If men ruled the world

Any fake phone number a girl gave you would automatically forward your call to her real number.

Nodding and looking at your watch would be deemed an acceptable response to "I love you."

Hallmark would make "Sorry, what was your name again?" cards.

When your girlfriend really needed to talk to you during the game, she would appear in a little box in the corner of the screen during a time-out.

Birth control would come in ale or lager.

Each year, your raise would be pegged to the fortunes of the NFL

The funniest guy in the office would get to be CEO.

"Sorry I'm late, but I got hammered last night" would be an acceptable excuse for tardiness.

At the end of the workday, a whistle would blow and you'd jump out your window and slide down the tail of a brontosaurus and right into your car.

It'd be considered harmless fun to gather 30 friends, put on horned helmets, and go pillage a nearby town.

Tanks would be far easier to rent.

Instead of beer belly, you'd get "beer biceps."

Instead of an expensive engagement ring, you could present your wife-to-be with a giant foam hand that said, "You're #1!"

Valentine's Day would be moved to February 29th so it would only occur in leap years. (AMEN!!!)

On Groundhog Day, if you saw your shadow, you'd get the day off to go drinking. Mother's Day, too. St. Patrick's Day, however, would remain exactly the same. But it would be celebrated every month.

Cops would be broadcast live, and you could phone in advice to the pursuing cops. Or to the crooks.

Two words: ALLY MCNAKED.

Regis and Kathie Lee would be chained to a cement mixer and pushed off the Golden Gate Bridge for the most lucrative pay-per-view event in world history.

The victors in any athletic competition would get to kill and eat the losers.

The only show opposite Monday Night Football would be Monday Night Football from a Different Camera Angle.

It would be perfectly legal to steal a sports car, as long as you returned it the following day with a full tank of gas.

Every man would get four real "Get Out of Jail Free" cards per year.

When a cop gave you a ticket, every smart-aleck answer you responded with would actually reduce your fine. As in:
Cop: "You know how fast you were going?"
You: "All I know is, I was spilling my beer all over the place."
Cop: "Nice one. That's $10 off."

Faucets would run "Hot," "Cold," and "100 proof."

The Statue of Liberty would get a bright red, 40-foot thong.

People would never talk about how fresh they felt.

Daisy Duke shorts would never again go out of style.

Telephones would automatically cut off after 30 seconds of conversation.

What is physical fitness?

The traditional aim of Physical Education is to promote the three 'S's: Suppleness, strength and
stamina. To these relatively utilitarian physical virtues one might add the aesthetic culture of physique
through body-building, and the culture of the mind as well as the body through training in martial arts.
All have been pursued in the name of 'physical fitness'.
To talk of 'fitness' immediately begs the question, fitness for what? Chess players as well as
philosophers do well to include physical exercise as part of their daily regime. If you are out of shape
physically, your mental stamina will suffer. Other vocations — such as fireman or soccer referee, to
take two relatively extreme examples — require a rather higher level of physical fitness.
In competitive sport, there is no limit. Paraphrasing the Duchess of Windsor, You can never be too
rich or too fit. Yet there are enormous differences between the requirements of different sports. The
400 Pound sumo wrestler would be considered supremely fit for what he is required to do. Sebastian
Coe, the famed British middle distance runner of the 80's, reputedly had a heart so enlarged that
when resting his heart rate was just six beats a minute. (With a heart as big as that, he would
naturally join the Tory party.)
Coe was supremely fit, but as any retired athlete will verify, the added muscle mass requires a
continued regime of strenuous exercise or it can become a serious health liability.
The idea of the states of 'fitness' and 'unfitness' as being states of human perfection and its opposite
traces back to the Ancient Greeks. The Olympic athletes, gods and heroes celebrated in Greek
statues are the closest approach to a visual representation of Plato's Form or Idea of 'Man'. The
notion survives with a smattering of scientific respectability in Darwin's theory of evolution: to be
physically fit is to attain the ideal physical form that evolution has designed for us. If we could read
our genes, we could draw a blueprint of the perfect body that would have been ours if only we had
looked after it properly. — But then I am forgetting that some do far better than others in the genetic
lottery. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, so the saying goes.
What would the Ancient Greeks have made of the Paraplegic Olympics? Plato and Aristotle would
have surely recognised that what we celebrate when we celebrate athletic and sporting achievement
is not mere physical perfection or skill but the perfection of the moral qualities of courage and
endurance as well as the intellectual qualities of resourcefulness and inspiration.
I would say the same of body-builders, an art unjustly sneered at by the sports mainstream. Over the
last few decades, female body building in particular has gone off into the stratosphere, with women
achieving physiques once undreamt of, which judged by the Platonic Idea of 'Woman' would be
considered a grotesque parody of a human being. Yet surely here the achievement is just as great as
with those who attain to the heights of any sporting or athletic activity. To achieve the highest
distinction the same mental qualities are required, and it is these that we admire, as much as we
admire the superb definition of a person's triceps.
Perfection of body and mind is the ideal. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the martial arts.
Bruce Lee, the exponent of Jeet Kune Do — or 'Kung Fu' as it is popularly called — is most widely
known for his film roles. Yet it was his genius as a teacher and practitioner of martial arts rather than
as an actor that inspired and continues to inspire tens of thousands of men and women to take up the
different martial arts disciplines. It is less well known that Lee studied Western as well as Eastern
philosophy to a high level. Always suspicious of compartmentalization, Lee sought for wisdom and
enlightenment wherever it could be found — in Kant and Hegel as much as in Lao Tzu or Confucius
— just as he taught that there is no right way but only your way, the path you have forged through
your personal endeavour for self-perfection.
Geoffrey Klempner

vocabulary 7

1. epoch
noun [C]
a period of history, especially one in which important events take place:
• The Russian Revolution marked the beginning of a new epoch in history. --see also ERA

era
noun [C]
a period of time in history that is different in some way from other periods, or that begins with a particular date or event:
• a new era of global cooperation

2. midst
noun
1 in the midst of sth
a) in the middle of something such as a period, situation, or event:
• Deb's in the midst of a messy divorce.
b) in the middle of a place or a group of things:
• We stood in the midst of thousands of people.
2 in sb's midst FORMAL in a particular group of people:
• They believe there are angels in our midst.

