Another Food Recall

The FDA announced the nationwide recall of Veggie Booty Snack Food because of possible salmonella contamination, which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
Veggie Booty is sold in a flexible plastic foil bag in 4 oz., 1 oz., and 1/2 oz. packages. All sizes, codes and expiration dates are being recalled. The FDA said 51 cases of salmonella across 17 states were related to the consumption of the Veggie Booty, predominately in children 3 years of age or younger.

Too Early Trivia June 29th, 2007

Question: 35% of companies have disciplined or fired employees for this.

Answer: Excessive internet usage.

Too Early Trivia June 28th, 2007

Question: According to a national study this state is the quickest place in the country to get emergency medical attention....the average visit lasting two hours, 18 minutes.

Answer: Iowa


According to a national study, Iowa is the quickest place in the country to get emergency medical attention — the average visit lasting two hours, 18 minutes.
The national average is three hours, 42 minutes. (The study was done by Press Ganey Associates Inc., a South Bend, Ind.-based company that measures patient satisfaction).
Nebraska rated second fastest in the nation at two hours, 26 minutes, followed by South Dakota (2:28), Vermont (2:32) and Wisconsin (2:34).
The longest average visits were in Arizona (4:57), Maryland (4:07), Utah (4:04), New York (3:58) and Florida (3:57).

Too Early Trivia June 27th, 2007

Question: The average payout for this has increased by 500 percent over the past 25 years.

Answer: Tooth Fairy

A study by Children's Mutual suggests tooth fairy payouts have increased by 500 percent over the past 25 years. The company said the average tooth fairy payment was about 34 cents 25 years ago, but has jumped in the past generation to an average of $2.10. The current average could net a child who loses 20 teeth, more than $80.

Too Early Trivia June 26th, 2007

Question: 71% of women are flattered when this happens.

Answer: When a guy wolf whistles at them.

Too Early Trivia June 25th, 2007

Question: The number of people who DON’T do this has increased four times over what the rate was in the 70’s.

Answer: The number of people who DON’T get married.

Too Early Trivia June 22nd, 2007

Question: 73% of us do this at least once a day. 1/3 of women say they do it 'cause they're bored.

Answer: Snack!

Too Early Trivia June 21st, 2007

Question: On average, each American eats about 23 pounds of this a year.

Answer: Pizza.

DADS, THESE ARE 23 THINGS TO PASS DOWN TO YOUR KIDS

If you want to pass on something to your kids, try these 23 tools for living that'll endure long after you're dead
1. A lucky number.
2. A passion for tax-free growth.
3. About $3,000. An inheritance cuts your kids' ambition in half, robs them of the satisfaction of making their own way, and keeps them from lessons worth learning. So you spend it.
4. A team to love. It's a durable pleasure, best passed from father to child.
5. A team to hate. Despising a team--with all the venom you can muster and for no discernible reason--is a gift that gives life shape.
6. A will. And prearrange a really, really, really inexpensive funeral, too. Rule: Money is best spent on people who are alive.
7. Love of country. The quiet, grateful kind.
8. A decent carving knife.
9. A dented wheelbarrow. Associate yourself with stupid donkey work, as in moving this stuff that's here, over there.
10. A fragment of inspiring verse. Memorized, so they'll always have it when they need it.
11. Stories of your screw-ups. In the interest of less pedestal, more human, be sure they've heard tell of your greatest misses.
12. A holy book. Your copy of the Bible or Torah, if either has sustained you. Your Huck Finn or Heart of Darkness, if you're of a literary cast.
13. Enthusiasm for two movies: one stupid, one stirring. Say, Caddyshack and Braveheart. 14. A tattered road map. An old-fashioned, service-station map of a region you've traveled a lot with the family. It should have a few words scribbled on it, a couple of routes highlighted in yellow. Some of the crease lines should be torn from wear.
15. A baseless prejudice in favor of a particular make of car. Everybody knows that [fill in name of car manufacturer here] makes the best cars on the road. Period. End of story.
16. A family catchphrase. A brief yelp that captures your take on life and can invoke your spirit long after you're dead. More in the manner of "Onward!" than "Life's a bitch, then you die."
17. Respect for baby steps. Most work gets done an inch at a time. Teach them to just break ground.
18. A coat. Barn jacket, tweed topcoat, or camo hunting shell, there's something warm about the old man's coat.
19. A patented shot. You put the hoop up in the driveway, didn't you? Tell me you did, Dad. Name your unique fall-away jumper (The Dagger) or sky hook (Death from Above). Even memories require marketing.
20. U.S. savings bonds. They seem the very symbol of hope.
21. A handwritten description of a happy day. So what if you're not Tolstoy? Scribble a few contented lines about that 16th of October and stash it in your desk for post-death discovery.
22. A pleasure in people. Some get annoyed that people are so odd lucky folks know that's the fun part.
23. A maintenance jones. If they see you changing the oil in the driveway, they'll learn to get more service from their stuff and have deeper friendships.

