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March 4 is . . . . . Holy Experiment Day
March 5 is . . . . . Multiple Personalities Day
March 6 is . . . . . National Frozen Food Day
March 7 is . . . . . National Crown Roast Of Pork Day
March 8 is . . . . . Be Nasty Day
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March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian
months with the length of 31 days. See also Months in various calendars
March begins (astrologically, non-sidereal) with the sun in the sign of Pisces and ends
in the sign of Aries. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of
Aquarius and ends in the constellation of Pisces.
In ancient Rome, March was called Martius, so named after Mars, the Roman god of war.
March was originally the first month of the Roman calendar before the winter months of
January and February were added about 700 BC by King Numa Pompilius. It ceased to be the
first month of the calendar year (the year when displayed as twelve months) about 450 BC
during the time of the decemvirs, when January assumed that position. Roman consuls
entered office in March between 222 BC and 153 BC, hence Roman events dated via the
consular year began in March during that period. The numbered year began on March 1 in
Russia until the end of the fifteenth century. Great Britain and her colonies continued
to use March 25 until 1752, the same year they finally adopted the Gregorian calendar.
In Finnish, the month is called maaliskuu, which originates from maallinen kuu meaning
earthy month. This is because in maaliskuu earth started to show from under the snow.
Historical names for March include the Saxon term Lenctmonat, named for the equinox and
eventual lengthening of days and the eventual namesake of Lent. The Saxons also called
March Rhed-monat (for their goddess Rhedam); ancient Britons called it hyld-monath
(meaning loud or stormy).
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Why doesn't flavored gum turn your mouth that color?
If a doctor suddenly died while doing surgery, would the other doctors work on the doctor
or the patient?
Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull our little ones to sleep when the song is about
putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle to the ground?
Why do we say we're head over heels when we're happy? Isn't that the way we normally are?
If the Wicked Witch of the West melts in water... how did she ever bathe?
If bald people work as chefs in a restaurant,do they have to wear hairnets?
Why do sleeping pills have warning labels that state :'Caution: May Cause Drowsiness?
Do nudists have pin-ups of people with clothes on?
How can Darth Vader breathe and talk at the same time?
If there's a wheelchair-bound comedian, is it still called "stand-up"?
When the French swear do they say pardon my English?
Do people who use sign language see little hands in their head when they think about what
somebody said, or do they hear the words in their head?
How did Walt Disney figure out how to make people pay to stand in lines all day?
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If an African elephant comes to America, is it an African-American elephant?
Why doesn't flavored gum turn your mouth that color?
If a doctor suddenly died while doing surgery, would the other doctors work on the doctor
or the patient?
Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull our little ones to sleep when the song is about
putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle to the ground?
Why do we say we're head over heels when we're happy? Isn't that the way we normally are?
If the Wicked Witch of the West melts in water... how did she ever bathe?
If bald people work as chefs in a restaurant,do they have to wear hairnets?
Why do sleeping pills have warning labels that state :'Caution: May Cause Drowsiness?
Do nudists have pin-ups of people with clothes on?
How can Darth Vader breathe and talk at the same time?
If there's a wheelchair-bound comedian, is it still called "stand-up"?
When the French swear do they say pardon my English?
Do people who use sign language see little hands in their head when they think about what
somebody said, or do they hear the words in their head?
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Awa (Papua New Guinea) Ínkio
Awa (Papua New Guinea) Íniúno
Awa (Papua New Guinea) Iraúno
Awa (Papua New Guinea) Ítuo
Aymará (Bolivia, Peru, Chile) Jakisiñkama
Aymará (Bolivia, Peru, Chile) Q"ipürkama
Aymará (Bolivia, Peru, Chile) Q"ipürkam
Aymará (Bolivia, Peru, Chile) Yaqha urukama
Aymará (Bolivia) [to person leaving] Jutaïtapiy
Aymará (Bolivia) [see you later] Waliki
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Aymará (Bolivia) Sarjak
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan, Iran) Xudaafiz
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan, Iran) Sag kaliniz
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan, Iran) Sag olun
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan, Iran) Görüsædæk
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan, Iran) Salamat qal
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan, Iran) Salamat qalìn
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan, Iran) Häläìk
[Azeri, see Azerbaijani]
[Aztec, see Náhuatl]
Bagesu (Central Africa) [by person going] Nzia wefwe
Bagesu (Central Africa) [to person going] Nozia mwuliko
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1.The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first
observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000
BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the
first visible crescent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring). The
beginning of spring is a logical time to start a new year. After all, it is
the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. The Romans
continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was
continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon
became out of synchronization with the sun. In order to set the calendar
right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning
of the new year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC,
established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again
established January 1 as the new year. But in order to synchronize the
calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445
days. The first of January was dedicated by the Romans to their God of
Gates and Doors, Janus. A very old Italian God, Janus has a distinctive
artistic appearance in that he is commonly depicted with two faces ... one
regarding what is behind and the other looking toward what lies ahead.
