Hallo all, how's you? I can't believe another Friday is here, but then time flies, I guess, when you have vistors staying with you for almost a week. I don't know--and I'm too lazy to look it up--if I told you this already or not, but we've had Brogan (my new nephew) and his parents here till Wednesday and then Jen (my sis-in-law who's married to my bro, Mike) has surprised us and her parents with a visit. She and Mikey have been married for two years already, can you believe that?

Anyways, an update on me com-pu-tor... It's had it, but I've good news! *smiles big* Dad took it in to have it looked at, and as we all know, it's about given up the ghost. So, I have two options: have it rebuilt or buy a totally new one. Dad surprised me with an inquiry of getting an estimate on rebuilding my hard drive. And guess what?? To rebuild it, plus updating it to 40 GBs and transferring my information, they're only charging me $75! Isn't that great? That's way more affordable than $400-600. I'm definitely happy with the fee.

And now, something thoughtful...

*Only a Genius Can Understand the English Language

Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Why? How come?
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.

Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese; So one moose, two meese?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.

That is why when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

P.S. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick?"

The English language is alive and always is changing. It isn't the same as it was 30-50 years ago. Teens and young adults used words like "swell", "banana oil", "by jingo", "the cat's pajamas" and "cool cats." Now, you hear words like "phat," "your/my bad," "bad" (meaning cool), "jammin'!," "rad (or radical)," and in my day it was "tubular!," "narley," "bogus" or "awesome-to-the-core (or -to-the-max)." And of course, there is always the "extreme." It's been said that even native speakers of the English language don't know how to speak it. Ten years from now it'll be different even. I wonder, if we could time travel 100 years into the future, would we even recognize our native language? Probably not.

* An email Dad received and brought home.

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