I'm Not An Expert About This

I'm Not An Expert About 

This Sort Of Things, 

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But Common Sense Tells Me This 

Just Isn't Going To Work, Chuckle! 

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What Do You Think? 

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25 Years Underwater

A Town That Spent 25 Years Underwater 

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This is Villa Epecuen, an old tourist town 

south of Buenos Aires that spent a quarter 

of a century underwater. Established in the 

1920s on the banks of a salt lake, the town 

was home to over 5,000 residents and 

a holiday destination to thousands more 

vacationers from the Argentinian capital. 

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In 1985, a dam burst and buried the town in 

33 feet of salt water, rendering it a modern-day 

Atlantis. Initially, people waited on their roofs, 

hoping for the water to recede. It didn’t, and 

within two days, the place was a devastated ghost town. 

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In 2009, the waters began to recede and 

what emerged resembles an apocalyptic world. 

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Evenly-spaced dead trees still line what used to be streets, 

rusty bed frames poke out from concrete rubble and 

sign posts point to nowhere. 

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Amazingly, one resident remained in this desolate place. 

Pablo Novak was the only person not to leave his 

hometown when the water swallowed it up in 1985. 

He lives in a stone hut with a fridge and a basic cooker. 

I guess there’s no place like home… 

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Reverse Cell Phone Lookup

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With just a cell phone number option and a click, these websites are capable of providing information such as,

cell owners name, present address, phone connection status, carrier details, other contact numbers and active

email IDs of the owner. Sometimes the package increases, if you are ready to pay some meager amount to these sites.

The websites then offer further access to information, such as, owners background reports, birthday,

marriage status, divorce details and adoption histories, police records, bankruptcy details, and much more.

Although people are content to use free cell phone look up services, but sometimes a little paid

amount can relieve you of all tensions about an unknown cell phone number

(applicable specially for parents worried about their growing teenagers).

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Ice Storm That Hit The South

Do You Remember The Ice 

Storm That Hit The South? 

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Two years ago Chick-fil-A made national headlines when
company president Dan Cathy spoke out in support of traditional marriage. Liberals and gays came unglued and launched massive protests against the restaurant chain.  Several mayors spoke out saying they would not allow any more Chick-fil-As to be built in their cities. 

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They tried boycotting the Christian owned company, but that backfired. Instead, Chick-fil-A had a world record day with many locations sellingout of food to the hundreds of thousands of supporters.

Is it any surprise that the only news the liberal

mainstream media has reported concerning Chick-fil-A has only been the negative?

Remember when the ice storm hit the south?
The mainstream media showed footage 

of miles of cars stranded on the frozen interstates.  

Several national news broadcasts that I saw reported 

about school kids trapped on busses for almost 24 hours
because of all of the ice and parents going frantic 

wondering where their kids were.

In all of the icy gloom and doom, I bet you didn't hear
about the heroic and generous actions of a Chick-fil-A

along Highway 280 in Birmingham, Alabama, did you?

Mark Meadows, owner of the
Chick-fil-A closed early the day of the storm and sent all of his
employees home.  However, the employees and Meadows soon discovered that they were not going to be able to get home with all of the stranded motorists stuck on the roads.  Some of the cars near the restaurant had been stranded for up to 7 hours.

Audrey Pitt, manager of the Chick-fil-A described the conditions:
"Our store is about a mile and a half from the interstate and it took me two hours to get there.  It was a parking lot as far as I could see.  At one point there were more people walking than driving."

Meadows and his employees fired up the kitchen and began
preparing chicken sandwiches as fast as they could.
They prepared several hundred sandwiches and then Meadows and his staff headed out and began distributing the hot meals to the stranded motorists on both sides of Highway 280.

Some of the drivers tried to pay them for the sandwiches, but Meadows and his employees refused to take a single penny.

Pitt explained why:

"This company is based on taking care of people and
loving people before you're worried about money or profit.  

We were just trying to follow the model that we've all worked under for so long and the model that we've come to love. There was really nothing else we could have done but try to help people any way we could."

However, Meadows and Pitt were not through with their
Good Samaritan efforts.  They helped push cars off the roads, up
inclines and whatever else they could do to help.  Then they kept the restaurant open overnight so that stranded motorists could have a warm place to be.  A number of motorists slept in booths or on the benches.

Then in the morning, they again fired up the kitchen and
prepared chicken biscuits for their overnight guests and once again
they refused to accept any payment.  During that 24 hour period, this Chick-fil-A restaurant opened their kitchen, their doors and their hearts to hundreds of stranded motorists and they did so refusing to accept any payment.  As one source put it, Meadows and his staff lived up to the words Jesus spoke in Matthew 25:35 which states: 

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"For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat;

I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink;

I was a stranger, and you invited Me in..."

Their actions were truly generous and heroic, as they also braved the frigid temperatures to hand out hundreds of hot meals
to complete strangers.  And I bet you never heard anything about this from the mainstream media.  Had it been a group of homosexuals or atheists, it would have been all over the news from coast to coast. It was too much against their liberal standards to report a Christian company doing something so positive for so many.

We need to support this and all Christian company's.

Pass this along and bypass the media!

   

Intelligent Thieves

  NOT ALL THIEVES ARE STUPID 

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1..  Some people in CA 

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left their car in the long-term parking at San Jose while away, and  someone broke into the car. Using the information on the car's  registration in the glove compartment, they drove the car to the  people's home in Pebble Beach and robbed it. So I guess if we are  going to leave the car in long-term parking, we should NOT leave  the registration/insurance cards in it, nor your remote garage door  opener. This gives us something to think about with all our new  electronic technology.    ~  
2.  GPS. 

