Movie: Chamku; Cast: Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra, Irfaan Khan, Danny Denzongpa, Akhilendra Mishra, Ritesh Deshmukh, Rajpal Yadav; Director: Kabeer Kaushik; Rating: *
What do you do if any of Bobby Deol’s decade old dramas like Badal, Bichoo or Bardasht play on any of the satellite movie channels today? Majority would switch to another channel in search for a better source of entertainment. Chamku assumes the same aura, ambience and act of those archaic artifacts and you know how to act in response to such attempts.
The film starts as the account of an oppressed farmer, switches track to outlawed naxalite narrative, substitutes with the story of an intelligence officer and finally ends up being a regular revenge drama. Each subplot is given an outrageously obsolete treatment. Chamku (Bobby Deol) loses his father to a tyrannizing Thakur , is brought up by naxalites and trained by Indian intelligence for whom he engages in undercover operations.
Under instructions of the intelligence chief (Irrfan Khan), Chamku is on a relentless killing spree of anonymous individuals that pile up for the major pointless portions of the film. Abruptly you are informed that he also has a companion (Riteish Deshmukh, in his worst role ever) who adds no value to the film, as he is assassinated before you could acquaint yourselves with his character. Also there’s a Marathi-muddled motherly figure (Sulbha Arya) but you aren’t certain who she’s related to – Chamku or his chamcha.
Meanwhile a film without a female lead seems far-fetched in Bollywood, irrespective of her significance to the story. So a mandatory prop (read heroine) is squeezed in the screenplay in the form of a Montessori teacher (Priyanka Chopra) perpetually draped in chiffon saris. Luckily their love story is cut short but mercilessly you are supposed to sustain a superfluous song in the bargain. The heroine’s role starts on an ‘I love you’ note and ends with an ‘I am pregnant’ remark. Quite a multi-dimensional character!!!
Back at work, Chamku encounters the Thakur (Akhilendra Mishra) who had killed his father and wants to seek revenge. He traces the Thakur in a pub and opens fire in public though the populace there remains unperturbed and seems to be more interested in boogieing with babes.
Some time later Irrfan Khan pinches on your wounds, unashamedly announcing, “Every film needs a proper climax else the audience feels cheated”. This film not only lacks a proper climax but also original characterizations, conflicts, chemistry, compositions or chronicles. How one wishes Irrfan should have asked the director, “Kya aapko K.I.L.B. hai? – Kum Innovation Laane ki Bimari ?”. The music is painful and the recurring encounter and fake encounter sequences test your tolerance as you cringe in your seats with annoyance.
Bobby Deol carries the same jaded expression throughout the film. For Riteish Deshmukh, its clearly one of those films that you do as a favour for industry friends. Priyanka Chopra substantiates how worthless heroines are to male-centric cinema. Irrfan Khan shows more screen presence in his 20-second Vodafone commercials. Arya Babbar is relegated to the rank of a junior artist. Danny dies before you notice him.
Alas, Chamku fails to shine. Rather it bears the blemish of an outdated 70s revenge drama.
C Company Review
Movie: C Company; Cast: Rajpal Yadav, Mithun Chakraborty, Tusshar Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Raima Sen; Director: Sachin Yardi; Rating: **1/2
In the age of farcical humour, here comes a comedy that surprisingly isn’t straight-out slapstick but has some story attached to it. Don’t expect it to be immaculately intelligent and you could enjoy C Kkompany with its limited loopholes.
The film opens in the Hera Pheri mode showing three individuals in desperate need for money. Akshay Kumar (Tusshar Kapoor) is a crime show anchor on a news channel who aspires to elope with don Dattu Satellite’s (Mithun Chakravarthy) sister (Riama Sen) to Dubai. Joshi (Anupam Kher) is a retired accountant whose affluent son treats him like a liability. Lambodar (Rajpal Yadav) is handicapped by his height (or the lack of it) and ridiculed by his wife and son.
Drenched in despair, the trio makes a hoax call to Joshi’s son and ask for extortion money posing as a fictitious underworld gang called C Kkompany . Word spreads about this fabricated gang and soon it becomes the talk of the town. The trio uses the newly and accidentally acquired fame of C Kkompany to their benefit and start helping the common man through their con call warnings. Meanwhile Dattu faces a business threat with the arrival of his rival in underworld.
The major aspect where C Kkompany scores is that it’s a credible comedy which doesn’t take the logic-less path. Writer-director Sachin Yardi comes up with an interesting premise and handles it effectively to an extent. He faintly ignites a social revolution with the glorification of C Kkompany as a modern day Robin Hood gang but isn’t able to capitalize it to Gandhigiri extents like Munnabhai attempted.
Another highlight of the humour is the audacity of producer Ekta Kapoor to laugh on herself and her Balaji soaps that make up for some genuinely funny gags. Anyone who hates her sloppy soaps would love this film for the unapologetic take-off on the clichés that those serials resort to. Yardi exploits all our daily drawing room allegations on Balaji soap operas and very authentically interprets them in his film using our mundane nitpicks to his merit. Rarely do celebs indulge in self-satires and even if they do, it’s when they are down and out. It’s nervy of the Balaji team to spoof themselves when they are still live and kicking.
All said and done the film isn’t flawless and comes with its share of inconsistencies. This one could win an award for the ‘most abrupt and unwanted item numbers’ in Hindi films. Firstly Celina Jaitley lacks item appeal and from where in the world does she appear onscreen to dance with Tusshar Kapoor? They no more bother to even justify it as a dream sequence. Yawn! The soundtrack is a compilation of interrupting item number garbage. The editing is rather loose and some scenes go on and on even after the humour has ended.
From the cameos, Mahesh Bhatt is senselessly wasted as a talk show host without any purpose, parody or humour. Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor are used more reasonably though Ekta is awfully camera conscious. The horde of other television celebrities fail to recreate an Om Shanti Om kinda starry appeal which the background score attempts to suggest while playing the OSO title track.
From the cast, Anupam Kher and Rajpal Yadav have better comic timing and show more screen presence than Tusshar Kapoor. Tusshar isn’t bad but should strictly stay away from item numbers that are incorporated for visual appeal. Raima is redundant. Mithun Chakravarthy is enjoyable as long as he hams.
Only for the fact that this comedy has some story to say , C Kkompany can be attempted. See it in carefree company!
In the age of farcical humour, here comes a comedy that surprisingly isn’t straight-out slapstick but has some story attached to it. Don’t expect it to be immaculately intelligent and you could enjoy C Kkompany with its limited loopholes.
The film opens in the Hera Pheri mode showing three individuals in desperate need for money. Akshay Kumar (Tusshar Kapoor) is a crime show anchor on a news channel who aspires to elope with don Dattu Satellite’s (Mithun Chakravarthy) sister (Riama Sen) to Dubai. Joshi (Anupam Kher) is a retired accountant whose affluent son treats him like a liability. Lambodar (Rajpal Yadav) is handicapped by his height (or the lack of it) and ridiculed by his wife and son.
Drenched in despair, the trio makes a hoax call to Joshi’s son and ask for extortion money posing as a fictitious underworld gang called C Kkompany . Word spreads about this fabricated gang and soon it becomes the talk of the town. The trio uses the newly and accidentally acquired fame of C Kkompany to their benefit and start helping the common man through their con call warnings. Meanwhile Dattu faces a business threat with the arrival of his rival in underworld.
The major aspect where C Kkompany scores is that it’s a credible comedy which doesn’t take the logic-less path. Writer-director Sachin Yardi comes up with an interesting premise and handles it effectively to an extent. He faintly ignites a social revolution with the glorification of C Kkompany as a modern day Robin Hood gang but isn’t able to capitalize it to Gandhigiri extents like Munnabhai attempted.
Another highlight of the humour is the audacity of producer Ekta Kapoor to laugh on herself and her Balaji soaps that make up for some genuinely funny gags. Anyone who hates her sloppy soaps would love this film for the unapologetic take-off on the clichés that those serials resort to. Yardi exploits all our daily drawing room allegations on Balaji soap operas and very authentically interprets them in his film using our mundane nitpicks to his merit. Rarely do celebs indulge in self-satires and even if they do, it’s when they are down and out. It’s nervy of the Balaji team to spoof themselves when they are still live and kicking.
All said and done the film isn’t flawless and comes with its share of inconsistencies. This one could win an award for the ‘most abrupt and unwanted item numbers’ in Hindi films. Firstly Celina Jaitley lacks item appeal and from where in the world does she appear onscreen to dance with Tusshar Kapoor? They no more bother to even justify it as a dream sequence. Yawn! The soundtrack is a compilation of interrupting item number garbage. The editing is rather loose and some scenes go on and on even after the humour has ended.
From the cameos, Mahesh Bhatt is senselessly wasted as a talk show host without any purpose, parody or humour. Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor are used more reasonably though Ekta is awfully camera conscious. The horde of other television celebrities fail to recreate an Om Shanti Om kinda starry appeal which the background score attempts to suggest while playing the OSO title track.
From the cast, Anupam Kher and Rajpal Yadav have better comic timing and show more screen presence than Tusshar Kapoor. Tusshar isn’t bad but should strictly stay away from item numbers that are incorporated for visual appeal. Raima is redundant. Mithun Chakravarthy is enjoyable as long as he hams.
Only for the fact that this comedy has some story to say , C Kkompany can be attempted. See it in carefree company!
meaning
Friday, August 29, 2008
NAME MEANINGS
Instructions : What you do is find out what each letter of your name means.
Then connect all the meanings and it describes YOU. ( Is'nt it GREAT !!)If you have double or triple letters, just count the meaning once.
For Example : EKTA
E = You are a very exciting person.
K = You like to try new things.
T = You have an attitude, a big one.
A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
------------ -A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
B = You are always cautious when it comes to meeting newpeople .
