Stephen Glenn “Steve” Martin was born in Waco, Texas on August 14, 1945.

He is a man of many talents including comedian, actor, musician, author, screenwriter, film producer and voice actor.

Martin became known initially as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy hour on TV. Later he appeared on The Tonight Show.

During the 1970′s Steve Martin performed as a stand-up comedian from which many of these quotes originated.

In later years he gave up stand-up in favor of acting for which he received a number of Emmy, Grammy and American Comedy awards.

In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics. He was awarded an honorary Oscar at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards in 2013.

Browse through these Steve Martin quotes and decide if the awards were justified:

1. Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
   
2. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
3. There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.
4. A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
   
5. When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me.
6. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
   
7. I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
8. Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
   
9. I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
10. What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
    
11. With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you’re never off the hook.
12. Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.

How do you feel about Steve Martin’s humor as illustrated in these quotes?

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Getting married is sometimes expensive. Getting divorced usually costs more!

The concept of “til death us do part” has less and less meaning – which might lead some to wonder: Why get married in the first place?

Sometimes it’s a mixture of peer pressure and the requirements of a society still influenced by religious dogma. Whatever the reason, the problems arise when the marriage is over. Unless a pre-nuptial agreement was signed the lawyers have a field day fighting for the “best interests” of their clients. Their own best interests come in a close second!

When it comes to celebrity divorce this is a whole new ball game.

As you can see from the table below the settlement values are staggering. This is what might be termed the “superior league” of settlements. The next league covers divorces in the $20 million to $100 million bracket – and there are a further 13 of them!

Checkout this list of the most expensive divorce settlements and wonder:

1. Dmitry Rybolovlev’s divorce from Elena Rybolovleva; estimated at $4.5 billion
2. Alec Wildenstein’s divorce from Jocelyn Wildenstein; estimated at $2.5 billion
3. Bernie Ecclestone’s divorce from Slavica; estimated at $1-$1.2 billion
4. Harold Hamm’s divorce from Sue Ann; estimated at $1 billion
5. Adnan Khashoggi’s divorce from Soraya Khashoggi; estimated at $850 million
6. Craig McCaw’s divorce from Wendy McCaw; estimated to exceed $460 million
7. Mel Gibson’s divorce from Robyn Moore Gibson; estimated at $425 million
8. Roman Abramovich’s divorce from Irina Abramovich; estimated at $300 million
9. Michael Polsky’s divorce from Maya Polsky, $184 million
   
10. Michael Jordan’s divorce from Juanita Jordan; estimated at $168 million
11. Boris Berezovsky’s divorce from Galina Besharova; estimated at $160 million
12. Neil Diamond’s divorce from Marcia Murphey; estimated at $150 million
13. Frank McCourt’s divorce from Jamie McCourt; estimated at $130 million
14. Garth Brooks’ divorce from Sandy Mahl; estimated at $125 million
15. Charles Edgar Fipke’s divorce from Marlene Fipke; estimated at $123 million
16. Greg Norman’s divorce from Laura Andrassy; estimated at $103 million
17. Rupert Murdoch’s divorce from Anna Murdoch; estimated at $100 million
18. Tiger Woods’ divorce from Elin Nordegren; estimated at $100 million
19. Steven Spielberg’s divorce from Amy Irving; estimated at $100 million

Were you surprised by any of the names above – or the amounts of these most expensive settlements?

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It’s very uncomfortable when you’re stomach is upset, and embarrassing if it’s also making noises!

Indigestion, or dyspepsia, affects millions of Americans every day. The problem can be as simple as eating too much too fast. More seriously, the discomfort could be the result of an ulcer, gastrointestinal disease or irritable bowel syndrome.

Consequently, if these natural elements, or even over-the counter treatments from a pharmacy, don’t clear up the problem in a couple of days you need to consult a medical professional.

From a whole variety of natural materials the LifeDaily team has selected the seven most proven remedies.

Checkout this list:

Cinnamon

When mixed with other herbs such as ginger, cinnamon can be effective in reducing dyspeptic symptoms.

Charcoal

Charcoal is a well known remedy for soothing an upset stomach. A recent study found that Carbosymag— a drug made of charcoal, simethicone and magnesium oxide — helped significantly reduce a feeling of fullness, pain and bloating compared to a placebo.

Banana

In a 1990 study in the medical journal “Lancet,” banana powder helped relieve upset stomach symptoms in 75 percent of patients. The mechanism driving this relief is not yet known or understood but eating bananas is a traditional remedy for diarrhea.

Baking Soda

Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, is a common home remedy for indigestion. One 2009 study found that it may help eliminate gas and rebalance the pH value.

Ginger

A 2011 Taiwanese study found that this popular home remedy helps move food through the digestive tract quickly. Unfortunately, on its own it does little to alleviate the symptoms of an upset stomach
Ginger is more effective for symptoms when paired with peppermint. It was found that 74 percent of patients’ dyspeptic symptoms improved after being given a combination of ginger and peppermint.

Peppermint

Peppermint and other members of the same plant family, including spearmint, have been used to treat upset stomachs for thousands of years. Today, peppermint oil and leaf are often combined with caraway to relieve irritable bowel and dyspeptic symptoms. It seems that the compounds menthol and menthone in peppermint may inhibit smooth muscle contractions thus reducing gastrointestinal spasms.

Caraway Seeds

This popular cooking spice has been used to treat gastrointestinal issues since as early as 1500 BC. Recent studies have shown that when taken with peppermint, some 95 percent of people suffering from dyspepsia experienced improvement in symptoms.

