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[findingnine]

Whatever, it's global!

[inasia2008]

The office isn't!

[findingnine]

Yet.

[inasia2008]

Hmm, true that!

[findingnine]

Be the exception. It's all on computers anyway right?

[mmbcross]

You should apply to write a guidebook on Japan. Here's the Travel Writer's website:
http://main.travelwriters.com/

[inasia2008]

I haven't visited enough places here to be able to write a guidebook! Anwyay the last effort wasn't too successful!

[mmbcross]

That's true. The plan seems to have fizzled out. That's a shame.

[inasia2008]

Well I still have what I wrote, its just that not many people seemed too interested even when I asked them for permission to use their SK! One guy even asked me what he would get in return!

[inasia2008]

These funny tongue twisters are difficult to say and may be a little dirty if you say them wrong.

I slit the sheet - the sheet I slit - and on the slitted sheet I sit.

Try to keep repeating the phrase "Red lorry, yellow lorry"

She sells sea shells on the sea shore !

Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.

I'm not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant pluckers son.
And I'm only plucking pleasants
'till the pheasant plucker comes.

Silly Simon's sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where he sits he shines, and where he shines he sits.

[inasia2008]

So, did you know that there is a poison gas used by the military, that smells of freshly cut grass? Amazing....

[inasia2008]

Amazing Facts about Pigs

The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named "Big Bill." He weighed a portly 2,552 lbs and was so large that he dragged his belly on the ground. He had a shoulder height of 5 feet and a length of 9 feet.
The smallest breed of pig is the Mini Maialino. Pigs of this breed average only 20 lbs at maturity.
The largest litter of piglets ever farrowed was 37 by Sow #570 on a farm in Australia. 36 piglets were born alive and 33 total survived.
The largest piglet ever farrowed was a stillborn 5 lb 4 0z male. Average weight for a piglet is 3 lbs.

[mmbcross]

Sow 570? How unromantic. They could at least have given her a name after such a prodigious feat.

[starlagurl]

Jo, the depths of your knowledge never cease to astound me.