C = You definitely have a partier side in you, don't be shy to show it.
D = You have trouble trusting people.
E = You are a very exciting person.
F = Everyone loves you.
G = You have excellent ways of viewing people.
H = You are not judgmental.
I = You are always smiling and making others smile.
J = Jealously
K = You like to try new things.
L = Love is something you deeply believe in.
M = Success comes easily to you.
N = You like to work, but you always want a break.
O = You are very open-minded.
P = You are very friendly and understanding.
Q = You are a hypocrite.
R = You are a social butterfly.
S = You are very broad-minded.
T = You have an attitude, a big one.
U = You feel like you have to equal up to people's standards.
V = You have a very good physique and looks.
W = You like your privacy.
X = You never let people tell you what to do.
Y = You cause a lot of trouble.
Z = You're always fighting with someone .
Instructions : What you do is find out what each letter of your name means.
Then connect all the meanings and it describes YOU. ( Is'nt it GREAT !!)If you have double or triple letters, just count the meaning once.
For Example : EKTA
E = You are a very exciting person.
K = You like to try new things.
T = You have an attitude, a big one.
A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
------------ -A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
B = You are always cautious when it comes to meeting newpeople .
C = You definitely have a partier side in you, don't be shy to show it.
D = You have trouble trusting people.
E = You are a very exciting person.
F = Everyone loves you.
G = You have excellent ways of viewing people.
H = You are not judgmental.
I = You are always smiling and making others smile.
J = Jealously
K = You like to try new things.
L = Love is something you deeply believe in.
M = Success comes easily to you.
N = You like to work, but you always want a break.
O = You are very open-minded.
P = You are very friendly and understanding.
Q = You are a hypocrite.
R = You are a social butterfly.
S = You are very broad-minded.
T = You have an attitude, a big one.
U = You feel like you have to equal up to people's standards.
V = You have a very good physique and looks.
W = You like your privacy.
X = You never let people tell you what to do.
Y = You cause a lot of trouble.
Z = You're always fighting with someone .
Rock On Review
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Movie: Rock On; Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Prachi Desai, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Luke Kenny and Shahana Goswami; Director: Abhishek Kapoor; Rating: ****
If you consider ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ as one of the finest films made on male bonding laced with witty sense of humour and great music, then ‘Rock On!!’ is a worthy sequel. The only difference being that while in the former Farhan Akhtar made a clever debut as a director and in the latter he makes a brilliant debut as an actor. Rock On!! rocks even in its understated silences of poignance.
The film is about a Rock band ‘Magik’ comprised of Aditya (Farhan, fantastic, the intensity reminds of angry young man of 70s), Joe (Arjun Rampal, underplayed to perfection), Rob (Luke Kenny, a revelation) and KD (Purab Kohli, hilarious)…how the flashback dreams of stardom while the present is a stark reality of investment banking and mercenary guitaring. Aditya’s wife Saakshi (Prachi Desai, first rate debut) brings the band together and then there’s the proverbial ‘twist’. One more peformance that’s noteworthy is that of Shahana Goswami (who’ll be making full fledged debut in ‘Ru Ba Ru’) as the realistic wife of Arjun. This is one actress to watch out for.
Music by Shankar Ehsan loy is electrifying (though it has a niche appeal considering not everyone fancies rock music). I am sure ‘Tum Ho Toh’ will be a unanimous favourite…a soft ballad with wonderful chorus sections. Farhan the singer isn’t bad, for in the context of the film they are an amateur band (moreover, the groovy picturisation makes us for the loopholes too) trying to make it big.
Although Abhishek Kapoor has been credited with story and direction but you can easily witness ‘creative’ imprints of Akhtar junior (thankfully). On the flip side, the absorbing tempo of the first half dips in the beginning of second half but then it picks up pieces just fine to give a goose pimple evoking concert-climax.
Rock On!! is one movie that will make you smile…effortlessly. Go Rock!
If you consider ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ as one of the finest films made on male bonding laced with witty sense of humour and great music, then ‘Rock On!!’ is a worthy sequel. The only difference being that while in the former Farhan Akhtar made a clever debut as a director and in the latter he makes a brilliant debut as an actor. Rock On!! rocks even in its understated silences of poignance.
The film is about a Rock band ‘Magik’ comprised of Aditya (Farhan, fantastic, the intensity reminds of angry young man of 70s), Joe (Arjun Rampal, underplayed to perfection), Rob (Luke Kenny, a revelation) and KD (Purab Kohli, hilarious)…how the flashback dreams of stardom while the present is a stark reality of investment banking and mercenary guitaring. Aditya’s wife Saakshi (Prachi Desai, first rate debut) brings the band together and then there’s the proverbial ‘twist’. One more peformance that’s noteworthy is that of Shahana Goswami (who’ll be making full fledged debut in ‘Ru Ba Ru’) as the realistic wife of Arjun. This is one actress to watch out for.
Music by Shankar Ehsan loy is electrifying (though it has a niche appeal considering not everyone fancies rock music). I am sure ‘Tum Ho Toh’ will be a unanimous favourite…a soft ballad with wonderful chorus sections. Farhan the singer isn’t bad, for in the context of the film they are an amateur band (moreover, the groovy picturisation makes us for the loopholes too) trying to make it big.
Although Abhishek Kapoor has been credited with story and direction but you can easily witness ‘creative’ imprints of Akhtar junior (thankfully). On the flip side, the absorbing tempo of the first half dips in the beginning of second half but then it picks up pieces just fine to give a goose pimple evoking concert-climax.
Rock On!! is one movie that will make you smile…effortlessly. Go Rock!
top b schools in india
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIM Tech)
Chetana’s R.K Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai
Christ College Institute of Mgmt., Bangalore
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Department of Management Studies - IIT Delhi
Department of Management Studies - IIT Kanpur
Department of Management Studies - IIT Madras
Department of Management Studies - IIT Roorkee
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Dept of Management Studies, Anna University, Chennai
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Entrepreneurship & Management Processes International (EMPI)
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G.H Patel Institute of Business Management, Gujarat
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ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad
Indian Education Society’s Mgmt College & Research Centre, Mumbai
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, DelhiIndian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal
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Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Indira Group of Institutes, Pune
Institute For Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai
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Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad
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N L Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research, Thane
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
National Institue of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai
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Nirma University - Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Prestige Institute of Mgmt. & Research, Indore
Prin L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development & ResearchPSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore
R.A Podar Institute of Management, FMS, Jaipur
Rizvi Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai
School of Communication & Management Studies, Cochin
School of Management Studies, Cochin University, Cochin
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SDM Institute of Management Development, Mysore
Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Powai
Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi,
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Sinhagad Institute of Management, Pune
SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai
Symbiosis Centre for Management and HRD, Pune
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
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T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
University Business School , Chandigarh
Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur
Vivekanand Education Society’s Inst. of Mgmt Studies and Res., MumbaiXavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, Bangalore
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubhaneshwar
Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi
Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur
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Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
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National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai
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Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur
S.P. Jain Institute of Mgmt & Research, Mumbai
Faculty of Mgmt Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi
Shailesh J. Mehta School of Mgmt, IIT-Bombay
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad
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Dept of Mgmt Studies, IIT-Delhi
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New-Delhi
Institute of Rural Management, Anand
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi
International Management, Institute, New Delhi
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Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal
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Fore School of Management, New Delhi
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
Regional College of Management, Bhubaneswar
Indian Institute of Modern Management, Pune
NIILM Centre for Management Studies, New Delhi
Prin L.N.Welingkar Inst. of Mgmt Development, Mumbai
Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
Vinod Gupta School of Mgmt, IIT - Kharagpur
Institute for Technology & Management, Mumbai
Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore
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Prestige Institute of Mgmt & Research, Indore
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Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow
Indian Inst. of Social Welfare & Business Mgmt, Kolkata
Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli
Asia Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi
Department of Management Science, Pune University Pune
Amrita Institute of Management, Coimbatore
Rourkela Institute of Mgmt Studies, Rourkela
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Indian Institute of Rural Management, Jaipur
N.L. Dalmia Inst. of Mgmt Studies & Research, Mumbai
Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur
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BLS Institute of Management, New Delhi
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Sri Sringeri Sharada Institute of Management, New Delhi
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K.J. Somaiya Institute of Mgmt Studies & Research, Mumbai
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Dept of Business Management, Osmania University, Hyderabad Sydenham Inst. of Mgmt Studies & Research, Mumbai
School of Mgmt Studies, Hyderabad University, Hyderabad
Jagan Institute of Management Studies, New Delhi New Delhi
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N L Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research, Thane
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Rizvi Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai
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Global Business OperationsSIES College of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai
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Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune
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Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur
Vivekanand Education Society’s Inst. of Mgmt Studies and Res., MumbaiXavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, Bangalore
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubhaneshwar
Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi
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Mumbai Meri Jaan Review
Movie: Mumbai Meri Jaan; Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Irrfan Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Madhavan, Paresh Rawal and Vijay Maurya; Director: Nishikant Kamat; Rating: ***
Post 2006 train bomb blasts in Mumbai, there was a newspaper headline – “Mumbai Ripped Apart”. The same day, another national daily carried the same news, but with a different approach towards it. It read – “Mumbai Survives”. It was just the difference in various point of views from which people looked at the entire incident.
Film ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan’ tries to deal with the same. At one level, it shows how there are people who overcame the fear of bomb blasts and moved on in life as if nothing has changed. While there is another sect of people whose lives have forever been unsettled because of this incident.
Nikhil Agarwal (Madavan) - a patriotic corporate guy, ASI Patil (Paresh Rawal) – A corrupt but practical cop, Suresh (Kay Kay Menon) – an unemployed frustrated youth, Thomas (Irrfan) – a roadside tea/coffe vendor and Rupali (Soha Ali Khan) – a TV news reporter are few of the characters whose lives get affected due to this blast.