Again we must stress that you must seek medical advice if the stomach pain persists for more than two or three days.

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In the history of mankind it is only relatively recently that the concept of monogamy has been accepted as the norm in mainstream society.

Arguably, this form of relationship is almost unknown in animals – and man is, after all, an animal. So, it is reasonable to assert that the “one man one woman” form of relationship is just not natural. Indeed, most ancient societies accepted polygamy as the norm. The only limitation to the number of wives a man could take was simply a reflection of his financial resources and social status.

Mainstream Christianity probably bears the blame for this seismic shift in attitudes to monogamy, although there is one notable Christian group which is an exception to this rule as shown below.

The extent of the irrationality of the concept of monogamy is demonstrated in many modern cultures by the fact that a substantial number of men – maybe even a majority – do have other “unofficial partners” or mistresses. The standard wedding promise of “til death us do part” is frequently honored more in the breach than the observance as divorce rates in western societies continue to grow.

However, not all societies, even today, seek to impose restrictions of the number of permitted wives.

Our LifeDaily team has put together this selection of men who managed to live with considerable numbers of wives. How happy they, or the wives, were with this arrangement is a matter of speculation.

King Solomon

King Solomon was reputedly very wise so he must have known a thing or two to arrive at the situation of having seven hundred wives and a further three hundred concubines, which is a biblical way of saying ” mistresses.” Strangely, only one of them, Naamah, is actually named, possibly because she was the mother of Rehoboam, Solomon’s successor, and the biblical story needed continuity.

Fat′h Ali Shah Qajar

Fat′h Ali Shah Qajar was the second King of Persia who lived from 1772 to 1834 and reigned for 37 of those years. In this time he managed to marry around 158 women. In his case the names of ALL his wives are listed in the book, Tarikh-e Azodi by Soltan Ahmad Mirza Azod-ed-Dowleh. He succeeded to father 260 children and 786 grandchildren.

Asentus Ogwella Akuku

This man from Kenya is believed to have more than a hundred wives. Akuku was married for the first time in 1939. He became a polygamist in 1944 at the age of 22, and then married more than 100 women in his lifetime. He divorced 85 wives for infidelity and outlived 12 of his wives, His last marriage was in 1992.

Akuku had 160 children and had to establish two elementary schools solely to educate them. He died in 2010 at the age of 94 from natural causes.

Mohammed Bello Abubakar

He was a Nigerian Islamist cleric who took 86 wives and fathered 170 children. He had worked as a preacher and Imam and lived with his family in one apartment block. Many of Mohammed’s wives were much younger than he was and a few were even younger than some of his elder children.

Islam allows a man to have four wives but Mohammed claimed that the Quran did not set a punishment for anyone who exceeded that number.

However, Abubakr was arrested in 2008 by Islamic authorities and tried before a Sharia court which ordered him to divorce 82 of his wives. He refused to obey and was sentenced to death. Eventually, Abubakr conceded to Sharia decree and agreed to the mass divorce in September 2008.

Warren Steed Jeffs

As mentioned above, the culture of most western countries is largely monogamist, especially if their religious base is Christianity.

One notable exception is Church of Latter Day Saints – better known as “The Mormons” – which allows men to take more than one wife. Warren Steed Jeffs was the president of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Church based in Colorado City, Arizona and is believed to have married 80 women and had 250 children.

In 2002 he succeeded his father Rulon Timpson Jeffs and subsequently married all but two of his father’s widows. In 2007 he had to step down from the FDLS leadership after FBI declared him on their Top Ten Most Wanted List for case of rape, polygamy, tax evasion and kidnapping. Jeffs was captured, tried and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007.

Rulon Timpson Jeffs

The father of Warren Steed Jeffs, Rulon Timpson Jeffs, lived from 1909 to 2002 during which time he married 75 women. He fathered 65 children and after his death was survived by 20 wives.

Saleh al-Sayeri

This businessman from Saudi Arabia has married 58 women over a period of 50 years following his first marriage at age 14. He has paid over this time more than $1.6 million in wedding expenses and settlements for divorced wives. However he has kept the same three wives for the past two decades. Only the fourth wife is changed every year as he claims “it’s the one for renewal.”

Brigham Young

He was not only the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877, but also he founded Salt Lake City, and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States.

Over the 76 years of his life Brigham Young was believed to have acquired 55 wives of whom, 21 had never been married before 16 were widows 6 were divorced and 6 even had living husbands. Young had 56 children by 16 of his wives, out of which 46 reached adulthood.

Joseph Smith

Smith was the founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints, and is believed to have married 34 women during his lifetime, with ages ranging from 14 to 60. Initially he kept his other wives a secret in the first days of the Church. It took a long time before his first wife accepted the practice of “plural marriages” as practiced in the church.

Monogamy or polygamy – which is the most natural state?

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Mumbai, (Bombay) India in 1865 and died in London in 1936 aged 70.

He was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist and wrote about British soldiers in India and stories for children. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1907, Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date.

Kipling’s works of fiction include “The Jungle Book”, “Kim”, and many short stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King”. His poems include “Mandalay”, “Gunga Din”,”The White Man’s Burden”, and “If—.”

Kipling’s subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age. For example, George Orwell called him a “prophet of British imperialism” while literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: “He [Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled.”

With the passage of time, Kipling has become recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced.

The LifeDaily team has selected a few examples of the wit and wisdom of Rudyard Kipling.

