Bossdj

an email sent to her aug 1 2006 but she never received it

2008-06-30T11:21:28Z

i sent her this email the day i decided to shield myself from her to her email but she never got it

hi there babe. its been a long time since i emailed you. i just wanted to say how much i love you. u hurt me so much and i cant even imagine how things will turn out but i love you still. you were my everything, now all i think of is how horrible you been to me. i miss you to death and i hope that ure happy in life. u only have one life babe. live it the best u can. be the best you can be. be true. be great. you were my everything and id like to live on knowin that youll be great and not this horrible person you become.

i have no words to tell you how much love i feel for you. ive only ever tried showing you how much. i hope that these last 3 1/2 years were good to u. i hope that i never dissappointed you and kept you from being you. i hope that i always made you proud to be with me.

it kills me to know that u share yourself with another man. it kills me that how quickly you forgot my love and adoration that ive givin you. i had hoped that you were true and loved me truely. i showed you true love and u spit it back at me. i tried gettin over what happened and i wanna get over it, and i want u now as much as ive always have. i just needed to know that your worth this pain. worth this struggle. you keep showing me that its over and that you dont love me. as much as i wanna believe you love me, you keep breakin my heart and torturing me endlessly. i dont know what to say. i wonder if i was that bad that it would make you doubt me so much. i thought i always kept you safe, made u feel loved, treasured you, honored you, held u in highest esteem. yet u could never show me the same. and even now u still dont.

i love you. i can say it a million times. but u dont love me back. i know that now. yesterday i saw that. i felt it and i knew it. even now u take me for granted and u forgot my love. i wish i could forget yours. i dont know how to feel. i just know that i love you. all i wanted was for you to show me. u never did. u still dont. you make plans with this other man and you give up on me easily. every time i talk it feels like goodbye. i try and try to make things better. but u keep fucken them up. i try to get over the pain and past the betrayal but u make it more intense and more unforgivable. i try and fight for u still and u dont love me. you know ure better off with this guy and the strange thing is that u know it so soon. ive been with u for over 3 years and in 3 months you know that this guy is better for u, more compatable.even after all ive done. the only thing u can tell me is that i got mad easily. well honey, maybe your right, maybe were not meant to be. maybe you never deserved me and i you. but how could know if u never tried. how could u know if u never loved me truely and honestly. it just hurts that u feel that way. i kills me that u think this way. it kills me that the only woman i ever loved and share myself with would do this to me.

im tired of writin and thinkin about all the things uve done and how much u dont care bout me. i dont know how things will turn out. we might still be together. we might never see each other after this. who knows all i know is that i love you. i hope that u can see that and that u missed out and a great guy.

if things dont work out, ure dead to me. its the only way i can move on knowing how horrible you been with me and how much i tried to make u feel loved. i just write this to tell u for one last time how much i love u. this pain consumes me whole and i cant live like this knowing how untrue and how much u betray me. so babe just know me and feel me. know how i feel for u and i will always love u. after this that love is locked away forever.

i just hope that your happy. and that this new guy makes u happy. i wont wait for you. i wont share you. i wont be the fall back guy. never. i love u truely and all i want is the same. if u cant give me that. then its ok, ill never love u again and ure free to move on to shaunt or who ever. so ill just end it with this one song. i have no more hopes for us or the future. i just hope that u feel the same and that u can show me the same love i give u.

me veras volar
en la ciudad de la furia
donde nadie sabe de mi
y yo soy parte de todos

eternally forgotten,

arturo meza jr

a letter to nani...

