[RubensMuse]

Hey Chicks....in one of my more unusual moods, I started a 'newsletter' that I send out to all my buds via email. As a little side job, I find, hunt, research info on the web for various topics, merchandise, etc. Now in my web travels I have come across many ...er, unusual facts, info that I thought perhaps you would all enjoy. I figured it would be a break from talking about our jiggly parts. So, unless you are opossed to the idea, I would like to start sharing the info with you on a say, every other day kinda basis. Sometimes I get things gathered every week, sometimes twice..all depends on what I come across....some are just plain interesting sites you just have to see for yourself. Don't worry Goddesses of 3FC, I PROMISE to not put anything porno, racial or downright offensive. If it has ANY potential to be taken 'in the dark', I will put a WARNING next to it like NFW=Not for work, may have sound, or NSY=Noisey, or NFM=Not for minors just in case it has more adult connotation.

Well hopefully you will all enjoy it and I hope all of you are doing AWESOME!

[RubensMuse]

Your Daily Moment of Zen
(Modified to reflect contemporary wisdom):

1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me,
for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just leave me alone.
2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.
3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's
newspaper, that's the time to do it.
4. Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any.
5. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
6. No one is listening until you fart.
7. Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.
8. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
9. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
10. Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way,when you criticise them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
11. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
12. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
13. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
14. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
15. Some days you are the bug; some days you are the windshield.
16. Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time.
17. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
18. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
19. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
20. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
21. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
22. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
23. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
24. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
25. We are born naked, wet, and hungry, and get slapped on our butt ... then things get worse.

The most wasted day of all is one in which we have not laughed.

INTERESTING SITES (All Rated CLEAN)

OXYMORONLIST.COM
http://www.oxymoronlist.com
You may not realize how often and how many contradictory
phrases like "deafening silence" and "organized chaos" pop
up in the English language until you visit a Web site
devoted to listing them. As if that weren't entertaining
enough, the list is sprinkled with tongue-in-cheek entries
like "domestic bliss" and "legal brief."


ANOTHER PLATE OF CHOLESTERAL MR. SMITH?
Death warrants can be an awful thing, but some can at least
leave a sweet taste in your mouth. A clever chap has travelled
our purple mountains and waving grain revelling in Pancake bliss.
http://www.geocities.com/marmotamonax/Pancakes/


DOES THAT [insert Miracle Product here] REALLY WORK?
It's like a Consumer Reports for Crap: "as seen on TV"
products are evaluated. Dozens of dubious junk like Epil
Stop-n-Spray, Oxi-Clean, they're all here...
http://www.krbctv.com/diw_archive/


NEVER BE ALONE ON THE WEB
When everyone you know is out dancing, you can still hold a
conversation with A.L.I.C.E.
http://alicebot.org/a.l.i.c.e./

[Sojourner]

C'mon... can't you post just a little bit of porn?

[mauvaisroux]

Sojo....like you can't find enough of that on the net on your own

[RubensMuse]

Hello! I hope everyone is well! Enjoy!

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Strange Facts and other Oddball Things

• Hummingbirds can't walk.

• The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.

• Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.

• The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.

• More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.

• There is a city called Rome on every continent.

• The screwdriver was invented before the screw.

• Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

• John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.

• Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.

• Earth is the only planet not named after a God.

• Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

• The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.

• The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)

• Only female mosquitoes bite.

• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

• Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.

• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

• The first time the word "****" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the **** out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.

• Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.

• Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

• The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

• No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.

• It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena,Italy, if your name is Mary.

• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."

• The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof'.

• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."

• The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.

• Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."

• Cat urine glows under a blacklight.

• On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

• Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.

• "Evian" (the bottled water) spelled backwards is "naive."

• Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

• Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

• During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

• S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.

• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

• Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.

• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

• A whale's penis is called a dork.

• Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.

• The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.

• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

• Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

• The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

• In most watch advertisments the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it's smiling.)

• Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

• The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

• Pearls melt in vinegar.

• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

• In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it '*****.'



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IS THAT A WORD?

* Pseudodictionary.com
http://www.pseudodictionary.com/
For definitions of over 10,000 slang words, Web speak, and
colloquialisms, visit this alternative to Webster's. If you
feel a word is missing from the list, submit it to the site,
and it just might become a part of the Pseudodictionary.



PUTT PUTT ON THE WEB!
Miniature golf game, just as perfect as you please. It
even keeps your ball at the 18th hole.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~p...h/miniputt.swf

[RubensMuse]

Hello all! I hope all is well with everyone.
This Strange Zen is about customs (many of which are showing weddings, which is fitting due to my upcoming anniversary. 16 years is along time, I feel so old.)