Browse our selection to understand him better:

1. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.]
2. I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
3. Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
4. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
5. A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
6. All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
7. San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
8. He travels the fastest who travels alone.
9. I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
10. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
11. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
12. Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
13. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
14. If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
15. A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

These are just a few examples of how Rudyard Kipling wrote.

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Henry Ford was born in Michigan in 1863 and died in the same state in 1947 at the age of 83.

He was the the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and famously developed the concept of the assembly line technique of mass production. He did not invent the concept and he did not invent the automobile, but he applied new techniques of production that enabled many middle class Americans to purchase an affordable product.

Ford transformed the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical vehicle that would have a profound impact on the twentieth century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation.

Perhaps Henry Ford’s most quoted saying is the oft repeated “History is Bunk.”

Those were not the exact words but the meaning was the same. Another much quoted saying was “People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black”. Again, while this was true at the time he said it, the Model T was produced in other colors soon after its launch.

Our LifeDaily team decided to ignore Henry Ford’s notorious anti-Semitism and the fact that he was the publisher of antisemitic texts, such as the book “The International Jew,” and focus instead on his motivational sayings.

Browse this selection of Henry Ford quotes to better understand his business philosophy:

1. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
2. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
3. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
4. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
5. Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
6. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
7. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
8. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
9. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
   
10. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
11. An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
12. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
    
13. It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
14. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
15. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

So, these quotes show the side of Henry Ford the businessman.

Is your opinion of Henry Ford or his cars influenced by his political views? For example, he was also a pacifist in the first World War and opposed America’s entry into the war.

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Sir Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite on 14 March 1933 in Rotherhithe, London.

He is an English actor particularly well known for his distinctive Cockney accent, which he has used in many of the over 115 films in which he has appeared. His accent alone has made him one of the UK’s most recognizable actors.

Now aged 81, Michael Caine’s remarks about age, acting, and life in general give an interesting insight into his character.

He stared acting in 1953 but his breakthrough came in the 1960′s with films such as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File(1965), Alfie (1966), The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain(1969).

His had a number of notable roles in the 1970′s including Get Carter(1971), The Last Valley, and Sleuth (1972), for which he earned his second Academy Award nomination. Some of his greatest critical success came in the 1980′s, with Educating Rita (1983) which earned him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

In 1986 he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters. In 1989 he received his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules. In 2000, Caine was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema.

Michael Caine’s remarkable career has now spanned six decades — and he is still working.

These selected remarks perhaps help us to understand why:

1. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
   
2. I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
3. I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
   
4. I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
5. I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
   
6. The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
7. My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
   
8. I’ll always be there because I’m a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I’ve any talent is beside the point.
9. Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
   
10. One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
11. When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
    
12. I don’t think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

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Mel Brooks was born Melvin James Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York, on June 28, 1926. He is probably best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies but his talents extend into many other spheres.

Mel Brooks has been not only a film director, but also a screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer.

He actually began his career as a stand-up comic, but in later life he became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top ten money makers of the year that they were released.

Some of his best known and most successful films include The Producers,The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles,Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

Brooks is one of the few entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award, and three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 comedy films of all-time.

These selected quotes of Mel Brooks give a small insight into his thinking:

1. If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
   
2. Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
3. Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
   
4. If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
   
5. If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
6. I wish I was better looking.
   
7. He who hesitates is poor.
8. I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
   
9. As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
10. If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
11. All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
    
12. Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Do you appreciate Mel Brooks’ special style of humor?

Which of his films is your favorite – and why?

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Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926 in Los Angeles. She died in the same city in 1962 in mysterious circumstances which are still disputed to this day.

She became a major sex symbol and starred in a number of commercially successful movies during the 1950s and early 1960s. Her “dumb blonde” image was used to comic effect in films such as “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “How to Marry a Millionaire”, and “The Seven Year Itch”.

She only ever won one serious award which was a Golden Globe Award for her performance in “Some Like It Hot”. However, in 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth-greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute and in 2009, TV Guide Network named her No. 1 in film’s Sexiest Women of All Time.

It is over 50 years since Marilyn Monroe died, and yet she still remains a cultural icon.

Her alleged relationship with President John F. Kennedy – and his brother, Bobby – is part of the Marilyn legend.

Here are a some other interesting facts about her life which our LifeDaily team has selected for your information:

1. She was married three times. Her first marriage to James Dougherty in 1942 when she was 16, lasted 4 years. Her second in 1954 to baseball star Joe DiMaggio lasted less than a year. In 1956 she married renowned playwright Arthur Miller but they divorced in 1961.
   
2. Her first film role in 1947 featured only her voice when she played a telephone operator in “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim”.
   
3. In 1951, a poll of servicemen voted her the Present All GIs Would Like to Find in Their Christmas Stocking.
4. Monroe was not as dumb as her on-screen image. When not working she used to take literature classes at UCLA.
   
5. Monroe became Playboy magazine’s first monthly Playmate in 1953 after the magazine published a nude calendar photo she had posed for six years earlier.
6. Monroe persuaded the Hollywood Mocambo Club to book Ella Fitzgerald for a week, promising in return to sit in the front row for each night of the singer’s run. This was to persuade the club to change its policy of not hiring Black artists.
7. The famous subway grate/billowing skirt scene from “The Seven Year Itch” never ended up in the firm and was actually shot on a Hollywood sound-stage designed to look like Manhattan.
   
