Wednesday, 2 July 2008

18 FOOD SUPERSTITIONS!

Did you ever thought, what you could do with the food beside eat it? Drive evil spirits away, Use it for good luck and many other uses. Many people actually used to or still believe in these bizarre rituals and superstitions related to food. I found few of them and I thought I should share it with you all.


1.
Bake your cake while the sun is rising, and do not throw away the eggshells until the baking is done.



2.
Tossing coffee grounds under steps leading to the kitchen will rid the home ants.



3.
If you spot bubbles in a cup of coffee, try to spoon them up and eat them before they burst. If you succeed, you will receive money from an unexpected source.


4.
If you don't spit out the seeds while eating a grape, the seeds will give you appendicitis. (Thank God there are seedless grapes out there)


5.
It's meant to be a bad luck if you gather Blackberries after October 11th.



6.
If you love someone and you want him/her to love you back then you should give them an orange.



7.
Hold a buttercup under someone's chin. If it casts a yellow colored shadow then that person 'loves' to eat butter.


8.
If you are deaf then, you should eat Onions mixed with 'ant eggs', which will cure your deafness.



9.
If there is a thunderstorm out there then you should save yourself and your milk. This is because, its believed that, the sound of thunder would turn the milk sour.


10.
It is a bad luck to eat the last piece of bread on a plate, this is because it is believed that it will cause a bachelor to marry, or an unmarried woman to stay unmarried. (I think its a bit sexist)


11.
If you have a tree which doesn't bear fruit? Well it is believed that if you hammer a peg or nail into a fruit tree that bears no fruit, soon you will have some fruits.


12.
If you are bald then here is something which will help you. It is believed that if you pour Rum on a your bald head, it will cure your baldness. (what a waste of alcohol)


13.
There is always a good reason to watch your steps. Tipping over a slice of cake on a plate while serving a guest is a sign of bad luck.


14.
If you want your Cabbage to flourish and do well, you should plat them on St. Patrick's Day.



15.
Two yolks in an Easter egg is a good omen. It is believed to make you rick someday soon.



16.
You like eating bananas? Well, bananas must be broken apart - never cut with a knife. Because, it is believed that cutting bananas brings bad luck.


17.
Oh you think you are dumb? You want a solution? It is believed that eating peaches gives you wisdom.



18.
If you grow too much lettuce in your garden, your wife will never conceive children. (I wonder when it came from, this just dones't make sense. As if the rest of them make sense.)


I hope that you enjoyed reading this.

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

You are my INSPIRATION!

It's always interesting to find out where the architects of pop culture get their ideas. These may surprise you.

PRINCESS LEIA'S HAIR:
According to the "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, "I was trying to create something different, so I went with the kind of Southwestern Pancho Villa woman look. The buns are basically from turn-of-the-century Mexico."




SCOOBY-DOO:

Modeled after Bob Home's movie persona, "in which he played the coward for laughs before ending up the reluctant hero."





DOUBLE VISION:

The title of Foreigner's 1978 hit song came from a hockey injury. Frontman Lou Grammm was at a NewYork Rangers game when the goalie was knocked in the head with a stick. After the dazed player was taken off the ice, the arena announcer reported that he was "suffering double vision."



ELLIE ARROWAY:

The protagonist in Carl Sagan's novel "Contact" (played by Jodie Foster in the movie) was based on a real-life SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) member Jill Tarter, who "has logged more telescope hours in the search for cosmic company than any other human on the planet."



CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW:

Johnny Depp based his character in "Pirates of the Caribbean" on a mix of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and the amorous cartoon skunk, Pepe LePew.




THE EXORCIST:

Both the novel and film were based on reports of an actual exorcism performed on a 14-year old boy in Maryland in 1949, the last official case of exorcism in the United States.




ME AND BOBBY MCGEE:

Songwriter Kris Kristofferson got his inspiration from a scene in Fellini's movie "La Strada". When Anthony Quinn realizes that Giulietta Masina is dead, "he suddenly realized he was free but he was also the loneliest son of a bitch in the world. It showed the two sides of freedom - that freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose."

Sunday, 29 June 2008

[15] Acronym that will make you laugh, such as "C.R.A.P"

I found these acronyms at different places and I thought I should share them with you. Sure they made me laugh so much. And, oh they are real. I hope you like them.

(1) CRAP
Committee to Resist Acronym Proliferation.

(2) GHOST
Graffiti Habitual Offenders Suppression Team.