Madhavan gets saved that day due to a friend of his who doesn’t allow him to travel in 1st class compartment of the local train. But his friend loses his hand. Obviously, the sight of the blast doesn’t allow him to go anywhere near the train again. He develops a sort of phobia.
Similarly, Kay Kay Menon’s belief that muslims are responsible for all this gets futher strengthened when he finds couple of muslim lads missing from his locality right after the blasts.
Paresh Rawal’s take that nothing can be changed into this system continues as he approaches the day of his retirement.
Irrfan’s anger towards the society keeps on building following humiliation at their hands at every step in life. And that pushes him to create a series of hoax bomb calls throughout the city.
Soha Ali Khan, too, tastes the trauma of affected people when she loses her own fiancé in the blasts. It is then that she realizes how and what does a person goes through when, after losing a near and dear one, news channel anchor asks him/her – “Kaisa mehsoos ho raha hai apko? (How are you feeling now?)
All of them try tackling their issue on their own. And by the end of it, all of them move on in life. And that has been portrayed as the ‘spirit of Mumbai’. Hence the name – “Mumbai Meri Jaan”.
Brilliant performances by Paresh Rawal and Irrfan. In fact one of their best performances so far.
Superb direction and cinematography. Nishikant Kamat continues with his realistic approach post ‘Dombivali Fast’.
The script could have been a little tighter though. Because of lengthy scenes, the story doesn’t seem to be moving and makes you impatient.
Otherwise, the movie is very good if you want to see something realistic.
A film worth watching.
Post 2006 train bomb blasts in Mumbai, there was a newspaper headline – “Mumbai Ripped Apart”. The same day, another national daily carried the same news, but with a different approach towards it. It read – “Mumbai Survives”. It was just the difference in various point of views from which people looked at the entire incident.
Film ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan’ tries to deal with the same. At one level, it shows how there are people who overcame the fear of bomb blasts and moved on in life as if nothing has changed. While there is another sect of people whose lives have forever been unsettled because of this incident.
Nikhil Agarwal (Madavan) - a patriotic corporate guy, ASI Patil (Paresh Rawal) – A corrupt but practical cop, Suresh (Kay Kay Menon) – an unemployed frustrated youth, Thomas (Irrfan) – a roadside tea/coffe vendor and Rupali (Soha Ali Khan) – a TV news reporter are few of the characters whose lives get affected due to this blast.
Madhavan gets saved that day due to a friend of his who doesn’t allow him to travel in 1st class compartment of the local train. But his friend loses his hand. Obviously, the sight of the blast doesn’t allow him to go anywhere near the train again. He develops a sort of phobia.
Similarly, Kay Kay Menon’s belief that muslims are responsible for all this gets futher strengthened when he finds couple of muslim lads missing from his locality right after the blasts.
Paresh Rawal’s take that nothing can be changed into this system continues as he approaches the day of his retirement.
Irrfan’s anger towards the society keeps on building following humiliation at their hands at every step in life. And that pushes him to create a series of hoax bomb calls throughout the city.
Soha Ali Khan, too, tastes the trauma of affected people when she loses her own fiancé in the blasts. It is then that she realizes how and what does a person goes through when, after losing a near and dear one, news channel anchor asks him/her – “Kaisa mehsoos ho raha hai apko? (How are you feeling now?)
All of them try tackling their issue on their own. And by the end of it, all of them move on in life. And that has been portrayed as the ‘spirit of Mumbai’. Hence the name – “Mumbai Meri Jaan”.
Brilliant performances by Paresh Rawal and Irrfan. In fact one of their best performances so far.
Superb direction and cinematography. Nishikant Kamat continues with his realistic approach post ‘Dombivali Fast’.
The script could have been a little tighter though. Because of lengthy scenes, the story doesn’t seem to be moving and makes you impatient.
Otherwise, the movie is very good if you want to see something realistic.
A film worth watching.
Phoonk Review
Movie: Phoonk; Cast: Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Kenny Desai, Ashwini Kalsekar and Ganesh Yadav; Director: Ram Gopal Varma; Rating: ** 1/2
Phook reminded me of a hilarious episode of decade old Jaspal Bhatti’s comedy show Ulta Pulta, aired on our National channel, where the comedian tries to make a thriller and is surprised to win an award for Best Comedy Film for the same flick. At least you can say this for the first half of Phook where instead of getting scared one would laugh his/her heart out. After seeing the promotions of Rs. 5 lacs prize money for the person watching this flick alone, this wasn’t been expected from a proven director like Ram Gopal Varma.
The story of the movie revolves around Rajeev, a successful Construction Engineer with loving wife, and two children aged 10 and 8. Rajeev is an atheist to the core. He scoffs at God and even more at people who believed in the dark forces till one day when an evil is let loose in his happy home threatening to destroy his family and shake up the very foundations of his convictions and belief systems.
The movie starts with some funny camera angles and annoying music and that keeps repeating in the whole first half. Unnecessary sound effects and weird close up shots are simply unnecessary. Known to create an unexpected shock for the viewers by use of his creative camera angles, Ramu has failed to live up to his expectations this time around. In a desperate attempt to create horror, RGV has added some unnecessary horrific scenes in the movie.
But the same couldn’t be said for the second half of the film which seems to be pretty impressive, leaving few things aside. It surely makes people quietly sit at the edge of their seats. The scenes are so powerful that no one in the audience dared to utter a single word.
On the acting front, the little kid Ahsaas Channa is pretty impressive. She is really brilliant in the 2nd half. The others have also given a good performance leaving apart Ashwini Kalsekar, who is really irritating in the first half. Her laughter is more like someone screaming loudly in your ears and trying to kill you with that.
Background music is surprisingly good while the camera work would really have been much better. After all it plays a very important role in the making of a horror flick. I really wish first half was as good as second one. It looked like first half was directed by some sub standard director while the second half was handled by RGV himself. With many young and talented directors making their debut in Bollywood, Ramu really needs to deliver some good stuff soon, if we want to enhance his career in Bollywood.
To sum it up; the movie was not so bad not so good, but it could have been made really well if they had taken care of the first half. I mean, if you can’t add fear in the mind of people then at least don’t make them laugh, it’s supposed to be a horror movie.
Phook reminded me of a hilarious episode of decade old Jaspal Bhatti’s comedy show Ulta Pulta, aired on our National channel, where the comedian tries to make a thriller and is surprised to win an award for Best Comedy Film for the same flick. At least you can say this for the first half of Phook where instead of getting scared one would laugh his/her heart out. After seeing the promotions of Rs. 5 lacs prize money for the person watching this flick alone, this wasn’t been expected from a proven director like Ram Gopal Varma.
The story of the movie revolves around Rajeev, a successful Construction Engineer with loving wife, and two children aged 10 and 8. Rajeev is an atheist to the core. He scoffs at God and even more at people who believed in the dark forces till one day when an evil is let loose in his happy home threatening to destroy his family and shake up the very foundations of his convictions and belief systems.
The movie starts with some funny camera angles and annoying music and that keeps repeating in the whole first half. Unnecessary sound effects and weird close up shots are simply unnecessary. Known to create an unexpected shock for the viewers by use of his creative camera angles, Ramu has failed to live up to his expectations this time around. In a desperate attempt to create horror, RGV has added some unnecessary horrific scenes in the movie.
But the same couldn’t be said for the second half of the film which seems to be pretty impressive, leaving few things aside. It surely makes people quietly sit at the edge of their seats. The scenes are so powerful that no one in the audience dared to utter a single word.
On the acting front, the little kid Ahsaas Channa is pretty impressive. She is really brilliant in the 2nd half. The others have also given a good performance leaving apart Ashwini Kalsekar, who is really irritating in the first half. Her laughter is more like someone screaming loudly in your ears and trying to kill you with that.
Background music is surprisingly good while the camera work would really have been much better. After all it plays a very important role in the making of a horror flick. I really wish first half was as good as second one. It looked like first half was directed by some sub standard director while the second half was handled by RGV himself. With many young and talented directors making their debut in Bollywood, Ramu really needs to deliver some good stuff soon, if we want to enhance his career in Bollywood.
To sum it up; the movie was not so bad not so good, but it could have been made really well if they had taken care of the first half. I mean, if you can’t add fear in the mind of people then at least don’t make them laugh, it’s supposed to be a horror movie.
Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam Review
Movie: Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam; Cast: Rahul Bose, Mallika Sherawat, Paresh Rawal and Kay Kay Menon; Director: Sanjay Chhel; Rating: *1/2
It’s time now. Stand up. Stay silent for few moments. Why! It’s time to tribute to Kundan Shah’s ironic tour de force ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’, although quite ironically. That’s how Sanjay Chhel’s ‘Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam’ can be described in a nutshell.
Sanjay Chhel, the writer, has proved his prowess well with films like ‘Yes Boss’ and ‘Rangeela’ but his directorial ability went under qualm after his disaster ‘Maan Gaye…’. It’s somewhat like the case of Ashwani Dhir who was nonpareil with his SAB TV show ‘Office Office’; both as a writer and as a director. He survived well as a writer, too. But as soon as he stepped into the film zone as director with ‘One Two Three’, his name waned well.
The film shows the St. Louise, Goa in the set of 1993. The whole area is under high alert due to illegal activities in the way of arm and RDX deals. As the Kalakar Theater Company, a leading yet dwindling theater group of the area, comes to know about one underworld don planning about some bomb blast in the city, decides about saving their place. The entire film revolves around that particular bomb issue.
Though subject-wise the film looks absolutely okay, the film fails to sustain with the story flow and the way it’s narrated to the audience. Chhel has proved himself well with the witty dialogue and in the way of creating few humorous situations but that’s all. There is nothing more to talk about the treatment.