8. The headline in Variety when intellectual playwright Arthur Miller married Monroe in 1956 read, “EGGHEAD WEDS HOURGLASS.”
9. Tony Curtis always denied the remark attributed to him that smooching Monroe in “Some Like It Hot” was like “kissing Hitler.” However, in his 2008 memoir, he finally admitted uttering the insult but said he had meant it as a joke.
10. Truman Capote wanted Marilyn to star as party girl Holly Golightly in the 1961 adaptation of his novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” However, the role became a huge success for Audrey Hepburn instead.
11. Sculptor Seward Johnson’s enormous painted statue of Monroe’s iconic pose in that scene is called “Forever Marilyn.” It is 26 feet tall and is made of 34,000 pounds of stainless steel and aluminum.
    
12. Last year, Monroe came in third (behind Michael Jackson and Elvis) on Forbes’ annual list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities. According to Forbes, she earned $27 million last year.
13. “Niagara” is the only movie Monroe made in which her character dies.
    
14. Her death also hasn’t stopped Marilyn Monroe from being a presence on social media. Her Facebook page claims 3.3 million friends. On Twitter there is a promotional account, @marilynmonroe, with announcements of approved Monroe products and events, Then, there’s the unauthorized @TheMsMonroe, whose author tweets what Marilyn might have tweeted, had Twitter existed in 1962.
15. The pleated dress Monroe wore in the scene was obtained by Debbie Reynolds. Last year she auctioned off the costume for $5.6 million.
    

While it is true that Marilyn Monroe lived a troubled life, her iconic influence is amazing.

Do you think her death was an accident, or was there a more sinister cause? How to you rate her talent and acting ability?

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William Henry “Bill” Cosby, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1937.

During a long and — until recently — illustrious career, Cosby has tried his hand at being a comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist.

Bill Cosby first made a name for himself starring in a popular TV show on the 1960′s called “I Spy”.

Later, in the 1980′s, he produced and starred in his own sitcom, “The Bill Cosby Show,” which highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family. The show aired for eight seasons from 1984 to 1992 and was the number one show in America for five straight years (1985–89).

It’s popularity was largely a reflection of Cosby’s character as the father of a “happy” family.

Unfortunately, it seems that the public perception of Bill Cosby has probably been changed for ever following an apparently never ending series of recent accusations from a variety of women claiming that Cosby was a sexual predator in the years of his success.

The accusations include rape and a number of sexual acts initiated by Cosby usually involving drugs or alcohol. Cosby has either denied the accusations or refused to comment on them.

Under the circumstances, LifeDaily set the team on looking up some of Bill Cosby’s comments about marriage and women.

Check them out for yourself – the first one is interesting…..

1. Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.
   
2. There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
3. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.
4. A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.
   
5. The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
   
6. Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.
7. Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
   
8. Everybody is not a victim.
9. Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
   
10. Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
    
11. There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.
    
12. I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who’ve had luck with it and those who haven’t.
13. Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
    
14. That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
15. When I say, I don’t care what white people think, I mean that.
    

So, these quotes are in insight into the thinking of Bill Cosby.

How do you feel about him in the light of the recent publicity about his actions with women? Do you believe that “there is no smoke without fire?” Or are you prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt?

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Christmas is an annual religious and cultural holiday commemorating the the birth of Jesus Christ and is usually celebrated on December 25.

Interestingly, Christmas is recognized as a civil holiday in much of the world and is celebrated culturally by an increasing number of non-Christians.

The fact is that the date is only symbolic since there is no hard evidence of the real date. There are many who question whether Jesus ever actually existed at all, but it seems most accept the claims of his existence as a reality.

The celebratory customs associated with Christmas have a mix of pagan, pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, Christmas music and caroling, an exchange of Christmas cards, church celebrations, a special meal, and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights,nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly.

The holiday has become a significant economic event and a key sales period for retailers and businesses. The commercial impact of Christmas is a factor that has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world.

Apart from the information above, here are some more facts you probably don’t know about Christmas:

1. The Germans made the first artificial Christmas trees out of dyed goose feathers.

2. Each year more than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent in the U.S. alone.

3. In A.D. 350, Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, proclaimed December 25 the official celebration date for the birthday of Christ.

4. According to the Guinness world records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir that was displayed in 1950 at the Northgate Shopping Center in Seattle, Washington.

5. According to Facebook posts, two weeks before Christmas is one of the two most popular times for couples to break up. However, Christmas Day is the least favorite day for breakups.

6. The world’s largest Christmas stocking measured 106 feet and 9 inches (32.56 m) long and 49 feet and 1 inch (14.97 m) wide. It held almost 1,000 presents and was made by the Children’s Society in London on December 14, 2007.

7. Christmas trees have been sold in the U.S. since 1850.

8. Christmas trees usually grow for about 15 years before they are sold.

9. The British wear paper crowns while they eat Christmas dinner. The crowns are stored in a tube called a “Christmas cracker”.

10. Alabama was the first state in the United States to officially recognize Christmas in 1836.

11. Christmas wasn’t declared an official holiday in the United States until June 26, 1870.

12. Oklahoma was the last U.S. state to declare Christmas a legal holiday, in 1907.

13. The Puritans in America viewed Christmas as a decadent holiday and banned all Christmas celebrations from 1659-1681 with a penalty of five shillings for each offense.

14. Christmas has its roots in pagan festivals such as Saturnalia, the Kalends, and Deus Sol Invictus or Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun. The Christian church heartily disapproved of such celebrations and co-opted the pagans by declaring December 25 as Christ’s day of birth, though there is no evidence Christ was born on that Day.

