Potential vs Realistic

Subject: Brad Pitt

      A young boy went up to his
father and asked him, "Dad, what is the difference between potentially and
realistically?"  The father thought for a moment, then answered, "Go ask
your mother if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. Then ask
your sister if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars, and then,
ask your brother if he'd sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. Come back
and tell me what you learn from that." 

      So the boy went to his mother
and asked, "Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?"  The
mother replied, "Of course I would! We could really use that money to fix up the
house and send you kids to a great University!" 

      The boy then went to his sister
and asked, "Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?"  The
girl replied, "Oh my God! I LOVE Brad Pitt I would sleep with him in a
heartbeat, are you nuts?!?!?! " 

      The boy then went to his
brother and asked, "Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?" 
"Of course," the brother replied. "Do you know how much a million bucks would
buy?"

      The boy pondered the answers
for a few days, then went back to his dad.  His father asked him, "Did you
find out the difference between potentially and realistically?"  The boy
replied, "Yes... Potentially, you and I are sitting on Three Million
Dollars.............. but Realistically,......... we're living with two Sluts
and a Homosexual. 

For Funny Bone web page.  Thanks to
Thomasian MSollosa

Most Annoying People of 2004

My dear relatives and friends
all over the United States:  We're at year's end and here are some of the
many reasons why I'm inspired to get out of my queen bed and  enjoy the
sugar and spice of life.  Like what a friend told me, "Without your enemy,
you are not going to win."  How true, how true.  I look at things from
both sides since then.  Barbara Walters, the doyenne of news babes,
 had her list of "Most Fascinating People." Well, here's my own list of
MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE OF 2004....

1.  Michael Moore

2.  Bill Maher

3.  Al Franken

4.  Lawrence O'Donnell

5.  Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)

6.  Cong. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)

7.  Sen. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

8.  Sen. John Biden (D-Del)

9.  Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

10.  Sen. Chuck Hagel  (R-NE)

11.  Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)

12.  Bill Moyer (PBS)

13.  Dan Rather (CBS)

14.  Peter Jennings (ABC)

15.  Bill Kristol (The Weekly Standard)

16.  Jean Garofalo

17.  Jessica Lange

18.  Madonna

19.  Sharon Stone

20.  Leonardo di Caprio

21.  Rosie O'Donnell

22.  Ben Affleck

23.  Matt Damon

24.  Bruce Springsteen

25.  Harry Belafonte

26.  Cher

27.  George Clooney

28.  Sarah Jessica Parker

29.  Dixie
Chicks

30.  Target Management

                                                                          

There are many opinions as there are people ** Terence

Published 12/21/04  ALT  MSN Group

Web Page: Most Annoying People of 2004

Happy Holidays 2004

Wishing you all at B*U*S*T* the best of the season.

   

Ten Best Things to Say if you Get Caught Sleeping at Your Desk

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For lab techs (meditating) on the job....

Ten Best Things to Say if you Get Caught
Sleeping at Your Desk:

10. "They told me at the Blood
Bank this might happen."

9. "This is just a 15 minute
power nap they raved about in the time management course you sent me to."

8. "Whew! Guess I left the top
off the Whiteout. You probably got here just in time."

7. "I wasn't sleeping! I was
meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new business strategy."

6. "I was testing my keyboard
for drool resistance."

5. "I was doing a highly
specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory
toward people who practice Yoga?"

4. "Darn! Why did you interrupt
me? I had almost figured out how to handle that big accounting problem."

3. "Did you ever notice sound
coming out of these keyboards when you put your ear down real close?"

2. "Who put decaf in the wrong
pot?"

AND THE NUMBER ONE best thing
to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk... Raise your head slowly and
say, "  ...in Jesus name, Amen. 


Published 12/14/04   ALT  MSN Group
Web Page:  Ten Best Things to Say if you Get Caught Sleeping at Your Desk

ALT/RHC Christmas Party Chicago Brauhaus 2004

DECEMBER 4, 2004  SECOND TIME AROUND AT CHICAGO BRAUHAUS

Target Rejects Veterans? - BreakTheChain.org

More MSN SEARCH about TARGET
STORE.

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/target2.html

Happy Thanksgiving! 2004

Kumusta! Groups! Naubos ba ang turkey?  Hi to the folks in San Francisco. One of the kids is getting married.  Keep us informed.


Published  11/28/04  ALT  MSN Group
Web Page: Happy Thanksgiving!

60's Artist Releasing new hits Cliff Richard 1981

ATTENTION: BABY
BOOMERS!

