Why does coffee never taste as good as it smells? University of London scientists have found that 80% of what we think of as taste actually reaches us through smell receptors in our nose. These receptors react to odors differently depending on whether they enter the nose from the inside or the outside. So the smell coffee in a mug is completely different from our ‘2nd sense of smell’ … the burst of aroma up the back of the nose from inside the mouth. In contrast, some cheeses smell revolting but taste delicious because their whiff seems more pleasant to us when passing out of the nose than in. Only 2 known aromas – chocolate and lavender – are perceived in exactly the same way whether they enter the nose from the inside or out….

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Lance Armstrong accidentally tweets his cell phone #…

Hey – you bet. Happy to help. Call my cell 778 384 7520. Take care, L….

…Give him a call…I’m certain he’d appreciate it…Actually…I’m fairly certain it’s been changed by now…

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1. Paul McCartney: $800m
2. Bono: $600m
3. Jimmy Buffett: $400m
4. Elton John: $320m
5. Mick Jagger: $305m
6. Sting: $290m
7. Phil Collins: $250m
8. Dave Matthews: $250m
9. Prince: $250m
10. Dave Grohl: $225m
11. Rod Stewart: $220m
12. David Bowie: $215m
13. Bruce Springsteen: $200m
14. James Hetfield: $175m
15. Axl Rose: $150m
16. Roger Waters: $145m
17. David Gilmour: $130m
18. Steven Tyler: $130m
19. Jon Bon Jovi: $125m
20. Anthony Kiedis: $120m
21. Sammy Hagar: $120m
22. Robert Plant: $120m
23. Bruce Dickinson: $115m
24. Eric Clapton: $115m
25. Brian Johnson: $90m
26. Ozzy Osbourne: $90m
27. Gwen Stefani: $80m
28. Eddie Vedder: $80m
29. Bob Dylan: $80m
30. Brian Wilson: $75m
31. Michael Stipe: $75m
32. Trey Anastasio: $75m
33. Joe Elliott: $70m
34. Peter Gabriel: $70m
35. John Fogerty: $68m
36. Stevie Nicks: $65m
37. Roger Daltrey: $65m
38. Chris Cornell: $60m
39. Mark Hoppus: $60m
40. Tom DeLonge: $60m
41. Chris Martin: $60m
42. Billie Joe Armstrong: $55m
43. Liam Gallagher: $50m
44. Zack de la Rocha: $50m
45. Vince Neil: $50m
46. Steve Perry: $45m
47. Jon Anderson: $45m
48. Maynard James Keenan: $45m
49. Jonathan Davis: $45m
50. David Lee Roth: $40m

Good luck with those singing lessons…

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Because I’m a man, when I lock my keys in the car, I will
fiddle with a coat hanger long after hypothermia has set in.
Calling CAA is not an option. I WILL win.
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Because I’m a man, when the car isn’t running very well,
I will pop the hood and stare at the engine as if I know what
I’m looking at. If another man shows up, one of us will say to
the other, ‘I used to be able to fix these things, but now with
all these computers and everything, I wouldn’t know
where to start.’ We will then drink a couple of beers
as a form of holy communion.
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Because I’m a man, when I catch a cold, I need someone
to bring me soup and take care of me tenderly while I lie in bed
and moan. You’re a woman. You never get as sick as I do, so
for you, this is no problem.
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Because I’m a man, I can be relied upon to purchase basic
groceries at the store like beer, milk, bread or beer. I cannot
be expected to find exotic items like ‘mango’ or ‘tofu.’ For all I
know, these are the same thing.
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Because I’m a man, when one of our appliances stops
working, I will insist on taking it apart, despite evidence that
this will just cost me twice as much once the repair person
gets here and has to put it back together.
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Because I’m a man, I must hold the television remote
control in my hand while I watch TV. If the thing has been
misplaced, I may miss a whole show looking for it…..though
one time I was able to survive by holding a calculator…..
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Because I’m a man, there is no need to ask me what I’m
thinking about. The true answer is always either sex, cars,
sex, sports or sex. I have to make up something else when
you ask, so don’t ask.
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Because I’m a man, I think what you’re wearing is fine. I
thought what you were wearing five minutes ago was fine,
too. Either pair of shoes is fine. With the belt or without it,
looks fine. Your hair is fine. You look fine. Can we just go
now?
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Because I’m a man, and this is, after all, the year 2012, I
will share equally in the housework. You just do the laundry,
the cooking, the cleaning, the vacuuming, and the dishes,
and I’ll do the rest……like wandering around in the garden
with a beer wondering what to do.

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Once every 10 years since 1952, the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine attempts to answer that question by polling film critics worldwide. Except for the first year when Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist parable “Bicycle Thieves” took the top spot, “Citizen Kane” has won every time. Until now. And the new winner is… Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” a 1958 psychological drama starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. That is the expert opinion of the 1,000 film critics, programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other film buffs who submitted their own top 10 lists that included a total of 2,045 different films. The top 10 greatest films ever made:
1. Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (1958)
2. Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” (1941)
3. Ozu Yasujiro’s “Tokyo Story” (1953)
4. Jean Renoir’s “La Règle du jeu” (1939)
5. FW Murnau’s “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (1927)
6. Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)
7. John Ford’s “The Searchers” (1956)
8. Dziga Vertov’s “Man With a Movie Camera” (1929)
9. Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1927)
10. Federico Fellini’s “8-1/2″ (1963)

I’m with you…I’m not familiar with half of them either…

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By calculating the precise number of “laughs a minute,” the movie subscription service Lovefilm has released new research which they say confirms the comedy “Airplane” is the funniest movie of all time. The research project was done by a panel of members of the service who recorded the total number of times each film generated a laugh, before dividing it by the films’ total length in minutes to calculate the precise “laugh a minute” rating. Using the “laugh a minute” score, here’s the top ten funniest movies according to them:
• 1. Airplane – 3 Laughs A Minute
• 2. The Hangover – 2.4 Laughs A Minute
• 3. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad ! – 2.3 Laughs A Minute
• 4. Superbad – 1.9 Laughs A Minute
• 5. Borat – 1.7 Laughs A Minute
• 6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy – 1.6 Laughs A Minute
• 7. American Pie – 1.5 Laughs A Minute
• 8. Bridesmaids – 1.4 Laughs A Minute
• 9. Shaun of the Dead – 1.3 Laughs A Minute
• 10. Life of Brian – 1.2 Laughs A Minute

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Call of Nudey Video Game: An online video game, based on Prince Harry’s naked picture scandal, has been launched. The object of ‘Save Harry’ is to avoid being photographed in the nude by half-naked girls and hotel staffers. If users get caught on camera, they lose the game.

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Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, “Fried chicken.”
She said I wasn’t funny, but she couldn’t have been right, because everyone else laughed.
My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.
I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA.
He said they love animals very much.
I do, too. Especially chicken, pork and beef. Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal’s office.
I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.

The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was.
I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken.

She sent me back to the principal’s office. He laughed, and told me not to do it again.

I don’t understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn’t like it when I am.

Today, my teacher asked us to tell her what famous person we admire most. I told her, “Colonel Sanders.”
Guess where I am now…

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Yes, it’s that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
Here is the glorious winner:

1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California , would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And now, the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef’s claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space.. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer… $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly.. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape…

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher.. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, “Yes, officer, that’s her. That’s the lady I stole the purse from.”

9.. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast… The man, frustrated, walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street by sucking on a hose, he got much more than he bargained for.. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had.

In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with friends and family….unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

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