Thus, Janus is representative of contemplation on the happenings of an old
year while looking forward to the new.
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6.Many parts of the U.S. celebrate the new year by consuming black-eyed peas. These legumes are typically accompanied by either hog jowls or ham. Black-eyed peas and other legumes have been considered good luck in many cultures. The hog, and thus its meat, is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosperity. Cabbage is another "good luck" vegetable that is consumed on New Year's Day by many. Cabbage leaves are also considered a sign of prosperity, being representative of paper currency. In some regions, rice is a lucky food that is eaten on New Year's Day.
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"Auld Lang Syne" is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year. At least partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700's, it was first published in 1796 after Burns' death. Early variations of the song were sung prior to 1700 and inspired Burns to produce the modern rendition. An old Scotch tune, "Auld Lang Syne" literally means "old long ago," or simply, "the good old days." Here are the lyrics:
Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne?
For auld Lang syne, my dear, for auld Lang syne,
We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld Lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld Lang syne?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend and gie's a hand o' thine
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet for auld Lang syne
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Happy New Year Frank Burns!
"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your death bring you the peace you never found in life." - Tuvok. 
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So you should eat black eyed peas with rice and cabbage during 12/31?
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"
-Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah."
-Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents."
-Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise."
-Prometheus
Rack MisterJLA!
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Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under
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He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
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3.Internet Explorer began conceptually as one of the major components of the
unreleased Windows 97,[citation needed] imagined as the successor to
Windows 95. The project was started in the summer of 1994 by Thomas
Reardon and subsequently led by Benjamin Slivka, leveraging source code
from Spyglass, Inc. Mosaic, an early commercial web browser with formal
ties to the pioneering NCSA Mosaic browser. In late 1994, Microsoft
licensed Spyglass Mosaic for a quarterly fee plus a percentage of
Microsoft's non-Windows revenues for the software. Although bearing a name
similar to NCSA Mosaic, which was the first widely used web browser,
Spyglass Mosaic was relatively unknown in its day and used the NCSA Mosaic
source code only sparingly.
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4.Internet Explorer's original logoVersion 1, released in August 1995 was a
modified version of Spyglass Mosaic. It came with Microsoft Plus! for
Windows 95 and OEM release of Windows 95. Version 1.5 was released several
months later for Windows NT and added support for basic table rendering.
Version 2.0 was released for both Windows 95 and Windows NT in November
1995, featuring support for SSL, cookies, VRML, and Internet newsgroups.
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12.Version 8 of Internet Explorer is in development. A beta version will
be made available in the first half of 2008. From the blog and based
on the conferences of MIX 2007; RSS, CSS, Ajax, microformats, more options
for user interface customization and improved web development tools are
possibilities for inclusion into the forthcoming version of Internet
Explorer, with security still being the top priority. Microsoft is
investing in support for more of the CSS 2.1 specification as well as
changes to the DOM for interoperability with other web browsers.
HasLayout functionality will also be done away with in IE8. IE8
includes a new rendering mode known as "IE8 standards mode".[ IE8
standards mode breaks compatibility with previous versions of Internet
Explorer by more strictly adhering to web standards.[ IE8 standards
mode is not enabled by default, but can be triggered by inserting a special
flag into a web page.[13] IE8 supports Data: URIs, HTML object fallback, abbr
tag, CSS generated content and display: table display type, in addition
to
fixing a lot of CSS and HTML parsing bugs.[15] As a result, according to
Microsoft, an internal debug build of IE8 passes the Acid2 test in IE8
standards mode.
[10][15] However, the version of IE8 that will be released will not pass
Acid2 as it will require pages to specifically request to be rendered in
IE8 standards mode, and Acid2 does not request this.
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Anonymous Sun Jan 27 2008 10:56 PM Reading a post
Forum: off topic and offensive posts
Thread: Then you must be Gay!
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intestinal sculpture (contributed by Dan and Vicky H.)