3. vacillate
verb [I]
to continue to change your opinions, ideas, behavior etc.; WAVER [+ between]:
• Eve vacillates between love and anger for the father who abandoned her.
vacillation noun [C,U]
4. assimilate
verb
1 [I,T] if people assimilate or are assimilated into a country or group, they become part of it and are accepted by other people in it [+ into]:
• Many ethnic groups have been assimilated into American society.
2 [T] to think about new ideas, information etc. so that you feel ready to use them:
• Brubeck began to assimilate classical influences into his jazz performances.
3 [T] TECHNICAL if you assimilate food, you take it into your mouth and DIGEST1(1) it

5. uncalled for
adjective INFORMAL
behavior or remarks that are uncalled for are unfair or inappropriate:
• That comment was totally uncalled for.

6. surpass
adjective [only before noun]
LITERARY much better than that of other people or things:
• a young woman of surpassing beauty
7. pulp
noun [singular,U]
1 the soft inside part of a fruit or vegetable:
• He won't drink the orange juice if there's a lot of pulp in it.
2 a very soft substance that is almost liquid, especially a substance made from wood or other plants and used for making paper, or a substance made by crushing and mixing fruit or vegetables with water:
• paper pulp
• Stir vigorously to break the cranberries into a pulp.
3 beat sb to a pulp INFORMAL to hit someone until they are seriously injured
4 part of the inside of a tooth
5 books, magazines, movies etc. that are of poor quality or are badly written, and that are often about sex or violence
pulpy adjective


adjective [only before noun]
pulp magazines, stories etc. are of poor quality or are badly written, and are often about sex and violence:
• pulp fiction

verb [T]
1 to beat or crush something until it becomes so soft that it is almost liquid
2 to cut up and add water to books, newspapers etc. in order to make paper:
• Forms will be shredded, pulped, and recycled.

idioms 7

1. Make head or tail of something.
2. it beats me.
3. to get the picture.
4. to real between line
5. to be at cross purposes.
6. to talk the things the wrong way.
7. to go over one's hedges.

American dreams

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the
moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Idioms 7

1. They most have seen you comming .
2. that is the way the ball bounces
3. to be skating on thin ice .
4. vanish into thin air .
5. thing are right with sb or sth .
6. don't give it another talk .
7. it the taught that .
8. girl fridey

operable / operative

What is these difference between operable / operative ?

remedy / therapy / recovery

What is these difference between remedy / therapy / recovery?

cure /heal /fix / treat

What is these difference between cure /heal /fix / treat?

fairly / pretty/ a bit /quiet ?

What is these difference between fairly / pretty/ a bit /quiet ?

We choose how we see people

Fred and Mary go on their first dinner date. Fred is determined to have a good time. Mary drops potato salad in her lap, and Fred says: "Here, let me help you wipe that up." She loses her house keys, and Fred says: "I do that all the time!"
Three years go by, Mary and husband Fred are out to dinner. She drops the potato salad in her lap. Fred says: "You're disgusting!" She forgets her keys. He says: "You bird brain!"
Same people, same circumstances, different attitude! We choose how we see people. When we want to like someone, we can be tolerant. When we want to irritate by people, we focus on their faults. It's not other behavior that determines how we feel about them – it's our attitude.
Most of us spend more time thinking about what's wrong than what's right: Mary has two mental lists about Fred. The first is the wife's shortlist – a brief inventory of Fred's shortcomings. The second is the window's long list – a complete catalogue of Fred's qualities: his friendliness, his sense of humour, his generosity, and his cute backside.
She spends her whole married life concentrating o the short list – the few things, which irritate her… "He leaves the newspaper spread all over the breakfast table," "he leaves the toilet seat up." Then one day a truck hits poor Fred. Overnight she switches to the long list… Fred was such a n angel… kind, generous, hard working… he was such a good husband."
If we want to have lists, shouldn't we at least do it the other way round? Focus on all the things we adore about people, and when they're gone console ourselves with thoughts like "he snored anyway?" If I asked you: "What is wrong about your mother?" Wouldn't you find something? If I said: "List another five things you don't like about her appearance, her attitude and her behavior," could you do it? I bet you could. Given time you might think of a hundred things, or maybe a thousand. You might get to the point where you never want to see her again!
People who concentrate on the negatives usually defined themselves by saying: "I'm being realistic." The fact is YOU CREATE YOUR REALITY. You choose how you see your mother, and everyone else. Take anybody in your life and concentrate on what you like about them, and your relationship will improve. It can be hard, even scary, but it works.


By Andrew Matthews

start /begin /commence

what is these defference between start /begin /commence ?

Idioms 6

1. Blow your own horn.
2. some one is a marked man / woman .
3. you can't keep a good man down .
4. to be central on univers .
5. be a breeze
6. draw a blank .
7. while horses wouldn't drag somebody .