NayNay's Huluhae Page
Daily Dose of Huluhae
Crazed Ramblings from my Mind:
"Just got back from Ohio-nois." Sanduskey was wonderful!
The weather was perfect, the hotel was better than average and Cedar Point is incredible. We bought the two-day pass so we
got to enjoy the park on both sunday and monday. Sunday we only went to the amusement park but monday we went to Soak City (the
water park) and Cedar Pointe. Both Matt and I enjoy riding rollercoasters a lot more than sliding down waterslides. Water parks
are still fun, though. Scary, too, if you stop to think about the fact that the only thing separating you from a ten story plunge
onto concrete is some plastic and about half an inch of water. Sobering, huh? Do yourself a favor and try not to think about it.
I'm pretty bad about meaning well but saying something that only sounds about half coherent. I had played some skeeball and
won two really cute teddy bears, a pink and a yellow. I didn't feel like carrying them around while we were at Cedar Point,
and since we had just taken another prize I'd won out to the car (for playing basketball) we didn't feel like walking back out
to the parking lot. So I decided to do the next best thing and give them away to two kids who weren't carrying around any
toys. About 30 seconds later I saw a couple of little blonde twins walking with their mom. I asked the mom as she went by, "Can
the girls have the bears?" I meant to say "Would you mind if I gave your girls a bear?" but, as usual, it came out wrong. She
stared at me, bug-eyed. "No, they don't have bears." I held the two stuffed animals up. "They can have these?" Then she understood
and called them over to her. I handed them each a bear and they shyly smiled up at me, looking for all the world like two
adorable, little
blonde cherubs as they each clutched a teddy bear in their arms.
Matt just sent this link to me. It's a letter written
by an American soldier. It's time we brought our service men and women home.
I can finally buy my textbooks for college today. I bought most of my supplies last nite while I was grocery shopping. Saw a
really cool Scooby-Doo binder that I would have been more than happy to get but when I flipped it open, it looked much to small.
Maybe not though. Methinks I may go back and get it anyhow, depending on how much work college actually turns out to be. The
only hard part will be deciding which binder I like the best.
Fast Facts!
- Almost every part of a birch tree is edible. Remember that if you ever get lost in the woods!
- The Lakotas, a Native American Indian tribe, would use puffball spores to stem major bleeding.
- Barry, a Saint Bernard, saved the lives of over 40 people in the 1800's.
- The state tree of Alaska is the Sitka Spruce.
- Male turtles grunt, female turtles hiss.
- Sigmund Freud was afraid of ferns.
Quotes!
You know you love 'em
- An African gravepost for my 38th birthday?--Steve Martin in All of Me
- Speaking on behalf of the dead, I find this disgusting--Lily Tomlin in All of Me
- Oh that would be me. I've been swimming in raw sewage, I love it.--Leslie Neilson in Naked Gun 33 1/3
- Press a button, ring a bell, and you think the whole damned world comes running, dontcha!?--Bette Davis in Whatever
Happened to Baby Jane (Great movie.)
- Oh Larry, it was terrible. I lit a cigarette with my third hand...I don't have a third hand!--Jerry Lewis in Scared Stiff
- Everyone dies. Some die because they deserve to. Others die simply because they come from Minneapolis. It's random and it's
meaningless--John Malkovich, In the Line of Fire
- You whine like a mule. You're still alive--Morgan Freeman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- You have aroused the Chocolate God--Kenan Thompson on the tv show All That (back when it was funny.)
Think Fluoride is Safe? Think Again
"You know what they put in the water, don't you? Fluoride. Yeah, fluoride. On the pretext it strengthens your teeth. That's
ridiculous. You know what this stuff does to you? It actually weakens your will, takes away the capacity for free and
creative thought and makes you a slave to the state." So says Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) in the 1997 movie Conspiracy Theory.
When I first saw the movie, I laughed at
what I thought was just a funny line and wrote the quote down in my blue book. Fast forward to spring 2003. Matt and I are
eating dinner with my parents at a Cracker Barrel down in North Carolina. After finishing my meal I walk around the store
and decide to buy a trial pack of Burt's Bees products. That was the first time I'd ever heard of the company. One of the
items in the pack was their all-natural toothpaste.
Curiosity got the better of me when I noticed it contains no fluoride. I
started looking into the subject of fluoridation and the information I found is downright disturbing. For one thing, even
though everyone knows fluoride supposedly strengthens the teeth, no evidence has ever been shown that determines that theory
to be true. So what are some true facts about fluoride? Well, for starters it's a waste by-product of the aluminum and
fertilizer industries.
Yes, there is an element, but that's called fluorine, and it's a gas. Just thought I'd clear that up for you, it is kind of
a confusing point. Not only does it not strengthen the teeth, it actually weakens the bones. A primary use of sodium fluoride
(the same stuff found in toothpaste) is as a rat and cockroach poison. Oh, and Jerry was right. The first people to add fluoride
to drinking water were the Nazi's back in the 1940s. They cared nothing about the health of childrens teeth. Instead research
had taught them that forcing people to ingest fluoride was the easiest way to make them dumb, docile, and readily manipulated.
There is a ton more information on this subject. I strongly suggest you read these on-line articles.
