An odd name for a page I
know, but the
fact is that is exactly
what it is!
I have been collecting little
things I have
read or been told for years
and now I want
to share them with others.
I am not sure who
wrote some of them so if
anyone knows
please enlighten me so I
can add the authors name.
A Breath of Rome
To explain the circulation
of the earth's atmosphere
meteorologists
sometimes employ an illustration called
"Caesars Last Breath".
By coincidence,
the average number of molecules of air
in a human lung
is close to the number of "lungful
equivalents" in
the earth's atmosphere.
In the two thousand
years since Julius Caesar died
of his stab wounds
in Rome, there has been plenty
of time for mixing,
so the molecules he
exhaled as he perished
are now everywhere.
On average, each
time you take a breath, you
take in one molecule
that Caesar gasped out.
Life Cycles
When your world's
set in motion at the instant of birth,
and the ingredients
mixed, with the grief and mirth.
Then an hourglass
is up-ended and the sand starts to spill,
your cycles start
grinding like the stones of a mill.
Each nine years
they'll give you a moment to pause
to sort out your
life and repair the flaws.
Then a new cycle
dawns as the hourglass is turned
and you're off
to adventure with old lessons learned.
As the years tick
away on your journey of life,
you must study
success and your reasons for strife.
The goals that
you gain are of little import,
if your spirit
is damaged and your morals are bought.
When you receive
blows that cause you to stumble
look for the lesson
and learn to be humble.
Some cycles are
painful and some are a joy,
you'll feel many
times that you're only fate's toy.
Yet your journey
has purpose and is part of a plan,
at the end of its
run, you're back where it began.
As the last grain
of sand slips from the glass
Here comes a new
cycle and there goes the last.
Written by John
Arthur Daley
A Caution to Children:
Little Willie from
his mirror
licked the mercury
right off
thinking in his
childish error
it would cure his
whooping cough.
At the funeral
his mother
smartly said to
Mrs. Brown
"Twas a chilly
day for Willie
when the mercury
went down!"
Temptations I can't resist
Trying on beautiful clothes I can't afford.
Pinching all the black jelly beans first.
Pushing the walk
button at the traffice lights
even though there
are people already waiting.
Popping the bubbles in the bubble wrap.
Running my hand
over my sons head just
after he had a
crew cut.
Thanking the vending machine for my parking ticket.
I Have Learnt
That the odd sock you
lose in the wash always
falls out your tracksuit
at the supermarket.
That the car doing
40km/h in front of you will exceed
the speed limit when
you reach an overtaking lane.
That even a mosquito
doesn't get a slap on the back
until he starts to
work.
That whenever I go
on a diet someone always
buys me chocolate.
When a woman says the
car is making a strange noise,
it's her imagination,
but when a man says the same thing,
he's a knowledgeable
mechanic.
When you have children,
there is no such thing
as a quick trip to
the shops.
Insurance covers everything - except what happens.
Don't hide the chocolate in the washing machine.
The opposite of love
is not hate
but indifference.
Someone will always
get a "call of nature"
the minute you have
finished making the loo sparkle.
The harder it is to
understand the menu, the
higher the prices.
Someone will always
knock on the door
when you are yelling
at your kids.
Silly Poems.
One Good Churn
Two frogs fell in
a deep cream bowl
one was an optimistic
soul.
But the other took
a gloomy view,
"We'll drown!"
he croaked,
without more ado.
And with a last
despairing cry
he flung up his
legs and said goodbye.
Said the other
frog with merry grin
"I can't get out,
but I won't give in!"
I'll swim around
till my strength is spent,
and then I'll die
the more content."
Bravely he swam
until it would seem
his struggles began
to churn the cream.
On top of the butter
at last he stopped
and out of the
bowl, he gaily hopped.
The moral, of course
is easily found -
If you can't hop
out, keep swimming around!
Movie Mistakes
The John Wayne movie,
"Stagecoach" was set in the
19th century, but
if you look carefully, you can see tyre tracks
clearly visible
in the sand.
In "Star Wars" where
Carrie Fisher plays Princess Leia,
Mark Hamill once
greets her by her real name.
In Walt Disney's,
"The story of Robin Hood", Maid
Marian wears a
dress with a zip.
King Arthur wears a bandaid on his neck in "Camelot".
Janet Leigh gulps
twice in "Psycho" when she is dead.
As you can see there
is all kinds of things on this page
most of which I have
collected from magazines.
If you want more go to my Just for fun poetry page
with Aussie Poetry
I have found here and there.