(3) SWIFT ANSWER
Special Word Indexed Full-Text Alpha-Numeric Storage With Easy Retrieval (Longest true acronym in English...so far).

(4) POETS
Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday (British slang for "TGIF").

(5) SCAM
Southern California Auto Mart.

(6) CACA
Canadian Agricultural Chemicals Associations.

(7) BARRF
Bay Area Resources Recovery Facility.

(8) NAPS
National Alliance of Postal Supervisors.

(9) RUIN
Regional Urban Information Network

(10) FIB
Fisherman's Information Bureau (It was this big...really!).

(11) SLUTS
School of Librarianship Urban Transportation System.

(12) SAP
Society for American Philosophy.

(13) EATM
Exotic Animal Training Management.

(14) GORK
God Only Really Knows (How doctors refer to patients they can't diagnose).

(15) WUNY
Wait Until Next Year (Said after a losing season).

Hope you enjoyed it, if you know some other hilarious ones, please share!

Saturday, 28 June 2008

Reap the benifits of having a Gmail ID!

The best thing about having a Gmail ID is unknown to a lot of people. You think that you know everything and all the benefits of having a Gmail id? I can bet you will be surprised to find you out that it is not true. Did you know that you could do these things?

Let’s say that your email address is ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.

  • GeorgeBush@gmail.com
  • GeorgeBush@googlemail.com
  • G.eorgeBush@gmail.com
  • Ge....orgeBush@gmail.com
  • Geor..geBush@gmail.com
  • Georg..eBush@gmail.com
Continue reading....

[Best] Blogger tips / tricks / hacks for newbie!

I am going to share a big secret for all the people who just joined the infamous blogspot.com. There are a lot of things you can't do it by yourself or it would take you a lot of time to figure it out by yourself. So here is a little HOWTO [in a great detail] to help you out. From here you will be able to do the followings:
  1. You can remove the blogger bar (yes the search bar on the top).
  2. Add a randomizer to show different quotes, graphics or html.
  3. You can show the recent comments you have received/written.
  4. You can format the style of your comments. Everything about them [almost]
  5. Add inline adds.
  6. Use feedburner.
  7. Add additional pages (such as, adding links to older posts that you can customize.)
  8. Use a real domain instead of blogger's default names.
  9. Add Instant Messaging to your blogger blog.
  10. Update your blog daily and have quality content.

International Laws; Laugh or get scared...but these are real!


You should remember these international laws as you might get into trouble if you are are a tourist/traveler. This would also help you if you are in a new country and about to make one of the following mistakes.
  • In England, it's illegal to name your pet "Queen" or "Princess" without the Queen's permission.
  • In Athens, Greece, driving on public roads while "unbathed" or poorly dressed can cost you your driver's license.
  • If you aren't a member of the royal family in Japan, it's illegal for you to own a maroon car.
  • If a man is wearing a hat in Cheshire, England, the law requires him to raise it when a funeral passes.
  • In Equatorial Guinea, you can name your daughter anything you want - except "Monica".
  • You can keep cows in sheds in the Northern Territories of Canada, and you can keep chickens in sheds. But you can't keep cows and chickens in the same shed (this is just plane weird to me).
  • In India, women (but not men) are allowed to marry goats ( It sure sounds really bad to me)
  • Old English law: if an object is smaller than a husband's little finger, he can beat his wife with it.
  • In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it's against the law for you to pay in pennies.
  • In Vancouver, British Columbia, the speed limit for tricycles is 10 miles per hour.
  • In Baluchistan, Pakistan, the law allows a man to "acquire" a wife by trading in his sister.
  • Makes sense: in London, England, it's illegal to operate a motor vehicle while sitting in the back seat.
  • In Australia, the pictures of convicted drunk drivers are published in newspapers with the caption, "He's drunk and in jail" (haha)
  • Cigarettes are legal in Nicaragua; cigarette lighters aren't.
  • My personal favorite: Boxing is illegal in China (too brutal); capital punishment isn't.
I hope that you had fun reading these. Please digg it if you like it as I am just new to digg.
Good Luck!

Ubuntu (Hardy) or OpenSuse-11.0? Make up your mind and let's end this once for all!

You want to know which is the best for you? You want to know what others think? You want to let people know which OS is better? You have come to the right place. Let everyone hear your voice and find out what others are thinking. This is going to help people like me and you. I have made up my choice and I want to know what you think. So just take a second to vote and please decide once for all!