Riddle Me This, Jishman

I thought this was a joke video because it had Dawn Wells (you know, Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island) in it BUT this trick is cool.

Check out the video:

This one is quite humorous! Also, from my parents:

A lady walks into Tiffany’s during the holiday season. She looks around, spots a beautiful diamond bracelet and walks over to inspect it. As she bends over to look more closely, she unexpectedly lets one squeak out.

Very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone noticed her little ‘whoops’ and prays that a sales person wasn’t anywhere near. As she turns around, her worst nightmare materializes in the form of a salesman standing right behind her - and he’s good looking as well.

Cool as a cucumber, he displays all of the qualities one would expect of a professional in a store like Tiffany’s. He politely greets the lady with, ‘Good day, Madam. How may we help you today?’

Blushing and uncomfortable, but still hoping that the salesman somehow missed her little ‘incident’, she asks, ‘Sir, what is the price of this lovely bracelet?’

He answers, “Madam, if you farted just looking at it - you’re going to sh–t when I tell you the price.”

Have a great day!

My parents sent this to me just in time for the Holidays:

Three men die in a car accident Christmas Eve. They all find themselves at the pearly gates waiting to enter Heaven. On entering they must present something relating or associated with Christmas.

The first man searches his pocket, and finds some Mistletoe, so he is allowed in.

The second man presents a candy-cane, so he is also allowed in.

The third man pulls out a pair of stockings.

Confused at this last gesture, St. Peter asks, “How do these represent Christmas?”

“They’re Carol’s!”

Yes… a groaner!

A friend sent me this email joke entitled “Why Italians Can’t be Paramedics!” Funny stuff!

Vinnie and Sal are out in the woods hunting when suddenly Sal grabs his chest and falls to the ground.
He doesn’t seem to be breathing; his eyes are rolled back in his head.

Vinnie whips out his cell phone and calls 911.
He gasps to the operator, ”I think Sal is dead! What should I do?”

The operator, in a calm soothing voice says, ”Just take it easy and follow my instructions.
First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”

There is a moment of silence.

And then a shot is heard.

Vinnie’s voice comes back on the line,

”Okay… now what?”

Have a great day!

Live Science Dot Com came out with their list of the happiest places in the United States to live (including District of Columbia). So I looked through the list and found a very disturbing trend for most of my friends; they/we all live in the most unhappy states in the Union. Being from MA, I understood why we were in the bottom ten and as I look at the other bluest of the blue states, they made the bottom of the list as well….. hmmmmmm!

Here are the bottom ten:

42. Rhode Island
43. Massachusetts
44. Ohio
45. Illinois
46. California
47. Indiana
48. Michigan
49. New Jersey
50. Connecticut
51. New York

But that isn’t it…..

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ESPN today had a story that the Big Ten Conference is looking to expand to 12 schools. This would allow them to split into 2 divisions for football and stage a Big Ten championship game (maybe in Chicago, Minneapolis, or Indianapolis). If the Big Ten were to expand, who would they add? Before we tackle that questions, let’s list the schools currently in the conference:

Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan State
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Purdue
Indiana
Northwestern
Illinois

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1.) A look inside the birth of the iPod - I like that there were conscious thoughts about what it should be from the beginning and not just a “hey look, we’ve got this thing that’s cool!”

2.) iPhone changing education - In a post last year, I talked about the changes in education if every student was given a tablet. Think about the radical changes across the board that would take place with an iPhone, laptop, netbook, tablet PC, etc. in every classroom. My grad school professors encouraged us to bring our laptops to class so we could be looking - real time - at the world around us and its changes. School shouldn’t be just about memorizing names and dates - yes, those things are important at times - but it should also be about teaching people how to think and react to the world around them. I wasn’t an especially good student in high school - and probably not in college either - I got by with a solid B to B+ average, but the difference was that I learned how to think. I understood what was being taught to me and its practical applications (except for economics - a subject I am still not sure should be taught in high school) well before many of my peers. Parents focus on the SAT and ACT scores but how much of what we learn in class prepares students for them? Math and Science classes are useful, to be sure, but I always found the classes where I was forced to think, not memorize, but think about the effects of what I was learning much more interesting.

3.) Because no holiday season is complete without the requisite Chanukkah song. This one is brought to us by Orrin Hatch and the Mormons of Utah. It’s a very Mormon Chanukkah!