Chuckle 994

Chuckle 994
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Bev L of Florence OR!)

~Importance of Walking~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. Now she's 97 years old and we don't know where the hell she is.

The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. I haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

..............And last but not least,

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Word of the Day for Monday March 27, 2006

confluence \KON-floo-uhn(t)s\, noun:1. A flowing or coming together; junction.2. The place where two rivers, streams, etc. meet.3. A flocking or assemblage of a multitude in one place; a large collection or assemblage.

At the confluence of continents, at the narrow neck of the Nile Valley just before it spreads into the flat water-maze of the Delta, this has always been a place where elements mingle and cultures collide.-- Max Rodenbeck, Cairo: The City Victorious

It's the combination of these various factors, then -- their historical confluence, if you will -- that must be held responsible for the rapid erosion of the church's authority over sexual matters since the Second Vatican Council.-- Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan

A remarkable confluence of technological and economic forces is enabling women to join the paid labor force around the world.-- Helen E. Fisher, The First Sex

At the time, I did not appreciate what an unusually fortunate confluence of circumstances was reigning in the cinematic heavens; I thought it would go on forever with the same incandescence.-- Phillip Lopate, Totally, Tenderly, Tragically

Outside, about a mile below, the Monongahela River met the Allegheny and the Ohio, forming the confluence of waters upon which stood Pittsburgh.-- Stanley Bing, Lloyd: What Happened

But it is not New-York streets built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations, though stretching out toward Philadelphia until they touch it, and northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester, and Boston, -- not these that make the real estimation.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization," The Atlantic, April 1862
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