2008-06-29T13:12:14Z

its been a lil over 2 years since i last saw and talked to u. it seems so much more. those last 4 months since we stoped talking forever was the worst period in my entire life. i never felt so much pain and love at the same time. literally tearing into my heart of the though of you and me and what we had and what we could have had. all my aspirations and dreams of a life with you suddenly shattered and let go. i felt so lost.

half way into our relationship i began to felt mistreated. it grew more and more and your behavior made me question us often. remember when you would ask me if you made me happy?? i replied yes and said i loved you but i lied. you didnt make me happy. i loved you but i wasnt happy. i always felt that i could have had someone else who really appreciated me and treat me the way i deserved, yet i still held on to your promises of changing and maturing. i held on the hope that you would stop the embarrassing, childish, and selfish behavior. that you would take care of me as a fiancee and future husband as i took care of you as my future wife. i provided for you. worked hard and gave you my everything. took care of the needs of your mom and nephews. helped your sisters when they needed things handled. and still you never felt need to make me a hot meal after workin all night. or to try and not disrespect my family. you knew much family matters to me. remember when we talked about buying a house and moving your mom in with us??? i really wanted to take her with us and look after her. i took your family as mine yet you belittled my and competed with them for my affection. you created friction at every occasion. so much so that i felt the need not to be with them to avoid conflict and be ok with my future wife.

when frankie died it hit me. hard. i felt life was too short. and after almost 4 years you never changed. we had a break a year before for a few weeks. i remember not getting over the feeling that i didnt want to be with you anymore. yet i missed you. you crawled back into my life that night and it was the same. no change. same behavior same feelings. then when i lost frankie, you still were the same.

so i decided to end it. i wanted to be free. to live without worry, without shame. you de-masculinized me enough. i couldnt take it anymore. i needed to feel like a man again. i gave you everything and you castrated me. no more.

when we talked on the phone 2 weeks later i told you i missed you. i did very much. i was seeing someone else since i never had a shortage of attention from the opposite sex, but it wasnt serious. i didnt care for her. i missed you! BUT deep down i wanted you back. i told you that i didnt see us gettin back together anytime soon but i was lying. i did want you back but i needed change. i needed for you to believe me that i wasnt a permanent fixture. something that you could mistreat and rely on no matter how bad you treated it. i had no intetion of staying apart from you longer than a month.

a month later i came for you. i wanted to tell you that i loved you, how much i had missed you, and how i wanted us to try again. i didnt want to make it easy, i wanted change as i always did, had a whole plan on how to approach this to tell you. you could not believe how happy i was to be at your house and seeing you after i broke up with you and not seeing you for some time. i wanted to hold you from the start, but i couldnt. we walked outside in the backyard to talk while your nephews watched tv. i had hoped that you would hear what i had to say, be happy to see me as i was to see you, and come together magically, stronger than before. i know now how naive i was.

i know i hurt you. i never meant to. the chaos caused by your actions caused me look for greener pastures but i could never let you go. i had put up with everything and would have continued, yet you did the one thing that i could NEVER get over. you slept with another man.

i know that i broked up with you, and that i was with someone else too, but i could not believe it. after all the hope that i had for us, all the times i put up with your behavior, that you had the odasity to do that. you knew me. you knew that i could never handle that. especially after losing my virginity to you at the age of 22 and you having 2 previous sexual partners. you tried to lie to me. then you told me that truth about giving yourself to another man with a porsche. he didnt care for you. he didnt respect you. i held so much respect for you and you lost it in under 10 minutes. i literally held you on pedastal. i thought to myself and i couldnt come up with a reason of why i had soo much respect for you. i felt disgusted by your action. it wrecked me bad knowing that you had fucked a guy you meet at a bar a week after our break up.

i cried my heart out. i had lost you and there was no way that i could open my heart for you ever again. i tried god knows i tried to get over it. i know i mistreated you there after. i just couldnt keep it in. i had to tell you how i felt and how you affected me. i didnt mean to dig into you everytime you saw me there after. i just couldnt help it. all the rage and anger of the thought of my woman with another guy enfuriated me beyond control. i fell into a depression. i stopped seeing anyone for a few weeks there. i ate very little and would lock myself in my trailer in 100 degree weather throughout the entire summer. my depression, anger, and drinking took over me. SOMEHOW i thought it would be a great idea to grab a utility knife razor and cut into my chest over my heart after drinking a bottle of vodka. with every painful cut i felt better as my flesh opened up and blood soaked my chest and shorts. at first i couldnt muster the courage to do it, but all i had to do was visualize you making love to shaunt as we did so passionately months before. that was enough to push me on to tear into myself. it go easier and easier. in between cuts i read all the love letters you sent me over the years that i collected and kept guard. i dont think you ever knew that but i cherished them very much. i cried and bleed as i read and worked on another bottle of vodka and sliced again. finally i was so drunk and so angry that i called you to come over and take everything that belonged to you and reminded me of you. i tried hiding what i had done but i was too drunk to clean up properly and you saw the reminents of blood on my hand. its a horrible scar and till this day it reminds me of you and how i wished that i didnt have it and didnt experience what happened.

