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Do Mothers Know Best?
To protect their children from physical harm, mothers often find themselves repeating age-old warnings. But are these admonitions really true?  See if you can separate mommy myths from mommy facts.  Jot your answers on a scrap of something.  Then compare  them to the scientific experts.  (I didn't do so hot.  I guess my mom wasn't up on science or she believed her mom.)

1  If you sit too close to a TV, you will ruin your eyes.
 a) True
 b) False

2  If you crack your knuckles, they will get bigger.
 a) True
 b) False

3   If you go outside in the cold with wet hair, you will get sick.
 a) True
 b) False

4  If you swallow chewing gum, it will take seven years to digest and pass through your system.
 a) True
 b) False

5  If you eat chocolate, your face will break out.
 a) True
 b) False

6  If you go swimming less than an hour after eating, you will get stomach cramps and drown.
 a) True
 b) False

7  If you get sick, you should starve a fever and feed a cold.
 a) True
 b) False

8  If you stare at the sun, even during an eclipse, you could go blind.
 a) True
 b) False

9  If you are pregnant, you should avoid cat litter boxes.
 a) True
 b) False

10  If you shave, the hair will grow back thicker and darker.
 a) True
 b) False

1  The correct answer:  B  False
No scientific studies have found a link between watching television and damaged vision. Sitting too close to a TV or watching in a dark room can cause eye fatigue, but not permanent damage. Eye doctors recommend sitting at least 5 feet from a TV and keeping a dim light on in the room.

2  The correct answer:  B  False
The popping or cracking sound you hear when you hyperextend your knuckles is the release of gas from the joint. Although it is widely believed that frequent knuckle-cracking can lead to enlarged joints or arthritis, no studies have proven this to be true. However, it can damage and weaken your joints, so it's probably best not to do it anyway.

3  The correct answer:  B  False
You may feel cold, but you can't catch a cold just from going outdoors with wet hair. This is an old wives' tale, possibly started by an old wife (and mother) who didn't want her kids leaving the house improperly groomed.

4  The correct answer:  B  False
Actually, chewing gum is largely indigestible, but it will make its way through your digestive system at the same rate as anything else you consume.

5  The correct answer:  B  False
Contrary to popular belief, there is no link between eating chocolate and acne breakouts, so several scientific studies have found.

6  The correct answer:  B  False
Not once has a drowning death been attributed to "swimming with a full stomach." Yes, swimmers can develop cramps in the water, but few are caused by eating right before swimming. And unless you can't swim (in which case you should wait until you've had lessons before taking a dip), no cramp would be serious enough to prevent you from swimming to safety.

7  The correct answer:  B  False
The admonition to starve a fever and feed a cold is an old wives' tale. No matter whether you have a cold or a fever, you should try to maintain a regular intake of fluids and food. While recent medical studies have found that there may be some benefit to following this age-old adage, the fact that many people believe they should feed a fever and starve a cold (and not the reverse) indicates that we simply find it comforting to find a way to treat ourselves while our sickness runs its course.

8  The correct answer:  A  True
Direct sunlight can damage the retina (light-sensitive nerve endings in the back of the eye), so staring at the sun could cause impaired vision or blindness. You should never look directly at the sun. Dark sunglasses or even a welder's helmet will not protect your eyes, not even during an eclipse.

9  The correct answer:  A  True
While cats themselves pose little danger to a pregnant woman, a parasite associated with cat feces can cause an infection known as toxoplasmosis. If the mother contracts it, the infection can harm her unborn child's eyes and brain. Expectant mothers are advised not to change their cat's litter and to avoid handling sick cats.

10  The correct answer:  B  False
Hair tapers toward the end, but because it is evenly cut during shaving, the hair may look thicker and darker as it starts to grow back. If you continued to let it grow and exposed it to the sun, it would eventually match the texture and color of the hair you shaved off.

Questions and answers provided by the Discovery Channel.

QUOTES: I should have posted these in the Mother's Day edition.
 
