Go Green - Save the Planet

THE SURVIVAL OF THE WORLD IS IN OUR HANDS:

I recently came across a handbook which is being circulated in Singapore by the government, they posted a small handbook with a DVD in our letter box, which had the following video and information in it.

Watch this video from this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff8PO-bPpg4

I hope each of us can do something to this planet. Pass this link to everyone you know.

If global temperatures continue to rise, massive amounts of methane gas could be released from the 10,000 gigaton reserves of frozen methane that are currently in the world's deep oceans and permafrost.

IPCC recommends: Dont eat meat, ride a bike, and be a frugal shopper -- thats how you can brake global warming. Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon intensive commodity, consuming large quantities is also bad for one's health.

If the whole population of USA (301 million people) eat 2/3rd less meat = 655 billion pounds of CO2 emissions is saved + 1 billion of starving people could be fed + 5 billion of animal lives could be spared.

1 person going veg for 1year = saving 3267 pounds of CO2 emissions + stops 5 people from starving + saves 25 animal lives (0.4 cow, 0.5 pigs, 24 chickens).

I am going Veg.....

The story of Ron and Edna

Ron and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.

One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool. Ron suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.

Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.

When she went to tell Edna the news she said, 'Edna, I have good news and bad news for you.

"The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life Ron. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness.

The bad news is, Ron hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, he's dead."

Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?"

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

The History of the Middle Finger

Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified.

Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew").

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew! Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute! It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."

IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!!!

ANATOMY CLASS

Ist year students in a Veterinary college were receiving their first anatomy class with a dead cow. They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet.

The professor started the class by telling them, "In Vet Medicine it is necessary to have two important qualities as a doctor: The first is that you not be disgusted by anything involving the animal body". To demonstrate, the Professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the dead cow, withdrew it, and stuck it in his mouth.

"Now it's your turn," he told his students. The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took their turns sticking a finger in the anal opening of the dead cow and sucking on it.

When everyone finished, the Professor looked at them and said, "The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and sucked on my index finger. So from now on learn to pay attention".

Life's tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid