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Lawyers should never ask a Georgia grandma a question if they aren't prepared for the answer.

In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached

her and asked, 'Mrs. Jones, do you know me?' She responded, 'Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a boy,

and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk about them behind

their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you'll never amount to anything more than a two-bit paper

pusher. Yes, I know you.'


The lawyer was stunned. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, 'Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense

attorney?'


She again replied, 'Why yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He

can't build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his

;wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him.'

The defense attorney nearly died.

The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench and, in a very quiet voice, said:

'If either of you idiots asks her if she knows me, I'll send you both to the electric chair

body no be wood

Kids these days are doing something right.

Take, for example, Evan, the 9-year-old kid behind EvanTubeHD who's making over $1 million a year for his YouTube videos. Or 15-year-old Noa Mintz, who was featured on CNN Money after starting a childcare agency that's now worth $375,000.

Yep.


Now, cue Moziah Bridges, the 13-year-old whose bow tie business is completely taking off.



According to BET, Bridges appeared on ABC's "Shark Tank," catching the eye of Daymond John who then invested in the company and became Bridges' mentor. The two flew to New York City, and after a TV appearance, they got a call from Karen Katz, CEO of the Neiman Marcus group.
Now, Mo's Bows, a collection of handmade bows and men's accessories, has been sold for $200,000.



The designs are lighthearted and fun, and feature everything from floral prints to polka dots to music notes.

Moreover, "Mo's Bows just secured its first [partnership] late last year with Cole Haan," writes Moriba Cummings for BET. "To date, it has also solidified its deal with Neiman Marcus."



According Bridges' Facebook page, his grandmother taught him how to hand and machine sew the bow ties from scrap material.
"I believe that I can make more happiness by making more bow ties," Bridges says in a trailer for his documentary.

she is the cause of all the rubbish...............

WRITTEN By BRANDON

This may not be the best time for me to write on

this because of misinterpretations, but I can no

longer resist the push. "Husband Scarcity" has

become one of the challenges faced by many young

girls today. If you go to prayer houses, majority of

the intentions are prayer for a life partner. And this

calls for concern. Casting our minds back to the

time of our mothers and grandmothers, was there

really much of a "Husband Scarcity" problem? Or,

maybe there were more men than women then, or

there was an adequate corresponding numbers of

both genders. I don't think so. Maybe then, the

women had values and were prepared to build a

home and not park into a built home. Then, once a

young man comes of age and can at least feed

himself and his wife, he goes out in search of a wife

and the woman really appreciates him and helps

him to build a future. What am I really trying to say?

We created what we now see as "Husband

Scarcity" for ourselves. Today, the reverse is the

case. Ask an average girl to define her dream

husband; you get things like "he has to be tall,

handsome, fair, and rich, own a house at least, and

be presentable" and then she adds "God fearing" in

order not to sound so worldly. Then, check the

number of girls around you and the number of men

that meet that standard, and you will see the

problem. You hear girls say, "I cannot suffer in my

father's house and then go and start suffering with

a man." What a wonderful dream! What if from the

beginning, you have everything you want and there

is no suffering, and later in the marriage, the table

turns around, then comes suffering? Will you run

away? No one prays for suffering, but it is good to

start small and end big, than start big and end

small. The problem is that the description majority

of girls give of their ideal man is virtually the same.

When 50 girls want the same kind of man and the

man that fits what they want is just 1 man, and the

man can only pick one. Then, what becomes of 49

others? They simply start lamenting of "Husband

Scarcity". Another irony of our time is that it is hard,

due to the face of our economy to find a man who is

of marriage age who possesses all

those things these ladies want, legally (except

those involved in Internet fraud); even the number

of those in Internet fraud is not enough to match all

those searching for already made husbands.

If you look around, majority of the ladies of

substance, of good value and virtue, who are ready

to build a home with a man who has prospects, ar

married and not complaining of husband scarcity.

The easiest way to find a husband now, is to

change your view of who a husband is. A husband

is that man God made and then saw that it may be

hard for him to really actualize his purpose for

making him, without a help mate and then made the

woman and gave to him, and he felt complete and

fulfilled. MARRIAGE IS NOT A POVERTY

ALLEVIATION PROGRAM. It is a mission of building

the family of God here on earth. For those who see

marriage as a way out of poverty, it is a way into

bondage. Women are HOME BUILDERS, not HOME

WARMERS... DON'T CONFUSE A MAN'S PATH WITH

HIS DESTINY. Where he is today, may only be a

route to where God has destined him to be

tomorrow. Another truth is that YOU MAY BE THE

ONLY FAST MEANS TO THAT HIS DESTINATION.

Join in alleviating "husband scarcity". PICK UP THE

RIGHT VALUES. I am not saying that you should

pick anyone that comes your way and talks of

marriage, not all men are husband materials. What I

am saying is that you should stop setting your

standard on material acquisitions or

physical appearances. Look beyond the physical.

WHAT MAKES A MAN WHO HE IS, IS NOT WHAT HE

OWNS OR HOW HE LOOKS, IT IS WHAT HE IS MADE

UP OF. And that which he is made of is, most times,

not seen with the physical eyes, only its

effects can be seen. Marriage is a permanent thing.

Whatever is seen is temporal and that which is not

seen is permanent. Relax and go to God in prayer.

God did not just make Eve for making sake; He

made her for Adam's need to b......

she is hot hare.....

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Carmen Dell’Orefice has been a cover girl for nearly 70 years. At just 15 years old, she landed the cover of Vogue and has only grown more

beautiful with age.

She’s been called the world’s “oldest working model” and, rather than fighting age, she’s embracing it. In an interview with the Daily Mail’s YOU

Magazine, Dell’Orefice was quoted as saying, “I’ve had more covers in the past 15 years than I had in all the years before that.”

Her most recent cover (New You magazine) is going viral and sparking an important conversation about age and beauty — and the beauty that

can come from aging.



“Everyone is transfixed by her presence,” the editorial in New You marvels. “Those arresting cheekbones, her signature, full-bodied white hair;

long and graceful limbs; that exquisite smile.”

It’s true, most fashion models are nearing the end of their careers by 23. But Carmen Dell’Orefice could change the way society imagines

beauty.

trending on twitter.....

R I P

good move ..........GOD BLESS YOU GEJ

lalasticala where una dei move to front page....

lalasticala where una dei move to front page.... ;Dlalasticala where una dei move to front page....

6. Most things we do, from the job we choose to the hobbies we have, is built around a singular goal: making us more attractive to you.



No man becomes an actor, pilot, race car driver, or anything else in the world simply because it's his passion.

It's a nice idea, but that's not how biology works. Competition in business, sports, dating or anything else... Is us competing for attention and affection.

We want to impress you. We want you to be happy with us. We want your approval and your validation. It's human nature.

We want what we do to be something you're proud to talk about.

Like this? Then please share it with your friends.

5. We don't necessarily have a "type."


The things that make someone attractive to us can't always be boiled down into a "type."

No, seriously.

You're our "type." Leave it at that.

4. There are reasons we're not saying anything.




1. Maybe we're unhappy. Yeah, okay, great, you think the bartender or tennis coach is gorgeous... What the hell are we supposed to do with that information? We have nothing nice to say, so we're just going to pout until you coax us out of our shell. Yes, it's childish. We know.

2. Maybe we're thinking. Like deep thoughts. About stuff and things. Perhaps we're trying to figure out what your question really is or what we're actually feeling. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what we want to say or for us to figure out what your possible reactions will be, so we have to think about it.

3. Maybe we don't have anything to say. There are plenty of things on which we have no opinion worth expressing.

3. OK, we think your hot, flirtatious friend is hot, but seriously, we're not interested in her.





Look. You know she's attractive. We know she's attractive. She definitely knows she's attractive. Any mild acknowledgement of her attractiveness or flirtation on our part is our attempting to walk that razor's edge of being friendly without enraging you.

Also, come on: You flirt too.

Besides that, let's face it, she wouldn't be interested in us were it not for the fact that we're dating you. And besides, we're not interested. If we were, we wouldn't be with you.

2. We don't know why we're apologizing, but mostly we're just trying to de-escalate things.





We're sorry.

No, we probably have no idea why we're sorry, but because we were taught at an early age that men should say sorry when they're in the wrong, we're apologizing. Profusely.

The fact that you're angry lets us know that we've done something wrong.

The intentions with "sorry" are good because we have no idea where we f**ked up. If we try to discern the source of your anger, it could lead to a foolish attempt to say that the very thing that offended you wasn't meant to – which might lead to us being seen as even more inconsiderate and emotionally shallow than we were — we're opting for sorry.

And we really are sorry. We may not know why, but we are. A hint might help us to be able to apologize by never repeating the behavior again.

1. We have no idea what you want.



We're not sure if we should be more sensitive or less sensitive. We're not sure if you secretly hate our obsession with facial hair. We don't know what your taste in jewelry is. We have no idea if your flirting with your "best guy friend" is harmless or if there's some kind of simmering lust there that we need to be wary of.

We have no idea what you want.

So please tell us.

9. Smoke clouds.
Coal-burning power plant, United Kingdom."

Shot by Jason Hawkes.



10. "Waves of humanity?"

"Sprawling Mexico City, Mexico, population 20 million, density 24,600/mile (63,700/square kilometer), rolls across the landscape, displacing every scrap of natural habitat."

Shot by Pablo Lopez Luz.

8. Oil spill conflagration.



"Aerial view of an oil fire following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Gulf of Mexico."

Shot by Daniel Beltra.

7. When containers become part of the skyline.



"Shipping containers, indispensable tool of the globalized consumer economy, reflect the skyline in Singapore, one of the world’s busiest ports."

Shot by John Stanmeyer.

6. Clear-cut hills in Canada.

"Sometimes called the Brazil of the North, Canada has not been kind to its native forests. Image of clear-cut logging on Vancouver Island."

Shot by Garth Lentz.

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5. Catching a trash wave.


"Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya catches a wave in a remote but garbage-covered bay on Java, Indonesia, the world’s most populated island."

Shot by Zak Noyle.

Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot (OVER) is not your usual coffee table book. It contains more than 300 pages of powerful images shot by photographers around the world and "crystallizes the ecological and social tragedies of humanity’s ballooning numbers and consumption."

The book was released as an activist tool of The Global Population Speak Out, an organization that unites environmentalists. If you aren't convinced that our planet is overpopulated, these 10 images and short quotes from the book are all the proof you need.

"Speak Out works to equip those already engaged in addressing environmental concerns with strong materials and messages to help them raise awareness and catalyze change,” explains Joe Bish, the director of Issues Advocacy at Population Media Center, in the Speak Out's press release. “We are really looking forward to crowd-sourced, creative ideas for how to put this amazing book to work as an agent of positive change.”

Are we really doing all of this to our planet?

1. Ice and waterfalls. These shouldn't really go together.


"Melting water on icecap, North East Land, Svalbard, Norway."

Shot by Cotton Coulson/Keenpress.




2. This island is literally shrinking.



"One of Earth’s most vulnerable nations to climate change, the Maldive Islands are severely threatened by rising sea levels."

Shot by Peter Essick.



3. Just another parade in Germany.



"Mass rallies and other cultural events are only possible in a mass society. The 'Love Parade' in Tiergarten Park, Berlin, Germany."

Shot by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.





4. Whoa. That's one heck of a mine.



"The Mir Mine in Russia is the world’s largest diamond mine."

Captured by Google Earth/ 2014 Digital Globe.

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I no go laugh.....

pls mod move this to the front page.....so inspired

EUROBOMBER:
@Barcanista, God will bless you abundantly for this thread. Thank you for taking your time to highlight what caused disharmony between us in 1966/67 and also highlighting what has brought us together. The 2015 general elections has no doubt, opened our eyes to so many things in Nigeria. Let us stay united and form a common power bloc-the Eastern bloc. I have always said that the division of SE/SS was politically done to weaken the East and continue to keep us under. You are correct in saying that no one should call for violence as this is not a sign of bravery or strength. We can demand what we want from Nigeria if you stay united as one.

I am very happy and proud of my people for standing with the minority president till the last minute. Let us stay together and play the opposition while we continue to watch Nigeria. People of the SE/SS, do not be deceived anymore, there are groups in this country trying very hard to see that we remain disunited but we must not allow them. A word is enough for the wise.

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EUROBOMBER:
@Barcanista, God will bless you abundantly for this thread. Thank you for taking your time to highlight what caused disharmony between us in 1966/67 and also highlighting what has brought us together. The 2015 general elections has no doubt, opened our eyes to so many things in Nigeria. Let us stay united and form a common power bloc-the Eastern bloc. I have always said that the division of SE/SS was politically done to weaken the East and continue to keep us under. You are correct in saying that no one should call for violence as this is not a sign of bravery or strength. We can demand what we want from Nigeria if you stay united as one.

I am very happy and proud of my people for standing with the minority president till the last minute. Let us stay together and play the opposition while we continue to watch Nigeria. People of the SE/SS, do not be deceived anymore, there are groups in this country trying very hard to see that we remain disunited but we must not allow them. A word is enough for the wise.

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EUROBOMBER:
@Barcanista, God will bless you abundantly for this thread. Thank you for taking your time to highlight what caused disharmony between us in 1966/67 and also highlighting what has brought us together. The 2015 general elections has no doubt, opened our eyes to so many things in Nigeria. Let us stay united and form a common power bloc-the Eastern bloc. I have always said that the division of SE/SS was politically done to weaken the East and continue to keep us under. You are correct in saying that no one should call for violence as this is not a sign of bravery or strength. We can demand what we want from Nigeria if you stay united as one.

I am very happy and proud of my people for standing with the minority president till the last minute. Let us stay together and play the opposition while we continue to watch Nigeria. People of the SE/SS, do not be deceived anymore, there are groups in this country trying very hard to see that we remain disunited but we must not allow them. A word is enough for the wise.

trash........you guys are greedy dats y u can unite.......

uni Ilorin....