i was soo depressed about us. during those last few months i felt that you brought up the worst out of me. the cutting, the slamming my head agaisnt the wall as i cried about what you had done to me, the drinking. i tried to get over you. i began to see roxanne more intensely to try and get you out of my mind. yet still i called you, we talk, id get mad, cuz you out, and then profess how much i missed/loved you. it was such a horrible and painful cycle.

one day at work, the thought of you took over me entirely. i talked to a nurse and asked if there was anything that wasnt forgiveable and she said that everything is forgiveable especially in love. and with this i felt that i could get over what happened. that i could love and have you again and move on. the rush of holding you and having you again filled me that i left work early, went home and picked up the engagement ring i had giving you months before and drove to your house in a haste. i walked in and your sister was in the living room while you where in your bedroom sleeping. i asked her for you and she said you where in your room and of how she had told you that you where stupid for doubting to be back with me. i walked in woke you up and rushed you. you woke up in dazed and confused at me being there and suddently asked by me to marry me with the ring in hand. i told you that it doesnt matter what happened and who did what that i just wanted you and that i could get beyond the betrayal i felt. i so didnt expect what you said. you said that you needed time to think. THEN and there i knew that i was no longer in your heart. all those years i fought for you to consider me and love me the way that i loved you, i knew that i would be impossible for me to take the place in your heart that i held before. i guessed that your relationship with this other guy had shown promised and i no longered matter i was now of no concenquence. this was the monday before my birthday.

i left angry and hurt, i knew that you were lost now. i left the ring that i had purchased to represent our committment of love with you in your room. i wanted you to keep it. i went home upset and talked to my mom. as i talked to her i realized that i had said everything i could to you. i tried and there was nothing more i could say. i know we had arranged to meet up the day after. i cancelled on you and said i would meet you tomorrow. talking to you became so painful. i had nothing else to tell you and the doubt in your eyes that i had seen on monday had sealed it. i knew that you had no longer had me in your heart. that was unbearable to me. so i no longer took your calls. i coudlnt talk you. as much as i was dying to hear your voice, see your smile, hear your laughter, it would killed me inside. it kills me inside now.

that friday on my birthday we had a barbeque at my moms like always bought a bunch of beer and got drunk with my brothers. you called me and i didnt answer like i had done the entire week. you left me a happy bday/goodbye message. i kept it on my phone for months. i would listen to it when i was missing you even though the words you spoke made me cry every time. i just had to hear your voice. my confession is that if you had shown up that day, i would have known that you loved me and wanted me. THATS JUST THE THING. YOU NEVER FOUGHT FOR ME. you had too much pride. had you gone that day and be with me on my birthday i would have ended things with roxanne, married you as soon as i could have, and moved out with you and we probably be together now pretty happy after enduring such a trial. but you DIDNt come over. i had hoped you would. i kept drinking and hoping that i would see you that night but you never showed. i cried and then got angry, called roxanne over and fucked her hard at how mad and dissappointed i was with you. if only you had shown up on my bday.

so after all that emotion and pain and time, still till this very moment, i cant help but feel how much i still love you. i think of you often and miss you so much. at first i couldnt help but think of all your mannerism that you did and everything reminded me of you. but now after so long ive forgetten most of them and it pisses me off that i forgot. how i wished that i could know that your doing ok. how i hope that your ok, doing great and your family is also doing well. i would kill to hear your voice again, see your smile and hold your body agaisnt mine. i know that this will never happen but i wish it still. GOD i miss your voice and how playful we were together. when i see my daughter i think to myself that you would have loved her and everytime i work on mustang i wished youd take a ride with me in it sometime. i never changed my cell phone number so that you could call me whenever you needed me. i know your pride doesnt allow it but i always hope that you would and id be there automatically.

you truely impacted my life and even after all the pain, anger, and time, i still love you. i honestly will always love you. i miss you and i hope that one day god finds it ok for us to cross paths so that i may see you once again and say, "wenchiepoo! i love you!"

an end to RN education for now

2008-05-27T07:05:57Z

im finally done with school for now. i graduated from RN school this past friday. it feels awesome to know that the stress of nursing school is no longer there. hopefully i can get hired as an RN asap. i really need to post more often in my lj.

bossdj02 @ 2007-08-04T01:49:00

2007-08-04T08:51:42Z

today is my birthday and i find myself somewhat indifferent. life has been so different lately and its just going to get more and more difficult but im hopeful that ill do well. 1 more year of school and ill be an RN. i just wished time moved faster.

bossdj02 @ 2007-03-12T18:23:00

2007-03-13T01:24:31Z

fuck, my shift ends in 30mins. i need to go home and beat off like no tomorrow. damn u lj.

stole from my red hot pie

2007-03-12T20:05:06Z

1. Can you cook? i can but i dont usually do. although lately ive cooking alot more and enjoy it very much so
2. What was your dream growing up? being a cop or a assassassin

3. What talent do you wish you had? i wish i could read people better

4. Favorite place? san quintin baja california

5. Favorite vegetable? lettuce, i love lettuce!!

6. What was the last book you read? maternity and child nursing( for RN school)

7. What zodiac sign are you ? leo rawr!!

8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? 2 tattoos, on my right arm a red dragon tribal piece, and on my left arm a koi fish and lots of water. also i have my tongue piercing

9. Worst Habit? i bite my nails, bad. i know i know but i just cant stop!! argh!!

10. Do we know each other outside of live journal? no unfortunetinly(?)

11. What is your favorite sport? martial arts specifically kenpo and capoeira

12. Negative or Optimistic attitude? optimistc mostly

13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? flirt with you,hopefully more

14. Worst thing to ever happen to you? rejection is a bitch

15. Tell me one weird fact about you: umm, i have 2 black belts and im currently working on my 3rd

16. Do you have any pets? nope not any more

17. Do you know how to do the macerana? do i ever! c'mon Im mexican! lol

18. What time is it where you are now? 1pm

19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary? fuck clowns! carnies are soo much better

20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? lets see, id be thinner and more muscular. thats about it

21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? crime partner all teh way!

22. What color eyes do you have? brown

23. Ever been arrested? nope but ive been strip searched in tijuana a few years back.

24. Bottle or Draft? draft.

25. If you won $10,000 dollars/pounds today, what would you do with it? pay off my debt and go on a trip to europe

26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew? fruity flavors

27. What's your favorite thing about your personality? im pretty easy going and a very good listener

28. Do you believe in ghosts? not really

29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? work out

30. Do you swear a lot? at times

31. Biggest pet peeve? people who cut others off when talkin

32. In one word, how would you describe yourself? contradiction (a huge one)

33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? maybe

bossdj02 @ 2007-02-18T17:18:00

2007-02-19T01:30:57Z

What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
Kick the dog off the bed, turn off my alarm and head to the pottie

What was the first pop concert you went to?
Santana/mana in 97

What was the worst thing that you did as a child?
fight with my twin bro alot. fucker stabbed me twice

What is your favourite song?
i wont share you by morrissey

What is your most treasured material possession?
my 1970 mustang

What is the best advice that you've ever received?
fuck it!