5 Second Rule

THE FIVE SECOND RULE IS A MYTH!

This is EXCELLENT news for everyone who's experienced the anguish of lifting a fork full of rich, delicious cake toward your mouth. . . and just before you can taste the goodness, the cake falls on the floor. . . and out of your life forever.Two microbiology students at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, say that the FIVE-SECOND RULE is for real.But, they say, even if you can't scoop it up in five seconds, it's OK. In their tests, they found that the five-second rule should really be the THIRTY-second rule. (!!!)They dropped Skittles and apple slices on the floor in their school's dining hall, and left them there for different lengths of time, from one second on up.They found that it took more than 30 seconds for bacteria to cultivate on the wet apple slices. . . and it took more than a MINUTE for bacteria to cultivate on the dry Skittles.One thing to remember, though: Just because the bacteria didn't cultivate, it doesn't mean your food is completely germ-free. You just have a smaller chance of the bacteria mobilizing against you and making you sick if you pick it up and eat it quickly.

Too Early Trivia June 15, 2007

Question: 80% of women do this with regularity, where only 20% of men do.

Answer: Send greeting cards!

Too Early Trivia June 14th, 2007

Question: It's estimated that between 50% and 80% of us need to do this to our car.

Answer: Put air in our tires!

Too Early Trivia June 12th, 2007

Question: 34 percent of single women are lookin’ for this in a man.

Answer: A YOUNGER man.

The FitFlop

Introducing the FitFlops... the innovative flip flops designed to help tone and trim your legs by engaging muscles for a longer period of time with each step. Designers claim that the "multi-density midsole" focuses on thighs, calves and glutes. And they say that the specially-engineered sandals also absorb shock and reduce the danger of suffering joint strain.
The idea for the FitFlops came from Marcia Kilgore, (founder of British health spa company Bliss Spas). She wanted a summer alternative to MTB shoes - the shoes that mimic the effect of walking barefoot. The science came from biomechanical engineers Dr David Cook and Darren James from the Centre for Human Performance at the South Bank University in London.
A spokeswoman for FitFlop said: "Every step you take in the FitFlop helps tone and trim your legs. Conventional footwear is designed to keep the foot stable so the muscles are more relaxed."
"The FitFlop destabilizes the foot slightly, creating a more continuous tension in the supporting muscles of the foot and leg. Every step you take in your FitFlops improves your core muscle strength, absorbs shock on your feet, knees and back, encourages better posture and stronger muscles and burns calories. They can help reduce cellulite and slim and tone your thighs and get you that much closer to having longer, leaner looking legs."

13 Obvious Signs That Show You Are Married

1) Getting married is like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.

2) At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger??" The other replied, "Yes, I am. I married the wrong man."

3) Before a man is married, he is incomplete. Then when he is married, he is finished.

4) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his bachelor's degree and the woman gets her master's status.

5) A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get
married??" And the father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying for it."

6) Young son : "Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa, a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?"
Dad : "That happens in most countries son."

7) Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and then it was too late."

8) A happy marriage is a matter of give and take the husband gives and the wife takes.

9) When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a ten-year married man looks happy, we wonder why. Affair?

10) Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.

11) After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." And the Husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice it."

12) A man inserted an 'ad' in the classified : "Wife wanted". The next day, he received hundreds letters. They all said the same thing "You can have mine."

13) When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or his wife is new.

"Trash the Dress"

The NY Times ran a story on the "Trash the Dress" phenomenon.
Brides struggle to find the right wedding gown, spend a small fortune on it, and sweat over making it fit properly — all for a fabric confection that is typically worn once.
John Michael Cooper, a Las Vegas wedding photographer is credited with starting the trend. One woman thought that to "Trash The Dress" seemed appropriate because she was feeling pretty “antiwedding” after the whole affair. Besides, she had no plans to wear it ever again despite the $2,500 cost of the gown. So submerging it in a mossy spring in Nevada was no loss.
The photog took the pic because he was bored with the same old wedding photos. He then persuaded several of his clients to pose after their weddings in grungy offbeat settings. He says, “In fashion photography, they often put really pretty people in very ugly places. I’m applying that technique to weddings.”
Interest in these photos has even led to the creation of a Web site, trashthedress.com, which Mark Eric, a 35-year-old photographer from Alexandria, La., said he started to display his own Trash the Dress images.

http://trashthedress.com/

Too Early Trivia June 12th, 2007

Question: There are 15,000 people in the U.S. that keep these as pets.

Answer: BIG cats! Tigers, panthers, leopards, etc.

20 INTERNET ACRONYMS PARENTS SHOULD KNOW

P911 = Parent Alert
PAW = Parents are Watching
PAL = Parents are Listening
ASL = Age / Sex / Location
MorF = Male or Female
SorG = Straight or Gay
LMIRL = Let’s Meet in Real Life
KPC = Keeping Parents Clueless
TD2M = Talk Dirty To Me
IWSN = I Want Sex Now
NIFOC = Nude in Front of Computer
GYPO = Get Your Pants Off
ADR = Address
WYCM = Will You Call Me?
KFU = Kisses For You
MOOS = Member of Opposite Sex
MOSS = Member of Same Sex
NALOPKT = Not A Lot Of People Know This

Too Early Trivia June 11th, 2007

Question: Doing this for just three minutes dramatically improves a woman's problem solving and recall abilities.

Answer: Chewing gum! A British study recently proved that chewing gum for just three minutes dramatically improves a woman's problem solving and recall abilities. The researchers believe that the chewing action soothes tension, making it easier to sit still and concentrate for longer periods of time.

Preparing for Parenthood

Preparation for parenthood is not just a matter of reading books and decorating the nursery. Here are 12 simple tests for expectant parents to take to prepare themselves for the real-life experience of being a mother or father.

1. Women: to prepare for maternity, put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front. Leave it there for 9 months. After 9 months, take out 10% of the beans.

Men: to prepare for paternity, go to the local drug store, tip the contents of your wallet on the counter, and tell the pharmacist to help himself. Then go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. Go home. Pick up the paper and read it for the last time.

2. Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels, and how they have allowed their children to run riot. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behavior.
Enjoy it -- it'll be the last time in your life that you will have all of the answers.

3. To discover how the nights feel, walk around the living room from 5 PM to 10 PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 lbs. At 10 PM put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1 AM. Put the alarm on for 3 AM. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2 AM and make a drink. Go to bed at 2:45 AM. Get up again at 3 AM when the alarm goes off. Sing songs in the dark until 4 AM. Put the alarm on for 5 AM. Get up. Make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

4. Can you stand the mess children make? To find out, smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains. Hide a fish finger behind the stereo and leave it there all summer. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds then rub them on the clean walls. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?

5. Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems: first buy an octopus and a string bag. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that none of the arms hang out. Time allowed for this -- all morning.

6. Take an egg carton. Using a pair of scissors and a can of paint, turn it into an alligator. Now take a toilet tube. Using only Scotch tape and a piece of foil, turn it into a Christmas tree. Last, take a milk container, a ping pong ball, and an empty packet of Cocoa Puffs and make an exact replica of the Eiffel Tower. Congratulations, you have just qualified for a place on the playgroup committee.

