ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS : He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS : Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.
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ATTORNEY : How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS : By death.
ATTORNEY : And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS : Take a guess.
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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS : The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS : If not, he was by the time I finished.
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ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS : Are you shitting me?
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ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS : Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS : None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS : Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS : All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
When was the last time life dealt you a blow? Did it hurt?
Did you ever think that you were the only one on this entire planet who was hurting the most? How did you handle that?
Every now and then, we all feel that a lot of the unpleasant situations that you and I had to face in life, were unjust and unfair, that we deserved better, that we hadn't done anything wrong and yet were punished. With these thoughts in mind, let's watch the video below.
How many people on this earth are lagging behind him in terms of success? And how did this man achieve success without having four limbs that you and I have?
How did this man find peace when life dealt him such a blow?!
The trick is in how one adjusts the side view mirrors of a car. You would think that it is way too simple to adjust the two side view mirrors. Yoou might even rhetorically ask, "Is there anybody who doesn't know how to do this simple thing !". Well, believe it or not, the correct answer is that most people don't!
Whether you own a brand new car or an old one, whether it is a U.S. made vehicle, or Japanese made, or German or Korean, adjusting the side view mirrors is actually quite simple but not the way you and I have been doing it.
If we did it properly, we would have significantly reduced the "blind-spot" area.
Watch the less than 2-minute video, learn the proper way to do it yourself and then teach others!
Many of us are not aware that the Gas pump has a return pipe-line . When the gas (petrol) tank (in the car) reaches full level, there is a mechanism to trigger off the pump latch and at the same time a return-valve is opened (at the top of the pump station) to allow excess gas to flow back into the sump. But the return gasoline has already pass through the meter, meaning you are donating the gas back.
I am surprised at myself that I am putting Tishma up on my blog page. This is the girl (read: artist) that I pretty much disliked very much. However, watching this video, it appears that she is on her way to be maturing. I wish her all the best.
I really enjoyed the next video music very much, specially after my last visit to Dhaka in 2011. I would like to give you a fair warning though -this song is a bit funky :-)
Tishma Bio
Tishma was born in a family that loved both music and travelling. As a child, she travelled to many different countries including the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia. It is because of her extensive traveling, from a very early age, she was exposed to many kinds of music and cultures.
She spent a large part of her childhood in Europe, and began her education in Camberly, UK. She has studied Western Classical Music under the Board of Royal Schools of Music, London, and has studied Indian classical music under different Ustads including Ustad Akhtar Sadmani, Shampa Reza and Ustad Shonjib De. She has also received training in Rabindra Sangeet from Anupam Barua of Shantiniketan. Currently, she is studying Indian classical music under Ustad Shonjib De.
Being a true musical pioneer, Tishma has introduced many “firsts” in Bangla music. She is the first female music composer, music director and music arranger in Bangladesh. Besides composing, devloping tracks and even writing songs, she also plays many musical instruments including piano, guitar, keyboards. She is the singer and song writer of the first original English song ever released in Bangladesh by a female artist. She is also the first Bengali female rapper. She introduced many other genres of music to Bangladesh including R&B, soul, funk and more.
Tishma is not just the pop queen of Bangladesh, she is also a brilliant student. In both her O levels and A levels, she received a record-breaking number of A’s [in one sitting, 9 A's in O levels and 5 A's in A levels]. She is currently studying Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at North South University in Dhaka, where she commands the highest CGPA holder in her department. (from Tishma's Blog at Wordpress.com)
Q. Why do couples hold hands during their wedding?
A. It's a formality just like two boxers shaking hands before the fight begins!
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It's funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged.
It's like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered.
Lawyer
Lawyer : "Now sir, I'm sure you are an intelligent and honest man."
Witness: "Thank you. If I weren't under oath, I'd return the compliment."
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Lawyer : "Have you lived in this town all your life?"
Witness: "Not yet."
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Lawyer : "Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing?"
Witness: "Yes."
Lawyer : "Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?"
Witness: "Yes, sir."
Lawyer : "What did she say?"
Witness: "'What disco am I at?'"
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Divorce court judge to husband: "Mr Geraghty,I have reviewed this case very carefully and I've decided to give your wife $800 a week."
Husband: "That's very fair,your honor. "And every now and then I'll try to send her a few bucks myself."
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Now, for the 45% who could not read it properly ...
I could not believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenal power of human mind, according to the research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the fisrt and the last letter be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole. Amazing huh ? Yeah and I always thought spelling was important! If you can read this forward it. If yuo lkied it, "Shrae" the lnik wtih yuor frenids in faecbook by clkicing the faecbook icon [f] bolew. It is nxet to the pecnil iocn [M, B, t,...]
Trick is to keep the first and last letters and jumble the rest, it remains readable by a person with good vocabulary.
One, two, three, four, five ... well, I have lost count how many times I have watched this video. I played it over and over again, and yet I could not figure out how he did it!
I think I can safely bet that you will watch the video more than once. I think I am quite certain about that :-) That is not the point though. The point is how many times you will actually watch this 40-second video. Will you be able to keep count? I don't know.
If you are of the type who doesn't get surprised by anything, then that ends today; now :-)
People argue too much. And People in some cultures argue more than others. However, no nation, and no culture, is immune from this serious disease of arguing. We argue more when it comes to political views and religious views. We simply connot tolerate the other view point, which sometimes lead to serious consequences.
We never give the other party any chance. We just yell from the top of our lungs to say that his viewpoint is wrong. We never stop and listen. But we shoud. Scroll down to the bottom and right away call out what you see in the picture. Then wait 10 seconds to see if your opinion was right.