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Someone had their car broken into while they were at a football  game.  Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to  the  football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. 

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Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control,  some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on  the dashboard.  When the victims got home, they found that their  house had been ransacked and just about everything worth  anything  had been stolen.  The thieves had used the GPS to guide  them to  the  house.  They then used the garage remote control to open the  garage door and gain entry to the house.  The thieves knew the  owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game  was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had  to clean out the house.  It would appear that they had brought a  truck to empty the house of its contents. 
Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your home  address in it... Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so  you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else  would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.   ~ 

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3.  CELL PHONES 

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I never thought of this... 
This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on  her cell phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which  contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet, etc., was stolen.  20  minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling  him what had happened, hubby says 'I received your text asking  about our Pin number and I've replied a little while ago.'  When  they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the  money was already withdrawn.  The thief had actually used the  stolen cell phone to text 'hubby' in the contact list and got hold of  the pin number.  Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the  money from their bank account. 

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Moral of the lesson: 

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   a. Do not disclose the relationship between you and the 

people in your contact list.  Avoid using names like Home, 

Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc... 

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  ~      c.  Also, when you're being texted by friends or family to meet  them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message  came from them.  If you don't reach them, be very careful about  going places to meet 'family and friends' who text you.         ~  
4.  Purse in the grocery cart scam... 
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A lady went grocery-shopping at a local mall and left her 

purse sitting in the children's seat of the cart while she reached  something off a shelf...wait till you read the WHOLE story! 

Her wallet was stolen, and she reported it to the store personnel.  After returning home, she received a phone call from the Mall  Security to say that they had her wallet and that although there 

was no money in it, it did still hold her personal papers.  She  immediately went to pick up her wallet, only to be told by Mall  Security that they had not called her.  By the time she returned  home again, her house had been broken into and burglarized.  

The thieves knew that by calling and saying they were Mall  Security, they could lure her out of her house long enough 

for them to burglarize it. 

  ~        * * BE ALERT * *    * PLEASE PASS THIS ON *

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Even if this does not pertain to you...

Pass it on to your family and friends.. 

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New Sign At Wal-Mart

New sign at Wal-Mart 

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 Our society is doomed.............. 

IDIOT SIGHTING 

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I handed the teller @ my bank a withdrawal slip for $400.00 
I said "May I have large bills, please" 

She looked at me and said "I'm sorry sir, all the bills are the same size."
When I got up off the floor I explained it to her.... 

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IDIOT SIGHTING 

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When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car,  we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department  and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver side door. As I  watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and  discovered that it was unlocked. 'Hey,' I announced to the technician, 'it's open!'  His reply: 'I know. I already got that side.' 

This was at the Ford dealership in Canton, MS
IDIOT SIGHTING 

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We had to have the garage door repaired. 
The Sears repairman told us that one of our 

problems was that we did not have a 'large' 

enough motor on the opener. 
I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest 

one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower. 
He shook his head and said, 'Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.' 

I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4. 
He said, 'NO, it's not..' Four is larger than two.' 

We haven't used Sears repair since. 

IDIOT SIGHTING 

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My daughter and I went through the McDonald's 

take-out window and I gave the clerk a $5 bill. 
Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her a quarter. 
She said, 'you gave me too much money.' I said, 

'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar bill back. 
She sighed and went to get the manager, who asked me to repeat my request. 
I did so, and he handed me back the quarter, and said 'We're sorry but we could  not do that kind of thing.' 
The clerk then proceeded to give me back $1 and 75 cents in change. 

Do not confuse the clerks at McD's. 

IDIOT SIGHTING IN FOOD SERVICE 

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My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. 
She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.' 
He said he was sorry, but they only had iceburg lettuce. 
-- From  Kansas City 

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IDIOT SIGHTING 

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I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, 
'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?' 
To which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?' 
He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask.' 

Happened in Birmingham,  Ala. 

IDIOT SIGHTING 

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The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it's safe to cross the street. 
I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine. 

She asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. 
I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. 
Appalled, she responded, 'What on earth 

 are blind people doing driving?!' 

She was a probation officer in Wichita, KS 

IDIOT SIGHTING 

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At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker 

who was leaving the company due to 'downsizing,' 
our manager commented cheerfully, 'This is fun. 

We should do this more often.' 
Not another word was spoken. 

We all just looked at each other with 

that deer-in-the-headlights stare. 

This was a lunch at Texas Instruments. 

IDIOT SIGHTING 

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I work with an individual who plugged her power strip 

back into itself and for the sake of her life, couldn't 

understand why her system would not turn on. 

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A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriffs office, no less. 

IDIOT SIGHTING 

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How would you pronounce this child's name? 

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"Le-a" 
Leah?? NO 
Lee - A?? NOPE 
Lay - a?? NO 
Lei??..... Guess Again. 

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This child attends a school in Kansas City, Mo. 
Her mother is irate because everyone is getting 

 her name wrong.  It's pronounced "Ledasha". 
When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation 

of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent." 

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SO, if you see something come across your desk 

like this please remember to pronounce the dash. 
If dey axe you why, tell dem de dash don't be silent. 
STAY ALERT!

They walk among us...... and they VOTE.... Sad but true!