7. Forget the Miata and buy a minivan. And don't think you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that. Buy a chocolate ice cream bar and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there. Get a quarter. Stick it in the cassette player. Take a family-size packet of chocolate cookies. Mash them down the back seats. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. There! Perfect!

8. Get ready to go out. Wait outside the toilet for half an hour. Go out the front door. Come in again. Go out. Come back in. Go out again. Walk down the front path. Walk back up it. Walk down it again. Walk very slowly down the road for 5 minutes. Stop to inspect minutely every cigarette butt, piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.
Retrace your steps. Scream that you've had as much as you can stand, until the neighbors come out and stare at you. Give up and go back in the house. You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

9. Always repeat everything you say at least five times.

10. Go to your local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child -- a fully grown goat is excellent. If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goats eat or destroy. Until you can easily accomplish this do not even contemplate having children.

11. Hollow out a melon. Make a small hole in the side. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side. Now get a bowl of soggy Froot Loops and attempt to spoon it into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane. Continue until half of the Froot Loops are gone. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor. You are now ready to feed a 12-month old baby.

12. Learn the names of every character from Barney and Friends, Sesame Street and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. When you find yourself singing "I love you, you love me," at work, now! you finally qualify as a parent.

Too Early Trivia June 8th, 2007

Question: The average American household does this six to eight times per week, or about 360 times per year.

Answer: A load of laundry.

LADIES....Tips to Protect Yourself When You're Alone

ABC News online has just posted a 7-point story about how women can protect themselves from "surprise attacks".

~~ Be conscious of your surroundings. Always be alert and have a safety state of mind. Don't talk on your cellphone or wear headphones when you're in a parking lot. Be alert to what is going on around you. If you see someone suspicious, turn around and go back in the store.

~~ Wear your purse over your shoulder. Wearing your purse over your shoulder makes it harder to grab because it's close to you. A purse worn across your body is much easier for someone to snatch. Also, take your keys out of your purse when you are going to your car. That way if someone does grab your bag, you'll still have your car and house keys and you can at least still drive away to safety.

~~ Ask for help. If it's late and it's dark out, especially if you're alone, ask someone from the store to escort you to your car. Most stores are concerned about the safety of their customers and will send someone out with you.

~~ Protect yourself with your shopping cart. Back in with your shopping cart when you open the driver's door. That way you have a built up a barrier on both sides of you.

~~ Use your car antenna as a weapon. It's easy to yank if off. You could also use a windshield wiper.

~~ Scream if you're attacked. Screaming is good because it attracts attention to your situation.

~~ Keep a whistle with you. A whistle will attract more attention than screaming ever could.

Too Early Trivia June 7th, 2007

Question: When asked what women want to be - if they could be anything for 1 year, 14% said "President of the United States"31% said "Stay at home mom"What was the #1 response of 55% of women?

Answer: Actress.

Too Early Trivia June 6th, 2007

Question: 23% of people believe America has too many of these.

Answer: Polls or surveys.

