Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction...these news are actually true.
1. Politicians in India are demanding netting to protect them when voters throw shoes. (Bonus: A helpful Reuters reporter writes, "Throwing a shoe at someone is considered an insult in India"
2. Teenagers stole Lindsey Ryan's SUV, with her cellphone inside, so she called the number repeatedly, over several hours. Finally, an answer: "You're a crazy for calling us 38 times and keeping us up all night. You can have your car back." And they told her where they'd leave it. Joliet Herald News
3. A hygiene tip found in the Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1902:
POTATO YOUR FACE
If you wish to wash your face and haven't any soap at hand, pare a potato and use it as soap. This will cleanse the skin when the emergency arise.
4. Carmen Canas, 28, burned the hell out of herself when she tried to heat the cosmetic hot wax in a microwave and didn't handle the container very well taking it out, which of course is the cosmetics company's fault, said her lawyer. WPIX-TV (New York City)
5. Reported in the Newark Advocate, Dec. 1, 1936:
Training for Failure
It seems that parents are wrong in counseling their youngsters to study hard and aim for the presidency.
Anyway, Dr. Mandel Sherman, mental hygiene specialist at the University of Chicago, advises that young people be trained to become failures, in the ordinary sense of the word.
"Our educational system is suffering from an overdose of success stories," he contends. "One person in 10 is neurotic, one in 22 insane today because we train only for success. And only a few can be successful from a material standpoint."
Youth perhaps should be taught that a successful life need not include fame and riches. But history, studded with instances of handicapped youngsters who fought their way to success, indicates that it would be difficult to get the younger generation to bow its head to the inevitability of failure.
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it - Will Rogers
2 comments:
Using the potato as face cleaner was not weird as i used to do it during the teen years to avoid pimples and smoothed the skin. It actually work but after sometime bila dah masuk university, mane nak simpan kentang tu? bukan ada fridge pun, so dah stop... hehe..
I guess I have to move that to the not so weird section. You must saved a lot of money using potato instead of normal cleanser..hehehe
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