It was mealtime during a flight on WestJet
Airlines.
"Would you like dinner?" the flight attendant
asked John, seated in front.
"What are my choices?" John asked.
"Yes or no," she replied.



A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys
at the grocery store but she couldn't find one
big enough for her family.
She asked a stock boy, "Do these turkeys get
any bigger?"
The stock boy replied, "No ma'am, they're
dead."


The cop got out of his car and the kid who was
stopped for speeding rolled down his window.
"I've been waiting for you all day," the cop
said.
The kid replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast
as I could."
When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent
the kid on his way without a ticket.




A truck driver was driving along on the
freeway. A sign warned, " Low Bridge Ahead."
Before he knew it, the bridgewas right ahead of
him and he got stuck under the bridge.
Cars backed up for miles.
Finally, a police car arrives. The cop gets out
of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts
his hands on his hips and says, "Got stuck,
huh?" The truck driver says, "No, I was
delivering this bridge and ran out of gas."

A round-up of little snippets for you ...

100 things you didn't know last year

:mrg:

:canwin: Women who exercise by doing the housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, a study suggests.

The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport.

Dusting, mopping and vacuuming was also better than having a physical job.

The women in the Cancer Research UK-funded study spent an average of 16 to 17 hours a week cooking, cleaning and doing the washing.


Something as simple and cheap as doing the housework can help
Dr Lesley Walker of Cancer Research UK

Experts have long known that physical exercise can reduce the risk of breast cancer, probably through hormonal and metabolic changes.

But it has been less clear how much and what types of exercise are necessary for this risk reduction.

And much of past work has examined the link between exercise and breast cancer in post-menopausal women only.

The latest study looked at both pre- and post-menopausal women and a range of activities, including work, leisure and housework.

All forms of physical activity combined reduced the breast cancer risk in post-menopausal women, but had no obvious effect in pre-menopausal women.

Chores protected

Out of all of the activities, only housework significantly reduced the risk of both pre- and post-menopausal women getting the disease.

Housework cut breast cancer risk by 30% among the pre-menopausal women and 20% among the post-menopausal women.

The women were studied over an average of 6.4 years, during which time there were 3,423 cases of breast cancer.

The international authors said their results suggested that moderate forms of physical activity, such as housework, may be more important than less frequent but more intense recreational physical activity in reducing breast cancer risk.

Dr Lesley Walker of Cancer Research UK said: "We already know that women who keep a healthy weight are less likely to develop breast cancer.

"This study suggests that being physically active may also help reduce the risk and that something as simple and cheap as doing the housework can help."

He recommend that men and women take regular exercise and maintain a healthy body weight to help prevent cancer.

The research is published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. :canwin:

.... leaving my house at 3am on Saturday morning (not sure if I will go to bed at all) to arrive in unny: SA at 10pm. :yes:

Chatted to a friend on Skype tonight and she said "I am at Jan Smuts, flying to London tonight..." Was I relieved to hear Jan Smuts is still there because I don't think I would have recognise O.R. Tambo

Tomorrow will be a bit of a busy day so I want to wish you all a happy New Year and I trust that 2007 will be a prosperous year for all!

See you in 3 weeks time.

:daisy:




ps: I hope the Capies and the Vaalies have made peace by then :innocent:... and I will come back to report on how I experienced our beautiful country.

back to a previous conversation.
yesterday was welsh national day which is very very busy here so we did an experiment.
we made the whole pub non-smoking! and it worked believe it or not.
out of approx 650-750 customers only one sparked up and he was asked to hit the road. my only annoyance was that he was a local lad and not a stranger, who then racially(?) abused me........ooohh arent us saffers just dirt hey!
today we are back to normal and i cant wait for the feedback
the reason why we did the experiment was after a debate with our local health and safety expert, also know as my dads drinking buddy.
he said that people would just flout a ban willy nilly and carry on regardless, whereas we thought that brits were generally law-abiding and wouldnt.
thank goodness we won or we would never have heard the end of it.

Did you get everything you wished for in your stocking ?

I know I got more than I wished for, sometimes in duplicate, :p but as the wife says that is my own fault as my wish list was so short (Does anyone else use wish lists ?)

I'm having a hard time deciding which is my bestest prezzie...

I am torn between a rare Jean Michel Jarre cd (Les Granges Brulees) and a hard to get Jean Michel Jarre CD (The Symphonic Jean Michel Jarre).

Morning everyone

Wonderful to have the time to be able to get online and catch up on some of the threads. Seems ages since I was able to do that.

So, I am looking out of my window over KwaXimba, and I can see the mist slowly rolling along the cliff tops exposing the green mantle....stunning!

And.....my thoughts move on to what is around the corner.....no Cheffie, not my bush loo ....but 2007.

So what are your plans for 2007? Any thing interesting, life changing or just plain darned daring?

I received a text message over Christmas which said " On this day of sharing and caring, let us bare a thought for those less fortunate than us " and it got me thinking.....when did a thought.....help anyone? If that thought is not followed by an action of some sort, then it's pretty much :wall:

So, please can I ask that in your 'stocking' of todo's for 2007 you add the following:

When a thought enters my head for the less fortunate, I actually get off my BUM and do something...however small, I do it!.......

BIG CHEERS TO CHEFFIE.....who has not sat on his bum since he had that thought in 2006

ue:

:hooray: Congratulations and a Merry Christmas! :hooray:

Have a great day!

:cheer: Happy Birthday Beanie! If I remember correctly you are in unny: SA at the moment!

Have a great day and lots of blessings for this coming year! :cheer:

:gbxmas: and a :newyear: to one an all

I am still finishing my packing but now that its only a few hours before we head to Heathrow and then to SA I wanted to wish all of you a very very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year..

2006 has been a very good year for me - perhaps 5 years is the kind of time one has to spend away from SA to find love, happiness and a bright future. Now I am taking my wonderful British man and his son home with me and the boys to meet the folks and show them what SA is all about.

i am really excited about the prospect and slightly worried about the crime but I am 100% certain no matter what we will have an amazing holiday filled with sun, safari and sea... we head off tomorrow and return in mid Jan ...

lots of love
Samantha :celeb: