per-ni-cious
adj :: Highly injurious or destructive. Deadly.
“The pernicious virus spread rapidly through the small community.”
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Pick a song from this list and recite it out loud. Now, recite it again but skip every other word. Then skip every third word, and so on, until you can’t do it any more. This exercise helps with your concentration and mental endurance.
1. Mary Had a Little Lamb
2. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
3. The Alphabet Song
An example of skipping by two: Mary a lamb fleece white snow…
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Have you ever remembered a phone number by visualizing the pattern of telephone button pushes or by using a little math (416-2550: 4 squared is 16, 25 doubled is 50)? If so, then you have already used patterns to help you remember a fact.
Looking for patterns in dates, phone numbers, addresses, etc. will give you a much better chance at remembering the information later. This is because you’ve instantly made the information more meaningful, you’ve concentrated on it long enough to push it into long-term memory, and you’ve chunked it.
In the above example, you only need to remember “4 squared, 25 doubled” which is, at 4 chunks, much easier to remember than the original 7 chunks.
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A fat fluffy cat can be the perfect companion. I have such a fat fluffy cat, and she’s a perfect little sweetheart; always there when I need her and trying to rub her entire body all over me even when I want left alone. I swear that cat is constantly up my butt! She plops her butt outside my bathroom door when I take a shower and even tries to plant her butt next to me at the dinner table…and stares…
Much like the feline in this cat illusion, she gives me that longing look, thinking that I’m going to share my own dinner. False, Cat! I wonder if the diners in this picture find the little kitty cat staring at their dinner as annoying as I do…
What? You didn’t see the people in this cat illusion? Check out the cat’s ears, eyes, nose, and chin. The ears are the din’er’s chairs, the eyes are their heads, the nose is a vase on the table, and the chin is the corner of their table.
I’d say that this cat illusion is quite well done! Which did you see first in this cat illusion—the diners or the cat?
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Grabmeat for those on the go!
Photo courtesy of Catt Tirabassi.
From a Japanese restaurant in Thailand.
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1863 – 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
1939 – Gen George Marshall sworn in as the United States Army Chief of Staff
1957 – WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1971 – Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
1975 – Jerry Lewis’ 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1978 – Indians’ Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt)
1978 – #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid and #8064
1989 – Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announce their separation
1993 – Goran Ivanisevic and Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis
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A KKK Grand Dragon, confined to a wheelchair, had been threatening a local rabbi. The rabbi responded by offering the man compassion, friendship, and transportation around town. They became friends and the Grand Dragon eventually quit the KKK and converted to Judaism.
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