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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Monday, November 19, 2007

Boys are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree.

The girls don't want to reach for the good ones because they're afraid of falling and getting hurt.

Instead they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground, that aren't as good, but easy.

So the apples at the top think that there is something wrong with them, when in reality, they are amazing.

That is why the best just have to be a little patient and wait for the right girl who will come someday.....the one who has the courage to reach the top.

So Guys if you are alone...this means that u r on top........!!!!

Girls, you should take a chance to find the good, right apple.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Human Statue of Liberty

The above-displayed photograph of a "human Statue of Liberty," formed by 18,000 posed soldiers, was taken in July 1918 at Fort Dodge, Iowa, as part of a planned promotional campaign to sell war bonds during World War I.

On a stifling July day in 1918, 18,000 officers and soldiers posed as Lady Liberty on the parade [drill] grounds at Camp Dodge. [This area was west of Baker St. and is currently the area around building S34 and to the west.] According to a July 3, 1986, story in the Fort Dodge Messenger, many men fainted — they were dressed in woolen uniforms — as the temperature neared 105°F. The photo, taken from the top of a specially constructed tower by a Chicago photography studio, Mole & Thomas, was intended to help promote the sale of war bonds but was never used.

The photo was taken by S. Mole, a British-born commercial photographer who worked in Zion IL, and his partner John D. Thomas. They traveled from one military camp to another, posing thousands of soldiers to form gigantic patriotic symbols that they photographed from above. The formations depicted such images as the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, the Marine Corps emblem and a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. The Wilson portrait, for example, was formed using 21,000 officers and men at Camp Sherman in Ohio and stretched over 700 feet. His "Human Liberty Bell" was composed from over 25,000 soldiers, arranged with Mole's characteristic attention to detail to even depict the crack in the bell. Mole and Thomas spent a week or more preparing for these immense works, which were taken from a 70 or 80 foot tower with an 11 by 14 inch view camera. When the demand for these photographs dropped in the 1920s, Mole returned to his photography business in Zion.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

This is how we travel

Funny Wedding Pictures

That chicken wing is stuck between my teeth.

I need more hands.

No words needed.

"I am so happy"

Dude! I am at my wedding

Oops! Had I known earlier...

Gangway! I am about to spit out the wine.

Fill up the keg Dorothee!

Uh, oh!

And then I threathened him with a bashing.

The redneck wedding.

Quick snack...these ceremonies take too long...

Getting off used to be easier.

She takes the lead in riding.

So full of hot air.

Many a slip...

My momma got married!

Wedding of the zombies.

Can't believe I hitched her.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

I had to beat him up and drag him to the wedding ceremony.

Only in America!

1. Only in America..... .can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in America..... .are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in America..... .do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in America..... .do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Only in America..... .do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in America..... .do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in America..... .do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in America..... .do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in America..... .do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

10. Only in America..... .do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.