John Lennon (1940-1980) English Singer/sonwriter/former Beatle

"As usual, there is a Great Woman behind every idiot."

Children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, "Take only one, God is watching."

At the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. Moving through the line a boy wrote another note to leave by the cookies, "Take all you want, God is watching the apples."

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.

That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette

A man was walking in the street when he heard a voice: "Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step, a brick will fall down on your head and kill you." The man stopped and a big brick fell right in front of him. The man was astonished.He went on, and after awhile he was going to cross the road. Once again the voice shouted: "Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step a car will run over you and you will die." The man did as he was instructed, and a car came careening around the corner, barely missing him. "Where are you?" the man asked.

Walking by, a minister saw his 5-year-old son and playmates find a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, the children had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaaather, and unto the Sonnn... and into the hole he gooooes."

A minister parked his car in a no-parking zone in a large city because he was short of time and couldn't find a space with a meter. So he put a note under the windshield wiper that read: "I have circled the block 10 times. If I don't park here, I'll miss my appointment. FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES." When he returned, he found a citation from a police officer along with this note: "I've circled this block for 10 years. If I don't give you a ticket, I'll lose my job. LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION."

A couple had two little boys who were always getting into trouble. Their parents knew that if any mischief occurred in their village, their sons were probably involved.

The boys' mother heard that an elder in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her sons. The elder agreed, but asked to see them separately.

A letter written in a childish scrawl came to the post office addressed to "God".

Things happen only in America...

1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to
the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people
can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

10. Your so tired, you now answer the phone with "Leave me alone"

9. Your friends call and ask how you've been, and you immediately scream, "Stop asking me all these questions!"

8. Your garbage can is your "Inbox"

7.You wake to discover your house is on fire, but go back to sleep because you don't care.

6.You consider a 40 hour week a Vacation.

5. Visions of upcoming weekend make you get it through monday.

Want to know what are the
best fruits and veggies to eat for maximum nutritional benefits? Here’s
a list, and why they’re good for you!

Tomatoes are packed
with lycopene, that can help ward off lung, skin, bladder, and cervical
cancer. You can also get lycopene in watermelon, pink grapefruit, baked
beans, and red peppers.
Avocados are chock full of Vitamin E, an
antioxidant that can protect you from heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
Avocados are also an excellent source of healthy fat and fiber.

Is this a rumor?

I'm bored and feel like playing, so I thought I'll start a simple game.

The rules are simple:  I will put in a quote from a movie.  If you know from which movie this came from, just post your answer, and then put a new quote for the next person to guess.  Let's see if we can keep the ball rolling, and if we know enough movie quotes to make this fun..

Let me start with something simple:

Well, mine in having a baby and building a family of my own.  It is a big responsibility to bring up a child and it will always remain a noble thing to be a good parent to one's child.

When asked about your strengths and weaknesses during job interviews, what do you normally say?

Take the stairs instead of the elevator. It's the calorie-burning way to avoid awkward silences (or worse, accidental groping), children who press the buttons for all the floors, Muzak, and unnecessary energy use.

The Benefits
Buns of steel. No surprises here: Climbing stairs burns up to ten times more calories than standing in an elevator.
Step-by-step conservation. Depending on type, capacity and usage, an elevator's yearly energy use can equal that of seven homes.

Radio serves as a powerful discovery engine for new music. However, the medium today is one-way. That's about to change thanks to sophisticated mobile devices. All you need to do to see this yourself is buy an iPhone and download some of the free streaming audio applications, such as Pandora and Last.fm.

Verizon Wireless has stepped into a steaming pile of complaints from animal lovers over commercials for its LG Dare phone, but the marketer is sticking with the 30-second spot. Have you seen it? What do you think of it?

Do we really know what goes into our eco-friendly cleaning products? Where they're made and why they work? Despite being a loyal Ecover
customer for many years I must confess ignorance. Like many people I
trust what it says on the label and the reputation of a brand name. So
when the call came inviting me to take a trip on the Eurostar

T. Boone Pickens flew into Sweetwater, Texas, on his Gulfstream G550
private jet last Thursday, then made his way to one of the biggest wind
farms in the country.

As cameras rolled, Mr. Pickens walked amid the hundreds of wind
turbines that dot the flat Texas plains, his slow Okie drawl once again
the star of a TV commercial promoting his "Pickens Plan," which aims to
turn Texas into the Saudi Arabia of wind.

