Daily Thought

[Marilyn]

Me too, China.
And a good deal of it is still in the wrapper!

[chinatyke]

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I
may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

[chinatyke]

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

[chinatyke]

What did they call electric eels before electricity was discovered?

[Stanley]

Electrophorus electricus.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from modern Latin electricus, from Latin electrum 'amber', from Greek ēlektron (because rubbing amber causes electrostatic phenomena).

[Tizer]

And `electrum' is now the word for an alloy of gold and silver used in jewellery.

[chinatyke]

When you solve something you have found a solution and when you dissolve Parliament it is a dissolution. So why is it that when you dissolve salt in water you form a solution and not a dissolution?

[Marilyn]

(Ooooo...'Eck!)
I am trying to think of a witty retort, China.
I will get back to you!

[Stanley]

The words refer to different things. The result is a solution but the salt itself in its original form has been subjected to dissolution.

[chinatyke]

10 out of 10, Stanley.

[Stanley]

(Bloody Pedants!)

[SPR676]

Put whisky on your lawn when it needs cutting......enabling the grass to come up half cut

[chinatyke]

[Tizer]

Denis Norden, quoted in my diary...
`It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.'

[Stanley]

He was a very funny man!

[chinatyke]

A government survey has shown that 91% of illegal immigrants come to Britain so that they can see their own doctor.

[Stanley]

I know you have your tongue in your cheek...... but unfortunately there's a nugget of truth embedded in that post China!

[chinatyke]

May's Brexit plan 2:

Ban shredded cheese, make Britain grate again.

[chinatyke]

Despite the high cost of living it remains popular.