Being one of the two writers engaged to this project, Chhel fails even packing his points to the core. Dealing with various aspects like patriotism, terrorism, love, irony to human society, theater group’s despair and last but not the least, the individual approach life, the film looks like a complete chaos with everything scattered irrespectively. The worst part of the film is there is no graph to be followed in the film. The pace of the story goes up only to come down and again gets paced up in a jiffy.
The laughter roller coaster comes to standstill only giving people an idea about how good actors Paresh, Mallika and Rahul are. Yeah, of course there are moments where people laugh their hearts out but that cannot be enough for a full fledged film. Talking about acting again, Kay Kay looks not in the mood to act while Paresh is the giant of comedy. Mallika is the next rising star in the comic genre and Rahul is simply memorable for his comic timing, although he is knows best for his serious roles.
Songs have nothing to do in this film except adding on to Mallika’s naval touch. Thanks to Anu Malik. The title track is a bit memorable though. Cinematography has little scope to do in such a subject and Madhu Ambat has justified it well.
Though it’s not worth watching if you are serious about time, the film should be a gift to people interested in just passing time. Not to forget experiencing Paresh Rawal in one of his best comic character ever.
It’s time now. Stand up. Stay silent for few moments. Why! It’s time to tribute to Kundan Shah’s ironic tour de force ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’, although quite ironically. That’s how Sanjay Chhel’s ‘Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam’ can be described in a nutshell.
Sanjay Chhel, the writer, has proved his prowess well with films like ‘Yes Boss’ and ‘Rangeela’ but his directorial ability went under qualm after his disaster ‘Maan Gaye…’. It’s somewhat like the case of Ashwani Dhir who was nonpareil with his SAB TV show ‘Office Office’; both as a writer and as a director. He survived well as a writer, too. But as soon as he stepped into the film zone as director with ‘One Two Three’, his name waned well.
The film shows the St. Louise, Goa in the set of 1993. The whole area is under high alert due to illegal activities in the way of arm and RDX deals. As the Kalakar Theater Company, a leading yet dwindling theater group of the area, comes to know about one underworld don planning about some bomb blast in the city, decides about saving their place. The entire film revolves around that particular bomb issue.
Though subject-wise the film looks absolutely okay, the film fails to sustain with the story flow and the way it’s narrated to the audience. Chhel has proved himself well with the witty dialogue and in the way of creating few humorous situations but that’s all. There is nothing more to talk about the treatment.
Being one of the two writers engaged to this project, Chhel fails even packing his points to the core. Dealing with various aspects like patriotism, terrorism, love, irony to human society, theater group’s despair and last but not the least, the individual approach life, the film looks like a complete chaos with everything scattered irrespectively. The worst part of the film is there is no graph to be followed in the film. The pace of the story goes up only to come down and again gets paced up in a jiffy.
The laughter roller coaster comes to standstill only giving people an idea about how good actors Paresh, Mallika and Rahul are. Yeah, of course there are moments where people laugh their hearts out but that cannot be enough for a full fledged film. Talking about acting again, Kay Kay looks not in the mood to act while Paresh is the giant of comedy. Mallika is the next rising star in the comic genre and Rahul is simply memorable for his comic timing, although he is knows best for his serious roles.
Songs have nothing to do in this film except adding on to Mallika’s naval touch. Thanks to Anu Malik. The title track is a bit memorable though. Cinematography has little scope to do in such a subject and Madhu Ambat has justified it well.
Though it’s not worth watching if you are serious about time, the film should be a gift to people interested in just passing time. Not to forget experiencing Paresh Rawal in one of his best comic character ever.
God Tussi Great Ho Review
Movie: God Tussi Great Ho; Cast: Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan, Manisha Koirala; Director: Rumi Jaffery; Rating: **
Known to be inspired by 2003 released Hollywood flick Bruce Almighty, God Tussi Great Ho has the spontaneous performance of Salman Khan but the depiction of script is a problem. Comedy is non uniform in the film and a few scenes are impressively acceptable. The songs of the film are choreographed well but the songs are rather disappointing for not being innovative.
The story basically revolves around Arun Prajapati (Salman Khan). Arun aims at becoming a big anchor but luck never favors him and all his attempts get shattered. Professionally he is a failure; his love life too isn’t something he could be proud off. For all the failures and troubles that Arun faces, he blames the one and only GOD. To Arun, God is responsible and accountable for everything that is bad in his life.
Alia Kapoor (Priyanka Chopra) is a brave, confident and gorgeous girl working for the same TV channel as Arun. She is Arun’s love who he always wishes to propose but never succeeds. And then we have an entry of Rocky (Sohail Khan) a smart, confident and successful guy, to add to his troubles. Who would Alia prefer… the looser Arun or the smart Rocky? Arun as usual holds God responsible for all his failures and one day to his surprise God appears in front of him and grants him special powers. What Arun does with these powers and how this does changes his perspective of both God and life forms the rest of the story.
The script could have been a strong point of the film but Rumi Jaffery concentrated more on direction though he hurried up with many sequences. The first half of the film is nicely paced but the second half doesn’t provide the kind of entertainment one expects to view at the interval point. Even the climax of the film is boring. Amitabh Bachchan, Rajpal Yadav, Anupam Kher and Salman Khan gave their best performance. Priyanka Chopra doesn’t have much to do in the film. But she does provide a glam quotient to the film. The star cast could have been an asset for the film but the movie did not have support from many sections to look brilliant.
The music is a disappointment, the costumes, cinematography is average and the overall impact of the movie can be termed as mediocre. There are definitely few funny moments which you surely tickle your laughter bones. It looks like, the film will do average business at the box-office.
Known to be inspired by 2003 released Hollywood flick Bruce Almighty, God Tussi Great Ho has the spontaneous performance of Salman Khan but the depiction of script is a problem. Comedy is non uniform in the film and a few scenes are impressively acceptable. The songs of the film are choreographed well but the songs are rather disappointing for not being innovative.
The story basically revolves around Arun Prajapati (Salman Khan). Arun aims at becoming a big anchor but luck never favors him and all his attempts get shattered. Professionally he is a failure; his love life too isn’t something he could be proud off. For all the failures and troubles that Arun faces, he blames the one and only GOD. To Arun, God is responsible and accountable for everything that is bad in his life.
Alia Kapoor (Priyanka Chopra) is a brave, confident and gorgeous girl working for the same TV channel as Arun. She is Arun’s love who he always wishes to propose but never succeeds. And then we have an entry of Rocky (Sohail Khan) a smart, confident and successful guy, to add to his troubles. Who would Alia prefer… the looser Arun or the smart Rocky? Arun as usual holds God responsible for all his failures and one day to his surprise God appears in front of him and grants him special powers. What Arun does with these powers and how this does changes his perspective of both God and life forms the rest of the story.
The script could have been a strong point of the film but Rumi Jaffery concentrated more on direction though he hurried up with many sequences. The first half of the film is nicely paced but the second half doesn’t provide the kind of entertainment one expects to view at the interval point. Even the climax of the film is boring. Amitabh Bachchan, Rajpal Yadav, Anupam Kher and Salman Khan gave their best performance. Priyanka Chopra doesn’t have much to do in the film. But she does provide a glam quotient to the film. The star cast could have been an asset for the film but the movie did not have support from many sections to look brilliant.
The music is a disappointment, the costumes, cinematography is average and the overall impact of the movie can be termed as mediocre. There are definitely few funny moments which you surely tickle your laughter bones. It looks like, the film will do average business at the box-office.
Bachna Ae Haseeno Review
Movie: Bachna Ae Haseeno; Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone, Minissha Lamba; Director: Siddharth Anand; Rating: ***
Yet another Yashraj’s product, Bachna Ae Haseeno, is a flick which would be especially liked by the youth. This romantic movie deals with a young guy Ranbir, who falls in love with 3 ladies at different time, first, when he is in HSC (1996), second when he starts working with a company in Mumbai (2002) and third when he moves to Australia.
The guy breaks heart of first 2 girls so badly and he never realizes it until his third girlfriend breaks his heart and makes him suffer the pain associated with a spilt up.
The movie starts with a guy going back to his flashback and taking us to Switzerland where he had fallen in love for the first time (with Minnisha Lamba). The director had tried very hard to show us that it was actually 1996 but somehow it feels, the actors looked lot older than those 18 year olds.
2nd story takes place in 2002, with Bipasha Basu. The guy is shown working for Microsoft’s gaming section. Okay, now here the guy looks younger whereas Bipasha looks older. It is a kind of mismatch but here, there are few comedy scenes and the performance looks much real. Especially, Bipasha has really done a wonderful job.
Now, year 2007, the guy is in Sydney where he meets Deepika Padukone. There is indeed some kind of spark between Ranbir and Deepika. Maybe being a real life couple has helped them to showcase a beautiful chemistry on the celluloid. Deepika certainly has done justice with her character.
The movie seems quite ok in the first half but as it reaches interval, the whole movie becomes very predictable. The second half is emotional and a bit too long. The execution of the script by the director especially in the second half could have been better. The editing too could have been much crisper. As expected by the Yashraj productions, the music is superb, especially two songs, the classic Bachna Ae Haseeno and Khuda Jaane, really stand out. The cinematography is fantastic; the locales of Australia and Italy have been beautifully captured.On the acting front, Ranbir looks pretty good though he was kind of over the board in first story but overall he has done a good job. Minnisha again goes overboard like Ranbir in first story but later it is all good. Bipasha despite of looking bit older in front of Ranbir is the best of the lot. Deepika too is good. Actually, she did not have much to do.
The movie could have been made much better, in terms of execution, story et al. The concept of 1 guy falling in love with 3 girls is great but the way it is turned out is bad. They could have made it thorough romantic comedy flick rather than adding some drama and all.
So, overall, it seems that the movie would do good business. It may be liked by few while few might not like it. It should get mixed reactions.
Yet another Yashraj’s product, Bachna Ae Haseeno, is a flick which would be especially liked by the youth. This romantic movie deals with a young guy Ranbir, who falls in love with 3 ladies at different time, first, when he is in HSC (1996), second when he starts working with a company in Mumbai (2002) and third when he moves to Australia.
The guy breaks heart of first 2 girls so badly and he never realizes it until his third girlfriend breaks his heart and makes him suffer the pain associated with a spilt up.
The movie starts with a guy going back to his flashback and taking us to Switzerland where he had fallen in love for the first time (with Minnisha Lamba). The director had tried very hard to show us that it was actually 1996 but somehow it feels, the actors looked lot older than those 18 year olds.
2nd story takes place in 2002, with Bipasha Basu. The guy is shown working for Microsoft’s gaming section. Okay, now here the guy looks younger whereas Bipasha looks older. It is a kind of mismatch but here, there are few comedy scenes and the performance looks much real. Especially, Bipasha has really done a wonderful job.
Now, year 2007, the guy is in Sydney where he meets Deepika Padukone. There is indeed some kind of spark between Ranbir and Deepika. Maybe being a real life couple has helped them to showcase a beautiful chemistry on the celluloid. Deepika certainly has done justice with her character.
The movie seems quite ok in the first half but as it reaches interval, the whole movie becomes very predictable. The second half is emotional and a bit too long. The execution of the script by the director especially in the second half could have been better. The editing too could have been much crisper. As expected by the Yashraj productions, the music is superb, especially two songs, the classic Bachna Ae Haseeno and Khuda Jaane, really stand out. The cinematography is fantastic; the locales of Australia and Italy have been beautifully captured.On the acting front, Ranbir looks pretty good though he was kind of over the board in first story but overall he has done a good job. Minnisha again goes overboard like Ranbir in first story but later it is all good. Bipasha despite of looking bit older in front of Ranbir is the best of the lot. Deepika too is good. Actually, she did not have much to do.
The movie could have been made much better, in terms of execution, story et al. The concept of 1 guy falling in love with 3 girls is great but the way it is turned out is bad. They could have made it thorough romantic comedy flick rather than adding some drama and all.
So, overall, it seems that the movie would do good business. It may be liked by few while few might not like it. It should get mixed reactions.
Mission Istanbul Review
Movie: Mission Istanbul; Cast: Viveik Oberoi, Zayed Khan, Sriya Saran, Shweta Bhardwaj and Suneil Shetty (in special appearance); Director: Director: Apurva Lakhia; Rating *1/2
Take a bunch of muscle flexing actors, throw in a couple of brainless dumb bimbettes, choose a foreign location and stuff as much action as you can – and here you have, a serving of a typical Bollywood masala film.
Looks like director Apurva Lakhia had exactly this recipe in mind when he thought of making a disastrous movie like ‘Mission Istaanbul’. With an inferior look alike of ‘Hulk’ villain and a couple of flop heroes, Apurva Lakhia has set out on a search for a hit, which would definitely evade him.
Story of the movie is more than predictive and there is nothing new or exciting about it. Our good old hero is trapped in the villain trap who happen to run a terror network all around the world. And guess what, they have all their planning stored in one computer located on a 13th floor (yes, the unlucky number) office of a building. And hero has to catch hold of that computer and steal their important datas at any cost. That’s the only way of saving the world from their clutches. Phew!
And yes, you guess it right! Helping him in his missing ‘save earth’ comes our second hero. He has access to all the places, even inside the highly guarded den of the villain. But alas, only if he could reach that doomed 13th floor. All these years, he has been waiting for that one perfect hero material who would steal the datas for him.
Needless to say, together they defeat the entire bunch of hooligans who have supposedly shaken up the entire world with their terrorist activities. And helping them in the mission is one ‘clad in tighter than birthday jacket leather suit’ heroine of ours who keeps changing sides in the movie. And yes, she tries her level best to create that extra oomph, with little success.
Also, there is this journalist wife of our hero who keeps bumping into troubles one after another.
On the acting front, everyone except Viveik Oberoi has disappointed. Newcomer Nikitin Dheer has got a role of his lifetime but doesn’t show anything promising than his ‘extra pumped’ muscles. TV turned film actor Shabir Ahluwalia has also done a very non-impressive job.
The film has some very good action sequences and that’s the only aspect of it worth mentioning. Music is below average and so is script. Songs disturb the flow of the story and so does a special appearance by director’s old friend Abhishek Bachchan. Director has been successful in taking some very good shots though!
Take a bunch of muscle flexing actors, throw in a couple of brainless dumb bimbettes, choose a foreign location and stuff as much action as you can – and here you have, a serving of a typical Bollywood masala film.
Looks like director Apurva Lakhia had exactly this recipe in mind when he thought of making a disastrous movie like ‘Mission Istaanbul’. With an inferior look alike of ‘Hulk’ villain and a couple of flop heroes, Apurva Lakhia has set out on a search for a hit, which would definitely evade him.
Story of the movie is more than predictive and there is nothing new or exciting about it. Our good old hero is trapped in the villain trap who happen to run a terror network all around the world. And guess what, they have all their planning stored in one computer located on a 13th floor (yes, the unlucky number) office of a building. And hero has to catch hold of that computer and steal their important datas at any cost. That’s the only way of saving the world from their clutches. Phew!
And yes, you guess it right! Helping him in his missing ‘save earth’ comes our second hero. He has access to all the places, even inside the highly guarded den of the villain. But alas, only if he could reach that doomed 13th floor. All these years, he has been waiting for that one perfect hero material who would steal the datas for him.
Needless to say, together they defeat the entire bunch of hooligans who have supposedly shaken up the entire world with their terrorist activities. And helping them in the mission is one ‘clad in tighter than birthday jacket leather suit’ heroine of ours who keeps changing sides in the movie. And yes, she tries her level best to create that extra oomph, with little success.
Also, there is this journalist wife of our hero who keeps bumping into troubles one after another.
On the acting front, everyone except Viveik Oberoi has disappointed. Newcomer Nikitin Dheer has got a role of his lifetime but doesn’t show anything promising than his ‘extra pumped’ muscles. TV turned film actor Shabir Ahluwalia has also done a very non-impressive job.
The film has some very good action sequences and that’s the only aspect of it worth mentioning. Music is below average and so is script. Songs disturb the flow of the story and so does a special appearance by director’s old friend Abhishek Bachchan. Director has been successful in taking some very good shots though!
Money Hai Toh Honey Hai Review
Movie: Money Hai Toh Honey Hai; Cast: Govinda, Aftab Shivdasani, Hansika Motwani, Manoj Bajpai,Celina Jaitley; Director: Ganesh Acharya; Rating: *
If you wanna waste your hard earned money to enjoy with your honey seated in the corner seats then only risk watching Money Hai To Honey Hai. Where Ganesh was appreciated for his debut directorial film Swami his second attempt has horribly gone wrong.
Every character of the film is busy fulfilling their dreams. Bobby (Govinda) is a happy go lucky guy, who runs away from home to prove himself. He wants to earn a lot of money and give it back to his father. Shurti (Celina Jaitley) is a fashion designer who wants to design clothes for the common men but she doesn’t even get money for the work she does. Aashima Kapoor (Hansika Motwani) is playing a popular television bahu who has a dream to make it big in Bollywood. Manik (Upen Patel) is a struggling model who sleeps with a middle-aged fashion designer (Archana Puransingh), hoping to make it big. Gaurav (Aftab Shivdasani) is a copywriter in an ad firm who always fails to impress his boss with his ideas. Lalabhai (Manoj Bajpai) plays a man with a positive attitude who is happy even after loosing 1 crore which he had earned through a lottery.
In this way all these characters wants to earn money and one fine day they all get a phone call from a mad man Jaiswal (Prem Chopra) that he has left 1 crore rupees for them before dying. However, their happiness does not last long for the lawyer reveals that there’s a loan of 1,200 crore on the company and they must repay it and until the loan is repaid, they would be kept under house arrest. They plan to repay this loan by doing a fashion show and also get successful in earning this money.
This is the story of the film. But there are many unwanted scenes been filmed. The last half an hour is wasted in a filming a fashion show which was needless. Looking at the climax it seemed as if Ganesh didn’t had any material left to lengthen the duration of the film. As far as acting goes, Manoj Bajpai has been slightly successful in his comic role. Govinda looks in his typical bindaas andaaz. There’s no such brilliant performance from any actor to be talked about and everyone seems to be normal. Yeah, but Mukti Kapoor (Rakhi Vijan) who plays a successful television producer and spoofs soap queen Ekta Kapoor’s real life character has done a good job. But at the same time the way she shouts, more than Ekta she seems to be in a Phulan Devi’s character. In the second half of the film where they are kept in house arrest it feels that we are watching an episode of Big Boss and every character is planning strategies against each other. Manoj Bajpai’s dressing sense could easily compete with the ones worn by the actors of Bojhpuri films. We really don’t know whether Manoj himself has selected his clothes or Ganesh is the culprit behind it.
We also don’t know whether Manoj is aware of the fact that he has wasted his talent working in this film. If we look at his recent films, we feel that Manoj has started getting allergy towards good films.
Ravi Kishen has given good performance in some of the scenes. Over all it’s a mindless comedy in which Ganesh has tried very hard to make the audiences laugh but in vain. Music is ok. The main culprit behind this useless film is the writer Muazzam Beg for scripting such a film as the writer is the first person to visualize any film. And we really don’t know what excited Muazzam Beg to take the pain of penning down this kind of script. To end it, it’s on you whether you want to see this film or not. But we would advice you to save your money and rather go out for a nice dinner with your friends or family.
