Back to the future and Manure

Tractor Driver Dies Under Load of Manure

Back to the future is not only a movie. It is a classic. Some of its ideas are amazing even today. Some of its jokes too. Who doesn't remember the scene where Marty McFly takes the skate of the future and it has no wheels? Or the amazing idea of putting the time travelling machine ia a car? Or yet Biff (picture) hitting the manure car in all three movies?

But, unfortunatelly, the manure idea really happened last sunday on Prague, at the Czech Republic and it was not funny. The man was suffocated and died.

The owner of the said that "the truck is operated from the tractor cabin, using hydraulics. There was nothing for him to do under the truck, but it's tough to blame him now that he is dead".

The news finishes informing that police are investigating the death as a work-related accident.

Let's pray for him and hope next time things like this happen, the person only get dirty, stinky, and angry as in the movie.

Double serendipity

Hello everyone! It's been some days I don't come here. But Here I am.

I wish someone could have told me at least that my little poem is awful... :D But it seems to me that almost nobody comes here yet. I'll make an effort to make this change.(I don't know how :D )

Well, a few months ago my father saw a 2001 movie called Serendipity and liked it (click on the poster to see more info about it). I didn't watch it yet, but the soundtrack is good. Someday I'll watch it. What got my attention, though was the name of the movie.

I didn't know the word. Not that I know so many English words, but it is not so common to have uncommon words in movie titles. I can remember that I searched the meaning of it at the time, but if someone asked me early morning yesterday, I could have not told. I completely forgot the meaning of the word.

Tonight I was navigating, posting some comments in other blogs and just browsing around when I found out the word serendipity in a site that explains the meanings of the words. What a luck. And I was not even looking for it. Happened to me what happened to Alexander Fleming to discover that the penicillin is an antibacterial. "He was merely cleaning up his laboratory when he discovered that the Penicillium mould had contaminated one of his old experiments" (Answers.com).

But what you don't know yet that, Serendipity means exactly this: "making fortunate discoveries by accident". Isn't that incredible? To learn the meaning of a word by experiencing what the world really means. It is like understanding what milk is, by seeing it coming out of the animal and drinking it. No words are needed to explain. Just the feeling, just the idea. No words, no confusion. Simply communication.

Ah, by the way, "this word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company" informs Answers.com.

What a serendipity!

Have a great day!

Shhhh....

Much was talked about the silence

Much was said by the silence

How could we

shut up?

...

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Spoonerism

Answers.com: spoonerism

Rev. William Archibald Spooner

I knew that in every language this phenomenon happens: take two words and change some of their letters and form two different ones. Or, in addition to that form different phrases with different meanings, making, normally, fun of the situation. I do this sometimes in Portuguese, my mother language, but not yet in English because it is not fluent enough for me. What I didn't know was that his type of construction had a name: spoonerism.

Spoonerism was named, according to Answers.com "[After William Archibald Spooner (1844–-1930), British cleric and scholar.]"

Here are some spoonerisms (all attributed to Mr. Spooner):

• We all know what it is to have a half-warmed fish ["half-formed wish"] inside us.
• The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].
• It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.
• Is the bean dizzy ["dean busy"]?
• When the boys come back from France, we'll have the hags flung out ["flags hung out"]!
• Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].

As I told in another post, living and learning...

New word (slang) - "SHART"

Bill Casselman New Word Study: New word "SHART"
UrbanDictionary.com/shart

Well, I admit it. I'm kinda weird! I don't know why, but there is one thing that it seems to me that is part of the Collective Unconscious. Is to make fun of the act that everybody does at the bathroom and is smelly...

And today I discovered a new word (slang) that joins the act that produces the odor and the object that is smelly together. The word is shart. To see the complete definition, and why the poster of "Along Came Polly" is here, follow the links above...

Boston.com / News / Odds & ends / Don't call tomato a fruit in New Jersey

Boston.com / News / Odds & ends / Don't call tomato a fruit in New Jersey

Well, that's it for me! I'm wondering when will lawyers really start to work seriuosly! :)

In the Garden State, New Jersey, the tomato, according to Sen. Ellen Karcher, "Botanically it's a fruit, legally it's a vegetable".

What in the world is happening? Probably the next step will be sue the tomato because it must be its fault to make such a mess in the Garden. Seriously, I guess lawmakers are going too far in these lawyer things.

The problem begun because some students wrote letters urging lawmakers to adopt a state fruit. And the tomato did not win. The winner was the blueberry. And the loved tomato was left aside because, according to the high court back in 1887, if the tomato is typically served with dinner and not as a desert, it must be a vegetable! Incredible, huh? I don't eat banana as desert, eat it as part of the meal. Does it make the banana a vegetable? :) There is no official vegetable in the Garden State.

Well, let's not throw tomatoes at them; but I guess this may end up in ketchup...

Awakened Woman

White Orchid Phalaenopsis - Click to enlarge

Orchid Photos

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My small tribute to all women is to give each one of them one orchid. And some information too. They are never enough. Either orchids or information.

Rumbling Alaskan Volcano Prompts Warning

Rumbling Alaskan Volcano Prompts Warning


Sunset, near Exit camp at Kenai/AK

My brother keeps telling everybody he knows about the beauties of Alaska. And, although, I was not there to confirm myself, I really believe him, not only because of his words, but also because of the photos he made there.

Unfortunately, Alaska is a region with great natural "problems". Earthquakes, Volcanos and very, very low temperatures. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said friday that the volcaninc rumblings at Mount Spurr (80 miles west of Anchorage, the largest city of Alaska) are creating hazardous condicions for extreme skiers, snow boarders and pilots landing in the area.

Read more clicking the link above. And see more Alaska pictures and information clicking on the picture above.

My first post in english

Hi everybody.

This is my first post in this space. And also the first in english. I really can't promise much effort in Melogs, because I already have a blog at http://mackmelo.blogspot.com/. However the other one is in portuguese.

If you talk portuguese, I invite you to go there, because it is updated almost daily. But, despite of this, I'll try to make at least a weekly update here, like a summary of what I posted there, so you can see what I'm "concerned" about each week.

I hope we can have some good conversations in this space and develop some good relationships.

See y'all later.