       Artists from the 60's are
re-releasing their new hits. Some of the
artists from the 60's are
re-releasing their hits with new lyrics to
accommodate the old folk. This is
good news, for those feeling a little
older and missing those great old
tunes:

Herman's
Hermits - "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely
Walker"

The Bee
Gees - "How Can You Mend A Broken Hip"
 
The Temptations -
"Papa's Got A Kidney Stone"

Stevie Wonder - "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm
Dead"

Michael Jackson - "Bed" (The Two Of Us)

Neil Sedaka - "Stairway To Heaven"

       The
Monkees - "Last Train To
Smallville"

Bob Dylan - "Like A Kidney
Stone"

      
The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrator"

   

Aretha Franklin - "Chin of Fools"

  

Barbra Streisand - "Evergray"

      

Carly Simon - "You're So Lame"

Barry Manilow - "Coffeecabana"

Lulu - "To Doc With Love"

Rolling Stones - "Let's Not Spend The Night 

Together"

The Beatles - "I Saw Her Sitting There"

Elton John - "Hairpiece In The Wind"

Cliff Richard - "The Young Once"

Elvis Presley - "Blue Viagra"

Don McLean - "Sleepy, Sleepy 

Night"

Ringo Starr - "I Get By With A Little
Help From Depends"

Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through The
Grape Nuts"

Procol
Harem - "A Whiter Shade Of Hair"

Johnny Nash - "I Can't See
Clearly Now"

Leo
Sayer - "You Make Me Feel Like Napping"

ABBA - "Denture
Queen"

Paul
Simon - " Fifty Ways To Lose Your Liver"

Roberta Flack - "The
First Time I Ever Forgot Your Face"

Commodores - "Once, Twice, Three Times To
The Bathroom"

Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Pee
When You Want"

Bobby Darin - "Splish, Splash, I Was
Havin' A Flash" 

Thanks to Thomasian MSollosa - Busted
Living web page

Published  11/17/04  ALT  MSN  Group

Web Page:  60's Artist Releasing new hits


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CLIFF RICHARD US WORLD TOUR,   APRIL 1981

Yo-Yo Toy Guru Pedro Flores

Dear Melba,

 Very interesting.  I love
playing the Yo-Yo.  I bought a Yo-Yo made of wood not plastic in
Mexico 15 years ago.   I play with it occasionally and practice some
Yo-Yo tricks.  Hi to YOYOs, MSN group members.

 budz,

interested?

Melba

Pedro Flores

The Flores yo-yo was the first yo-yo manufactured in the United
States, its originator was Pedro Flores. Pedro Flores is considered the
original yo-yo guru. Mr. Flores was the singular most important person in
introducing the word "yo-yo" to the United States. Although the yo-yo as a toy
(known as a bandalore) has been used for centuries, even existing in the
United States for years prior to Mr. Flores, as one astute observer noted in
the late 1920’s "we’ve all done the yo-yo before but we never had a name for
it."

Pedro
Flores was a native of Vintar, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. He
came to the United State in 1915. He attended the High School of Commerce in
San Francisco 1919-1920 then he took up the study of Law at the University of
California Berkeley and the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.

Flores dropped out of school for reasons
unknown and moved to Santa Barbara, California. He worked at odd jobs for
years and at the time of starting his yo-yo business he was working as a
bellboy.

He
developed his vision for the yo-yo’s potential when he read about a man
selling a ball attached to a rubber band who made a million dollars. He
remembered the game yo-yo, which was played for hundreds of years in the
Philippines, and he thought it had a good market possibility in the U.S. Mr.
Flores was quoted saying "I do not expect to make a million dollars, I just
want to be working for myself. I have been working for other people for
practically all my life and I don’t like it."

In early
1928 Flores came to Los Angeles and asked some wealthy
Philippine for assistance in manufacturing yo-yos. His friends thought him
crazy and he returned to Santa Barbara with only his dream. Being a true
entrepreneur, at the age of 29, on June 9^th 1928, he applied and
received a certificate of conducting business for the Yo-yo Manufacturing
Company in Santa Barbara. On June 23, 1928 he made 1 dozen yo-yos by hand and
began selling them to neighborhood children. By November of 1928 his company
had 2000 yo-yos and he was able to attract two American financiers, James and
Daniel Stone of Los Angeles. Now with the ability to produce machine made
yo-yos, four months later, over 100,000 yo-yos had been produced. By November
of 1929 three factories were making 300,000 yo-yos daily and employing 600
workers. These companies were the Flores and Stone, Los Angeles; The Flores
Yo-yo Corporation, Hollywood; and the Yo-yo Manufacturing Company, Santa
Barbara.

