FRIDAY CATCH UP BLOGGY BIT

First of all, note to self :
Do not blog while American Idol is on! I’ve just seen Edgar Winters’, Freeride completely ‘middle of the roadisised’ followed by positively the worst version of Nights in White Satin I have ever witnessed and that’s hiding behind the sofa so that I couldn’t see it!
Paula Abdul and Cat Deeley as the eye candy, Simon Cowell the only sane one and before I finish what the hell is Randy Jackson all about? He doesn’t look right, sound right and just maybe he just isn’t right!
As for Ryan Seacrest, I’m not even going there!
Lord above may I never moan about X Factor! Dawn of realisation that was just the guys and because I haven’t been quick enough now it’s the girls. I may want to see this but not hear it!

Catch up time folks…..A lot of stuff good and bad that has come over my desktop while I’ve been away a lot of it of course has gone…….forever. Where does it all go after the recycle bin. Is there a bigger bin in cyberspace with my name on it? And what is it recycled as? These are important questions.

DID YOU KNOW…….

Grasshoppers have white blood
The phrase “the 3 Rs” meaning reading, writing and arithmetic was actually coined by Sir William Curtis who was himself illiterate.
If done perfectly any Rubik’s Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
The fingerprints of koala bears are so similar to human’s that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Licking a simple postage stamp ingests 6 calories
Around 11,000 people in New Mexico visied a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it
Madrid is the only capital in Europe that is not situated on a river
we each speak an average of 5000 words a day
Hurricanes and big bodies of water go clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counter clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
In the US murder is committed most frequently in August and least frequently in February.


“Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. I can’t stand it when they behavelike solicitors” Dame Helen Mirren

“They said I was too sexy to sing Christian music. They would never let me sing solos in church because they said I made men in the congregation lust” Jessica Simpson

“The word ‘gastro’ does not belong in front of the word ‘pub’. It belongs in front of the word ‘enteritis’” Al Murray

“The word ‘celebrity’ should be taken out, shot and given a decent burial” Sir Terry Wogan

WORD OF THE DAY :

FATIDIC

ADJECTIVE ; OF OR RELATING TO PROPHECY.

EXAMPLE SENTENCE
I hope the dream I had last night about losing my wedding ring doesn't prove fatidic.
As you might guess, "fatidic" is a relative of the word "fate." The Latin word for fate is "fatum," which literally means "what has been spoken." "Fatum," in turn, comes from "fari," meaning "to speak." In the eyes of the ancients, your fate was out of your hands -- what happened was up to gods and demigods. Predicting your fate was a job for oracles and prophets. "Fatidic" is "fatum" combined with "dicere," meaning "to say." That makes "fatidic" a relative of the word "predict" as well; the "-dict" of "predict" also comes from Latin "dicere."As you might guess, "fatidic" is a relative of the word "fate." The Latin word for fate is "fatum," which literally means "what has been spoken." "Fatum," in turn, comes from "fari," meaning "to speak." In the eyes of the ancients, your fate was out of your hands -- what happened was up to gods and demigods. Predicting your fate was a job for oracles and prophets. "Fatidic" is "fatum" combined with "dicere," meaning "to say." That makes "fatidic" a relative of the word "predict" as well; the "-dict" of "predict" also comes from Latin "dicere."