Irish shave
jakes
jobbers (contributed by Lordmetal3)
jobby (Glasgow)
john dillinger (contributed by Mary S.)
jujubees (contributed by THUMBTAKKHEAD)
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junglebug (contributed by 95.j.baskaya)
kaka
kakashka (Russian "piece of poop" - contributed by Gray)
keech (Glasgow)
keester cakes (contributed by Allison, Erica and Kelly)
kiki
kisses (contributed by Autumn)
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Haddaway
What Is Love
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Oh, baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Yeah
Oh, I don't know why you're not there
I give you my love, but you don't care
So what is right and what is wrong
Gimme a sign
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
Oh, I don't know, what can I do
What else can I say, it's up to you
I know we're one, just me and you
I can't go on
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
What is love, oooh, oooh, oooh
What is love, oooh, oooh, oooh
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
I want no other, no other lover
This is your life, our time
When we are together, I need you forever
Is it love
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more (oooh, oooh)
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more (oooh, oooh)
What is love?
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The word love has many different meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something one would die for (patriotism, family). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art and music.
Just as there are many types of lovers, there are many kinds of love. Though love is inherent in all human cultures, cultural differences make any universal definition difficult to establish.[1] One definition attempting to be universally applicable is Thomas Jay Oord's: to love is to act intentionally, in sympathetic response to others (including God), to promote overall well-being. This definition applies to the positive connotations of love.
Expressions of love may include the love for a "soul" or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etcetera. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. According to many philosophers, the only goal of life is to be happy. And there is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. Love is essentially an abstract concept, much easier to experience than to explain.
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Cowboy In Me
Tim McGraw
I don't know why I act the way I do
Like I ain't got a single thing to lose
Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy
I guess that's just the cowboy in me
I got a life that most would love to have
But sometimes I still wake up fightin' mad
At where this road I'm heading down might lead
I guess that's just the cowboy in me
The urge to run, the restlessness
The heart of stone I sometimes get
The things I've done for foolish pride
The me that's never satisfied
The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see
I guess that's just the cowboy in me
The urge to run, the restlessness
The heart of stone I sometimes get
The things I've done for foolish pride
The me that's never satisfied
The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see
I guess that's just the cowboy in me
Girl I know there's times you must have thought
There ain't a line you've drawn I haven't crossed
But you set your mind to see this love on through
I guess that's just the cowboy in you
We ride and never worry about the fall
I guess that's just the cowboy in us all
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CELINE DION
That's Just The Woman In Me
If your shoes refuse to shine
And your legs don't walk in line
And tomorrow it's just another time, yeah
That's just the woman in me, baby
That's just the woman in me, baby
That's just the woman walking on you
And if your feet can't find the floor
And your key won't fit the door
And you forgot just that two twos are four, yeah
That's just the woman in me, baby
That's just the woman in me, baby
That's just the woman walking on you
Oh yeah, now
And I've seen you wandering, baby
Up and down my street, yeah
Trying to explain that
I caused all this pain
To all the people that you meet
Searching for that imperious,
mysterious femme fatal kind of stuff, yeah
But if you don't know by now
That it's me anyhow
Then baby, you've got it wrong
So if your play gets so confused
and you TV is blowing the fuse
just come on over you've got nothing to lose
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
That's just the woman in me, baby
That's just the woman in me, baby
That's just the woman walking on you
walking on you
walking on you
walking on you
'Cause I need, I need a man to love
Because I need a man to love...
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Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008[1]) was an American
soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger,
composer, and actor. Hayes also acted in motion pictures and television; from 1997 to 2006, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park.On March 20, 2006, Roger Friedman of Fox News reported that Hayes had suffered a stroke in January. Hayes spokeswoman Amy Harnell denied that Hayes had a stroke, but on October 26, 2006 Hayes himself confirmed that he did.Hayes was found unconscious in his home located just east of Memphis, Tennessee on August 10, 2008 as reported by the Shelby County Sheriff's Department. A Shelby County Sheriff's deputy responded to Hayes's home after his wife found him on the floor near a still-running treadmill. Hayeswas taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, where he was pronounced dead at 2:08pm at the age of 65. The cause of death was not
immediately known,though authorities subsequently listed stroke as the
cause of death.At the time of his death, he was preparing his first new studio album since 1995.He was interred at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.
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Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny. Drew Barrymore
Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.
Otto von Bismarck
The family that stays together may be convicted of incest.
Robert Bloch
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury
I guess it looks like a rock quarry that somebody has dynamited.
Charles Bronson
...describing his own face
If presidents don't do it to their wives, they'll do it to the country.
Mel Brooks
Everyday people are straying away from the church ang going back to god.
Lenny Bruce
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
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