Unlike some "green grand-standing celebs", Demi and Ashton keep their do-good work low-key. According to ecorazzi, the power couple quietly slipped off to Guatemala to help build houses for Habitat for Humanity

Fact: Your Life is Worth 4 Barrels of Oil ...from an energy standpoint, that is. Folks over at The Oil Drum are running the numbers on comparing human labour [sic] to oil. Turns out that running the human machine for 45 years on food-calories uses just about the same amount of energy as contained in four barrels of oil, each of which has a whopping 5.8 million BTUs of energy.

Estelle Getty, aka tart-tongued grandma Sophia Petrillo from "The Golden Girls," passed away at the age of 84. Minutes later, commenters flooded Lifetime's online message boards with requests for a tribute marathon for their favorite mouthy matriarch. So many, apparently, that a mere two hours after official word came of Ms. Getty's passing, Lifetime issued a press release announcing a 10-episode "Golden Girls" marathon paying tribute to the top 10 "Sophia" episodes, even setting up an online poll for fans to vote for their No. 1 favorite.

Admitting to problems with franchisees over a platform that's behind much of its turnaround, McDonald's is determined to tweak its dollar menu until it's profitable. In a second-quarter earnings call with analysts Wednesday, Ralph Alvarez, the chain's president-chief operating officer, cited increased commodity costs, declining margins and franchisee profitability for the change.

i think i have about 6.

It was a pilot show on ABC but didn't make the cut!! I liked it though.

You pick! I haven't seen either.

It's official. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal's Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads.

For almost $400.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1826073,00.html

FYI

Top Online Song/Video Downloads and Music-Related Searches: "7 Things" was the most searched for lyric on Yahoo last month. See full chart for top Yahoo searches, iTunes, AOL and peer-to-peer music downloads.

Justin Timberlake, The Pop Star Will Be Featured in Online Films, Print Effort for His Fashion Label

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- William Rast, a clothing label founded in 2005 by Justin Timberlake and his best friend, Trace Ayala, is for the first time cementing its ties with the pop superstar via a fall campaign it hopes will quickly go viral. Mr. Timberlake will star in the campaign, which includes a series of short online films, as well as print and outdoor media. He also co-wrote the screenplay and wrote an original score for the films.

If so, what was your favorite food at the BBQ? I am going to one later and I can't wait!!! FREE FOOOOD!

If you haven't heard, GREEN is the NEW IN. Read more on this topic at my fav blog: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/green-guides/ultimate-green-guide/index...

This thread is for my friends who are going to college and can't decide on a major! This is serious stuff...

Top 10 Paying College Majors according to: http://education-portal.com/articles/Top_10_Paying_College_Majors.html

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

A
20-minute animation of the consumerist society, narrated by Anne
Leonard, to view online or download. Will make you think twice about buying those new shoes.... lol

I think its kind of dumb that everytime i go into a section under the x-change, and want to post a new thread, it always posts in cage match!!! i think there should be a automatic detection that i want to post a thread within the category that i selected.... excuse my thoughts.. just expressin how i feel about this website!! i only wanna see it get better. and there are some basic features that seem to be missing.

You might think twice after watching this video. =(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQZfIrqnTEc

I am excited. Let me share with you my experiences! I just updated my 2G iphone software from 1.1.4 to 2.0 (the latest software version). All my contacts inact, my call history, and my website favourites!!!! I AM SOOO EXCITED!

website is being removed by me becus it is a scam.. sorry friends!

Can we please have a contest for the best new design suggestion????? I think this site could seriously benefit from a web redesign... content already ROCKS!!!

Crystle
Stewart, on Sunday became the second Miss USA in a row to fall
down during the Miss Universe pageant.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626777/

Gas price is continuously increasing right now. Which one you preferred, step by step increase ( Weekly ) or Bulk increase ( One time )?

I'll go with a step by step increase since I can save from it compared to one time increase.

To  me that was a great action movie i can watch that movie over and over

Does anyone on PL remember George Carlin?  He was so funny!  When I first saw his routine, he would act drunk and imitate a weather forcaster.  He was "introduced" (in his act) as "The Hippy Dippy Weather Man".  He actually was on drugs most of the time, then later in life (maybe 10 years ago) he was the "conductor" on Thomas the Train Cartoons(?), or enima.  I was so shocked to read today that he died over the week-end (6:00pm on Sunday).