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
             ~ George Cooper ~

All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his.
--Oscar Wilde

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs, since the payment is pure love.
--Mildred B. Vermont

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
--Rajneesh

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
--Sophia Loren

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  --Tenneva Jordan

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
--Mildred B. Vermont

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
--Peter De Vries

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
--Jane Sellman

II remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.
--Abraham Lincoln

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.  --Pearl S. Buck

Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
--Ambrose Bierce

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
--Milton Berle

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.  Everything gets reduced to essentials.
--Meryl Streep

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
--William Goldsmith Brown

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
--Emily Dickinson

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
--Victor Hugo
 
 
 

CHUCKLES & BELLY LAUGHS:
Subject: Fairy Tale Contests:  This is a good one from Bud Casselberry.
Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Quasimodo were all talking one day.

Sleeping Beauty said, "I believe myself to be the most beautiful girl in the world."

Tom Thumb said, "I must be the smallest person in the world."

Quasimodo said, "I absolutely have to be the most disgusting person in the world."

So they all decided to go to the Guinness Book of World Records to have their claims verified. Sleeping Beauty went in first and came out looking deliriously happy.  It's official; I am the most beautiful girl in the world."

Tom Thumb went next and emerged triumphant, "I am now officially the smallest person in the world."

Sometime later, Quasimodo comes out looking utterly confused and says. "Who the heck is Rosie O'Donnell ?"


 
 
 
"Tech Smoke"  I like this one from C. Wayne Wert

A guy rings tech support to report that his computer is faulty.

Tech: What's the problem?

User: There is smoke coming out of the power supply.

Tech: You'll need a new power supply.

User: No, I don't! I just need to change the startup files.

Tech: Sir, the power supply is faulty. You'll need to replace it.

User: No way! Someone told me that I just needed to change the startup files and it will fix the problem! All I need is for you to tell me the command.

Ten minutes later, the User is still adamant that they are right. The tech is frustrated and fed up.

Tech: Sorry, Sir. We don't normally tell our customers this, but there is an undocumented command that will fix the problem.

User: I knew it!

Tech: Just add the line LOAD NOSMOKE.COM at the end of the CONFIG.SYS. Let me know how it goes.

Ten minutes later.

User: It didn't work. The power supply is still smoking.

Tech: Well, what version of Windows are you using?

User: Windows Windows 98 SE

Tech: That's your problem there. That version of Windows 98 didn't come with NOSMOKE. Contact Microsoft and ask them for a patch that will give you the file. Let me know how it goes.

One hour later.

User: I need a new power supply.

Tech: How did you come to that conclusion?

User: Well, I rang Microsoft and told him about what you said, and he started asking questions about the make of power supply.

Tech: Then what did he say?

User: He told me that my power supply isn't compatible with NOSMOKE.


 
 
 
Tavern vs. Church:    DG     Bud Casselberry featured this one in his most recent Joke Newsletter.
The story is told of a man who got a permit to open the first tavern (bar) in a small town.  The members of a local church were strongly opposed to the bar, so they began to pray that God would intervene.

A few days before the tavern was scheduled to open, lightning hit the structure and it burned to the ground.  The people of the church were surprised but pleased - until they received notice that the would-be tavern owner was suing them.  He contended that their prayers were responsible for the burning of the building. 

They denied the charge.

At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, the judge wryly remarked, "At this point I don't know what my decision will be, but it seems that the tavern owner believes in the power of prayer and these church people don't." 


 
 
 
Things You'll Never Hear a Mother Say  From Just For Grins

- "How on earth can you see the TV sitting so far back"?

- "Yeah, I used to skip school a lot, too."

- "Just leave all the lights on. It makes the house look more cheery."

- "Let me smell that shirt. Yeah, it's good for another week."

- "Go ahead and keep that stray dog, honey. I'll be glad to feed and walk him everyday."

- "Well, if Timmy's mom says it's okay, that's good enough for me."

- "The curfew is just a general time to shoot for. It's not like I'm running a prison around here."

- "I don't have a tissue with me, just use your sleeve."

- "Don't bother wearing a jacket. The wind chill is bound to improve."

GROANERS:
 
Wonder & Woods:    This one from Irishrose, Rosemary Bednarczyk.   You will enjoy this one.

Stevie Wonder and Tiger Woods are in a bar. Woods turns to Wonder and says, "How is the singing career going?"

