Do you speak Hindi?

Do you speak English?

Well then you also speak a little Hindi.

Click the picture above for a link to a BBC article 

about words that the British picked up while in India.

What some famous logos used to look like

I don`t think modern stuff are always great and necessary but I find those modernized logos much more catchy and fun than the old ones!

Did you know...?

... That giant anteaters have front legs that look like pandas?

LOOK!

This one is also carrying a baby on its back.

JOKES

 

#1. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day,

but I couldn't find any.  

#2. Police arrested two kids yesterday, 

one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. 

They charged one - and let the other one off.     

#3. A man was seen fleeing down the hall of the hospital just before his operation.

"What's the matter?" he was asked.

He said, "I heard the nurse say, 'It's a very simple operation, 

don't worry, I'm sure it will be all right."

"She was just trying to comfort you, what's so frightening about that?"

"She wasn't talking to me. She was talking to the doctor."

Run for your Lives!!!!

Ever wanted to experience a real zombie attack?  Do you think you can survive just like they do in the movies?  Well, here's your chance to prove it!  In America, there is an event called "Run for your lives."  Check out the website and watch the video.

Basically you have to run through a 5 kilometer course while dodging zombies.  Sounds easy huh?  Well you have 3 flags around your waist and the zombies will try to take them from you.  Think of the flags as your life.  Now in real life you don't have 3 lives so consider yourself lucky.  If you can cross the finish line with at least 1 flag around your waist, you have survived the zombie attack! 

Good luck!

Word of the Week

 

 

Catch-22  

 

DEFINITION

noun

1: a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule;  

also : the circumstance or rule that denies a solution

2: an illogical, unreasonable, or senseless situation

 

EXAMPLES

Following her graduation from college, Kelsey struggled with the classic job-seeker's catch-22: how to acquire work experience in her chosen field without already having a job in that field.

"It is the conservationist's catch-22: what to do when one endangered species starts eating another. That is the problem facing environmentalists whose research shows that jaguars, themselves at risk of extinction, are increasingly preying on endangered turtle species." — From an article by Kevin Rawlinson in The Independent (London), May 8, 2012

 

DID YOU KNOW?

"Catch-22" originated as the title of a 1961 novel by Joseph Heller. (Heller had originally planned to title his novel Catch-18, but the publication of Leon Uris's Mila 18 persuaded him to change the number.) The novel's catch-22 was as follows: a combat pilot was crazy by definition (he would have to be crazy to fly combat missions) and since army regulations stipulated that insanity was justification for grounding, a pilot could avoid flight duty by simply asking, but if he asked, he was demonstrating his sanity (anyone who wanted to get out of combat must be sane) and had to keep flying. The label "catch-22" soon entered the language as the label for any irrational, circular and impossible situation.

From Merriam-Webster Online

Octogenerian X Ping Pong

 What do you get when you cross an octogenerian (someone who is in their 80s) and ping pong?  Well, nothing much, but a pretty exciting ping pong match.  It's pretty amazing to see a person in their eighties playing ping pong.  Check out this video to see them in action. 

I hope I am this energetic when I'm 80....