Brain exercise!!

Welcome! Hola! Guten Tag!
Here’s my thought…

By now you know that I love to learn. When I came across the following, thanks Zoe, how could I resist. I thought of you, right away and wanted to share it.

This is a quiz for people who know everything !!! I found out in a hurry that I didn’t. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. No cheating! If you get the answer wrong, you’ll probably remember it even longer. Use the information at a party to impress you friends with your knowledge. That could be another post. Useless Factoids… should I do that one next? In the mean time, no grades are given for your answers, although you might want to come back later and see how many of the answers you remember.
This is just for fun!
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1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward ???

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables ???

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside ???

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn’t been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle ???

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ‘dw’ and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them ??? (ah, come on, no looking at your keyboard)

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter ‘S’.

Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. Boxing

2. North American landmark constantly moving backwards. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons … Asparagus and Rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside … Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle ??? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear=2 0buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Three English words beginning with dw. dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . . Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with ‘S’. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Please feel free to drag your friends by to check it out and compare your results to theirs, if you want to.

Pictured are handmade bracelets from Beads I View by Pat found in my bracelet/anklet category pages. I love to make bracelets that are lightweight and fun to wear. The first is a Swarovski crystal bracelet/anklet in deep siam red and crystal ab beads on stretch material, the next is a hex style woven stretch bracelet using faceted shiny brown/bronze beads, and lastly one of my favorite spiral rope style beaded bracelets in a beautiful capri blue color.

Respectfully submitted,
Pat
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Me Again and Truisms

Welcome! Hola! Guten Tag!
Here’s my thought…

I signed in today to do a blog post and I wasn’t staring back at me! I don’t know how I did it, but I must have deleted my own picture. Maybe that’s a good thing. Do you ever get tired of looking at the same ole’ “you” sometimes. I do. So, I’ve decided to go with the flow and change my picture more often and be me every day! Why? Because I change every day. The only thing wrong with that is that I seem to be changing faster than I used to. Maybe that’s why I don’t really like pictures to be taken of me. I can see how far I’ve come and sometimes it’s just not a pretty picture. No picture turns out the way I expect it to. Why? Because I’m not the same as yesterday, or even an hour ago, or oops, there… I changed again! Oh well, its still all good, as long as no one starts throwing rotten tomatoes at me. Enough of that.

I really wanted to present something that was sent to me that I found curious, but true, thus I am calling them “truisms”.

1.A day without sunshine is like night.

2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

9. Support bacteria. They’re the only culture most people have.

10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

12.. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.

14. OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

15. When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

16.. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

20.. Why do psychics have to ask you your name?

21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, ‘What the heck happened?’

22. Just remember — if the world didn’t suck, we would all fall off.

23. Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

24. Life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It’s more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

Pictured are a few of the many items found at my store including, Swarovski Rivoli style 10mm earring studs, a colorful beaded necklace with leaf and other beads and I also have selected Sterling Silver rings available…

Respectfully submitted,
Pat
Beads I View by Pat – store

Promo code”biv1″ at checkout is good for 10% off entire purchase, excluding shipping and handling.

All content copyright 2009 Beads I View by Pat

Me Again and Truisms

Beads I View by Pat

Welcome! Ole! Guten Tag!
Here’s my thought…

I signed in today to do a blog post and I wasn’t staring back at me! I don’t know how I did it, but I must have deleted my own picture. Maybe that’s a good thing. Do you ever get tired of looking at the same ole’ “you” sometimes. I do. So, I’ve decided to go with the flow and change my picture more often and be me every day! Why? Because I change every day. The only thing wrong with that is that I seem to be changing faster than I used to. Maybe that’s why I don’t really like pictures to be taken of me. I can see how far I’ve come and sometimes it’s just not a pretty picture. No picture turns out the way I expect it to. Why? Because I’m not the same as yesterday, or even an hour ago, or oops, there… I changed again! Oh well, its still all good, as long as no one starts throwing rotten tomatoes at me. Enough of that.

I really wanted to present something that was sent to me that I found curious, but true, thus I am calling them “truisms”.

1.A day without sunshine is like night.

2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

9. Support bacteria. They’re the only culture most people have.

10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

12.. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.

14. OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

15. When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

16.. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

20.. Why do psychics have to ask you your name?

21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, ‘What the heck happened?’

