Google Funny

My good friend Wendi sent me this and I had to share... :o)

Go to Google Maps, type in New York, New York and click on search.
When the map refreshes, click on direction from here and type in Paris, France.
Scroll down to line 24 and have a good old laugh!!!

Oh, and for reference... I typed in Glasgow to Toronto... Girls, according to Mr Google, if I left now in my car I'd arrive in Toronto in 29 days 22 hours and would have travelled over 4,000 miles (and gone via France!!) so thank goodness for KLM lol.

WD-40

After getting a little fed up with all the talk about missing Madeleine in the news, I decided to go looking for something a bit more light-hearted. As usual this comes from the Barbados Nation News:

Jamaicans using WD-40 for Arthritis Pains

KINGSTON – If you have an annoying, squeaking door hinge or a corroded screw to loosen you'd probably reach for a can of WD-40. But what about a painful, squeaking knee or creaky elbow?
The Sunday Observer has learned that WD-40, better known for releasing rusted screws and lubricating corroded metal, is increasingly being used by Jamaicans to relieve arthritis and joint pains.
Some people are still willing to look past the warnings of possible irritation to the skin.
When the manufacturers said on a WD-40 tin that it could loosen rusty parts, stop squeaks and free sticky mechanisms, they meant metal – not knees and elbows. But the slick substance appears to be working for human parts as well.
"I suffered from arthritis pain, sometimes my knees just couldn't move. I've been using Voltaren, but it hasn't been helping, so I went on the Internet to seek a home remedy," one middle-aged woman who requested anonymity told the Sunday Observer last Friday. "That's when I saw it (the suggested 'remedy')."
The arthritis sufferer said she sprayed the metal lubricant on her knees, and within minutes the pain had stopped and she was able to walk unhindered.

People are Too Weird!

Ok so I was on the train to work yesterday morning and I was sitting daydreaming out the window. Actually, if I were honest I'd say I was thinking about whether or not to treat myself to a Starbucks *lol*. I decided not to... So anyway there were these two guys sitting behind me having a conversation about architecture which, for a Barrhead train is unusual! It was quite interesting: they were discussing the aesthetic benefits of contemporary facades against the beauty and timeless elegance of traditional stonework. Yes, I really was listening! :oP But the thing that made me actually giggle out loud was when the train was pulling in to Central Station. The rain started and their conversation turned to weather:

"Oh look the rain's starting!" Stated one.
"It was sunny when I left, I didn't bring a jacket with me." Replied the other, who then went on to say ""The jumper I'm wearing is a little too big so hopefully the rain will shrink it."

*Lol*

Red Nose Day :O)

It's Red Nose Day today! :O) I'm ashamed to say that I don't have a red nose yet... must go buy one at lunchtime.
Lol, for those of you who are non-UK residents and think I've gone mad, click on the big nose above to learn more about this eventful day.
Accross the UK, people are bathing in a bath full of cold custard, men are being waxed, heads are being shaved, cakes are being baked and sold, and literally everyone in the UK is wearing something red today. WHY?? I hear you ask! Well, they're all raising money for thousands of poor and disadvantaged people across the UK and Africa. They're helping them get the help they need to turn their lives around. Whether it be a woman living down their own street who is being abused by her partner or a child struggling to survive on the streets of Africa... all the cash raised is helping to improve, and in some cases save, lives.

We've got a sweepstake going at work ~ a poster with 40 people all dressed in red and white ~ each person costs £1 to bet on. We've all picked people and whichever one is revealed under the scratch-and-reveal nose wins £20 ~ the remaining £20 goes to Comic Relief! Plus there's been donations handed in all week. I'll let you know by the end of today how much money we've raised! :O)

Not only am I a Racer Idol... I'm a Road Relic!

Yay, it's Friday!
I love Friday!! I bet you all love Friday too! Well, not you Az, I know that. It's only your Wednesday. :o)
Anyway, I came across this really cool webpage that gives you alternative words and phrases from the letters in your name. Sounds weird I know but it certainly made me laugh. If I tell you my best funnies, will you tell me yours? (*Az* I only put yours in 'cos I thought they were too funny not too!)

Here goes:

• CAROL REID becomes... A Rice Lord ~ Racer Idol ~ Road Relic!
• DEREK REID becomes... Kidder Ere ~ Dried Reek!
• ALISON CAMPBELL becomes... Imbalance Polls ~ Policeman Balls ~ Collapsible Man!

Go on, share the funniest of your with me! ;o)

You'll find the anagram doodah here!

Some other brilliant ones listed on that site are:

• Dormitory = Dirty Room
• Clint Eastwood = Old West Action
• A telephone girl = Repeating "Hello"
• The Morse Code = Here Come Dots
• Slot Machines = Cash Lost in'em
• Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler
• Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z's
• Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one

Any my favourite ones!

• A Decimal Point = I'm a Dot in Place
• From Hamlet by Shakespeare:
  To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..... it becomes..... In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.