* Fraternity Briefs # 410- February 18, 2010 Inspiration, Information, Humor & Quiz for Personal Development
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In This Issue besides Quiz, Quotes and Humor
1. Focus Gets Results
by Sandy Karn
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QUIZ CORNER 410. (\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)
1. Idol User I: What nine letter can be found by rearranging the letters in this anagram?
2. Why are alcoholic drinks called cocktails?
3. Nine Fat Ladies:
Anne, Betty and Cathy together weigh 345 kg.
Dora, Eve and Flora together weigh 345 kg.
Gina, Heather and Irma together weigh 345 kg
Anne, Dora and Gina together weigh 345 kg
Betty, Eve and Heather together weigh 345 kg
Cathy, Flora and Irma together weigh 345 kg
Individual weights of these ladies differ with each other.
Can you find the individual weight of each lady
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Quotable Quotes
Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
_Schoolgirl’s definition, quoted in: Ladies’ Home Journal (New York, Jan. 1942).
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
_Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965), U.S. Democratic politician.
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"Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities."
--Brian Tracy
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"There are some things you don't have to know how it works -
only that it works. While some people are studying the roots,
others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of
this you want to get in on."
-- Jim Rohn
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"As we act 'right,' our right results are guaranteed."
-- Mark _Victor Hansen
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"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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* Focus Gets Results
by Sandy Karn
If you are so eager to get results that you try to rush
through things, are you sure you will be that successful?
What if you focused on doing one thing at a time, do you think
it is possible that you would get more done more efficiently?
I think this is worth giving some thought. How do you get
things done? Are you disorganized and work harder longer than
most because you don't stay focused? It's worth thinking
about.
Whatever it takes to stay focused with your mapped out
priorities, you might be able to create more results if you do
so it's worth a focus to map out a plan to do that.
Wishing You the Very Best!
Sandy Karn
Results Specialist
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Sandy Karn is president of her own company, Creative Results
Sources, Inc., a consulting and training company of over 30
years. She is a Field Manager with Inscape Publishing,
publishers of proven self-assessment tools used in training
and consulting. Take her WINNER's PROFILE!
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Humor******
Catholic Men and Women (Joke)
Four Catholic men and a Catholic woman were having coffee. The first Catholic man tells his friends, "My son is a priest, when he walks into a room, everyone calls him 'Father'."
The second Catholic man chirps, "My son is a Bishop. When he walks into a room people call him 'Your Grace'."
The third Catholic gent says, "My son is a Cardinal. When he enters a room everyone says 'Your Eminence'."
The fourth Catholic man then says, "My son is the Pope. When he walks into a room people call him 'Your Holiness'."
Since the lone Catholic woman was sipping her coffee in silence, the four men give her a subtle, "Well....?"
She proudly replies, "I have a daughter, slim, tall, 38D breast, 24" stomach and 34" hips.
When she walks into a room, people say, "Oh My God."
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Computers and Cars
At a computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared The computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: if GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they painted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to re-install the engine.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.
12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
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Valuable Book
A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that Guten-somebody- or-other had printed it.
"Not Gutenberg?" gasped the collector.
"Yes, that was it!"
"You idiot! You've thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A copy recently sold at auction for half a million dollars!"
"Oh, I don't think this book would have been worth anything close to that much," replied the man. "It was scribbled all over in the margins by some clown named Martin Luther."
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Answers to the Quiz
1. Delirious. (wild with excitement, enthusiasm, etc.)
2. H.L. Mencken said, "A cocktail today consists essentially of any hard liquor, any milder diluent and a dash of any pungent flavoring." It is a slang term - reportedly in print by 1806 as 'spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters' - with a lost origin. There are many, many theories about the word's etymology, but none has been agreed upon. It could be a combination of the words cock (perhaps as in 'tap, faucet') and tail, but at this point all agree that the word's origin is really unknown. American initiative and imagination continue to show themselves in the making and naming of cocktails!
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/d16.html
3. Anne= 112, Betty= 119, Cathy= 114
Dora= 117, Eve= 115, Flora 113
Gina =116, Heather=111, Irma= 118
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