Flores also inaugurated the yo-yo
spinning contest which spread the first yo-yo frenzy in the United States in
late 1928 and 1929. The yo-yo was promoted as the Flores Yo-yo "The Wonder
Toy" and using a phrase which now familiar with a slight variation "If it
isn’t Flores it isn’t a yo-yo" as the slogan. Although early contests resulted
in the spread of the yo-yo fad they were clearly different than the more
modern contests. In the initial contests endurance was the main event. The
winner was the individual who could keep his or her yo-yo spinning up and down
without missing, for the longest duration. Many contests resulted in ties
after hours of continuous yo-yoing by stubborn competitors refusing to quit.
Frequently, the champion of these endurance events was determined by drawing
straws. Other contest categories included the yo-yo thrown farthest with
complete return and the largest number of perfect spins in a five minute
period. Prizes were also for hand made yo-yos, and yo-yos made out of bicycle
wheels and wood barrel tops were not uncommon submissions. Early contests
could be found anywhere but on November 22, 1929 the Gates Theater in
Portsmouth, Virginia, became the first theater to offer a contest. For the
rest of the 20’s and 30’s theaters became popular sites for contests. Although
some Flores yo-yo strings were made out of silk which allowed for less sleep
action than later cotton strings. Several different designs of the Flores
yo-yo were done. Prices in 1929 ranged from 15 cents to $1.50 each depending
on the design and decoration. Flores employed Dorothy Carter as his chief
designer of his yo-yos.

Although
Pedro Flores was frequently described as the inventor of the yo-yo, Mr. Flores
never personally claimed to have invented the yo-yo, and he always mentioned
it’s past history as a centuries old Philippine game. He was also frequently
described as the patent holder of the yo-yo, but yo-yos (Bandalores) prior to
Pedro Flores had already been patented. Even though patent applied for and
patent pending are often seen on Flores yo-yos this was a
technique used to dissuade other toy companies from producing yo-yos. There
was no legal patent held for the standard yo-yo by Pedro Flores. He did apply
for and receive a trademark for the Flores Yo-yo and this was registered on
July 22, 1930. It was shortly after this that Flores sold his interest in the
yo-yo factories which were later acquired by the Donald Duncan Yo-yo
Company.

At the
end of 1929 a true yo-yo craze was going on across the country initially
inspired by Flores but new competitors had entered the arena
including Don Duncan, Lewis Marx and others. Although Duncan’s name is most
associated with the popularity of the yo-yo contests, the original yo-yo fire
was fueled by Pedro Flores. It is uncertain exactly at what date Duncan Yo-yo
Company acquired the Flores Yo-Yo name (probably 1930) but it did have the
Flores trade mark legally assigned to it in 1932. For a period of time in the
early 1930’s Duncan corporation not only sold Duncan Yo-yos but they also sold
Flores Yo-yos as well. In very early contests in 1931 either a genuine Flores
yo-yo or a genuine Duncan Gold Seal Yo-yo could be used in the
competitions.

Pedro
Flores was reported to have sold his interest in his yo-yo manufacturing
companies for greater than one quarter of a million dollars, which during the
depression was a fortune. Mr. Flores was quoted saying "I am more interested
in teaching children to use the yo-yos than I am in manufacturing of yo-yos." Flores followed through by becoming one of the key promoters in
Duncan’s early yo-yo campaigns. Especially during 1931-32, Mr. Flores was
instrumental in setting up many of the promotions in the cities where the
early Duncan contests were being held. The contest’s were vastly changed from
the initial contests ran by Flores just two years previously. These contests
now required a series of tricks similar to modern day contests with ties being
broken by the number of loop the loops completed.

Flores stayed involved with yo-yos most
of his life and even after W.W. II he helped Joe Radovan in the establishment
of the Chico Yo-yo Company. He also started the Flores Corp. of America in
1954 which briefly produced yo-yo in the 1950’s. Although Flores has less name
recognition in the general public compared to other yo-yo manufacturing
companies it was Flores who introduced the yo-yo craze to America

- Excepts from "Lucky’s Guide to YoYo collecting"
by: Lucky Meisenheimer, MD

-  http://www.nationalyoyo.org/main/Pedro_Floreshtm

Published 11/12/04   ALT  MSN Group
Web Page: Yo-Yo Toy Guru 

Thank You All Vote Support for Bush

My dear relatives and
friends all over United States,

Thank you so much for
supporting President Bush in his presidential bid for re-election.  I know
you are so tired of my political blogs for I am too (well, not really).  My
Filipino friends in Florida ( including fellow Thomasian Julie P.)
overwhelmingly voted for President Bush.  In California, 300,000 Filipinos
voted.  In heavily democratic Illinois, 44 percent of Republicans
voted for him.  In this election, 58 million Americans gave him
the biggest popularity votes in the history of the country.  If the
Republicans make good with their promises and play their card right, future
presidential candidates like John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell,
Condoleezza Rice, maybe even Arnold Schwarzenegger will be a popular political
player. As participant in this election,  I feel so proud to be a
voter and so you are!

M & N of Texas, I
couldn't wait to eat my feel-good food of big and juicy fatty steak and baked
potato.  Oops!  What am I saying?  I feel really really
good!