For Your Information

Some acronyms to sink your teeth into.

Qantas = Queenland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.

Laser = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

Scuba = self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.

Radar = radio detection and ranging.

e.g. = exempli gratia (which is latin for: "for the sake of example").

I wonder how many people knew the last one? I know I've used it heaps of times without knowing what it stood for. I wondered why we didn't use f.e. (for example). Got to admit its not a good look is it.

Doug.

Prince Philip strikes again.

On hearing about the exchange between Jamie Durie and Prince Philip. Jamie tried to correct Prince Philip's ignorance on matters he knows little about. It was a typical response from a grumpy old tosser.

Here are some infamous Prince Philip quotes from the past;

• Where did you get that hat?

To his wife, the Queen, immediately after her coronation.

• If you stay here much longer, you'll all get slitty-eyed.

Said to British students in China.

• Do we need ear plugs?

At the Royal Premiere of the James Bond film Die Another Day, on being told that Madonna sung the theme song.

• Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?

Said to a blind woman with a guide dog.

• Do you still throw spears at each other?

To an Aboriginal man on Australia's Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park.

Memory Quotes

"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary."
Sarah Ban Breathnach.

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
Ingrid Bergman.

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
Confucius.

"There are three side effects of acid. Enhanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third."
Timothy Leary.

"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss
and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
Sir Francis Bacon.

His Final Quote

"Such Is Life."

by Ned Kelly

Means: acceptance of circumstances you have no control over.

Spoken by Ned Kelly, just before being executed by hanging for crimes he committed as a bush ranger in Australia.