If you wanna waste your hard earned money to enjoy with your honey seated in the corner seats then only risk watching Money Hai To Honey Hai. Where Ganesh was appreciated for his debut directorial film Swami his second attempt has horribly gone wrong.
Every character of the film is busy fulfilling their dreams. Bobby (Govinda) is a happy go lucky guy, who runs away from home to prove himself. He wants to earn a lot of money and give it back to his father. Shurti (Celina Jaitley) is a fashion designer who wants to design clothes for the common men but she doesn’t even get money for the work she does. Aashima Kapoor (Hansika Motwani) is playing a popular television bahu who has a dream to make it big in Bollywood. Manik (Upen Patel) is a struggling model who sleeps with a middle-aged fashion designer (Archana Puransingh), hoping to make it big. Gaurav (Aftab Shivdasani) is a copywriter in an ad firm who always fails to impress his boss with his ideas. Lalabhai (Manoj Bajpai) plays a man with a positive attitude who is happy even after loosing 1 crore which he had earned through a lottery.
In this way all these characters wants to earn money and one fine day they all get a phone call from a mad man Jaiswal (Prem Chopra) that he has left 1 crore rupees for them before dying. However, their happiness does not last long for the lawyer reveals that there’s a loan of 1,200 crore on the company and they must repay it and until the loan is repaid, they would be kept under house arrest. They plan to repay this loan by doing a fashion show and also get successful in earning this money.
This is the story of the film. But there are many unwanted scenes been filmed. The last half an hour is wasted in a filming a fashion show which was needless. Looking at the climax it seemed as if Ganesh didn’t had any material left to lengthen the duration of the film. As far as acting goes, Manoj Bajpai has been slightly successful in his comic role. Govinda looks in his typical bindaas andaaz. There’s no such brilliant performance from any actor to be talked about and everyone seems to be normal. Yeah, but Mukti Kapoor (Rakhi Vijan) who plays a successful television producer and spoofs soap queen Ekta Kapoor’s real life character has done a good job. But at the same time the way she shouts, more than Ekta she seems to be in a Phulan Devi’s character. In the second half of the film where they are kept in house arrest it feels that we are watching an episode of Big Boss and every character is planning strategies against each other. Manoj Bajpai’s dressing sense could easily compete with the ones worn by the actors of Bojhpuri films. We really don’t know whether Manoj himself has selected his clothes or Ganesh is the culprit behind it.
We also don’t know whether Manoj is aware of the fact that he has wasted his talent working in this film. If we look at his recent films, we feel that Manoj has started getting allergy towards good films.
Ravi Kishen has given good performance in some of the scenes. Over all it’s a mindless comedy in which Ganesh has tried very hard to make the audiences laugh but in vain. Music is ok. The main culprit behind this useless film is the writer Muazzam Beg for scripting such a film as the writer is the first person to visualize any film. And we really don’t know what excited Muazzam Beg to take the pain of penning down this kind of script. To end it, it’s on you whether you want to see this film or not. But we would advice you to save your money and rather go out for a nice dinner with your friends or family.
Kismat Konnection Review
Film: Kismat Konnection; Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Juhi Chawla, Om Puri, Boman Irani, Vishal Malhotra, Karnvir Bohra, Haider Ali, Shehnaz Anand, Amit Varma; Director: Aziz Mirza; Rating: *1/2
Maybe there is on one in this world who doesn’t believe in kismet but for that single reason you can’t blame or over emphasize the issue of kismet. But the story of the film depicts little more.
Just like any other Bollywod flick, in this film also, Raj (Shahi Kapoor) and Priya (Vidya Balan) meet each other. But despite feeling love for each other the only thing they develop for each other is pure hatred. But see the kismet connection hidden in such a chemistry which turns bad luck of Raj, who has been fighting for getting a better work for last five years in the field of Architecture, into a good one. Raj comes to his fortune teller Hassena Banu Jaan (Juhi Chawla) and describes everything to her. Banu tells him that Priya is his lucky charm and for a better future he should always take her with him to wherever he goes for his job. Raj agrees on it and takes Priya to a meeting with Batra & Gill, a company that wants to construct a shopping mall. But soon Raj comes to know that the proposed mall is going to be made by demolishing Priya’s community centre. Priya helps Raj without having any idea about what’s going on. But as soon as Raj gets the project, the reality comes into open for Priya. For the sake of love Raj proposes Gill (Om Puri) for building the combination of shopping mall and community center but Gill denies it. At the end of the story Priya’s kismet helps Raj once again and Mr. Batra (Boman Irani), friend to Priya and partner of Batra & Gill, accepts Raj’s proposal of making the shopping mall beside the community centre.
Shahid must remember that audience’s expectation regarding his characters in films has touched the sky after the success of Jab We Met and he must accept films keeping that in mind only. At the same time he must avoid playing the stereotype characters. On the other hand Vidya has tried her best to live the life of her character but unfortunately the character, especially her outfits, hasn’t suit her level best. I guess she must not attempt this kind of characters. Juhi Chawla is excellent in the character of Hassena Bano but the lose bangle in her hand made audience think about possibilities that forced her wearing it. Few scenes with Vidya made us realize like Juhi’s jewelries are put on Vidya. Om Puri and Boman Irani are good as usual. Himani Shivpuri proved with two scenes that character maybe small but it has to be strong. There is nothing to talk about other characters of the film. Despite its length of 2 and half an hour, the film seemed longer and unusually slow. Aziz Mirza has chosen beautiful locations but he better has understood that beautiful locations cannot make beautiful films. Music and lyrics are not to the marks.
Expectations of watching a good film may drag a lot of audiences to the theatre but they better know in advance that the film has nothing extraordinary to offer the audience. People will surely fail to connect to the film, if not to the stars.
Maybe there is on one in this world who doesn’t believe in kismet but for that single reason you can’t blame or over emphasize the issue of kismet. But the story of the film depicts little more.
Just like any other Bollywod flick, in this film also, Raj (Shahi Kapoor) and Priya (Vidya Balan) meet each other. But despite feeling love for each other the only thing they develop for each other is pure hatred. But see the kismet connection hidden in such a chemistry which turns bad luck of Raj, who has been fighting for getting a better work for last five years in the field of Architecture, into a good one. Raj comes to his fortune teller Hassena Banu Jaan (Juhi Chawla) and describes everything to her. Banu tells him that Priya is his lucky charm and for a better future he should always take her with him to wherever he goes for his job. Raj agrees on it and takes Priya to a meeting with Batra & Gill, a company that wants to construct a shopping mall. But soon Raj comes to know that the proposed mall is going to be made by demolishing Priya’s community centre. Priya helps Raj without having any idea about what’s going on. But as soon as Raj gets the project, the reality comes into open for Priya. For the sake of love Raj proposes Gill (Om Puri) for building the combination of shopping mall and community center but Gill denies it. At the end of the story Priya’s kismet helps Raj once again and Mr. Batra (Boman Irani), friend to Priya and partner of Batra & Gill, accepts Raj’s proposal of making the shopping mall beside the community centre.
Shahid must remember that audience’s expectation regarding his characters in films has touched the sky after the success of Jab We Met and he must accept films keeping that in mind only. At the same time he must avoid playing the stereotype characters. On the other hand Vidya has tried her best to live the life of her character but unfortunately the character, especially her outfits, hasn’t suit her level best. I guess she must not attempt this kind of characters. Juhi Chawla is excellent in the character of Hassena Bano but the lose bangle in her hand made audience think about possibilities that forced her wearing it. Few scenes with Vidya made us realize like Juhi’s jewelries are put on Vidya. Om Puri and Boman Irani are good as usual. Himani Shivpuri proved with two scenes that character maybe small but it has to be strong. There is nothing to talk about other characters of the film. Despite its length of 2 and half an hour, the film seemed longer and unusually slow. Aziz Mirza has chosen beautiful locations but he better has understood that beautiful locations cannot make beautiful films. Music and lyrics are not to the marks.
Expectations of watching a good film may drag a lot of audiences to the theatre but they better know in advance that the film has nothing extraordinary to offer the audience. People will surely fail to connect to the film, if not to the stars.
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Review
Film: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na; Cast: Imran Khan, Genelia D’Souza, Abbas Tyrewala, Naseruddin Shah, Sohail Khan, Arshad Warsi, Paresh Rawal; Director: Abbas Tyrewala; Rating: ***
There is a girl and there is a boy. Both are extremely different yet are extremely close to each other. Girl is rich, tongue-in-cheek, dominant and aggressive while the boy has had a middle class upbringing and is submissive, soft-spoken and calm. Opposites attract and so do they but not as lovers, as friends! So when do they realize its love?
Abbas Tyrewala definitely comes up with a winner in the form of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. He tells us an ordinary love story, whose theme is Pyaar Dosti Hai (Love is friendship)… a la Kuch Kuch Hota Hai… however presents it in a much mature fashion than its glorious predecessor. He tackles this confused romantic comedy with élan and impresses you with his subtlety in terms of direction. Not a single scene, actor is overly dramatic. The characters are real, identifiable and extremely cute!
Jai (Imran) and Aditi (Genelia) are ‘best friends’ and are extremely possessive of each other but are definitely not in love. They long for each other’s company and still wonder why close friends and parents believe that they are in love! After giving a deep thought both realize its high time they find themselves a special someone too since one cant spend a lifetime with a best friend! However when they do find their respective ‘special someone’ they realize love is not about finding a perfect someone, it’s about feeling perfectly happy with an imperfect partner.
The film is definitely not flawless. There are rough cuts here and there, especially in terms of editing. The film doesn’t have a great beginning but it picks up as it nears the interval, however again slows down in the climax! The pace keeps fluctuating, which at times distracts you, and makes you fidget in your seat. The story too has nothing new to offer.It is the casting of the film that saves it from being an average just another youth film.Abbas’s wife Pakhi deserves a standing ovation for her fantastic casting, as it is the choice of actors in the film that makes it so likeable! All the youngsters are understated, thus highly effective. Rotlu, Bombs, Jiggy, Mau (Genelia) and Ratz (Imran)… the nicknames of the characters make you doubt their likeability initially but as the film progresses, each character grows on you and you start becoming a part of the chirpy cute – just out of college gang!
Imran gets a tailor made role for him, as his petite personality and casual attitude makes him fit the bill of Jai perfectly. He struggles with his expressions initially as gets stuck with one ‘surprised raised eye brows’ expression but gets better later on. Genelia overshadows Imran big time. She looks extremely fresh and lights up the screen with her presence. Prateik Babbar, Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak come up with brilliant performances and provide you with all the light moments in the film. Sohail and Arbaaz Khan too tickle your funny bone with their cameos. Imran’s girlfriend Avantika too makes a special appearance in the film. Watch out for her in a disco sitting next to Imran.
Fashion designer Ashley Rebello deserves a special mention as he dresses Imran and Genelia as per their age and makes them look flawless.
Music is youthful, foot tapping and energetic. Kuddos to AR Rahman yet again.
JTYJN definitely deserves a watch… and not just for Imran.
There is a girl and there is a boy. Both are extremely different yet are extremely close to each other. Girl is rich, tongue-in-cheek, dominant and aggressive while the boy has had a middle class upbringing and is submissive, soft-spoken and calm. Opposites attract and so do they but not as lovers, as friends! So when do they realize its love?
Abbas Tyrewala definitely comes up with a winner in the form of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. He tells us an ordinary love story, whose theme is Pyaar Dosti Hai (Love is friendship)… a la Kuch Kuch Hota Hai… however presents it in a much mature fashion than its glorious predecessor. He tackles this confused romantic comedy with élan and impresses you with his subtlety in terms of direction. Not a single scene, actor is overly dramatic. The characters are real, identifiable and extremely cute!
Jai (Imran) and Aditi (Genelia) are ‘best friends’ and are extremely possessive of each other but are definitely not in love. They long for each other’s company and still wonder why close friends and parents believe that they are in love! After giving a deep thought both realize its high time they find themselves a special someone too since one cant spend a lifetime with a best friend! However when they do find their respective ‘special someone’ they realize love is not about finding a perfect someone, it’s about feeling perfectly happy with an imperfect partner.
The film is definitely not flawless. There are rough cuts here and there, especially in terms of editing. The film doesn’t have a great beginning but it picks up as it nears the interval, however again slows down in the climax! The pace keeps fluctuating, which at times distracts you, and makes you fidget in your seat. The story too has nothing new to offer.It is the casting of the film that saves it from being an average just another youth film.Abbas’s wife Pakhi deserves a standing ovation for her fantastic casting, as it is the choice of actors in the film that makes it so likeable! All the youngsters are understated, thus highly effective. Rotlu, Bombs, Jiggy, Mau (Genelia) and Ratz (Imran)… the nicknames of the characters make you doubt their likeability initially but as the film progresses, each character grows on you and you start becoming a part of the chirpy cute – just out of college gang!
Imran gets a tailor made role for him, as his petite personality and casual attitude makes him fit the bill of Jai perfectly. He struggles with his expressions initially as gets stuck with one ‘surprised raised eye brows’ expression but gets better later on. Genelia overshadows Imran big time. She looks extremely fresh and lights up the screen with her presence. Prateik Babbar, Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak come up with brilliant performances and provide you with all the light moments in the film. Sohail and Arbaaz Khan too tickle your funny bone with their cameos. Imran’s girlfriend Avantika too makes a special appearance in the film. Watch out for her in a disco sitting next to Imran.
Fashion designer Ashley Rebello deserves a special mention as he dresses Imran and Genelia as per their age and makes them look flawless.
Music is youthful, foot tapping and energetic. Kuddos to AR Rahman yet again.
JTYJN definitely deserves a watch… and not just for Imran.
more & more.....
• Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.• The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.• MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by the Bugles.• There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.• The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
• At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.• Pearls melt in vinegar.• A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.• There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.• Hair and nails do not continue to grow after death. The skin recedes, making it appear to grow.• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.• The cockroach dies from radiation and would not survive a nuclear war.• In the southern hemisphere, water always swirl anti-clockwise down into a pipe.• About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.• Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars.• Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.• It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.• 35 meters of hair fiber is produced every day on the average adult scalp.• Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.• Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it.
•The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.• Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from thesoil.• Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.• Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.• Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.• Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn't actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she suggested Mickey and the name stuck.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.• From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues.
• The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938 for his "outstanding comic creation," his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
• A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.• Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.• Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.
• At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.• Pearls melt in vinegar.• A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.• There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.• Hair and nails do not continue to grow after death. The skin recedes, making it appear to grow.• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.• The cockroach dies from radiation and would not survive a nuclear war.• In the southern hemisphere, water always swirl anti-clockwise down into a pipe.• About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.• Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars.• Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.• It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.• 35 meters of hair fiber is produced every day on the average adult scalp.• Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.• Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it.
•The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.• Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from thesoil.• Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.• Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.• Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.• Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn't actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she suggested Mickey and the name stuck.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.• From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues.
• The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938 for his "outstanding comic creation," his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
• A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.• Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.• Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.
funny ones
Here is a list of what I thought very funny. I left it in the form that I received it.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the bodyto squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes...lucky pig... can you imagine??)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm........won't go there.)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the bodyto squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes...lucky pig... can you imagine??)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm........won't go there.)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
Importance of Drinking Enough Water
75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it isoften mistaken for hunger.
Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.
Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.
In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it isoften mistaken for hunger.
Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.
Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.
football
World Cup
Brazil last won the world cup in 1994. Before that they won it in 1970. Add 1970 and 1994, it equals 3964.
Germany last won in 1990. Before that they won in 1974. Add 1990 and 1974, it equals 3964.
Argentina last won the world cup in 1986. Before that they won it in 1978. Add 1978 and 1986, it equals 3964.
So going by this logic, The winner of the 2002 world cup is the same as the 3964 - 2002 = 1962 world cup. The 1962 world cup was won by Brazil. It was really Brazil who won!!!
Brazil last won the world cup in 1994. Before that they won it in 1970. Add 1970 and 1994, it equals 3964.
Germany last won in 1990. Before that they won in 1974. Add 1990 and 1974, it equals 3964.
Argentina last won the world cup in 1986. Before that they won it in 1978. Add 1978 and 1986, it equals 3964.
So going by this logic, The winner of the 2002 world cup is the same as the 3964 - 2002 = 1962 world cup. The 1962 world cup was won by Brazil. It was really Brazil who won!!!
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Interesting Fact about the Pope John Paul II death
Pope was living 85 years - sum of those numbers = 13
Pope died on 2.04.2005 - sum of those numbers = 13
Pope died at 21.37 - again - sum is equal.... 13
13...that's Maria's number - only that time Holy Mother was showing herself to 3 children in Fatima
on 13th May 1981 - Pope was wounded and that time was saved by Holy Mother
on 13th Pope went to the hospital for the first time
on 13th died the last child of three from Fatima to whom Holy Mother showed up
Pope died on 02.04.2005 at 21.37.. add all those numbers....
2+4+2+5 = 13
2+1+3+7 = 13
13+13=26
26 years of pontificate......
Coincidence? or it had to be like this?
in the end......he died in 13th week of the year...and when you multiply the time of his death 21 x 37...you will have 777
Pope was living exactly 31 thousands days...if you reverse
figures...you will get again 13!!!
Pope was living 85 years - sum of those numbers = 13
Pope died on 2.04.2005 - sum of those numbers = 13
Pope died at 21.37 - again - sum is equal.... 13
13...that's Maria's number - only that time Holy Mother was showing herself to 3 children in Fatima
on 13th May 1981 - Pope was wounded and that time was saved by Holy Mother
on 13th Pope went to the hospital for the first time
on 13th died the last child of three from Fatima to whom Holy Mother showed up
Pope died on 02.04.2005 at 21.37.. add all those numbers....
2+4+2+5 = 13
2+1+3+7 = 13
13+13=26
26 years of pontificate......
Coincidence? or it had to be like this?
in the end......he died in 13th week of the year...and when you multiply the time of his death 21 x 37...you will have 777
Pope was living exactly 31 thousands days...if you reverse
figures...you will get again 13!!!
Lincoln and Kennedy
Here's a little part of US history which makes you go h-m-m-m: Have a history teacher explain this if they can?
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head. Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners. Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born! in 1839. I was corrected on this and he was born on 1838Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Kennedy.' I was corrected on this and the theater was named Ford at the time of the assassination. Thanks H.!Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.' Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. And here's the kicker... A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head. Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners. Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born! in 1839. I was corrected on this and he was born on 1838Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Kennedy.' I was corrected on this and the theater was named Ford at the time of the assassination. Thanks H.!Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.' Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. And here's the kicker... A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
coca cola facts
Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl, Let the "real thing"sit for one hour, then flush clean
The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca Cola.
To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.
It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca Cola.
To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.
It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
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Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
Earthworms have five hearts
The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book "Historia de duobos amantibus" in 1444.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese". As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight. The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise. Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives. Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria. Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine. As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors. The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year. Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life. For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006) Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study. The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air. Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%. The egg came first. Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink. Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based. In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags. The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle. Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk. Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world. Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook. The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006. The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta. The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface. A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species. The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as urban legends by many)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people) This fact is based on a study that had errors in it, thus it might not be a fact.
Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.
The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946 (Thanks D.B. of AU)
The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies
There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is writtenfirst and the individual name written second
Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
Nondairy creamer is flammable.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0. Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel proved this wrong.
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.
In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
Whales die if their echo system fails.
Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.
Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.
Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
The average person can live 11 days without water.
In 1221 the daughter of Genghis Khan ordered the killing of the entire population of the city of Nishapur (about 60,000) in one hour. The order came after her husband killing. (Moguls claim that 1.7 million were killed)
There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.
Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters (I was thankfully corrected by a friend: The Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina).
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.
Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show "Mythbusters")
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem
Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud. There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.
Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
"Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
Earthworms have five hearts
The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book "Historia de duobos amantibus" in 1444.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese". As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight. The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise. Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives. Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria. Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine. As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors. The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year. Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life. For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006) Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study. The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air. Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%. The egg came first. Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink. Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based. In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags. The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle. Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk. Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world. Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook. The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006. The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta. The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface. A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species. The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as urban legends by many)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people) This fact is based on a study that had errors in it, thus it might not be a fact.
Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.
The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946 (Thanks D.B. of AU)
The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies
There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is writtenfirst and the individual name written second
Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
Nondairy creamer is flammable.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0. Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel proved this wrong.
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.
In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
Whales die if their echo system fails.
Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.
Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.
Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
The average person can live 11 days without water.
In 1221 the daughter of Genghis Khan ordered the killing of the entire population of the city of Nishapur (about 60,000) in one hour. The order came after her husband killing. (Moguls claim that 1.7 million were killed)
There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.
Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters (I was thankfully corrected by a friend: The Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina).
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.
Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show "Mythbusters")
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem
Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud. There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.
Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
"Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
general knowledge
The world's tallest animal is a giraffe and the world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
The giant who fought David in the Bible was 2.97m (9ft. 9in.) tall.
The oldest man to reach the Everest (8848 m), the world's highest peak is a venezuelan. He is Ramón Blanco and he did it in september 1993, he was 60 years old.
tallest building in the world
World's Tallest Tower
Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers hold the title of the tallest buildings in the world. Both the towers reach a total height of 1,483 feet (452 meters) measured from the ground to the tip of the masts. Is has 29 double-deck passenger elevators in each tower and a total of 76 lifts serve the towers. Each tower has 2 million square feet of office area equal to 48 football fields.
Empire State Bldg. The height of The Empire State Building in New York : 1,250 feet (381 m)Eiffel Tower, Paris : 984 feet (300 m)Statue of Liberty, New York : 310 feet (92 m)
World's Tallest Building: Who Holds The Title?The Petronas-Sears Controversy
Officially, the World's Tallest Buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1483 feet / 452m) -- but put Petronas side by side with the former title holder, Sears Tower, and look again. The casual observer would say Sears Tower is tops, and by quite a wide margin!
The highest occupiable floor of Sears is more then 200 feet higher than the top floor in Petronas and its antennas go even higher. So why are the Petronas Towers considered the World's Tallest Buildings?
Because, in the tradition and lore of tall building, spires count, antennas don't.
Spires are architectural features and they have been traditionally counted in a building's height, a precedent that dates to the Chrysler Building. Antennas are not normally considered architectural features.
So...based on the long and storied tradition of tall buildings, the winner by decision is the Petronas Towers.
Mt Everest. Mountain heights...
Mount Everest : 29,028 feet (8,853 m)Aconcagua (South America) : 22,834 feet (6,960 m)McKinley / Denali (North America) : 20,320 feet ( m)Kilimanjaro, Africa : 19,340 feet (5,894m)Elbrus, Southern Europe : 18,510 feet (5,642 m)
The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
The giant who fought David in the Bible was 2.97m (9ft. 9in.) tall.
The oldest man to reach the Everest (8848 m), the world's highest peak is a venezuelan. He is Ramón Blanco and he did it in september 1993, he was 60 years old.
tallest building in the world
World's Tallest Tower
Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers hold the title of the tallest buildings in the world. Both the towers reach a total height of 1,483 feet (452 meters) measured from the ground to the tip of the masts. Is has 29 double-deck passenger elevators in each tower and a total of 76 lifts serve the towers. Each tower has 2 million square feet of office area equal to 48 football fields.
Empire State Bldg. The height of The Empire State Building in New York : 1,250 feet (381 m)Eiffel Tower, Paris : 984 feet (300 m)Statue of Liberty, New York : 310 feet (92 m)
World's Tallest Building: Who Holds The Title?The Petronas-Sears Controversy
Officially, the World's Tallest Buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1483 feet / 452m) -- but put Petronas side by side with the former title holder, Sears Tower, and look again. The casual observer would say Sears Tower is tops, and by quite a wide margin!
The highest occupiable floor of Sears is more then 200 feet higher than the top floor in Petronas and its antennas go even higher. So why are the Petronas Towers considered the World's Tallest Buildings?
Because, in the tradition and lore of tall building, spires count, antennas don't.
Spires are architectural features and they have been traditionally counted in a building's height, a precedent that dates to the Chrysler Building. Antennas are not normally considered architectural features.
So...based on the long and storied tradition of tall buildings, the winner by decision is the Petronas Towers.
Mt Everest. Mountain heights...
Mount Everest : 29,028 feet (8,853 m)Aconcagua (South America) : 22,834 feet (6,960 m)McKinley / Denali (North America) : 20,320 feet ( m)Kilimanjaro, Africa : 19,340 feet (5,894m)Elbrus, Southern Europe : 18,510 feet (5,642 m)
Sixty Amazing-but-True Facts!
In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.
Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.
You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.
The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.
Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."
When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.
Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.
Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.
The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.
The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.
The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.
The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.
Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.
You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.
The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.
Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."
When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.
Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.
Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.
The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.
The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.
The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.
more facts
The largest bird in the world today is the Ostrich Struthio camelus. The North African Ostrich subspecies is the tallest of all the Ostriches. Males can be 2.74 m tall. The head and neck can be 1.4 m long. The average height is around 2 m. The smallest bird in the world is either the Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae from Cuba and the Isle of Pines or the Little Woodstar Acestrura bombus of Ecuador and northern Peru. The male hummingbird is 57 mm and weighs 1.6 g. Half of its length is taken up by the bill and the tail. Some experts think the Woodstar is even smaller. The bird with the largest wingspan is the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans which lives in the southern oceans. Its wings average 2.54 - 3.51 m. The largest recorded wingspan was of a very old male whose wings measured 3.63 m. The Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus has the longest bill of any bill measuring 34 - 47 cm. The bird with the longest bill to body size is the Sword-billed Hummingbird Ensifera ensifera that lives in the high Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. Its bill is 10.2 cm long, four times longer than the bird's body, not counting the tail. Ostriches Struthio camelus have the longest legs. Their legs can be up to 1.3 m long. A number of swifts have the shortest legs. Their family name Apodidae means 'lacking legs'. Jacanas (Jacanidae family) have the longest toes relative to body length. Some of the larger Jacanas can have 'toespans' of at least 15 cm. The Phoenix Fowl has the longest feathers. The upper tail can grow for six years and one measured 10.6 m. The Phoenix Fowl has been bred as an ornamental bird in Japan since the mid 17th century and is a breed of the Red Jungle Fowl Gallus gallus. The longest feathers of a wild bird relative to body size, are the central tail feathers of the male Ribbon-tailed Bird of Paradise Asptrapia mayeri. It lives in the mountain rainforest of New Guinea. The most feathers ever counted on one bird was 25 216 on the Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus. 80 per cent of feathers were on the bird's head. The least number of feathers ever counted was 940 on a Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris. But this bird, relative to its body size, has more feathers than most other birds. It measures only 9 cm. The Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus is the fastest bird and fastest of any kind of animal. It can reach speeds of at least 200 km when diving for prey in the air. Hummingbirds have the fastest wingbeat. The Horned Sungem Heliactin cornuta, in tropical South America beats its wings at 90 beats per second. Hummingbirds, Family Trochilidae have been recorded in experiments, hovering for 50 minutes. The Artic Tern Sterna paradisaea is believed to migrate the furthest. It flies from the shores of the Arctic to the Antarctic. One banded Arctic Tern cover 22 530 km flying from the White Sea Coast of Russia to Fremantle, Western Australia. Relative to body size the Long Rufous Humingbird Selasphorus rufus makes the longest migration. It measures 10 cm and flies from as far north as Alaska to Mexico and back again - 10 000 km. The highest recorded altitude for any bird was 11 277 m for a Ruppell's Griffon Vulture Gyps Rueppellii. It flew into a plane. The largest bird egg is from the Ostrich Sturthio camelus. The egg measures 15 - 20 cm long, 10 - 15 cm in diameter and weighs 1 - 1.78 kg. The smallest known egg is the egg of the Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima of Jamacia and nearby islets. The egg is barely the size of a pea and measures less than 10 mm in length and weighs 0.356 g. The largest nest was built by a pair of Bald Eagles Haliaeetus leucocephalus was 2.9 m wide and 6 m deep. The Mallee Fowl Leipoa ocellata of Australia builds a mound for a nest. These mounds have been measured at 4.57 m high and 10.6 m long. A mound this size means the bird moved 250 cubic metres of vegetation and 300 tonnes of soil. The Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata which measures 35 cm and nests on islands in the North Pacific excavates a burrow of 2 - 3 m in length. Burrows up to 6 m are not uncommon and 8 m burrows have also been found. Emperor Penguins Aptenodytes forsteri make the deepest dive of any bird ranging from 444 - 483 m. They also stay under water the longest. The maximum dive time recorded has been 18 minutes. The fastest swimmer is probably the Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua at 27 km per hour. The fastest runner is the Ostrich Struthio camelus. It can run up to 72 km per hour over short distances. The only poisonous birds known are the three species of Pitohui from Papua new Guinea - the Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous the Rusty Pitohui P. ferrugineus and the Variable Pitohui P. kirhocephalus. The Hooded Pitohui is the deadliest. The skin and feathers contain almost the same homobatrachotoxin as the Poison Arrow Frogs.
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