22. Just remember — if the world didn’t suck, we would all fall off.

23. Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

24. Life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It’s more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

Pictured are a few of the many items found at my store including, Swarovski Rivoli style 10mm earring studs, a colorful beaded necklace with leaf and other beads and I also have selected Sterling Silver rings available…

Respectfully submitted,
Pat
Beads I View by Pat – store

Promo code”biv1″ at checkout is good for 10% off entire purchase, excluding shipping and handling.

All content copyright 2009 Beads I View by Pat

Reading, learning, family,

Sunday, 28. June 2009, 02:26:18

I’ve dedicated the last 3 days to further education in my choice of crafts and in beading in general. There’s really so much more that I could be doing, and I want to know much more. I have been designing and creating beaded jewelry and crafted beadwork for over 8 years. I have only taken a very few hours of formal lessons here and there. I have learned mostly from books    and from seeing, and listening to what people like. I guess I am a sort of interpreter. I translate or interpret what is said or how a person reacts to something that I make. I think that’s why no two of my created items are exactly alike.

I’ve approached this education by    reading some of the beading books which I’ve had around for some time but have previously used to look up one certain thing. I decided to take a more thorough approach this time. I set my sights on some of the sections in which I thought I would not be interested. So, in my pursuits, I think I’ve picked up at least 4 or 5 more thing to try, including a couple of new bead weaving stitches.  (below is an example of one of my first learned beading techniques)

Beaded Ornament Ball

Now, to find time to actually do them. The family is coming into town the week after next. there’s a new place that I have been considering setting up a satellite store to my existing web store, Beads I View by Pat, and they are having a grand opening sometime next week, I have to keep up with any orders that come in, including updating my store site and my books, and it’s the end of the month and reporting must be do, books updated, etc. etc, etc… oh, and the house needs a really good once over (and child proofing) for the visitors. I also bought a water bed, with drawers underneath that I’m going to turn into a chest of drawers for my “beadroom”. Pictures later. I want to keep up my blogging. It’s fun, too!

Turquoise and Swarovski crystal necklace

Well I’d better get started.

But first, this:
An Antartian boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
The boy asked his father, “What is this, Father?” The father [never having seen an elevator] responded “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t know what it is.”
While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room.
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls light up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.
The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman stepped out. The father said to his son, “Go get your mother.”

Reapectfully submitted,
Pat
Beads I View by Pat – store

Reading, learning, family,

Sunday, 28. June 2009, 02:26:18

 

I’ve dedicated the last 3 days to further education in my choice of crafts and in beading in general. There’s really so much more that I could be doing, and I want to know much more. I have been designing and creating beaded jewelry and crafted beadwork for over 8 years. I have only taken a very few hours of formal lessons here and there. I have learned mostly from books and from seeing, and listening to what people like. I guess I am a sort of interpreter. I translate or interpret what is said or how a person reacts to something that I make. I think that’s why no two of my created items are exactly alike.

I’ve approached this education by reading   some of the beading books which I’ve had around for some time but have previously used to look up one certain thing. I decided to take a more thorough approach this time. I set my sights on some of the sections in which I thought I would not be interested. So, in my pursuits, I think I’ve picked up at least 4 or 5 more thing to try, including a couple of new bead weaving stitches.  (below is an example of one of my first learned beading techniques)

Beaded Ornament Ball 

Now, to find time to actually do them. The family is coming into town the week after next. there’s a new place that I have been considering setting up a satellite store to my existing web store, Beads I View by Pat, and they are having a grand opening sometime next week, I have to keep up with any orders that come in, including updating my store site and my books, and it’s the end of the month and reporting must be do, books updated, etc. etc, etc… oh, and the house needs a really good once over (and child proofing) for the visitors. I also bought a water bed, with drawers underneath that I’m going to turn into a chest of drawers for my “beadroom”. Pictures later. I want to keep up my blogging. It’s fun, too! 

Turquoise and Swarovski crystal necklace 

Well I’d better get started. 

But first, this:
An Antartian boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
The boy asked his father, “What is this, Father?” The father [never having seen an elevator] responded “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t know what it is.”
While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room.
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls light up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.
The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman stepped out. The father said to his son, “Go get your mother.”

Respectfully submitted,
Pat 
Beads I View by Pat – store

All content copyright 2009 Beads I View by Pat