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Japanese Ingenuity -- Save your plastic T his is one of the most amazing email's and break-through's in technology I have ever seen!!! Why aren't we doing this now???? I think we should all do what w e c an to save what we are destroying! A case of Japanese ingenuity and perseverance. What is more important would be the  marketing and very low cost to make it mandatory to have one of these in every home.  The sound is all in Japanese. Just read the subtitles and watch.   What a great discovery!

Pay close attention to each scene...tricky! Colgate has created a very ingenious advertising campaign to promote their dental floss. But ... before I explain to you the main detail of these images, I shall let you observe them quietly on your own.  Alright .......... now that you've had time to quietly observe the images ...... In the first photograph, you might have noticed that the lady has one finger too many on her left hand. In the second photograph, a phantom arm is floating behind. In the third photograph, the man has only one ear. The campaign attained its purpose. It proved that food debris on your teeth draws more attention than any physical defect does. How well did you do ?? I failed the whole thing? What was I thinking?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.  There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.  English muffins weren't invented in  England or French fries in France.  Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.  We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegeta...

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this . There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is  'UP' It's easy to understand  UP ,  meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake  UP  ? At a meeting, why does a topic come  UP ? Why do we speak  UP  and why are the officers  UP  for election and why is it  UP  to the secretary to write  UP  a report? We call  UP  our friends. And we use it to brighten  UP  a room, polish  UP  the silver; we warm  UP  the leftovers and clean  UP  the kitchen. We lock  UP  the house and some guys fix  UP  the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir  UP  trouble, line  UP  for tickets, work  UP  an appetite, and think  UP...

You think English is easy?? I think a retired English teacher was bored...THIS IS GREAT! The bandage was   wound  around the   wound. The farm was used to   produce produce . The dump was so full that it had to   refuse  more  refuse . We must   polish  the   Polish  furniture.. He could   lead  if he would get the   lead  out. The soldier decided to   desert  his dessert in the  desert.. Since there is no time like the   present , he thought it was time to   present  the   present . A   bass  was painted on the head of the   bass  drum. When shot at, the   dove dove  into the bushes.  I did not   object  to the   object. The insurance was   invalid  for the   invalid. There was a   row  among the oarsmen about how to  row .  They were too   close  t...