What do you think of Bob Dylan?
know of him, havent heard any of his music though

When did you last cry, and why?
when my mother had a heart attack last week

What characteristics do you think you've inherited from your parents?
my father's strength, honesty, sense of obligation

Are you afraid of failure?
Yes

What are you like when you're drunk?
Devilishly sexy, nah, playful and loveable, funny and outgoing,

Which actor/actress would you have play yourself in a film?
lol no one nothing worth playing me but if i had to choose id say, jean reno

Pick five words that describe yourself....
simple, honest, strong, reliable, worthy

Is there one piece of criticism that sticks in your mind?
I don't dwell on the criticism

Do you believe in God?
yes, not religious per sey but i do believe in him

What is your most unpleasant characteristic?
stubborn

What is your greatest fear?
failure and dissapointing my family

What ambitions do you still have to fulfil?
my career, my sport, my own bussiness, and a family of my own

What do you never leave home without?
cell phone, wallet, keys, and inhaler(im asthmatic) (asthma is sexi) for reals! lol

Who is your best male friend and your best female friend?
ruben is my best friend, roxanne is the female counterpart

Who would you most like to meet?
morrissey, jeff speakman, and robert smith

What music would you like to have played at your funeral?
please please let me get what i want - the smiths

When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see
my future and all that i can accomplish

What is your favourite film.
sin city

If you had a million pounds (£1,000,000), what would you do with it?
dollar? id buy a huge house in riverside county or san diego county and house for my family, pay off my loans and finish school.

What first attracts you to a person of the opposite sex?
facial beauty

What was your favourite subject at school?
History

If you could spend the night with anyone in the world, who would you choose and why?
scarlet johanssan, oh yea shes dead sexi

What is the most embarassing thing you've ever done?
i piss the front of my pants at a party, went off to the side to take a leak and forgot to open my fly, boy was it hard to walk out that party.

Do you have anything to declare?
Only my genius and a large schlong

bossdj02 @ 2007-01-10T15:36:00

2007-01-10T23:36:59Z

pretty funny

2007-01-05T05:48:01Z

bossdj02 @ 2006-12-29T15:35:00

2006-12-29T23:35:25Z

so here i am at work on my last day at the TPN unit at LLUMC. its been pretty cool here. i spend all day on the comp fucking around not doing shit. the span of my work consist of being on lj, making loads of excels worksheets and walking around the hospital flirting with chicks. laid back and hella easy. i havent done any patient care in more than a month and its been awesome but i want to go back to my home unit. i work more do more, but i make more and work less days so thats a plus. i need to get in gear with working, school, and working out. this weekend should be pretty cool. im going over to skeets house for a new years party and that should be hella fun. my freaking tooth is killing me. i have this huge headache that doesnt go away and the only thing that subsides the pain slightly is vicodin.

besides that i got an A in my nursing 1 class. im so happy about that. itll raise up my gpa which is what i need to do. i enrolled into my nursing 2 class but its tuesday thru thursday all day so that kinda sucked but oh well, and none of my boys from nursing 1 is in my class so that sucks. im gonna miss them guys. there hella fun to kick it with. ruben might come down this weekend but i dont know, he flakes out alot so well see. i wanna get mean ass drunk and hopefully get laid for new years. cross your fingers :D

xmas eve

2006-12-24T18:31:30Z

this weekend has been pretty awsome. my uncle chico and his family came from baja and my tio mario and his family is here from tecate. grandma made it too and so did noe and his new gf. today is going to be an awsome day. im glad the family came from so far away to stay the weekend with us up here in perris.

i didnt have alot of money this year. to be exactly im flat broke and i still have my car payment to make but its ok. im just glad that were all here. i got hella drunk last night with my dad, uncle mario, and my uncle chico. it was awsome i think its the first time i dranked with them at a table seen as an adult and it was great. we were debating about differences in tequila. my uncle chico had brought some home made tequila from down south mexico and fuck was that shit rough. it was very strong and burned like a mutha fucker. it was stronger than cuervo or jimador and even patron. shit it was weird. when u pour it u can tell its not filter all that great but man does it fuck u up. aaron took off to donnies and got high out there and lou went to sleep over there so that he could get up early to go to work today. today i think my other cousins are coming over too from san diego and LA so its gonna be a full house till monday.

after all this drinking and eating i gotta drop weight like a mad man. i wanna start gettin prepared and in shape for the tournament in maui next june. itll be great but i gotta start working hard and no more drinkin for a while. well im off.

this is kinda cool...

