| HOW TRUE ARE THESE TALES? | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 2:59:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Snopes.com Web site is primarily interested in getting to the bottom of urban legends. But it doesn't shy away from exploring the veracity of certain old wives' tales. Click on our Web site, www. app.com, for a link to Snopes to find out if any of these old wives' tales holds water: A wild bird flying into one's house portends ill luck, possibly even death. Chewing gum takes seven years to pass through the human digestive system. A few drops of Lemon Joy in a saucer of water will knock mosquitoes dead from the sky. Custom allows marriage-minded gals to propose to their boyfriends on Feb. 29. Friday the 13th is a day fraught with peril. Hair grows back darker or thicker after it has been shaved. Those who go swimming less than one hour after eating will be taken by a cramp and drown.... | |
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| | | THE SPEAKING TREE: Reorganise your mind in an entirely new manner | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:57:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | People increase their standard of living but not their standard of thinking. The best computer is the one between the ears. Understand the mind, transform the mind and transcend the mind this is possible through the discipline of yoga. What do you mean by transform the mind? One goes on gathering impressions based on the sensory perception of seeing, touching, talking and, of course, thinking. The world that we create is often a collection of many such impressions. The great masters invite us to look into the fact that impressions are the highest food that we consume. But if these impressions are not digested, then they become a burden. It is similar to digesting what we consume. If the digestion power is weak, then the food we consume will become a burden.... | |
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| | | Rekindling the Romance | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:57:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | This summer, we'll be visiting Bubbe in Newport, R.I., and my in-laws in Milwaukee. In Newport we will pick raspberries, scream in terror at lobsters, gaze in wonder at the surreal topiaries at Green Animals, ride the carousel at First Beach. In Milwaukee we will once again eyeball livestock at the Wisconsin State Fair, run around like maniacs in a model digestive system at the Betty Brinn Children's Museum, bob around on Grandpa Bob's boat on Lake Michigan. We can have our own Ice Cream Throwdown, with Gray's in Tiverton competing against Kopp's Frozen Custard in Glendale: Both have been named among the country's best ice cream parlors by Jane and Michael Stern in Gourmet magazine. To paraphrase that Maimonides of Kitchen Stadium, Alton Brown: Whose cuisine really does reign supreme? Heck if I know.... | |
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