Stevie Wonder replies, "Not too bad! How's the golf?"

Woods answers, "Not too bad, I've had some problems with my swing, but I think I've got that right now."

Stevie adds, "I always find that when my swing goes wrong, I need to stop playing for a while and not think about it. Then, the next time I play, it seems to be all right.

"You play golf?" says Wood.

"Oh, yes, I've been playing for years," says Wonder.

"But, you're blind. How can you play golf if you're blind?" he asks.

"I get my caddy to stand in the middle of the fairway and call to me. I listen for the sound of his voice and play the ball towards him. Then, when I get to where the ball lands, the caddy moves to the green or farther down the fairway and again I play the ball towards his voice."

"But, how do you putt?", asks Woods.

"Well," explains Stevie, "I get my caddy to lean down in front of the hole and call to me with his head on the ground and I just play the ball towards his voice."

"What's your handicap?" asks Woods.

"Well, I'm a scratch golfer," answers Wonder.

"We've got to play a round sometime," Tiger Woods replies.

"Well, people don't take me seriously, so I only play for money, and never play for less than $10,000 a hole," advises Stevie Wonder.

"OK," says Woods. "I'm game for that, when would you like to play?"

"Pick a night!" says Stevie.


 
 
 
Two old folks got married.  This one from Bud too.
As they were laying in their wedding suite, staring at the ceiling, the old man says, "I haven't been completely honest with you.  I think the world of you, but you are only number two to me.  Golf is my first love.  It's my hobby, my passion, my first love."
They both stared at the ceiling for a bit then the woman said, "While we're baring our souls, I guess I better tell you that I've been a hooker all my life."
Then, he jumps out of bed, looks at her a moment then says, "Have you tried widening your stance and adjusting your grip?" 

 
 
 
The Power of Beer    Bud got this one from Harold Pepperman.
A man is waiting for his wife to give birth.  The doctor comes in and informs the dad that his son was born without torso, arms or legs.  The son is just a head!  But the dad loves his son and raises him as well as he can, with love and compassion.

After 18 years, the son is now old enough for his first drink.  Dad takes him to the bar, tearfully tells the son he is proud of him and orders up the biggest, strongest drink for his boy.  With all of the bar patrons looking on curiously and the bartender shaking his head in disbelief, the boy takes his first sip of alcohol.

Swoooosh!  Plop!!  A torso pops out!  The bar is dead silent; then bursts into whoops of joy.  The father, shocked, begs his son to drink again.  The patrons chant "Take another drink!"

The bartender continues to shake his head in dismay.  Swoooosh!  Plip!  Plop!!  Two arms pop out.

The bar goes wild.  The father, crying and wailing, begs his son to drink again.  The patrons chant, "Take another drink!  Take another drink!!" 

The bartender ignores the whole affair and goes back to polishing glasses, shaking his head, clearly unimpressed by the amazing scenes.

By now the boy is getting tipsy, but with his new hands he reaches down, grabs his drink and guzzles the last of it.  Plop!  Plip!!  Two legs pop out.  The bar is in chaos.

The father falls to his knees and tearfully thanks God.  The boy stands up on his new legs and stumbles to the left then staggers to the right through the front door, into the street, where a truck runs over him and kills him instantly 

The bar falls silent.

The father moans in grief. 

The bartender sighs and says, "He should've quit while he was a head!"


 
 
These are really bad.  Also from Bud 
Did You Hear??

* I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

* Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

* Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

* The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Conference.

* To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

* When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.

* The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

* A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

* A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.

* Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.

* We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.

* When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U C L A.

* The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.

* The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.

* The dead batteries were given out free of charge

* If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory

* A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.

* What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway)

* A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

* Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

* A backward poet writes inverse.

* In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

* A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

* If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed

* With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

* Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner

* When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds

* The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

* A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in Linoleum Blown apart

* You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it

* He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

* A calendar's days are numbered

* A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine

* A boiled egg is hard to beat

* He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

* A plateau is a high form of flattery.

* Those whom get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

* When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

* When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

* Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis

* Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses

* Acupuncture: a jab well done.

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