More "Stuff"

01.  Going up!

I haven't heard much lately about the "space elevator."  This was a proposed planet-to-space transportation system.  A cable would be anchored to the surface of Earth and extended into space.

The Japanese feel that such a system could work using current technology, and have built a couple of prototypes.

It is estimated that the elevator trip from Earth to Moon would take 8 days.

02.  Phobias.

Here are some more "fears" that human's have:

Gephyrophobia - Fear of crossing bridges. (Lots of people have this fear.)

Pogonophobia - Fear of beards.

Geniophobia - Fear of Chins.  (How about Changs?)

Sesquipedalophobia - Fear of long words.

My favorite:

Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

03.  Childhood Logic

Kitt Swanson writes for Readers Digest:

"My son was almost five when we took a trip to the Post Office...  I noticed him staring at the pictures on the wall. 

'Who are the people on the wall?' he asked. 

I explained to him they were bad people that the police were searching for.  

My son looked up at me with the sweetest face and asked, 'Then why didn't they keep them when they took their pictures?'

I was without words.

04.  You had to be around then

Famous humorist, Allan Misch coined this one-liner:

"He's as nervous as an Avon lady about to ring Tammy Faye Bakker's doorbell."

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