Anyway...enjoy these..they are very interesting

First things

CRAZY AS A LOON? I know I am
Take the The Insanity Test
http://www.knplogic.co.uk/are_u_mad.html
You should probably consider yourself crazy if you DON'T
laugh at this little slice of Web silliness. Make sure you
have your speakers turned on.


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Japanese bowing carries different meanings at different angles.
- A bow at an angle of five degrees means "Good day" (simple greeting).
- A bow at an angle of fifteen degrees is also a common salutation, a bit more formal it means "Good morning."
- A bow at an angle of thirty degrees is a respectful bow to indicate appreciation for a kind gesture.
- A bow at a forty-five-degree angle is used to convey deep respect or an apology.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year.

In the country of Tibet, it's good manners to stick out your tongue at your guests. (a neighbours kid honours me often)


Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.

In olden days in the British Isles, a green wedding dress was thought to be unlucky unless the bride was Irish. The antiquated expression that a woman had a "green gown" implied promiscuity; the green staining of her clothing was the result of rolling about in grassy fields with a lover.

In Pennsylvania, Ministers are forbidden from performing marriages when either the bride or groom is drunk.

Why do we kiss under the mistletoe? The ancient Norse associated mistletoe with their goddess of love.


Married women were forbidden by law to watch, let alone compete, in the ancient Olympics. The penalty was death. The Greeks believed that the presence of wives in Olympia would defile Greece’s oldest religious shrine there, although young girls were allowed in. Ironically, the shrine that was off-limits to married women was dedicated to a woman, the fertility goddess Rhea, who was the mother of the supreme god Zeus. Women who broke the rule were thrown from a nearby cliff.


The minimum age for marriage of Italian girls was raised by law to 12 years in 1892.


Time magazine reports that in Russia, buying carnations or roses is a prerequisite for a first date. They must be given in odd numbers, because flowers given in even numbers are reserved for funerals.


A bride stands to the groom’s left at a wedding so that his sword hand would be free. 9and I thought it was so he was easier to hang onto if he tried to runaway) Apparently Anglo-Saxon brides were often kidnapped before a wedding and brawls were common. That’s also why the best man stands with the groom; the tribe’s best warrior was there to help the groom defend the bride.



There is meaning behind the wedding custom of “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” The “old” thing was a personal gift from the bride’s mom to make a bond to the bride’s old life. The “new” item symbolised hope for the future and the newly formed family. The “borrowed” item was a gift from a happily married woman that would carry some of the woman’s happiness into the new marriage. The something “blue” came from two sources that had similar meanings. To ancient Romans, maidens wore blue to show fidelity and modesty, and to Christians, blue was linked to the purity of the Virgin Mary.


There are 48 teaspoons in a cup: three teaspoons make a tablespoon and 16 tablespoons to a cup.


Why is a wedding ring always worn on the third finger?
Modern "authorities" on etiquette follow their predecessors in matrimonial procedure, in urging that the wedding ring always be worn on the third finger.
Before medical science discovered how the circulatory system functioned, people believed that a vein of blood ran directly from the third finger on the left hand to the heart. Because of the hand-heart connection, they chose the descriptive name vena amori, Latin for the vein of love, for this particular vein.
Based upon this name, their contemporaries, purported experts in the field of matrimonial etiquette, wrote that it would only be fitting that the wedding ring be worn on this finger. By wearing the ring on the third finger of the left hand, a married couple symbolically declares their eternal love for each other.

[jiffypop]

rubens.. i just LOVE this stuff!!! keep it coming!!!

[Wildfire]

I have heard about 99 of my Salem's vocal sounds....he sings in the hallway at night. Quite talented...you should hear him do "Moon River".

[katrinabgood]

Wow, Rubens...you are a FONT of information! Lots of good stuff there...

Now I know where to go when I don't know where to go.

Thanks!

[Windsong~49]

This is a great thing you are doing. Keep it coming. I just love it and you can learn new things!!!!

[RubensMuse]

More Interesting Customs
Everyone enjoy!!!! And I am glad you like them. I will share all I find.

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The infamous London Fog
London in the early times was indeed an unclean place. Overpopulation, coal stoves, the vast amounts sewage dumped (some 278,000 tons daily) into the Thames, along with the factories that dumped there too and, Europe's traditional overcast weather patterns, all contributed to the development of this 'pea soup fog' that actually killed over 1000 persons every year by suffocating them to death. This fog also contributed to the growing cholera epidemic that swept Europe in the 1800 and 1900's.

Etiquette
The Lady
1. If unmarried and under 30, she is never to be alone in the company of man.
2. Under no circumstances was lady to call on a man alone, unless dealing with business or professional matters.
3. A lady does not wear pearls or diamonds in the morning
4. A lady never dances more than 3 dances with the same partner
5. A lady is to never to 'cut' someone, that is to ignore them after encountering them socially.

The Gentleman (Propriety at it's best)
1. In riding horseback, the lady must always have the wall or hedge. (maybe that's why men want the side of the bed not close to the wall)
2. Meeting a lady on the street, you bow. If she bows back, you may approach, but only speak to her if she does so first.
3. When using stairs, you precede the lady going up and follow going down.
4. When in a carriage with a lady that is not your wife, sister or kin, you sit opposite her. When alighting the carriage you exit first so you can help her down. This stops you from stepping on her dress.
5. A gentleman never smokes in the presence of a lady
6. A gentleman is always introduced to a lady, not the the way around.

Business cards were created at this time. You were not allowed admittance to another home unannounced. You were to leave your calling card before entering, and wait to be received.

You went to jail for not paying your debts. "Debtors prison"...you were kept with all walks of criminals too. And you stayed there until the courts were secured that you would pay your debts.

Stealing resulted in your hand being cut off, or fingers if you were a child.

Ever wonder how those ladies got their corsets so tight? Water. Water would cause the material to shrink and they could tighten the fitting as tight as they desired. This resulted in the disfigurement of the woman's rib cage and would inhibit the full expansion of her lungs. That's why ladies fainted so much.

Hygiene
Baths were not taken often. Water access was not brought into the home until later. Soap was very expensive and only the elite afforded it. Deodorant was not created until much later. If baths were in order, and entire family would bathe in the same water (since servants had to carry the water in by bucket load). The water was usually cold since boiling the water took so long. The gentleman would bath first, wife, then children, with the baby being last...hence the saying 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater".

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TRACK YOUR $1 BILLS BY SERIAL NUMBER!
You enter the serial numbers off your dollar bills, write an
online story about each one(!), and then handwrite
"wheresgeorge.com" on each bill (illegal, I might add).
LATER ON IN YOUR LIFE, you check to see if anyone has found
those bills and let you know where they found it, and then,
perhaps, you strike up a friendship with the person who
found it!
http://www.wheresgeorge.com

[RubensMuse]

Ok ladies. check out this site (clean) and tell me that you just couldn't fall in love with a fellow that took these rules to heart.

These extremely helpful video skits teach men
exactly what blunders to avoid on a date with a
young lady.
http://www.zefrank.com/date_1/navigation.html

[RubensMuse]

Did you Know?????...............

In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.

Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases.

Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year

The expression "to get fired" comes from long, long ago. When clans wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down.

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people !

Sticking your two middle fingers up dates back from the middles ages. When archers were caught they had their two middle fingers cut of so that they couldn't shoot any more arrows. So when an archer was shooting people he would stick his fingers up to say "look I still have them, "hahaha".

In Japan it is illegal for anyone but the royals to own a burgundy car

Contrary to the phrase "sweating like a pig", pigs cant actually sweat

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

In France, a five year old child can buy an alcoholic drink in a bar

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament buildings is an American flag.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". In English this means 'The City of Angels'

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

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AGE COMPARING MACHINE

This is interesting enough to kill a few minutes, and that's
really the only criteria I need to publish something.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html

[RubensMuse]

In this weeks ZEN I mainly focus on a few of the frequent expressions we may hear and their origins. I'm not speaking of those tiny slang phrases we find slipping from our lips at moments of pain, anger or angst, but ones such as "Bob's Your Uncle", "Lame Duck", "Dressed to the Nines", "Mind Your P&Qs".....I'm sure you get the picture. I had fun finding these! If you would like me to further research other such phrases, please send them to me and I will find an answer.

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...AND THEN, BOB'S YOUR UNCLE
"Bob's your uncle" is a way of saying "you're all set" or "you've got it made." It's a catch phrase dating back to 1887, when British Prime Minister Robert Cecil (a.k.a. Lord Salisbury) decided to appoint a certain Arthur Balfour to the prestigious and sensitive post of Chief Secretary for Ireland. Not lost on the British public was the fact that Lord Salisbury just happened to be better known to Arthur Balfour as "Uncle Bob." In the resulting furor over what was seen as an act of blatant nepotism, "Bob's your uncle" became a popular sarcastic comment applied to any situation where the outcome was preordained by favouritism. As the scandal faded in public memory, the phrase lost its edge and became just a synonym for "no problem."