2006-12-14T20:24:00Z

On the twelfth day of Christmas, bossdj02 sent to me...

Twelve tattoos drumming

Eleven streetfights piping

Ten caifanes a-leaping

Nine ass swing

Eight pachucos a-nursing

Seven rockeros a-weightlifting

Six greasers a-fighting

Five ma-a-a-artial arts

Four venture bros

Three classic mustangs

Two las vegas

...and a roadhead in a rockabilly.

bossdj02 @ 2006-12-04T15:21:00

2006-12-04T23:21:21Z

How to make a bossdj02

mark twain qoutes

2006-11-15T20:19:19Z

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.

And what can be more obscene than our own imaginations?

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.
- The Lowest Animal essay

The thug is aware that loudness convinces sixty persons where reasoning convinces but one.
- "Is Shakespeare Dead?" essay

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.
- Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, Alex Ayres

It's noble to be good. It's nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble.
- Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, Alex Ayres

There are three things which I consider excellent advice. First, don't smoke to access. Second, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry to excess.
- last public address, St. Timothy's School for Girls, Catonsville, MY 6/9/1909

Mark Twain's answer to a would-be writer: "Young Author"- Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat- at least not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual averge, I suggest that perhaps a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales.
- "Answers to Correspondents", Sketches New and Old

You ought never to "sass" old people- unless they "sass" you first.
- Advice for Good Little Girls

It is wrong to put a sheepskin under your shirt when you know that you are going to get a licking. It is better to retire swiftly to a secret place and weep over your bad conduct until the storm blows over.
- Advice for Good Little Boys

You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy.
- Advice for Good Little Boys

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
- Advice to Young People speech, 4/15/1882

It is better to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.
- Notebook; More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.
- The Lowest Animal essay, 1897

We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
- Following the Equator

Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

random useless facts

2006-11-15T19:24:56Z

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).

The pancreas produces Insulin.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

World Tourist day is observed on September 27.

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.

There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.

Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

Cats can hear ultrasound. </b>

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"

Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

February is Black History Month.

Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.

The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture
element.'

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen
rows.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that
tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint
plant call Diamond Star.

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of
Independence Hall is 4:10.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total
is 5050

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got "the whole 9 yards."

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet
came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered
trademark of AT&T.

The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of
5megabytes.

In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is
measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is
550 megabytes.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real
brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is
number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a
resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one
at a time.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is
Flint, Michigan.

On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her
daughter Judy is 15.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person
who has a speaking role.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.

The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.

We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999
(January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened
this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's
salaries.

Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation , was played by
six different cats.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th'
sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman
occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th"
sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the
Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977)
is 3263827.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters "und."

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the
production of Guinness beer.

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but
more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are
radioactive-so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear
reactor.

In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government
recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum)is
in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck
Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager
claiming they need someone who went to college. During the
conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is
standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed
low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in
"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwh
enuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,
"L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were
caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked
for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.

There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures
logo.

Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which
occurs six times: Indivisibility.

In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.

The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is
'angstschreeuw'.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he
was sewn up after surgery.

The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was
"Smile".

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.

Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution
of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped
together in such a way that they resemble a human being.

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The second longest word in the English language is
"antidisestablishmenterianism".

When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel
= motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a
"portmanteau."

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's
assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression
for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.

In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.

The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith
Fore.

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside
sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her
basement.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book
'The Naked Lunch'.

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's
Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten
words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he,
in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.

Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada
for marketing reasons.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was
the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand
corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the
front upper right-hand corner.

No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The
frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of
it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of theirfirst
names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same
number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.

It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law
against selling dolls without human faces.

In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts
were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister,
Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles
at a religious retreat in India.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran
a saloon there.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill
in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the
second man on the moon in 1969.)

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul
Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.

Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme
songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on
the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after
Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and
only, home run.

The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once,
on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was
mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about
the wreck.