15. Santa Claus is based on a real person, St. Nikolas of Myra who lived during the fourth century. Born in Patara (in modern-day Turkey), he is the world’s most popular non-Biblical saint, and artists have portrayed him more often than any other saint except Mary. He is the patron saint of banking, pawnbroking, pirating, butchery, sailing, thievery, orphans, royalty, and New York City.

16. Puritan Oliver Cromwell outlawed Christmas celebrations and carols in England from 1649-1660. The only celebrations allowed were sermons and prayers.

17. Christmas stockings allegedly evolved from three sisters who were too poor to afford a marriage dowry and were, therefore, doomed to a life of prostitution. They were saved, however, when the wealthy Bishop Saint Nicholas of Smyrna crept down their chimney and generously filled their stockings with gold coins.

18. There are competing claims as to which president was the first to place a Christmas tree in the White House. Some say it was President Franklin Pierce in 1856 while others claim President Benjamin Harrison brought in the first tree in 1889. However, it was President Coolidge who started the White House lighting ceremony in 1923.

19. President Teddy Roosevelt banned Christmas trees from the White House in 1912 on environmental grounds.

20. The song “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin is the best selling single of all time, with over 100 million sales worldwide.

21. There are approximately 21,000 Christmas tree farms in the United States. In 2008, nearly 45 million Christmas trees were planted, adding to the existing 400 million trees.

22. Approximately 30-35 million real Christmas trees are sold each year in the U.S.

23. In 1962, the first Christmas postage stamp was issued in the United States.

24. Commissioned by Sir Henry Cole, British illustrator John Callcott Horsley invented the first Christmas card in 1843.

25. Christmas purchases account for 1/6 of all retail sales in the U.S.

Do you celebrate Christmas as a religious event?

If not, what do you do at Christmas time? How do you feel about the commercialization of Christmas?

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Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in1880 and died in the same city in 1956 at the age of 75.

Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, and a very vocal critic of American life and culture.

He is regarded by many as one of the most influential American writers of the first half of the twentieth century. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.

As a newspaper reporter he is probably best remembered for his extensive coverage of the infamous Scopes trial, which he dubbed the ” monkey trial.” The trial of a young schoolteacher, who was prosecuted for teaching about evolution based on the works of Charles Darwin, was just an example of the force of Christian Fundamentalism in the U.S. at that time.

He followed the theories of the German philosopher Nietzsche and was a detractor of religion in general. He believed representative democracy was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. He also had strong reservations regarding U.S. participation in World War II.

H.L. Mencken had a strong impact on the American left and the American libertarian movement, perhaps because he was able to write in an era when “political correctness” had yet to rear its ugly head.

Looking through the quotes selected by our LifeDaily team gives an insight into the mind of H. L. Mencken:

1. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
2. Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
3. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
   
4. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
5. An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
6. Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
7. It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
   
8. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
9. Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
10. There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.
11. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
12. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
13. Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
14. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
15. A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
16. We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
17. A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
18. A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
19. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
20. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

As you can see, the cynicism of H. L. Mencken was not confined to one subject.

Can you identify with any of his opinions? Have you ever read any of his work?

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The United States prides itself on having created a society in which virtually all human behavior is governed by laws.

Indeed, how often have you heard the much overused phrase ” no-one is above the law.”

Apart from the fact that this claim is demonstrably untrue, it is interesting that this preoccupation with obeying “the law” is so deeply rooted in the American psyche.

But would people be so anxious to comply with ALL the laws on the statute book if they actually knew them?

We set out LifeDaily team the task of unearthing some of the weirdest laws ever to have been enacted in the United States.

Browse through our selection to determine which of these laws you are aware of – and how many of them you have broken!

1. In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.
2. In Miami, Florida, it is illegal to skateboard in a police station.
3. In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed.
4. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six-feet long.
5. In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.
6. In Providence, Rhode Island, it is still illegal for shop owners to sell toothpaste and toothbrushes to the same customer on a Sunday.
7. In St. Louis, Missouri, it is still illegal for firemen to rescue women who are still in their nightdresses.
8. In Eureka, Nevada, it is still illegal for men with mustaches to kiss women.
9. In Oxford, Ohio, it is still illegal for a woman to undress in front of a picture of a man.
10. In Iowa, it is against the law to kiss for more than five minutes.
11. In Alexandria, Minnesota, it is still illegal for a man who has garlic, onions or sardines on his breath to have sex with his wife.
    
12. In Ames, Iowa, it is still illegal for men to have three sips of beer while they are in bed with their wives.
13. In Logan County, Colorado, it is still illegal to kiss a woman while she is asleep.
14. In Texas, criminals are still required to give their victims at least 24 hours oral or written notice giving details of the crime they are about to commit.
15. In Tremonton, Utah, it is illegal for a woman to have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance.
16. In Indiana, during the 1950′s, all Robin Hood films were banned because authorities thought that robbing the rich to give to the poor was an act of communism.
17. In the USA impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states.
18. In Conorsville, Wisconsin, it is illegal for a man to fire a gun while his wife is having an orgasm.
19. In Willowdale, Oregon, no man may curse while having sex with his wife.
20. In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle.
21. In Kingsville, Texas, it is against the law for pigs to have sex on airport property.
22. In Florida it is illegal to have sex with a porcupine.
23. In Minnesota, it is still against the law to hang male and female underwear together on the same washing line.

So, honestly, how many of these weird laws would you admit to having broken?

