A group of 40-year-old buddies discuss where they should have dinner. Finally it is agreed that they should meet at Mario’s restaurant because the waitresses there have low-cut blouses and nice breasts.

Ten years later, at 50 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss where they should have dinner. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at Mario’s because the food

there is very good and the wine selection is good also.

Ten years later, at 60 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss where they should have dinner. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at Mario’s because they can eat there in peace and quiet and the restaurant is smoke free.

Ten years later, at 70 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss where they should have dinner. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at Mario’s because the restaurant is wheel chair accessible and they even have an elevator.

Ten years later, at 80 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss where they should have dinner.. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at Mario’s because they have never been there before

Hat tip to B.

Will sent me this

and seemed to think it was amusing.

Looks perfectly fine to me.

You may never look at a can of Coca-Cola in the same way again after reading What Coke Contains by Kevin Ashton.

The manufacture of a can of Coke begins in Pinjarra, Western Australia and ends in your local corner store via Greenland, Atlanta, Africa and South America.”The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. This famously American product is not American at all. Invention and creation is something we are all in together.

Modern tool chains are so long and complex that they bind us into one people and one planet. They are not only chains of tools, they are also chains of minds: local and foreign, ancient and modern, living and dead — the result of disparate invention and intelligence distributed over time and space.

Coca-Cola did not teach the world to sing, no matter what its commercials suggest, yet every can of Coke contains humanity’s choir.”

Here are Richard Glover’s 43 top ways to tell if you’re a local.

You know you’re Australian if …

1. You know the meaning of the word “girt”.

2. You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.

3. You think it’s normal to have a Treasurer called Wayne.

4. You waddle when you walk due to the 53 expired petrol discount vouchers stuffed in your wallet or purse.

5. You’ve made a bong out of your garden hose rather than use it for something illegal such as watering the garden.

6. You believe it is appropriate to put a rubber in your son’s pencil case when he first attends school.

7. When you hear that an American “roots for his team” you wonder how often and with whom.

8. You understand that the phrase “a group of women wearing black thongs” refers to footwear and may be less alluring than it sounds.

9. You pronounce Melbourne as “Mel-bin”.

10. You pronounce Penrith as “Pen-riff”.

11. You believe the “l” in the word “Australia” is optional.

12. You can translate: “Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas.”

13. You believe it makes perfect sense for a nation to decorate its highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.

14. You call your best friend “a total bastard” but someone you really, truly despise is just “a bit of a bastard”.

15. You think “Woolloomooloo” is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.

16. You’re secretly proud of our killer wildlife.

17. You believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that’s twice as big as its $2 coin.

18. You understand that “Wagga Wagga” can be abbreviated to “Wagga” but “Woy Woy” can’t be called “Woy”.

19. You believe that cooked-down axlegrease makes a good breakfast spread.

20. You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they again become Kiwis.

21. Hamburger. Beetroot. Of course.

22. You know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any rendition of the Angels’ song Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again.

23. You believe, as an article of faith, that the confectionary known as the Wagon Wheel hasbecome smaller with every passing year.

24. You still don’t get why the “Labor” in “Australian Labor Party” is not spelt with a “u”.

25. You wear ugh boots outside the house.

26. You believe, as an article of faith, that every important discovery in the world was made by an Australian but then sold off to the Yanks for a pittance.

27. You believe that the more you shorten someone’s name the more you like them.

28. Whatever your linguistic skills, you find yourself able to order takeaway fluently in every Asian language.

29. You understand that “excuse me” can sound rude, while “scuse me” is always polite.

30. You know what it’s like to swallow a fly, on occasion via your nose.

31. You understand that “you” has a plural and that it’s “youse”.

32. You know it’s not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle.

33. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.

34. You shake your head in horror when companies try to market what they call “Anzac cookies”.

35. You still think of Kylie as “that girl off Neighbours”.

36. When returning home from overseas, you expect to be brutally strip-searched by Customs – just in case you’re trying to sneak in fruit.

37. You believe the phrase “smart casual” refers to a pair of black tracky-daks, suitably laundered.

38. You understand that all train timetables are works of fiction.

39. When working on a bar, you understand male customers will feel the need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer.

40. You get choked up with emotion by the first verse of the national anthem and then have trouble remembering the second.

41. You find yourself ignorant of nearly all the facts deemed essential in the government’s new test for migrants.

42. You know, whatever the tourist books say, that no one says “cobber”.

43. And you will immediately forward this list to other Australians, here and overseas, realising that only they will understand.

Happy Australia Day.

First published in the Sydney Morning Herald, January 26, 2008.

They just don’t make ads like these anymore (apart from ads for margarine, vitamins, laundry detergents,beer, departments

stores,bras …..)

See the full gallery on Posterous

I wonder which of our current advertisements will be laughed at by our grandchildren.

Cars? Petrol? CDs? iPads? Plane travel?

Hat tip to Brendan and Tanya

How can you have a happier 2013?

Perhaps you cpuld ask Quora.

Quora is a question and answer website – ask a question, and the ‘crowd’ answers. Users can vote for the best answers, promoting them up the list, as well as editing other peoples answers to

get the most correct response.

Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question.

Quora was launched by two former Facebook employees in June 2010, and has had tremendous growth, with millions of regular users.

Questions span an enormous range of topics – from the very prosaic to the very philosophical. What distinguishes it from other similar sites is the calibre of the people who answer  -often scientists, doctors, executives, actors, academics – people who would know.

What happens if the cable holding an elevator is cut? was answwered by someone from the legal firm for Otis elevators.

How did Disney get all the intellectual property licenses for all the video game characters used in Wreck-It-Ralph? was answered by Rich Moore,the director of the movie.

How would you define English humour? was answered by Stephen Fry

The best way to use Quora is to sign up for a weekly email newsletter on topics of interest to you, or use the The iPhone App.

Here is a Quora question to help with new years resolutions.

To be happier, what’s the smallest, simplest thing an average person could do?

1964 votes for:

Rule: When I arrive home from work, the very first thing I tell my wife is the best thing that happened that day. 

No exceptions. No complaining. Just the best thing that day, even if it was just a good cup of coffee. This had the effect of starting our evening off on a positive note and it changed our relationship.

Other high scoring answers – get more sleep, exercise, and assume positive intent by others.

Sounds like a good start.

The photo editor of Time Magazine calls 2012 ‘A year of Deja Vu’.

Photos can be eerily simililar, even when taken a year apart.

Time Lightbox faetures a series of such similar photos.

 

Ischemic Heart Disease: New Recommendations Issued on Primary Care Evaluation, ManagementGuidelines on the evaluation and management of stable ischemic heart disease in the primary care setting have been issued by the American College of Physicians in conjunction with several other organizations.

The guidelines on evaluation stress the importance of making patients’ preferences a part of the decision on further testing.

The guidelines include algorithms for diagnosis and risk assessment.

The management guidelines also stress the patient — especially patients’ understanding of their condition and the importance of adhering to treatment regimens and lifestyle changes. Algorithms are also given to

guide decision making on revascularization for the purposes of improving symptoms and survival. (A similar set of guidelines is published today in a different form in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.)

Annals of Internal Medicine article on evaluation (Free)

Annals of Internal Medicine article on management (Free)

JACC guidelines (Free abstract)

via Journal Watch

our ability to provide timely counseling to our patients. This, in my opinion, tips the balance toward relying on nonfasting lipid profiles as the preferred practice”

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1391012