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Top Ten Thoughts For 2008

Number 10. Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8. Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Number 7. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

Number 6. Some people are like a Slinky ... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.

Number 5. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying Of nothing.

Number 4. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Number 3. Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00 and a substantial tax Cut saves you $0.30?

Number 2. In the '60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR 2008: Life is like a jar of jalapeños. What you do today, might burn your a$$ tomorrow.

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[big]21 Odd and Fun Facts about Music[/big]

* The only guy in ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard is Frank Beard.

* None of Elvis’s films got nominated for Oscar, but he did win three Grammy Awards - for his gospel recordings.

* John Lennon wrote “Good morning, good morning†after hearing a Corn Flakes commercial.

* Marilyn Monroe got a white poodle named Mafia from Frank Sinatra.

* The airplane that Buddy Holly died in was called “American Pieâ€. Don McLean wrote a song with the same name about the accident.

* Duran Duran was named after a mad scientist from the Jane Fonda movie “Barbarellaâ€.

* The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USAâ€.

* Before composing Beethoven dipped his head in cold water.

* Like humans, birds can learn music while they are still in the egg stage.

* Mozart was five years old when he wrote his first piece.

* The first pop video was released in 1975. It was “Bohemian Rhapsody†by Queen.

* In 1976 Barry Manilow sang a chart topping song named “I write the songsâ€. The song wasn’t written by him.

* Termites will eat wood two times faster when listening to heavy metal.

* When Madonna was 15 years old, she got grounded for the whole summer, for sneaking out to see David Bowie in concert.

* In the year 1988 tenor Luciano Pavarotti received a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera house.

* Make music not war: Monaco’s national orchestra is bigger that its army.

* Wham!’s hit single “Wake me up before you go go†was written by George Michael who was inspired by the note that was left to his hotel room by another band member Andrew Ridgeley. The note was mistakenly written as “Don’t forget to wake me up up before you go go, Georgeâ€.

* “House of the rising sun†by The Animals was recorded with only 15 minutes because the band was on a tight budget. In spite of that the song went all the way to number one in 1964.

* The longest song title is 305 characters (including spaces): “The Sad But True Story Of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Stribe In Exploiting The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Condition That Could Be Derived From Fermentation†by Rednex.

* When Billy Crystal was a child, his babysitter was the legendary Billie Holiday.

* Suzanne Vega is considered the “mother†of the mp3 format. The creators of the mp3 used her voice from the song “Tom’s Diner†for analyzing the different sound spectrums when creating the compression algorithm.

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