For example, have you ever kissed someone for more than five minutes? Did you give your wife written permission to wear her false teeth?

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23 Of The Weirdest American Laws You’ll Ever Need To Obey is a post from: LifeDaily

Bananas are popular fruit which most people take for granted as part of their normal food intake. One of the facts below confirms that virtually every household in the U.S., at least, purchases bananas at some time in each month.

In fact, botanically speaking, a banana is actually a form of berry.

Although most Americans regard the banana solely as a sweet fruit, there are many societies in which another type of banana, called a plantain, is used for cooking.

We tend to think of ripe bananas as being yellow in color and unripe ones as green. In fact, there are versions which, in addition to these two colors, can be red, purple, or brown, when fully ripe.

Here are some more fascinating facts about bananas you probably don’t know:

1. Quick ripening tip

To ripen bananas quickly place them in a paper bag with an uncut and unpeeled apple, pear or tomato. The ethylene gas that those fruits emit accelerates the bananas’ ripening process.

2. Bananas can give you a feeling of happiness

This is not just because you enjoy the taste – the reason is chemical. A small banana provides 27 mg magnesium, which may help boost mood. Men and women need 420 mg and 320 mg of magnesium per day, respectively. Low levels of this mineral are linked to depression, anxiety, irritability and other mood disorders.

3. Bananas can lower blood pressure

A medium banana has 422 mg potassium while being sodium-free. The high potassium-to-sodium ratio helps to neutralize the blood-pressure raising effects of sodium in your diet. It’s known that you are less likely to have high blood pressure and have reduced risk for stroke if you maintain your potassium level.
A medium-sized banana provides nearly 10 percent of the daily requirement.

4. Bananas help a disturbed digestive system

Upset tummy? Bananas are great because they’re easy to digest and considered non-irritating for the stomach and upper GI tract. They are included in the clinical BRAT diet — bananas, rice, applesauce, and dry toast — which is a diet plan dietitians use to relieve acute diarrhea.

5. Today’s bananas in the U.S. are different

The bananas we eat today in America are not the same as the ones our grandparents and great-grandparents ate. The most popular type of banana today is called the Cavendish. Two or three generations ago, people ate not only Cavendish, but the Gros Michel banana, a variety that everyone agreed was tastier.
Unfortunately, from the 1920s -1950s a soil fungus called “The Panama Disease” ravaged banana farms and banana shortages were frequent. By 1960 this disease had annihilated the Gros Michel banana. The Cavendish was its replacement.

6. Who invented the banana split?

The Banana split was invented in 1904 by David Evans Strickler, a 23-year-old apprentice pharmacist at a pharmacy in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The original banana split recipe was three scoops of ice cream (chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry) a whole banana split lengthwise, chocolate sauce, strawberries, and pineapple chunks, chopped peanuts, whip cream and maraschino cherries. A typical banana split can contain anywhere from 530 calories to over 1,000 calories and 40 grams of fat.

7. Bananas are full of Vitamin C

A serving of banana provides 15 percent of the daily requirement for vitamin C, which is an important antioxidant that helps neutralize damaging free radicals and helps keep systemic inflammation at bay. It also helps produce collagen that holds muscles, bones and other tissues together.

8. 96 Percent of American Households Purchase Bananas Each Month

On average, Americans consume over 28 pounds of bananas each year, with over 96 percent of households purchasing bananas at least once each month. Americans eat as many bananas as apples and oranges combined.
Total annual world production is estimated at 86 million tons with India producing 23 percent of the world’s total banana production. The other leading banana producing countries are Brazil, Ecuador, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Thailand. and Colombia.

9. Bananas are good for your diet

A medium banana contains 110 calories and provides 30 grams of carbs and 3 grams fiber. In addition to filling fiber, bananas contain resistant starch, a type of carbohdyrate you can’t digest, but helps you feel fuller longer.

10. Bananas are one of the cheapest fruits

Banana expert Dan Koeppel told NPR in 2011, “The banana is the cheapest fruit in the supermarket, and that’s pretty weird because it’s shipped from great distances, and it requires a lot of handling and refrigeration, much more than apples, for example.” Bananas pack an incredible amount of nutrition and health benefit at an incredibly low cost.

11. Bananas are good for athletes

A recent study from Appalachian State University’s Human Performance Lab found that consuming half a banana every 15 minutes during a cycling time trial test was as effective as drinking a carbohydrate matched sports drink every 15 minutes. For athletes, bananas are a great option to fuel your muscles while providing antioxidants and other nutrients.

12. The smell of bananas is an appetite depressant

According to a study performed at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, smelling certain foods when you are hungry can trick you brain into thinking that you’ve actually eaten them. One of those foods is bananas.

So, now you know more than you did about bananas.

Do you eat bananas on a regular basis? If not, why not?

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To complete our series on weird and bizarre laws we now shift the focus from the U.S. and the U.K. to the rest of the world.

As you will see from our selection, there is no shortage of crazy laws internationally. One has to assume that most of these laws were created with the best of intentions in an effort to promote a basis for a civilized and orderly society.

Perhaps what is most disturbing are those offenses which call for the death penalty, particularly since the act they relate to would not be punishable at all in other societies.

