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Once upon a time there was a government official with a plan. He had become convinced that the way to fix the economy was to send out teams of saboteurs, who would systematically disrupt production around the country. Why did he believe this? Never mind; for some reason it was what all the Very Serious People were saying.
Phil Plait: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Pertussis Slayer (Slate)
… we humans do tend to listen to celebrities, and so I'm actually very happy when one endorses reality. Actor Sarah Michelle Gellar- best known to BABloggeees, no doubt, from "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer"-has partnered with the March of Dimes and Sanofi Pasterus (the world's largest vaccine manufacturer) in "Sounds of Pertussis", a campaign for adults to get their TDaP (tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis) booster shot.
Scott Burns: The Moving Experience of a Lifetime (AssetBuilder)
Pamela Villarreal looks up from her laptop. She checks that the correct webpage is projected on a large screen at the end of a conference table. She nods OK. I'm visiting with Ms. Villarreal, a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, to check out a new tool on their website- a free calculator that will estimate the lifetime value of moving from one state to another.
Green Eggs and Ham is one of Dr. Seuss's "Beginner Books", written with a very simple vocabulary for beginning readers. How many different words form the vocabulary of this book?
Green Eggs and Ham is a best-selling and critically acclaimed book by Dr. Seuss (a pen-name of Theodor Seuss Geisel), first published on August 12, 1960. As of 2001, according to Publishers Weekly, it was the fourth best-selling English-language children's book of all time.
Green Eggs and Ham is one of Seuss's "Beginner Books", written in a very simple vocabulary for beginning readers.
The vocabulary of the text consists of just fifty different words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf (Dr. Seuss's publisher) that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Hat using 225 words) could not complete an entire book using so few words.
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Lois Of Orearabia (feeling exotic this morning), was first, and correct, with:
"Green Eggs and Ham" uses only 50 different words.
Seuss's editor bet him after "The Cat in the Hat,"
which used 225 words, that he couldn't write a book using
fewer. Simplify, simplify...so even a Republican Senator can
read it!
Charlie wrote:
50, only one of which, anywhere, has more than one syllable.
Alan J responded:
50 words.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The vocabulary of the text consists of just fifty different words and was
the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf (Dr. Seuss's publisher)
that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Hat using 225 words) could not
complete an entire book using so few words.
Sally said:
"Green Eggs and Ham" was my son's favorite book, and I read it to him about a thousand times WO ever realizing the book consisted of only 50 different words!
Oh, and how many times did I have to make green eggs (thank you green food coloring) for the little lad as well...
PS: My daughter loved, "Good Night Moon," but could read well herself by age 4. The kids shared a room for quite a while, and I would sit by the son's bed reading, while she lay in her bed reading her own book. Now and again I would glance over at her, and can still see her rolling her eyes listening to the same story night after night... I have the book and wanted to give it to the gks, but she did not want it there. So, when they stayed at gamma's house I would read it here for them. Secretly, I was glad to have it here - holding on to a bit of their precious childhood for a while longer...
Adam answered:
I was going to say 25, but it is 50 words.
Marian wrote:
50
MAM took the day off.
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcalifall, took the day off.
BttbBob responded:
Okay, Dagnabbit... Okay... I have that book in my possession. It's here in "Maddie Muffin's" room - Yes, she has her own bedroom at my house. That little scamp has 4 - count 'em, 4, different bedrooms. At my newly wed daughter's place, at her Dad's place, at "GrampaGramma's" place (she refers to them, seemingly, as one unit), and here. I ask you, now, how many 6 year olds do you know that have 4 distinct bedrooms each crammed full of 6 year old type stuff? Jeesh... The "Modern Family" has worked well in her favor, I'm tellin' ya (especially, as she's exceeding well-beloved by a lot of people)... But, I have digressed and on purpose. Wait! I'm gonna digress further! (Why? I'll tell ya in a minute). That book has been #1 on said scamp's hit parade whenever I've announced, "I want to read ya a book! Go get one!". Zoom!
That red-haired rocket is off and back like a well made racquetball shot with that particular book. It is her fa-vo-rite for me to read. I am willfully proud to say that I can read children's books aloud very well with great emphasis where and when appropriate (I do different voices, too, for different characters - I make kids laugh with that... Fact!) All righty then... I have delayed the inevitable... I refuse to look this up. I have to, mind you now, out of (again) willful pride, go get that dagnab book, read that dagnab book, and list and count all the different dagnab words to obtain the dagnab correct answer! And it's yer fault, Boss, making me do this cruel, I declare cruel, thing the morning after my daughter's wedding bash. Even having to read that dagnab question, right from the get-go first thing in the dagnab morning, is a dagnab cruel thing to do and you dagnab-well know it, Boss! My agent's gonna hear about this and he-will-not-like-it!... "I'll be bahck" (said in my best "Terminator" voice)
~~~~~
(Some time later) Okay... I count 50... Are ya happy? Huh? Are ya? I hope so, Oh Noble-One!... and my agent says he'll be in touch after he speaks with the guild.