DON'T BE A LAME DUCK
A lame duck (I suppose we ought to call it "flight-challenged") is one unable to keep up with the flock and is thus easy prey for predators. The phrase "lame duck" was first applied on the London Stock Exchange in the 18th century to brokers who could not pay their debts. Beginning in 19th-century America, "lame duck" was used to describe a Congressional representative who had failed to persuade the voters into re- electing him in November.


SHE'S DRESSED TO THE NINES
There are a whole slew of possible origins of "dressed to the nines," meaning to be dressed in an elegant or elaborate fashion. One theory is that it came from an Old English saying "dressed to the eyes," or to please the beholder, which, in the peculiar spelling of Old English, would have appeared "dressed to then eyne." Through a process called "metanalysis," in which letters from one word migrate over time to a neighbouring word, "then eyne" might have become "the neyne" and then "the nines." A similar process transformed "a napron" (related to "napkin") to our modern "an apron."

On the other hand, the number nine holds an exalted place in numerology, and might have been adopted in the distant past as a synonym for "superlative." "Dressed to the nines" would thus be equivalent to our modern "dressed to the max."

It's also possible that the phrase come from an old jeweler's phrase "nine nines fine," referring to gold of 99.9999999 percent purity, or that the phrase refers to the nine muses of classical mythology, or to the spiffy uniforms of the 99th Wiltshire Regiment in England, or, well, you get the idea. There is no one answer, so I guess you'll just have to pick the theory you like best. Personally, I like the one about 99 bottles of beer.


REMEMBER TO MIND YOUR P&Q'S
As to where "mind your P's and Q's," meaning "be very careful" or "behave yourself" came from, is another saying with a number of fascinating theories, so you can pretty much take your pick of the following.

One theory is that the phrase comes from the practice in certain British pubs of tallying a customer's purchases on a blackboard behind the bar, with the notation "P" standing for "pints" and "Q" for quarts. If a customer failed to pay close attention and "mind his P's and Q's," he might find by that the barkeep had padded his tab.

Another theory, drawn from the schoolroom, is that any child approaching the mystery of penmanship soon discovers that the lowercase "p" is devilishly easy to confuse with the lowercase "q." Thus, the theory goes, generations of teachers exhorting their small charges to "mind your P's and Q's" created a enduring metaphor for being attentive and careful.

Still other theories tie the "P" to "pea" cloth (the rough fabric used in "pea jackets") and the "Q" to "queue," which meant a ponytail, either that of the fancy wigs worn by courtiers of the day or the real ponytails commonly worn by sailors. In the upscale version of this theory, young aristocrats were cautioned not to get the powder from their wigs on their jackets made of pea cloth. The sailor version advises newcomers to dip their ponytails in tar (a common practice, believe it or not), but to avoid soiling their pea jackets with the tar.

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ONLINE REPUTATION CHECKER
Done Good deeds? Or Bad?
Find out at this link...
http://www.repcheck.com/
Like a Personal Better Business Bureau

LOVE IT WHEN IT'S FREE
Free things!
http://www.totallyfreebies.com

[RubensMuse]

Some fun and odd places to go online....all clean ....(sorry Sojo)

YOUR NAME IN EGYPTIAN!
Neat English-to-Hieroglyph converter
http://www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi
:::We can all be queens:::

YOUR NAME IN BRAILLE!
See what your name would feel like written in bumps.
http://www.hotbraille.com/
:::What if your name is Dot?::::

YOUR NAME IN CHINESE!
It must be easy, because little Chinese kids can
read it just fine.
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
:::Gobbledygook be thy name::::

THE MASTER OF THE DOUBLE-TAKE
Eric's talent is accurately displaying emotions on
his face. Need pity? Click "pity." Need
Indifference? Click on "indifference". Invaluable!
http://www.emotioneric.com/


WE EMIT WHAT WE EAT
Foods that cause odor
Foods that cause gas
Foods that color stool
Foods that thicken stool
Foods that stimulate the sphincter to relax...
(no photos on this site, thankfully)
http://home.att.net/~bentsen1/foods.htm

EMERGENCY E-MAIL!
So many emergencies, so little time. This free
service lets you pinpoint exactly the urgent
current events you care about. Quite comprehensive.
Messages go to e-mail or pager.
http://www.emergencyemail.org/