Just be grateful you don’t live in Indonesia………

1. In Victoria Australia, only a licensed electrician is allowed to change a light bulb.
2. In Alberta, Canada, a released convict is entitled to a gun and a horse to ride out of town on.
3. In Switzerland it is against the law for men to urinate standing up after 10pm which is the same time that it is illegal to flush the toilet.
4. In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation.
5. In Lebanon men are allowed to have sex with any other animal just as long as it is a female. If a man is caught having sex with a male animal then the penalty is death.
6. In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.
7. In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination; he may only see their reflection in a mirror.
8. In Lebanon any man may legally have sex with any animal just as long as it is a female.
9. In Paraguay dueling is legal just as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
10. In Milan, Italy, there is still a law that requires citizens to smile at all times or risk a hefty fine. The only exceptions are visiting hospitals and funerals.
11. In Switzerland every citizen is required by law to have access to a bomb shelter.
12. In Burma it is illegal to get internet access. If a person is found in possession of a modem he can be imprisoned.
13. In Bangladesh it is against the law for schoolchildren to cheat at school exams. Pupils as young as 15 can be imprisoned for this.
14. Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship on adult films.
15. Karate films were banned in Iraq in 1979.
16. In Venice all gondolas have to be painted black unless they belong to a high ranking official.
17. In Singapore it is illegal for a person to walk around the house naked.
18. Also in Singapore oral sex is banned unless it is used only during foreplay.
19. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.
20. In Denmark it is not illegal for a convicted prisoner to escape from prison. If the escapee is caught he only serves the rest of his sentence.
21. In Denmark it is illegal to start your car without first checking to see if there are any children asleep underneath it.
22. In Victoria Australia it is forbidden to wear pink hot pants after mid-day on a Sunday.
23. In Thailand it is illegal to step on a banknote.
24. In Thailand it is illegal to leave your house without wearing underwear.
25. In Thailand all cinema patrons must stand up during the National Anthem before a film starts.
26. The Egyptian government banned male belly-dancing in 1837 because of the enthusiastic riots that it caused.

So, that completes our summary of the strangest laws in the world.

How many of them have you broken? Do you actually agree that they are weird or can you understand the motivation behind them?

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26 Of The Craziest Laws From Around The World is a post from: LifeDaily

Angelina Jolie, was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles in 1975 (Yes, she IS the daughter of well known film actor Jon Voight).

Angelina decided to follow in her father’s footsteps and became an actress and then a director. She was recently quoted as saying that she had always hated acting and didn’t intend to continue in that profession, preferring instead to be involved in film making from behind the camera.

Nevertheless, in her career she has received one Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009.

Apart from her work in the movie industry Angelina also does a lot of work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

So it is somewhat surprising that a recently leaked email from producer Scott Rudin to Sony Pictures characterized Angelina as a “minimally talented spoiled brat.”

Browse through this selection of Angelina Jolie quotes selected by our LifeDaily team and judge her character for yourself:

1. Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.
2. I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.
3. I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
4. When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
5. If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.
6. I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.
7. I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
8. It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.
9. I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
10. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
11. I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
12. I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

How do you feel about Angelina Jolie after reading these quotes?

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12 Quotes From Angelina Jolie To Judge If She Is ‘Spoiled’ is a post from: LifeDaily

Our LifeDaily team was surprised to discover recently that there are some very weird laws in the America that are still on the statute book.

For example, did you know that in Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth? Or that in Oxford, Ohio, it is still illegal for a woman to undress in front of a picture of a man?

This made us curious about similar bizarre laws in other countries, so we firstly decided to check up on our British cousins.

Perhaps we should have guessed that they also have their fair share of odd laws.

Here are a few examples:

1. Royal Navy ships that enter the Port of London must provide a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower of London.
   
2. In England, it is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses.
3. In England, it is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.
4. In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants – even, if she so requests, in a policeman’s helmet.
   
5. Under the UK’s Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don’t want him to know, though you don’t have to tell him anything you don’t mind him knowing.
6. In England, it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
   
7. In Lancashire, no person is permitted after being asked to stop by a constable on the seashore to incite a dog to bark.
8. In Chester, Welshmen are banned from entering the city before sunrise and from staying after sunset.
9. In the UK, all men over the age of 14 must carry out two hours of longbow practice a day.
   
10. In Britain, in 1888, a law was passed which stated that every cyclist had to constantly ring the bell on his bicycle non-stop while the machine was moving.
11. In Birmingham, England, it is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex on church steps after sundown.
12. In London, England, it is illegal to impersonate a Chelsea pensioner which once carried the death sentence in the 19th century.
13. In London, Freemen are allowed to take a flock of sheep across London Bridge without being charged a toll; they are also allowed to drive geese down Cheapside.
    
14. In the UK, a man who feels compelled to urinate in public can do so only if he aims for his rear wheel and keeps his right hand on his vehicle.
15. In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.
16. In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague.
    
17. In London, England, it is illegal to use a camera tripod, throw a stick for your dog or use an offensive powder like pepper on your jacket potato in any park.
18. In London, England, wife beating is legal just as long as it is not after 9pm and it doesn’t disturb the neighbours.
19. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast is legally the property of the King; the tail, on the other hand, belongs to the Queen – in case she needs the bones for her corset.
    
20. In England, in 1865, a law was passed stating that any self propelled carriage on an English highway had to have a crew of three, one of whom had to walk in front of the carriage with a red flag to warn horse drawn vehicles of it’s approach.
21. In England, in 1837, a law was passed that entitled a woman to bite off a man’s nose if he kissed her against her will!
22. In London, England, there is still a law that states London Taxi cabs must carry a bale of hay at all times.
    

As you can see, the British have some laws that are even more ridiculous that those in the U.S.

Have you ever broken any of these laws? Were you punished for doing so?