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Moral:We have to respect each other's opinion; you can see it clearly in the above Picture. We just need to wait and listen actively to others' point of view!
Gone are the days of Airline Travel Agents' strong grip on airline travelers. I remember that in the early eighties, we used to call this travel agent in New York City who specialized in travel to Bangladesh. He had absolutely no competition. Everybody had to go to him if they wanted to travel home.
This travel agent never returned any phone calls from the customers; he did not have the time. People could not go to the other agents because they were not discounters and this guy was. He was the only game in town.
Anyway, few years down the road, a competitor emerged. Service provided to customers improved a bit but not so much.
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Fast forward to today. Travelers have so much choices now. They can still book their reservation with travel agents. But they can also do their own bookings online. And buy the tickets themselves with credit cards. And there are quite a few reputable online travel companies.
Competition is fierce among travel agents and the online travel companies. Yet some brick-and-mortar travel
agents take advantage of the unsuspecting traveler. For example, some unscrupulous travel agents will charge 1% to 3% credit card surcharge if a traveler decides to pay for the ticket by a credit card rather than by cash or a check! That adds about $30 to $50 per ticket! And then there are some travel agents who refuse to accept American Express becasue in a dispute, American Express acts very fairly, and makes it less burdensome for the cardholder to file a complaint. I, therefore, always buy high ticket items with American Express. And airline tickets fall into that category for me.
Anyway, by refusing to accept credit cards for the purchase of tickets, some of these agents deprive the travelers to accrue bonus miles or bonus points as well. And not only that, when an airline ticket is purchased with a credit card, in most instances, if not all, travelers get automatic accidental death insurance and lost/delayed luggage coverage. If they cannot pay by credit card because the agent charges them sur-charge, the traveler then loses these benefits accorded free of charge to the card holders by the credit card issuing companies.
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Fortunately for the travelers, things have changed quite a bit. Travelers now have a choice to book their own flights online at their own convenience. And not just for domestic flights but for international flights as well. Travelers can pay with credit cards without being penalized by as much as 3%. And since no paper tickets are issued no hassle either.
I buy all my domestic travel tickets online. No ifs and buts about it. No exceptions. I did not, however, had the opportunity to buy international ticket online yet. But my friends have. They bought New York City (USA) to Dhaka (Bangladesh) roundtrip airline tickets.
They used the online travel company CheapOAir.
Now that I know, the next international flight I take, I know I will buy my ticket online, or at a minimum, check out the prices from my own computer while I sip my favorite drink :-)
Does this mean that there aren't any reputable travel agents? Of course not. But if your travel agent fits the mold above, you know that you have a choice to be your own travel agent. At a minimum, nothing beats the convenience of booking your own flight at the time you see fit, and that includes outside of the normal business hours. These online travel companies are open 24/7.
Technology changes. And changes quite fast. As fast as our minds. Sometimes it leaves us in awe. Just visualize a laptop. Now visualize you rolling the laptop screen like a piece of cloth. Hard to visualize without thinking of all the broken glasses, isn't it ? Without further ado, let's watch.
Thanks to Saiful Huda Fahim who brought this to my attention.
Last December, I was waiting at Dubai Airport for my connecting flight to Dhaka. No need to mention that I was tired and was bored waiting there for my flight. Every now and then I would lift my head up to see people around me. Same people - everybody either rushing to catch a plane or somehow killing time for their flight. I look past them and to my surprise, I noticed a lady smoking a cigarette only a few chairs away from me! I could not believe that she was smoking inside the terminal building. I was very surprised. After watching her smoke for a few minutes, I got confused. Why there was no smell of tobacco. And why so little smoke!
My curiosity compelled me to approach the woman. Wearing a smile, I asked her about her cigarette. I guess she read me very well and felt pity for all the confusion that I had on my face and could not hide. With a reassuring smile, she calmed my confusion but not my curiosity. She started to explain why that cigarette was not a cigarette in the traditional sense. She said that it was an electronic cigarette! Being an electrical engineer, my curiosity got even stronger. What is she talking about - electronic cigarette! Man, I have read about diodes and transistors, and what not, but electronic cigarettes!
Unfortunately, the conversation had to come to an abrupt end when I realized that I had to run to catch my plane for the connecting flight. All the excitement of reaching home to friends and family drowned out the surprise that I felt when I saw the woman smoking something that I have never seen before. It remained dormant for a while until last night.
Yesterday evening, my fourteen year old was researching on the internet for school work. I was sitting at the next desk browsing the web as well and keeping an eye on him. That is when I accidentally came across a manufacturer that makes electronic cigarette. I even came across a video clip where a guest was smoking electronic cigarette at the Late Night show with David Letterman. Watch.
I instantly realized that many of my smoker friends could be interested in this type of device. I did a little bit more research. Rather than rehashing them here, if you want to read further you can click here.
Lawyers should never ask grandmas a question if they aren't prepared for the answer.
In a trial, a small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, an elderly grandmother to the stand.
He approached her and asked; 'Mrs. Jones, do you know me?'
She responded, 'Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you're a big disappointment to me. You lie, cheat on your wife, manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you.'
The lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, 'Mrs. Jones, do you know the defence attorney?'
She again replied, 'Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster. He's lazy, bigoted, and has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the worst in the state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes I know him.'
The defence attorney almost died.
The judge asked both lawyers to approach the bench and in a quiet voice said: 'If either of you rascal asks her if she knows me, I'll send you to the electric chair.'*
