[kombuchakid]

Best Gift Ever

One of the best gifts I’ve ever received was a losing lottery ticket. My brother bought it for me. I realize that doesn’t sound like a great gift, since it only cost a dollar, and it lost. But the way he did it was pure evil genius.

No one wants to buy a winning lottery ticket for someone else. You’d bang your head on the wall for the rest of your life, yelling “WHY OH WHY DIDN’T I KEEP THAT ONE??? WHAAAWHAAAAWHAAAA!!!” That’s bad for the wall.

My brother solved that problem by buying for himself two additional lottery tickets with the same numbers as the one he got for me. He explained that in case my ticket won, he wanted to be twice as rich. It’s the thought that counts.

That happened years ago. Since then, I’ve told that story about a hundred times, always to good effect. Now it’s a blog entry on a day when I had no other ideas. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Almost every other gift I’ve gotten has been worn out, outgrown, used up, lost, broken, stolen, or thrown away. But the lottery ticket story keeps on chugging along.

In its own way, it was the most thoughtful gift I’ve ever received.

What’s the best gift you ever got or gave? Bonus points if it makes me cry.





Scott Adams from his blog

[elle]

The best gift I ever wanted to give was a part of my liver as a transplant for my brother. As it turned out I was not a match and by the time he was due on the transplant list the cancer had already spread. The only thing I could give him was time - I made sure the get minor surgery done next to his ward and stayed as long as possible in the evenings when he needed to talk.

[Boris]

The best gift I got was my missus. Only started out costing me a couple of beers . BUT OOOOHHHH MMMMYYYY GOD ---- The running costs !!!!

It would have been cheaper if I had won a Ferrari !!

[kombuchakid]

Pointless Preference Poll

• Betty or Veronica?
• Boxers or briefs?

you get the idea

http://www.chicagotribune.com/choicespoll,0,525971.poll

no score but you can see results

[kombuchakid]

what would posses anyone to say this...on record?


"Next time you see someone who looks like me eating a steaming bowl of beef brisket noodles ... don't just wonder: `Is that Bow-tie Tsang?' Say hello and have a chat."

[kombuchakid]

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/index....ed_inventions/



http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/index....ed_inventions/

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/index...._inventions_3/


add yours here.....

[kombuchakid]

my score:

You Are 60% Cynical

Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you're a realist.
You see what's screwed up in the world, but you also take time to remember what's right.

go here for yours


http://www.blogthings.com/howcynicalareyouquiz/

[kombuchakid]

or part four......see post #6

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/index...._inventions_4/

[kombuchakid]

sent to me by a brit, with threats of dire consequences if I did not repost

Proud to be British

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.

Oh and......

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

Only in Britain... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions - while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Britain... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.

Only in Britain... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.

Only in Britain... do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

Only in Britain... do we use answering machines to screen call and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

Only in Britain... are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.

NOT TO MENTION...

3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.

58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate.

British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling accidents.

101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled out of the soles of their feet.

18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.

5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of Control Scalextric cars.

And finally.........

In 2000 eight Brits cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the toilet.

I am proud to be British

[kombuchakid]

Would you eat them live?

http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/web...g_10_crickets/

I get the hebejibes just imagining one .