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22 Bizarre Laws That Are Still Valid In The U.K. is a post from: LifeDaily

There are still many people in the world who celebrate Christmas for its religious significance commemorating the birth of the Son of God.

But there are an even greater number for whom the religious dimension has no meaning. For them, Christmas is a time for buying presents, having parties, and generally having a good time.

The tradition of Christmas jokes can probably be traced back to around 1845 when Christmas crackers were invented in the U.K. by a man named Thomas Smith.

Initially, they consisted simply of sweets wrapped in fancy paper. Later he added a way for the package to make a cracking noise as it was pulled apart – and thus was born the ” cracker.”

It was particularly popular for Christmas parties and he developed the idea further by including small gifts and printed mottoes and riddles.

These formed the beginning of the Christmas jokes which we know today.

As an introduction to the small selection of Christmas jokes selected by our LifeDaily team we offer this gem:

There are 4 stages of life:
1. You believe in Santa Claus
2. You don’t believe in Santa Claus
3. You dress up as Santa Claus
4. You look like Santa Claus

And here are the rest of them:

Q: What do you call Santa’s helpers?
A: Subordinate clauses.

Q. What do you call a kid who doesn’t believe in Santa?
A. A rebel without a Claus.

Q: What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations?
A: Tinselitis!

Q: What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus?
A: Claustrophobic.

Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
A: Frostbite.

Q: Why was Santa’s little helper depressed?
A: Because he had low elf esteem.

Q: What’s the difference between snowmen and snowladies?
A: Snowballs.

Q. What do you call an incomplete Christmas sentence?
A. A Santa clause.

Q. What do you call an elf wearing ear muffs?
A. Anything you want. He can’t hear you.

Q: What goes “oh oh oh”?
A: Santa walking backwards

This selection of Christmas jokes was chosen as being suitable for all the family.

A considerable number of modern jokes are too sexually graphic to be printed here!

How do you feel about that? Do the think the spirit of Christmas has been devalued and debased by these types of jokes? Or any jokes at all, for that matter?

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Dieting should be more correctly referred to as weight management.

Although some people eat to gain weight they are in the minority as most people “on a diet” are seeking to lose it.

Dieting changes the energy balance and increase or decrease the amount of fat stored by the body. Some foods are specifically recommended while others are condemned.

If weight loss is the objective it cannot be achieved by restricting food intake alone and some form of exercise regime must be a component. The terms “healthy diet” and “diet for weight management” are often related, as both promote healthy weight management.

Having a healthy diet is a way to prevent health problems, and provides the body with the right balance of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.

The quotes selected by our LifeDaily team are a mixture of good advice and cynical rejections of the concept.

Browse our list of quotes about diet and decide which to follow:

1. Mae West:

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

2. Mireille Guiliano:

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

3. Louis C. K.:

I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.

4. John Mortimer:

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

5. Giada De Laurentiis:

Pasta doesn’t make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

6. Tony Robbins:

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

7. Orson Welles:

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

8. Lara Stone:

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

9. Dolly Parton:

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

10. Ed Koch:

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it.

11. Suze Orma:

People have got to learn: if they don’t have cookies in the cookie jar, they can’t eat cookies.

12. Mark Twain:

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

13. Alexander Pope:

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

14. Jackie Gleason:

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.

15. Cameron Diaz:

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

As you can see, the opinions about dieting are as varied as the diet options available.

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15 Quotes To Help You Diet – Or Not is a post from: LifeDaily

Sarcasm can be defined as “a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark, or a bitter gibe or taunt.”

Its distinctive quality is that it is more effective when spoken, as compared to written, because of the vocal inflexions that can give it greater emphasis. The first record of the term “sarcastic” was in 1695 when it referred to the use of sarcasm.

It is clear that with this form of comment the sarcastic content of a statement will be dependent upon the context in which it appears.

Cultural perspectives on sarcasm vary widely. Some cultures and linguistic groups find it offensive to varying degrees while others understand the sarcasm to really be a joke.

For example, Thomas Carlyle despised it: “Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, on the other hand, recognized in it a cry of pain: Sarcasm, he said, was “usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”

Those interpretations are much deeper than the oft quoted adage: “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

Our LifeDaily team has selected a few examples of sarcasm in action.

Check them out to see if you agree if they are witty or not:

1. Now we know why some animals eat their own children.
2. This is an excellent time for you to become a missing person.
3. I’m busy now. Can I ignore you some other time?
4. When I look into your eyes, I see straight through to the back of your head.
5. A sharp tongue does not mean you have a keen mind.
6. Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn’t have given you any worse advice.
7. I’m glad to see you’re not letting your education get in the way of your ignorance.
8. Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today.
9. If you were twice as smart as you are now, you’d be absolutely stupid.
10. That man is cruelly depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
11. I don’t know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
12. I know you are nobody’s fool, but maybe someone will adopt you one day.
13. Please, keep talking. I always yawn when I am interested.
14. What he is lacking in intelligence, he more than makes up for in stupidity.
15. Whatever it is that is eating you, it must be suffering horribly.
16. He always finds himself lost in thought; it’s unfamiliar territory.
17. You have an inferiority complex and it is fully justified.
18. If we killed everybody who hates you, it wouldn’t be murder –it would be an apocalypse!
19. You should do some soul-searching. You might just find one.
20. You would never be able to live down to your reputation, but I see you’re doing your best.

Do you agree that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit after reading these examples?

Have you ever been on the receiving end of similar sarcastic remarks? Do you use sarcasm yourself?

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