The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was
Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had
around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less
expensive twelve sided coin.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack
Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence
"Oz."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton
Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry,
founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band
ever seen in England--1961

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a
brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the
Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called
a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack
and break off... Thus the saying.

Horses cannot vomit.Rabbits cannot vomit.

S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was
just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because
the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could
key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a
mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is
called a hinny.

The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used
as money.

The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce
emblems on their helmets.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the
set by a raging elephant.

Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with
engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the
springs.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Octopi have gardens.

"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really
singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,'
and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually
singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but
this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady
Mondegreen.'"

Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the
ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and
used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible
-- in many places - refers to "40 days," they meant many days.

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one
vowel.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.

One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of
a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet,
normally without being hurt.

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe
DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement made by swearing on their testicles.

Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.

Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably
shorter than his right.

Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off
would and therefore forstall curses.

The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out
Inigo Montoya...)

the face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a
more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

The only planet without a ring is earth.

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts
dots.

Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How
the Grinch Stole Christmas."

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.

The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna
Arquette, the actress.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Starfish don't have brains.

Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via",
which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an
intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place),
they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed.
You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."

loads of useless facts

2006-10-11T23:31:17Z

A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does not grow branches until it is 75 years old.

During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore

The condom made originally of linen was invented in the early 1500's. Casanova, the womanizer, used linen condoms.

Studies have shown that the scent of Rosemary can help in better mental performance and make individuals feel more alert

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks

Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, their bodies dyed blue from head to toe.

After the U.S Civil War, about 33%-50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit

In 1281, the Mongol army of Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan but were ravaged by a hurricane that destroyed their fleet.

In 1685, New France used playing cards as currency because of the shortage of coins.

In 1836, Mexican General Santa Anna held an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.

In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money.

In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom.

In the 1550's, the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, embarrassingly left to travel for seven years because he had accidently farted when he had bowed down to Queen Elizabeth I. When he returned the Queen said to him, "My Lord, I had forgot the fart."

In the Victoria era, red tulips were a declaration of love.

Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.

Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous.

St. Patrick never really drove out any snakes from Ireland. This story was an analogy of how he drove paganism out of Ireland

The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin

The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming.

The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897.

The oldest working Post Office in the world is located in the village of Sanquer, located in the Scottish Lowlands. It has been operating since 1712.

Vikings, after killing their enemies, used their skulls as drinking vessels

When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off. The head had to be sewn back on so Black Jack could be buried properly.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density

Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.

In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale

India has the most post offices in the world

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.

In the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce

The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919

During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles

The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years

Fido means faithful in Latin.

Mona Lisa has no eyebrows in Leonardo da Vinci's painting. During that time, a woman was considered more beautiful if she shaved her eyebrows.

The expression "Tying the Knot" comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots.

The term "mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) comes from the French "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MAYDAY" and means, "Help Me."

The word "Nazi" is actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which refers to the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial.

A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.

Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.

cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones.

bossdj02 @ 2006-09-22T22:31:00

2006-09-23T05:31:45Z

top 110 banned books (of all time)
bold the ones youve read, italicize the ones youve read part of, underline the ones you specifically want to read.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Tarabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein fuck yeah!
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

amores malditos- poem in spanish

2006-09-23T04:18:53Z

que amore, que puto amor tuve!@~&*
que nunca vuelva ella, ni el mismo amor
que nunca sea igual
y que olvide todo para siempre

que siempre conozca yo mi valor
que no esperes lo igual ni lo mejor
que siempre veas las cosas como son
y que algun dia perdones y nunca recuerdes

que algun dia veas cosas mejor
que la grieta que tienes en tu corazon sane
que la sicatriz no duela, ni queme, ni te recuerde
que algun dia veas hoy muy lejano y en el olvido
que dios me perdone, me ayude, y me sane
hoy y siempre

the family

2006-09-11T11:37:25Z

roxy

2006-09-11T11:36:26Z

bossdj02 @ 2006-09-11T04:03:00

2006-09-11T11:04:08Z

What kind of booze are you?

