"I'd buy you a green dress, but not a real green dress, that's cruel..."

*only 2 offers for prizes today*

everyone needs to check out this site: http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/h/harrypotter3.php
Go about halfway down the screen and click on the last blue link. Its high, high quality (and Hermione is dang hot!) So yah...
Oh and my own website is having some serious health problems, so probably its best not to visit for a while.

This week is Nurse's Week and Wildflower Week. Today is Fatigue Syndrome Day and Limerick Day. I will provide some limericks for you pleasure.

The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean -
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

-- Anonymous
A Texas Tech grad who's a Saudi,Though he graduates summa cum laude, Has forgotten his rootsHe wears cowboy bootsAnd instead of "Salaam", he says, "Howdy!"
--Ted Lawson
I planted a limerick seed, And up popped a hideous weed. Of a sickly green tone, Guess we reap what we've sown. See my first line doth suck, yes indeed.
-- Dwarvenkind (don't ask me, he chose the name)
there once was a kid named fredwho had a really big head,he tried on a hatbut it made him look fatso he bought big shoes instead
--Marc P.
ther once was a girl named nikkiwho said everything tasted icky,she never ate a thing,so her body looked like string,till she stopped being so picky
-- Marc P.
Ok, now for the Words Of The Day (collected from various sources that you could easily find)
Imbibition • \im-buh-BIH-shun\ • noun *1 : the act or action of drinking 2 : the act or action of taking in or up : absorption
Bromide \BROH-myd\, noun:1. A compound of bromine and another element or a positive organic radical.2. A dose of potassium bromide taken as a sedative.3. A dull person with conventional thoughts.4. A commonplace or conventional saying.
retroussé/re-tru-SAY/
turned up (fitting that the French have a convenient word to describeturning their noses up, eh?)
apostate (uh-POS-tayt, -tit) noun
One who abandons his or her religion, principles, political party, or some other allegiance

Irish Word Of The Day:
bean (BAN) noun, "Woman"
Bean is the ordinary word for woman. It is best known in the English-speaking world as the name of an uncanny being, the "banshee", or "bean sí" in Irish spelling. A bean sí is literally a "woman of the the fairy mound". The plural of bean is... mná! Pronounced MRAH or MNAH, it is commonly seen on WC doors in Ireland and in Irish bars around the world.
History: Bean, from Old Irish ben, goes back ultimately to the Indo-European root *gwen-, (woman), making it a distant cousin of English "queen" and Persian "zan".
Scots Gaelic: bean (BEHN) & mnathan (MRAH-huhn)

Okay, so get this (and keep in mind that my favorite color is green). I'm sitting here writing this email today and I'm listening to Flogging Molly (Irish punk rock) and talking to people online about Limericks (I'm typing in green too) and I'm wearing my new "Feeling Lucky?" shirt with a big green shamrock. And last night I watched a movie about Irish people, and it's all rainy here so my lawn is exceptionally green. And I just looked down and found a green cd case on the table next to me. And now i just typed in the Irish word of the day. Something creepy is definitely happening here. I don't understand. Maybe this is some sort of sign. If I get called to Ireland on my mission, I dont think I will ever come back. I've always wanted to live there, you know. Ack! Irish Blessing! That's why! I'm subconsciously trying to spend time with my friends again, and my brain nodes found Ireland-related things to be soothing and friendly. Or maybe it stems from my obsession with wanting to be one of the Three Irish Tenors when I was a child... Or maybe it's somehow linked to my fascination with St. Cuthbert and The Venerable Bede... Or maybe my fascination with William Wallace has something to do with it, even if he is Scottish. Its all the same place really, isnt it? I mean Wales isnt really so far away from Ireland. Maybe this subconscious Irish thing has been going on longer than I thought... I tried teaching myself Welsh last summer, and and when I was 12 I made a bookmark celebrating Irish culture... I think maybe I was really born in Ireland and my "parents" only told me that I'm from Colorado... I think I need to go find my real birth parents in Ireland. I'm so confused! Somebody help me!

Lincoln Ellsworth, 1880 (led first transarctic and transantarctic flights)
Wilfrid Hyde-White, 1903
Oscar Beregi Jr, 1918
Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, 1925
George Carlin, 1937
Dave Christian, 1957
Warren Rychel, 1967
Monique de Bruin, 1977 (Olympic athlete, name the sport for a prize)

Happy Deathday to:
Gerbert, 1003
Lindbergh baby, 1932 (he was taken for ransom, and Charles Lindbergh paid a whole heck of a lot of money but the baby was dead anyway. grrr...!! dont mess with babies!!)
Joe Valdez Caballero, 1989 (he invented the hard taco shell) ¿Stud List?
Hubert William Dean, 1996 (air armaments specialist!! how cool is that!)

Today In History:
Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austria, 1082
San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens, 1551
1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette), 1777
Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented, 1792
Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale, 1888
Louisiana legalized prize fighting, 1890
National Hospital Day 1st observed, 1921
Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue', 1932
1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll, 1951
Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show, 1963
1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London), 1977
In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II, 1982
Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph, 1986
Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59), 1995
Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4, 1995
Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict, 1997
Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida, 1997
Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami, 1997

Random Invention of the Day:
Nylon, invented in 1938 by Wallace Hume Carathers.

"In 1931, DuPont started to manufacture neoprene, a synthetic rubber created by Carothers' lab. The research team then turned their efforts towards a synthetic fiber that could replace silk. Japan was the United States' main source of silk, and trade relations between the two countries were breaking apart. By 1934, Wallace Carothers had made significant steps toward creating a synthetic silk by combining the chemicals amine, hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid to create a new fiber formed by the polymerizing process and known as a condensation reaction. In a condensation reaction, individual molecules join with water as a byproduct. Wallace Carothers refined the process (since the water produced by the reaction was dripping back into the mixture and weakening the fibers) by adjusting the equipment so that the water was distilled and removed from the process making for stronger fibers. DuPont patented the new fiber as "nylon" the following year."

So I hope you're all having a wonderful summer/day/however often you read these. This email took me longer than any other. This is a new record! and you got to participate in it! congratulations, and beir beannacht.
Brian (aka Elfed)