Posts archive for: 7 August, 2006
  • Some quotes about food.

    Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.
    -Robert Orben

    I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done.
    I just like the dough.
    - Sharon Stone

    What do snowmen eat for breakfast? Snowflakes.
    - Unknown

    Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food
    - Henry Ward Beecher

    Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night
    instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.
    - Jim Rohn

    I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
    -Woody Allen

    The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal
    probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world.
    - Robert Orben

    If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people,
    you might better stay home.
    - James Michener

    This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs,
    but it doesn't say how far to separate them.
    -Gracie Allen

    Never eat more than you can lift.
    - Miss Piggy

    Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like
    and let the food fight it out inside.
    - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

    Always take a good look at what you're about to eat.
    It's not so important to know what it is,
    but it's critical to know what it was.
    - Unknown

    When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
    It's a whole different way of thinking.
    - Elaine Boosler

    Watermelon --it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
    -Enrico Caruso

    Never trust a dog to watch your food.
    - Patrick age 10 Advice from Kids

    Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy.
    And, cooking done with care is an act of love
    - Craig Clairborne

    The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food
    - Russian proverb

    Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
    - Andy Rooney

    I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds.
    By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet."
    -Erma Bombeck

    The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like,
    and do what you'd rather not.
    - Mark Twain

    How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
    - Charles De Gaulle

    Vengeance is a dish that can be eaten colld.
    - James Payn In Market Overt (1895)

    Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full,
    I say, are you going to drink that?
    - Lisa Claymen

    Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.
    - Michael Levine, nutrition researcher, as quoted in The Emperors of Chocolate:
    Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

    There are four basic food groups, milk chocolate, dark chocolate,
    white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.
    - Unknown

    I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills.
    Know what happened? I ate faster.
    -Joe E. Lewis

    Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate.
    - Patrick Skene Catling

    Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious,
    a beneficent restorer of exhausted power.
    it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.
    - Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist

    Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.
    - P. J. O'Rourke

  • Knowing when you're visiting unsafe websites.

    I've just changed my homepage from Google to Scandoo; a search engine which lets you know which sites might be potentially damaging to your computer by displaying a red, amber, green or black bug rating at the side of every search result in Google.

    It doesn't need downloading - all I did was set it as my new homepage. It might slow things down a bit I suppose; but better safe than sorry.

  • Strange Laws in Massachusetts

    At a funeral, mourners may eat no more than three sandwiches.

    Snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked.

    An old ordinance declares goatee beards illegal unless you first pay a special license fee for the privilege of wearing one in public.

    Taxi drivers are prohibited from making love in the front seat of their taxi during their shifts.

    All men must carry a rifle to church on Sunday.

    Hunting on Sundays is prohibited.

    It is illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath.

    A woman can not be on top in sexual activities.

    No gorilla is allowed in the back seat of any car.

    Tattooing and body piercing is illegal.

    Children may smoke, but they may not purchase cigarettes.

    Quakers and witches are banned.

    Bullets may not be used as currency.

    Public boxing matches are outlawed.

  • Texas Facts & Trivia

    Living in Yorkshire (the largest county in England) I have a natural affinity for Texas (the largest U.S. state - excluding Alaska.)

    Some facts about the state:

    1...Texas is popularly known as the Lone Star State.

    2...The lightning whelk is the official state shell.

    3...Texas is the only state to have had the flags of six different nations fly over it: these are Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States and United States.

    4...Laredo is the world's largest inland port.

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