This video was made in the Antwerp, Belgium Central (Train) Station on March 23, 2009, with no warning to the passengers passing through the station. At 8:00 am a recording of Julie Andrews singing ‘Do, Re, Mi’ begins to play on the public address system.

As the bemused passengers watch in amazement, some 200 dancers begin to appear from the crowd and station entrances. They created this amazing stunt with just two rehearsals!

(Thanks go to my father for sending me this to share with you this Sunday morning! A great follow up for my birthday yesterday!)

I received this from my father (don’t know who sent it to him), and I almost didn’t listen. However, curiosity getting the better of me I clicked the link in his email (whereas I’ve just posted the video below to make it easy for you).

Here’s the email that came with the link:

A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite.

This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant. Make sure you read as well as listen…forward and backward.

This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled “u @ 50″ by AARP. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so brilliant. Take a minute and watch it.

(If you have a good monitor and a great graphics card you’ll be able to read along. However, even if you cannot see the words, listen with your soul wide open.)

Sorry to disappoint, but no I’m not talking about cosmetic surgery or any new cream to make you LOOK younger, I actually found a way that “legally” makes you younger!

All you need to do is use the Ethiopian Calendar!

You may be pleasantly surprised to find out that, using their calendar, you are actually seven (7), yes seven (7) years younger than the Gregorian style calendar that we currently use.

In fact, many types of calendars are much more accurate than the one most of us “think” is the one and only.

Check the link above and convert the Gregorian version to over a dozen different choices. And, keeping a positive attitude, especially nowadays, and saying to yourself, “I’m actually 7 years younger!” is a big boost to anyone’s spirit

And, here’s yet another spot to read all about the Ethiopian Calendar in greater detail.

BTW, I have decided to embrace this “new way” of looking at my life because when I subtract the 7 years it feels much more accurate to me… I kid you not

Have fun!

A jolly happy holiday season to everyone! Please enjoy “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” sung by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Regardless of your religion (no matter what faith or no faith), this choir is a hard one to beat

Turn on your speakers

Since it’s Sunday, the day to relax (?) and just take it easy (?), I thought I’d post another email I received over the week from my great friend Linda over at Forcedgreen.

Linda is currently working the census (IT position) in the middle of nowhere Texas this year, I’m amazed she finds the time to keep me laughing and amused.

So below you’ll find a history exam. Keep in mind NO Cheating – don’t look at the answers until you take the test (you’ll have to click on the Read more to get the answers anyway, so take the test first).

I did get 19 out of 20 but not because I’m that old LOL but I do read quite a bit and/or have just heard the information at some point in my life. However, a lot of it I did just plain know, because I grew up with most of it.

Keep in mind that this might be pretty easy for anyone over 40. If you are under 40, you can claim a handicap.

Have fun!

History Exam

*** Get paper & pencil & number from 1 to 20.
*** Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.

1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?

a. On the floor shift knob.
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch…
c. Next to the horn.

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it.. For what was it used?

a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing.
c. Large salt shaker.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?

a. Cows got cold and wouldn’t produce milk.
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?

a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during WW II?

a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn’t tell whether it was coming or going?

a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?

a. Strips of dried peanut butter.
b. Chocolate licorice bars.
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

8. How was Butch wax used?

a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up.
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing.
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust.

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?

a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key.
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot.
c. Long pieces of twine.

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?

a. Consider all the facts.
b. Ask Mom.
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-MO.

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?

a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio

12. ‘I’ll be down to get you in a ________, Honey’

a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy’s pony?

a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?

a. Part of the game of hide and seek.
b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores.
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15 . What was the name of the Indian Princess in the Howdy Doody Show?

a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c. Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?

a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high.
b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window.
c. Wrote another pupil’s name on the top, to avoid their failure.

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?

a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum.
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos.

18. Praise the Lord , & pass the _________?

a. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song ‘Cabdriver’ a hit?

a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?

a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin

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