split in half on a voyage from England to France on November 18th, 1905-- But 26 men managed to cling to the ships mast which broke away from the vessel and became wedged upright in a reef. The next day, rescuers found 20 dead men with their fingers frozen to the mast, But their tightly packed bodies had enabled 6 men to survive.
- After becoming blind and deaf in a truck accident, Edwin Robinson, of Falmouth, Maine, regained his sight and hearing after being struck by lightning.
- Aimé Grosjean, aged 72, of Regendorf, Switzerland, was blown off a 17th floor balcony by a gust of wind, but landed on a lower floor, unharmed.
- Parachutist Michael Loeb got tangled during a jump and spent twenty minutes dangling one thousand feet above the ground from a plane traveling one hundred and fifty miles per hour.
- A human skeleton, still visable on a wall in Partrishow, Wales, was painted centuries ago in blood.
- The Kingswald family, Austria 1928: A viper bit the grandfather and the fang remained in his boot after he died. His son and grandson wore the boots and were poisened also. 3 generations of one family dead in a month.
- Judge James Barlow and Judge John Benavides - total strangers - were each married in San Antonio, Texas, on December 22nd,1951. Both honeymooned in Monterrey, Mexico, and the wife of each man gave birth to a daughter on the same day - January 11th, 1953 - and in the same hospital. Both men became district judges in San Antonio and both had courtrooms on the second floor of the Bexar County courthouse.
- A needle embedded in the knee of Mrs. Helen Jensen, of Seattle, Washington, when she was a small child was removed from her baby thirty years later.
- Paul Hubert, of Bordeaux, France, was convicted in 1863 of murdering himself! He served 21 years of solitary confinement before it was discovered that his supposed victim was none other than himself.
- Over a century ago, twelve sycamore trees were planted beside the Grace Episcopal Church in Plymouth, North Carolina. Each tree was named after one of Jesus' apostles. The tree called Judas was hit by lightening and destroyed.
- The Peace Poplar planted in Jena, Germany in 1815, to celebrate the end of the Napoleonic War with France, topples suddenly, 99 years later, on August 1st, 1914 - the day World War I started.
- 'Lightening strikes twice': In 1991, lightening destroyed a house in Maleville, France, for the third time.
- During the Vietnam War, American troops threw slinkies over tree to use as antennas for their radios.
