Sunday Family Humour 20th September Page 2
Sunday Family Humour 20th September Page 2
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Euro English
Thanks to Cindy
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v"..
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
The Rice Fields of Japan
Thanks to Ray
Pretty amazing work of art!
Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan.
But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted.
Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead,
different colors of rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.
As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.
A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants, the colours created by using different varieties, in Inakadate in Japan
The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori village of Inakadate, 600 miles north of Toyko, where the tradition began in 1993.
The village has now earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry and this year the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall.
More than 150,000 vistors come to Inakadate, where just 8,700 people live, every summer to see the extraordinary murals.
Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers plant four different varieties of rice in late May across huge swathes of paddy fields.
Napolean on horseback can be seen from the skies,
created by precision planting and months of planning between villagers and farmers in Inkadate
Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen appear in f ields in the town of Yonezawa, Japan
And over the past few years, other villages have joined in with the plant designs.
Another famous rice paddy art venue is in the town of Yonezawa in the Yamagata prefecture.
This year's design shows the fictional 16th-century samurai warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives feature in television series Tenchijin.
Various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas of Japan this year, including designs of deer dancers.
Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers.
The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety to create the coloured patterns between planting and harvesting in September.
The murals in Inakadate cove r 15,000 square metres of paddy fields.
From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.
Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew out of meetings of the village committee.
Closer to the image, the careful placement of thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen
The different varieties of rice plant grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces
In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year.
But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005 agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organisers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.
A look back at everything that has made America what it is today
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The Thousand Islands
Thanks to Ray
It's quite difficult to watch these slides and keep the "I want one" syndrome at bay.
This must be one of the best collections of varied architecture, in a unique and beautiful setting.
There should be 7 differences
Study the first picture VERY carefully before opening the second one.
Then open the 2nd one and count how many differences you can find.
WITHOUT REFERRING TO THE FIRST PHOTO
There should be 7 differences to the keen eye...
Men never learn
DRAHLA
Whilst most of our friends and colleagues force their minds to dwell on the news, current affairs and football, we are all aware that this is just the side-show. Total absorption in the side-show precludes observation of, and participation in, the main event.
Like most main events, the vast majority of souls are merely spectators, with the action being determined by a few major players behind closed doors, who then stage a carefully orchestrated show in order to demonstrate to everybody that they are watching the real thing.
That is as much as we wish to say about the sideshow.
We now wish to promote the main event, and we are going to do this through drahla.
Drahla is a Tibetan word, which is best translated as "goodness". Our plan is to spread goodness around the planet, and we plead for your energetic participation. For those of our readers who have visited Our House, the game is already familiar, and is called
D R A H L A
This game originated in Tibet, as can be noted from the name - it is the kind of game used by lamas for centuries.
All we have to do is to make a little effort to identify those tiny uplifting moments which occasionally lighten our heart - the sight of a kitten sleeping, or the sunlight reflecting on the early morning haze, or the sound of children laughing... We are about to start a new life, where we concentrate only on the good things, and every time we spot a good thing, we are going to say, out loud, so that everybody can hear,
"D R A H L A".
We will be contributing our bit to the uplifting of the planetary aura, and contributing a tiny fraction towards the healing of the planet and its people.
Our dream is that we can walk down a street, and hear several people say "D R A H L A". If only half of the people found only one pleasant moment per day, then we would still have three billion D R A H L A S per day. Therefore, at Our House, whenever we notice a small piece of goodness we say, out loud, "D R A H L A". This brings one person's good feeling to the attention of all present, and allows us all to share in the same good feelings. By adopting this method of saying Drahla, we all get to share in more good feelings each day, thus uplifting our average mood.
More at http://sites.google.com/site/humanevolution2008/the-human-mind/drahla-1