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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Happy Birthday Robbie Burns...




Happy Birthday Robert Burns!

Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759 in the village of Alloway, two miles south of Ayr. His parents, Willian Burns and Agnes Broun, were tenant farmers but they ensured their son received a relatively good education and he began to read avidly. The works of Alexander Pope, Henry Mackenzie and Laurence Sterne fired Burns poetic impulse and relationships with the opposite sex provided his inspiration. Handsome Nell, for Nellie Kilpatrick, was his first song.
Hard physical labour on the family farm took its toll on the young Burns, who increasingly turned his attentions towards the passions of poetry, nature, drink and women which would characterise the rest of his life. He fathered twins with eventual wife Jean Armour, but a rift in their relationship nearly led to Burns emigrating to the West Indies with lover Mary Campbell (his Highland Mary). Mary's sudden death and the sensational success of his first published collection of verse kept him in Scotland. At just 27, Burns had already become famous across the country with poems such as To a Louse, To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night. The later, the Address to a Haggis, Ae Fond Kiss and Auld Lang Syne.


http://www.poemhunter.com/robert-burns/

Thursday, January 23, 2014

You've got mail...

Mail and Female
Mail and Female (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mail Me
Mail Me (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

:>>A man was in his front yard mowing grass when his attractive blonde female neighbor came out of the house and went straight to the mail box.
She opened it, slammed it shut, and stormed back in the house.
A little later she came out of her house and again went to the mail box and again opened it, then slammed it shut again. Angrily, back into the house she went.
As the man was getting ready to edge the lawn, here she came out again, marched to the mail box, opened it and then slammed it closed harder than ever.
Puzzled by her actions the man asked her, “Is something wrong?”
To which she replied, “There certainly is! My stupid computer keeps giving me a message saying, “YOU’VE GOT MAIL!”
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

10 Rules for Success...

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Focus on beautiful souls...

Monday, January 20, 2014

The Navy Captain and the approaching pirates......

English: Flag of pirate Edward England Polski:...
English: Flag of pirate Edward England Polski: Flaga pirata Edwarda England Deutsch: Flagge des Piraten Edward England (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A navy captain is alerted by his First Mate that there is a pirate ship coming towards his position. He asks a sailor to get him his red shirt.
The captain was asked, “Why do you need a red shirt?”
The Captain replies, “So that when I bleed, you guys don’t notice and aren’s discouraged.” They fight off the pirates eventually.
The very next day, the Captain is alerted that 50 pirate ships are coming towards their boat. He yells, “Get me my brown pants!”
:D
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Hutt's Blogesphere - My thoughts today...: Simple truths: "The Strangest Secret" movie...

Hutt's Blogesphere - My thoughts today...: Simple truths: "The Strangest Secret" movie...:   http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/the-strangest-secret/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-WS-_-01.15.14-_-TSSCmovie&utm_source=exact-target...

Simple truths: "The Strangest Secret" movie...


The Strangest Secret
The secret to why some people succeed while others always seem to fail are revealed in Earl Nightingale's book for Simple Truths, The Strangest Secret: How to Live the Life You Desire. At the heart of success are predetermined goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. In The Strangest Secret, Earl shares the key differentiator between those who succeed and those who don't: We become what we think about. The human mind will return anything we want to plant. In The Strangest Secret: How to Live the Life You Desire, Earl shares a 30-day plan that can transform your life. So, plant your goal in your mind. It's the most important decision you'll ever make�the key to your success
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