Take my test!

ONE STUDENT RECEIVED 0% ON THIS EXAM...
I would have given him 100%!!!  I like his answers better!

Q1. In which battle did Napoleon die?
* his last battle

Q2. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
* at the bottom of the page

Q3. River Ravi flows in which state?
* liquid

Q4. What is the main reason for divorce?
* marriage

Q5. What is the main reason for failure?
* exams

Q6. What can you never eat for breakfast?
* Lunch & dinner

Q7. What looks like half an apple?
* The other half

Q8. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
* It will simply become wet

Q9. How can a man go eight days without sleeping ?
* No problem, he sleeps at night.

Q10. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
* You will never find an elephant that has only one hand.

Q11. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in other hand, what would you have ?
* Very large hands

Q12. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
* No time at all, the wall is already built.

Q13. How can u drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
*Any way you want, concrete floors are very hard to crack.

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Initially signed to Columbia Records in the United States, Melanie (full name Melanie Safka) released two singles on the label. Subsequently she signed with Buddah Records. Her debut album received rave reviews from Billboard which heralded her voice as "... wise beyond her years. Her non-conformist approach to the selections on this LP make her a new talent to be reckoned with".

Melanie performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the inspiration for her signature song, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", apparently arose from the Woodstock audience lighting candles during her set (although most of the "candles" were actually matches or lighters). The recording became a hit in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States in 1970. "Lay Down" was also Melanie's first Top Ten hit in America, peaking at Number 6 on the Billboard singles chart and achieving worldwide success. Later hits included "Peace Will Come (According To Plan)", a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday", and her 1972 smash "Brand New Key".
"Lay Down" was a huge hit in 1970, but seems forgotten today...

Finally!!

Amazing new T-shirt break-through cures plumber's butt instantly!!

Friday giggle...

When the chef runs out of good ideas...

Caught ya!!

I'm sure you've seen the commercials... comedian Jimmy Fallon trying to convince the baby to like more money.  And in one commercial he's playing a beautiful sunburst Gibson guitar.  Then he hands it to the baby, and the baby breaks the neck off.  Every guitar player I know sheds a tear for the broken, $2,000.00 guitar.  But never fear, I paused the video and discovered it ain't so.  Jimmy may hand an expensive guitar off, but what he gets back is a cheap Epiphone knock-off.... it ain't no Gibson!  Look closely at the two head-stocks!!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

"Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu", written by Boris Fomin with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.   In the early 1960s Raskin, with his wife Francesca, played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York. They released an album which included the song, which was taken up by the Limeliters. Raskin wrote lyrics in English and then put a copyright on both tune and lyrics. The Raskins had played London's "Blue Angel" always closing their show with the song. Paul McCartney frequented the club and, after the formation of the Beatles' own Apple Records label, recorded the song with Mary Hopkin, Hopkin made the best known recording, released on 30 August 1968, shortly after Hopkin had been signed to the Beatles' newly created Apple label. Hopkin's recording was produced by Paul McCartney and became a #1 hit in the UK singles chart. In the US, Hopkin's recording reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Easy Listening charts for six weeks. The Russian origin of the melody was accentuated by an instrumentation which was unusual for a top ten pop record, including clarinet, hammer dulcimer and children's chorus, giving a klezmer feel to the song.
The song has been covered and recorded by artists in countries all over the world, including Dolly Parton in the USA in 2005, with backing vocals by Mary Hopkin.
I've heard many versions, but I still think Mary's version is the best by far!

Together at last!

Two of my favorite places, finally side by side as they should be!  Hilarious!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" is a 1966 single by the British band The Kinks. It lampoons the contemporary British fashion scene and mod culture in general. Originally released as a single, it has been included on many of the band's later albums.
Musically, it and "A Well Respected Man" marked the beginning of an expansion in the Kinks' inspirations, drawing as much from British music hall traditions as from American rhythm and blues, the inspiration for breakthrough Kinks songs like "You Really Got Me".
The British record-buying public enjoyed the jab at "the whole Carnabetian army" enough to put the song into the top five. It reached the top of the charts in The Netherlands and New Zealand and was a big hit around the world. In the U.S., it peaked at #36 and stayed on the charts for several weeks.  The lyrics won writer Ray Davies an Ivor Novello Award for songwriting in 1966.  Outside of fashion, the song's title has remained a metaphor for slavish conformity, but in a more positive sense as an analogy for the growth of online social networks.
What's funny to me is that writers still borrow lyrics from the song, it's still talked about, and yet we never hear it played on the radio... truly a forgotten oldie!

The Montana Trooper

This is absolutely hilarious!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

"Don't Bring Me Down" was the third of The Animals' epic personalisations of Goffin-King material, following the 1965 hits "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and "It's My Life". The Animals had always had a somewhat contentious relationship with such songs, knowing they gave them hits but preferring the more straightforward R&B numbers they used for album tracks. The Animals' arrangement is led by a pulsating organ riff from Dave Rowberry, which is then set against a prominent bass guitar line from Chas Chandler. Hilton Valentine decorates the song with unusual fuzz guitar chords. Eric Burdon sings the verses in a quiet manner: "Don't Bring Me Down" was a solid hit, reaching the Top 10 (#6) in the UK pop singles chart, and falling just short of that on the U.S. pop singles chart, reaching number 12 during June and July 1966. Rolling Stone would later write that "Don't Bring Me Down" represented one side of the Goffin-King "boy-girl, loneliness-togetherness" duality. Allmusic considers "Don't Bring Me Down" an exemplar of The Animals' "brutally soulful inspiration." Whatever you call it, it's my favorite Animals song ever!

Funny stuff!

I saw this posted on Facebook yesterday... I think there's some merit to a couple of these!