~~~~~
BTW, that scamp got the moral of the story right off. Unlike you-know-who...
He-whose-name-must-not-be-spoken.... I give you... Ta Da!
"The Most Uninteresting Man in the World"...
~~~~~
Happy Birthday this day to:
(27) The Detroit Lion's "MEGATRON" - The best dagnab wide receiver in the NFL and a real class act... Fact! Here's to you havin' a BIG day against "Da Bears" today! (the vile, despicable Bears... they are well loathed hereabouts)
I block most popups but for the last few days I have been getting a bar asking permission to open "analytics.js at a.sitemeter.com" it appears only on your site.
there is nothing wrong with collecting data on your part
but I don't think you want the popup.....not likely that it is only me getting it
by the way thanks for 2 years without a break.
gary in pa
Thanks, Gary!
Don't know what that pop up is all about - I started it seeing it a couple days ago, too.
I do use "Sitemeter" - have for about 10 years.
They're good guys, located in Ireland.
Probably need to update the code.
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The distinction, first established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to give recognition to civilians and soldiers, has five degrees and Roth, 80, was given the title of Commander.
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Photo by Virginia Mayo
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"I would never do (a commercial) with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect but because we don't agree with them. Ours is a classic family where the woman plays a fundamental role," he said.
Barilla also said he was unconcerned with whether gay consumers would stop buying pasta from the privately held company that is the world's biggest pasta maker.
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The incident in the occupied West Bank one week ago had the potential to escalate, with Israel considering expelling her and aid groups privately pressing Paris and other European countries involved to protest at the treatment of their diplomats.
Castaing was one of a group of European envoys manhandled by Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian village of Khirbet al-Makhul when the troops prevented them from handing out French-funded tents and emergency aid to 120 Palestinians whose homes Israel had demolished that week.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch has condemned the Israeli eviction orders, saying that "under international humanitarian law in effect in the occupied West Bank, the deliberate unlawful forced transfer of a population is a war crime".
Aid groups had urged Paris to stand by Castaing, but neither France nor other EU governments appeared willing to confront Israel over the highly unusual confrontation.
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Photo by Yannis Behrakis
There's a way to get to the Fairbanks Airport, just don't ask your iPhone for help.
Apple has disabled driving directions to the Fairbanks International Airport after a glitch in its maps app guided drivers to the edge of a runway instead of a terminal, airport spokeswoman Angie Spear said Friday. Two times, drivers continued on and cut across an active runway to reach the terminal.
"I wouldn't describe it necessarily as a fix, they just deactivated the directions," Spear said.
Previous directions on newer iPhones and iPads guided drivers to the edge of the tarmac instead of the correct route to the terminal. In incidents Sept. 6 and Sept. 20, drivers went through a gate, past warning lights and signs, and then across an active runway, to reach the terminal.
The airport has since barricaded that entrance to the taxiway. A sign posted there gives a phone number for people to call to get the correct directions to the airport.
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Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
The hotel that inspired Stephen King's novel The Shining is preparing to dig up a pet cemetery on the property, prompting complaints about noise and - more terrifying - warnings about disturbing spirits from believers of paranormal activity.
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo., markets its haunted history, describing lights flickering mysteriously, ghostly sightings and the voices of children who once stayed there echoing in the hallways, though its website says there are only "happy ghosts" at the Stanley.
Its fictional portrayal as the Overlook Hotel in The Shining suggests the hotel has a sinister influence on the winter caretaker, driving him to murderous insanity.
Now the hotel is digging up graves in its pet cemetery and moving them to build a pavilion for weddings and corporate events, according to the Coloradoan.
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Photo by Mike Sturk
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Up until now, scientists thought photosynthesis - the ability of living things such algae and plants to harvest energy from the sun - first evolved in single-celled organisms about 2.7 billion years ago.
Because oxygen is produced during photosynthesis, early photosynthetic organisms are thought to have given rise to the Great Oxygenation Event, also known as the Great Oxidation Event, about 2.3 billion years ago. The Great Oxygenation Event was thought to be the first time the atmosphere began accumulating significant amounts of oxygen. That is significant because complex multicellular organisms such as humans require an oxygen-rich atmosphere to survive.
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A 40-foot-high (12-metre-high) and 30-foot-wide (nine-metre-wide) inflatable rubber duck, created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, is towed up the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 27, 2013. The event marks the North American debut of Hofman's Rubber Duck Project, which has taken place in other cities in Asia, Europe, Australia and South America.
Photo by Jason Coh
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