http://www.videobash.com/video_show/they-were-five-14598
Wallet Drop Prank

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Jokes

A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question.

The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the sidewalk, and stopped inches from a shop window.

For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, "Look, don't ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!"

The passenger apologized and said he didn't realize that a little tap could scare him so much.

The driver replied "Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver. I've been driving hearses for the last 25 years."

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One Week

This is a true story.

It happened with one of the people who works for me, the writer of MountainWings.com.

Last week, a young man in the shipping department asked to take some time off from work. His wife's grandmother had passed (away), and he and his family were driving up north to the funeral. She passed (away) on the 8th of this month.

I talked with the young man today and asked him how things went.

"You know we went to the funeral for my wife's grandmother and while we were there, her grandfather died also. She died on the 8th and he died on the 14th. He died 20 minutes after the viewing of the body at the funeral home. They buried them both at the same funeral, and they buried them in the same grave, one on top of the other."

They had been married over 50 years.

The events had the appearance of tragedy, yet I saw something greater. The shortest MountainWings issue of recent times was a simple quote.

This was the issue: http://www.mountainwings.com/past/1134.htm

This was the quote:

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live without you."

That's real marriage. That's real love. It's stuff that most will only read about in romance novels. Few live it, few feel it, fewer still would die for it.

Few people realize that to truly achieve a love like that, you do have to die. You have to die to self.

The grandfather simply couldn't make it one week without his love. Or maybe, she had already said to him:

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one week, so that I never have to live a week without you."

If your marriage isn't this bonded, you should follow the free program with your spouse at www.ShareTheFix.com.

~A MountainWings Original~

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"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

~Albert Einstein~

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E-MAIL FACTS

The term spam pre-dates e-mail as we know it, and has been traced back to online role playing chat rooms from the '80s called MUDs. Generally, the term refers to any type of abusive online behavior.

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The first e-mail from space was sent in 1991. The crew of STS-43 Atlantis used Apple's early AppleLink software on a Macintosh Portable to transmit the following: "Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here...send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby...we'll be back!"

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While many dictionaries and style guides are beginning to drop the hyphen and the caps in favor of "email," the The Associated Press Stylebook still insists on seeing the word as an abbreviation of "electronic mail" and therefore sticks with e-mail.

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As of September 2010, Compete revealed that, based on the U.S. Internet browsing population, Yahoo! Mail clearly dominates in the webmail service industry.. Hotmail comes in second, and Gmail follows in third place.

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Google has a little fun with spam via an Easter egg that can be viewed in any Gmail account. Opening the "Spam" folder turns the "web clips" display into recipes for the canned pork product. Spam Primavera, Spam Swiss Pie, Creamy Spam Broccoli Casserole and Spam Veggie Pita Pockets are just four examples of the delicious recipe links Google offers.

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Identity Theft Advice

Here is some advice from the Theft Resource Center to help keep a lock on your identity during the holiday season.

Use a Credit Card, not a debit card, to make purchases. It’s easier to get a fraudulent credit card charge erased than it is to get a bank to restore funds to your bank account.

Carry one credit card; leave the rest home “It’s easier to close one credit card than it is to close six, and it’s less damaging in the long run.”

Be aware of your surroundings. If you’re opening a new credit account, don’t do it at a register or counter where strangers can overhear you or the clerk talking about your information.

Watch for people looking at your credit card as it’s being passed to or from the clerk.

Watch your card every moment that the clerk has it so it’s not “skimmed” by a dishonest store employee.

Put your credit receipt in your wallet or purse, not in the bag with the item.

- Most credit card receipts are truncated, but the last thing you want is somebody to do a quick drip (in your bag), and they’ve got it. -

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The Gift Of Music

"Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
Time can break your heart, have you begging please.
Beyond the door there's peace I'm sure,
And I know there'll be no more tears in heaven."

These lyrics were penned in response to tragedy, when guitarist Eric Clapton's son Conor fell to his death from a New York high-rise window. The music helped him heal.

In 1994 the city of Sarajevo was daily under siege. Mortars and artillery fire instantly transformed once beautiful buildings into rubble. Sarajevo's citizens were frightened, weary and increasingly despondent. Then, one February day, a mortar shell exploded in the market killing 68 civilians. Many more were wounded and maimed from the blast.

A cellist with the Sarajevo symphony could no longer stand the chaos. He took his cello to the market, sat down amidst the rubble and played a concert. When he finished, he simply took up his instrument and left.

Every day, for 67 days, he came to the market. Every day he played a concert. It was his gift to the city. He did it because he felt his community must find a way to survive, and music can bring hope.

Music is a great gift. When I need to start my day in the right frame of mind, sometimes I'll sing. Music aligns my thoughts and emotions; my mind and spirit. When I awake in the middle of the night, I go back to sleep best if I sing in my head. Music calms and centers. When I find myself experiencing a moment of happiness, I'll sometimes sing out loud. (It works best when others are not present.) Music expresses joy like nothing else can.

One of the greatest cellists of all time was Pablo Casals. He exiled himself from his native Spain during the regime of Francisco Franco and became a world citizen and a great humanitarian. Casals passionately desired that the world exist in peace and harmony. He said once that if all the orchestras in the world were to play Beethoven's 9th Symphony simultaneously, then peace would come to the world.

I wonder if that is true. But if not peace, then perhaps joy might come. Or hope. Or healing.

It's the gift of music.

~ Steve Goodier ~

[ by: Steve Goodier - Copyright © 2011 - from Steve Goodier
(LifeSupport@yahoogroups.com) ]

   Thank you so much, Shari!