Nothing like an Iced Cold Beer!
Take this quiz!

Quizilla |
Join

| Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code

this is so cool

2006-09-09T09:22:05Z

Create your own! Originally Written By ga_woo, Hosted and ReWritten by darkman424

at work, fuckin hatin the world

2006-08-29T08:05:45Z

lately ive been feeling really depressed. well not lately. just the last 4 months or so. fuck ive never been this way. i hate it so much. i fucken hate all the shit natalie has put me thru. i hope to god that i never see her again. i feel so damaged. like such a fucken pussy. why cant i forget the past. as always ive never been able to let go. here i sit reliving the past and all its vast ranges of hurt and pain for what? it suits me no purpose but i know that i will do this to myself for months even years to come. why do i care so much for other people, always disregarding my self for them and their needs. why must i live thru others and live to please others? why can i do things for myself? theres not a day that i dont think of what has happened. what occurred, what i could have done differently, what she did to me, what she put me thru. my god how could have i been such a fucken idoit for so long. how could i not see her for who she really was? how could i not see the real her? i dont even know what i miss about her. just that i do. i fucken hate myself for still caring for a person so cold and hurtful, so hateful and disrespectful. i fucken hate myself whole heartly for knowing her and never knowing her uglyness. i have no good memories to relieve or look back on. just the pain and hurt. the horrible things shes done to me. i hope and pray that she never comes in contact with me ever again. i get by thru the day thinkin shes dead as my only way of coping and moving on.

besides that im fucken peachy. not really.

i feel so fucken alone like i have no one. i have just myself and i cant count on anyone. i know that this will make me stronger and i hope taht it does. i hate feeling so fucken vulneable. maybe this will help. just writtin it down and pourin it out. i hope so. if only people knew how i feel. if only she understood me. if only she cared more than just her self. fuck her. fuck all that shit. so fucken tired and sick of thinkin bout it. fuck! i fear that im borderline alcoholic. like the bad kind. lol not the old turo (me) who would drink a bottle of vodka every once in a while at a party or a family gathering and not drinkin for months at a time but when i did drink i DRANK. no not like that. now i find myself drinkin alone almost everyday. going to sleep drunk and numb as my escape and freedom from re-living all the drama that ive endured. that gets my mind off it. it gets me thru for a few days.
gettin into a knife fight with oneself and loosing is some crazy shit. i was drunk at the time so it seemed like a good idea but the scar is hella ichy and big.

i know what i need to do. stay positive. stay healthy. work out, work on myself. move foward and be happy. im just not ready to get there yet. hopefully ill get into gear soon because life sucks right now.

this song is so me right now

2006-08-09T20:37:28Z

Best Of You

I've got another confession to make
I'm your fool
Everyone's got their chains to break
Holdin' you

Were you born to resist or be abused?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?

Are you gone and onto someone new?
I needed somewhere to hang my head
Without your noose
You gave me something that I didn't have
But had no use
I was too weak to give in
Too strong to lose
My heart is under arrest again
But I break loose
My head is giving me life or death
But I can't choose
I swear I'll never give in
I refuse

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Has someone taken your faith?
Its real, the pain you feel
You trust, you must
Confess
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Oh...

Oh...Oh...Oh...Oh...

Has someone taken your faith?
Its real, the pain you feel
The life, the love
You die to heal
The hope that starts
The broken hearts
You trust, you must
Confess

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?

I've got another confession my friend
I'm no fool
I'm getting tired of starting again
Somewhere new

Were you born to resist or be abused?
I swear I'll never give in
I refuse

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Has someone taken your faith?
Its real, the pain you feel
You trust, you must
Confess
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Oh...

bossdj02 @ 2006-07-31T07:04:00

2006-07-31T14:08:34Z

yesterday i said goodbye to natalie. i couldnt let her continue hurting me. after all the been through, after all the heartache she caused me, she still couldnt be true. she showed me that i couldnt trust her. not now or ever. all i ever wished was to be happy, loved, by her. now that will never happen. maybe it should have never happened. but ill miss her dearly. now she is dead to me and me to her, forever.