Thursday, October 28, 2010

Good advice

Temporary rules

Not sure what this says about British guts.... or lack of wisdom in playing golf during a time of war! Either way it's interesting to note that it was probably this spirit that helped get Britain through the bad times! For those not familiar with the layout of England, Richmond would have been rather close to the heavy bombing that was going on at the time of the 'Blitz'.
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Monday, October 25, 2010

For Holloween - Panic Attack



A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film.

The movie will be sponsored by director Sam Raimi, whose credits include the Spiderman and Evil Dead films.

Fede Alvarez's short film "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack!) featured giant robots invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

It is 4 mins 48 seconds long and was made on a budget of $300 (£186).

So far it has had more than 1.5 million views on YouTube.

"I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios," he told the BBC's Latin American service BBC Mundo.

"It was amazing, we were all shocked."

The movie Mr Alvarez has been asked to produce is a sci-fi film to be shot in Uruguay and Argentina. He says he intends to start from scratch and develop a new story for the project.

"If some director from some country can achieve this just uploading a video to YouTube, it obviously means that anyone could do it," he added.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

See if you can figure it out - NO peeping!

See if you can figure out what these words have in common.



1 Banana

2 Dresser

3 Grammar

4 Potato

5 Revive

6 Uneven

7 Assess



Are you peeking or have you already given up?


Give it another try Look at each word carefully. The answer is staring you in the face.
(You'll kick yourself when you discover the answer.)


Answer: No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters.


Answer:


In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A good question

A young Arab asks his father "What is this weird hat that we are wearing?"

"It's a chechia because in the desert it protects our heads from the sun!"
 "And what is this type of clothing that we are wearing?"

"It's a "djbellah" because in the desert it is very hot and it protects your body!"
 "And what are these ugly shoes that we have on our feet?"

"These are babouches, which keep us from burning our feet when in the desert!"

"Tell me, papa..."

"Yes, my son?"

"Why are we living in Dearborn,Michigan and still wearing all this crap?"

Expendability

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