The Origins of All 50 State Names

ALABAMA. Possibly from the Creek Indian word alibamo, meaning "we stay here."
ALASKA. From the Aleutian word alakshak, which means "great lands," or "land that is not an island."
ARIZONA. Taken either from the pima Indian words ali shonak, meaning "little spring," or from the Aztec word arizuma, meaning "silver-bearing."
ARKANSAS. The French somehow coined it from the name of the Siouan Quapaw tribe.
CALIFORNIA. According to one theory, Spanish settlers named it after a utopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel called Serged de Esplandian.
COLORADO. Means "red" in Spanish. The name was originally applied to the Colorado River, whose waters are reddish with canyon clay.
CONNECTICUT. Taken from the Mohican word kuenihtekot, which means "long river place."
DELAWARE. Named after Lord De La Warr, a governor of Virginia. Originally used only to name the Delaware River.
FLORIDA. Explorer Ponce de Leon named the state Pascua Florida - "flowery Easter"—on Easter Sunday in 1513.
GEORGIA. Named after King George II of England, who charted the colony in 1732.
HAWAII. An English adaptation of the native word owhyhee, which means "homeland."
IDAHO. Possibly taken from the Kiowa Apache word for the Comanche Indians.
ILLINOIS. The French bastardization of the Algonquin word illini, which means "men."
INDIANA. Named by English-speaking settlers because the territory was full of Indians.
IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to sleep."
KANSAS. Taken from the Sioux word for "south wind people," their name for anyone who lived south of Sioux territory.
KENTUCKY. Possibly derived from the Indian word kan-tuk-kee, meaning "dark and bloody ground." Or kan-tuc-kec, "land of green reeds", or ken-take, meaning "meadowland."
LOUISIANA. Named after French King Louis XIV.
MAINE. The Old French word for "province."
MARYLAND. Named after Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of English King George I.
MASSACHUSETTS. Named after the Massachusetts Indian tribe. Means "large hill place."
MICHIGAN. Most likely from the Chippewa word for "great water." micigama.
MINNESOTA. From the Sioux word for "sky tinted" or "muddy water."
MISSISSIPPI. Most likely taken from the Chippewa words mici ("great") and zibi ("river").
MISSOURI. From the Algonquin word for "muddy water."
MONTANA. Taken from the Latin word for "mountainous."
NEBRASKA. From the Otos Indian word for "broad water."
NEVADA. Means "snow-clad" in Spanish.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. Capt. John Mason, one of the original colonists, named it after his English home county of Hampshire.
NEW JERSEY. Named after the English Isle of Jersey.
NEW MEXICO. The Spanish name for the territory north of the Rio Grande.
NEW YORK. Named after the Duke of York and Albany.
NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. From the Latin name Carolus named in honor of King Charles I of England.
NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. Taken from the Sioux word for "friend," or "ally."
OHIO. Means "great," "fine," or "good river" in Iriquois.
OKLAHOMA. The Choctaw word for "red man."
OREGON. Possibly derived from Ouaricon-sint, the French name for the Wisconsin River.
PENNSYLVANIA. Named after William Penn, Sr., the father of the colony’s founder, William Penn. Means "Penn’s woods."
RHODE ISLAND. Named "Roode Eylandt" (Red Island) because of its red clay.
TENNESSEE. Named after the Cherokee tanasi villages along the banks of the Little Tennessee River.
TEXAS. Derived from the Caddo Indian word for "friend," or "ally."
UTAH. Means "upper," or "higher," and was originally the name that Navajos called the Shoshone tribe.
VERMONT. A combination of the French words vert ("green") and mont ("mountain").
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, the "virgin" queen, by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.
WASHINGTON. Named after George Washington.
WISCONSIN. Taken from the Chippewa word for "grassy place."
WYOMING. Derived from the Algonquin word for "large prairie place."

Too Early Trivia June 5th, 2007

Question: 94% of men say they have a favorite one of these!

Answer: A Favorite Chair.

Too Early Trivia June 4th, 2007

Question: This everyday product was invented in 1928 by an accountant.

ANSWER: Bubble Gum.

· Invented by a guy named Walter E. Diemer in 1928. He was actually an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum factory in Philadelphia. In his spare time the 23-year-old experimented with new chewing gum recipes. · Most gum is sold to children between the ages of six and seventeen. The market depends on the birth rate -- the more kids there are, the more bubble gum is sold. · The best-selling bubble gum flavors are fruit, grape, strawberry, watermelon, and cola. · Flavors that have tanked: banana, chocolate mint, and tangerine. · More gum is sold in the Southeast than in any other part of the United States.
Other Facts About Gum:
Why isn't there chocolate chewing gum? The cocoa butter in chocolate makes the chewing gum base extremely soft. No one has found a way to use real chocolate in gum without making it too mushy to chew.
Juicy Fruit and Wrigley's Spearmint gums are over 100 years old.
Wrigley brand gums are sold in more than 150 different countries.
To grow all the mint Wrigley needs for its mint-flavored gums would take 53 square miles of farmland -- about 30,555 football fields.

Too Early Trivia June 1st, 2007

Question: This product was introduced in 1930 and was named after a family horse.

Answer: The Snickers candy bar was introduced in 1930, and was named after a horse owned by the Mars family.