. . . I scored well on an unscientific IQ test.
| Your IQ Is 140 |
 Your Logical Intelligence is Genius Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Genius |
The questions involved more reasoning than I thought they would. It ain’t just a joke (as I thought it might be). Still not the real thing, though.
Hollywood was abuzz last night when Tom Cruise was spotted at the opera, talking to a young fan about "The Tragedy of Darth L-Ron the Hack" and encouraging him to "take a broader perspective" on things. He offered to show the unnamed fan "the true power and nature" of Scientology.
The next day, with the fan watching from the audience, Cuise appeared on the Oprah show. During the interview, the television host asked probing questions about about his political ambitions, prompting the following exchange. . . .
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Hollywood was abuzz last night when Tom Cruise was spotted at the opera, talking to a young fan about "The Tragedy of Darth L-Ron the Hack" and encouraging him to "take a broader perspective" on things. He offered to show the unnamed fan "the true power and nature" of Scientology.
The next day, with the fan watching from the audience, Cuise appeared on the Oprah show. During the interview, the television host asked probing questions about about his political ambitions, prompting the following exchange. . . .
Continue reading “REVEALED! Tom Cruise Shows Oprah The “True Power” Of Scientology”
If you could wander the halls here at Catholic Answers, you’d be amazed at the tidbits you hear around the proverbial water cooler. Just the other day, a colleague told me about a real-life on-going treasure hunt. It sounded like just the thing for a blog post.
According to my colleague’s story, a retired businessman who loves treasure hunts decided to take one million dollars of his own money and create a nationwide treasure hunt. The money was converted into jewels created in the shape of various creatures, the most valuable of which is a spider valued at nearly a half-million dollars. He then had tokens made and hid the tokens throughout the country. He wrote a fairy tale with clues to the locations of the tokens and had the book published. Treasure hunters who follow the clues and find a token can redeem it for the jewel to which it corresponds. A number of families and even classrooms around the country have joined the hunt. Several tokens have been found and their jewels claimed, but a number are still out there … including the spider jewel.
What struck me was how wonderful an idea it was for this gentleman to disperse his million dollars this way. Some may complain that he should have given it to charity, but as worthy as charities are and as much as they should be remembered by those with largesse to share, charities are not the only means by which people can be generous with each other. Sometimes it can be a good deed simply to give others pleasure … not to mention the thrill of discovery and the opportunity to spend time with friends and loved ones in the pursuit of a dream.
If you could wander the halls here at Catholic Answers, you’d be amazed at the tidbits you hear around the proverbial water cooler. Just the other day, a colleague told me about a real-life on-going treasure hunt. It sounded like just the thing for a blog post.
According to my colleague’s story, a retired businessman who loves treasure hunts decided to take one million dollars of his own money and create a nationwide treasure hunt. The money was converted into jewels created in the shape of various creatures, the most valuable of which is a spider valued at nearly a half-million dollars. He then had tokens made and hid the tokens throughout the country. He wrote a fairy tale with clues to the locations of the tokens and had the book published. Treasure hunters who follow the clues and find a token can redeem it for the jewel to which it corresponds. A number of families and even classrooms around the country have joined the hunt. Several tokens have been found and their jewels claimed, but a number are still out there … including the spider jewel.
What struck me was how wonderful an idea it was for this gentleman to disperse his million dollars this way. Some may complain that he should have given it to charity, but as worthy as charities are and as much as they should be remembered by those with largesse to share, charities are not the only means by which people can be generous with each other. Sometimes it can be a good deed simply to give others pleasure … not to mention the thrill of discovery and the opportunity to spend time with friends and loved ones in the pursuit of a dream.
He may have been acquitted of child abuse charges, but Michael Jackson is now toast. Literally!
EXCERPT:
Slices of toast with the star’s likeness and slogans such as "not guilty" have appeared on internet auction site eBay.
Vendors claimed the slices were not faked – but popped out of their toasters before or during the verdicts.
From their website:
Welcome to the fledgling website of the Society of St. Pius I (SSPI). Unlike other so-called “traditionalist” Roman Catholic groups, we adhere to the ORIGINAL Roman Catholic Mass of A.D. 40-200, and described by St. Justin Martyr and the Apostolic Constitutions, and used by Pope St. Pius I of happy memory.
Don’t be fooled by PHONY “Vulgate” neotraditionalists, who claim to protect tradition, and yet still defend the RADICAL and totally UNCATHOLIC reforms of the 4th century A.D.
So-called “trads” pretend to be against the modernism of the last hundred years, but where were they when the original Rite of Rome, the Greek rite USED BY ST. PETER AND THE APOSTLES was being totally gutted and revised by unknown scholars and translated into the vernacular language of Latin?
Y’gotta admire the (tongue in cheek) moxy here, but I sense a potential schism. Some members of the SSPI may well conclude that St. Peter and the apostles celebrated Mass in Aramaic, not Greek.
Till then . . .
(CHT to the reader who e-mailed!)
Everybody else in the world has probably already seen this picture.
But I hadn’t.
Poor little electronically-composed kitten!
Southern Appeal has some delightful speculation on who may be Pres. Bush’s picks for the next additions to the Supremes. Here’s the first two possibilities:
Who? Judge Wapner
Famous from? The People’s Court
Pros? Excellent legal reasoning in his decision on The Angry Landlord v. The Deadbeat Renter
Cons? His 6th Amendment jurisprudence as demonstrated in Fluffy v. Spot while he was judge on Animal Planet’s Animal Court. Plus he’s really, really old.Who? Judge Judy
Famous from? Her TV show
Pros? She and Scalia would get along famously. Has a tough, no nonsense personality.
Cons? She probably wouldn’t accept since it would be a pay cut, plus Supreme Court hearings aren’t televised.
Unlike Grandfather’s clock, which stopped short never to run again when the old man died, it appears that London’s Big Ben will continue running after a brief rest.
"Big Ben, the landmark London clock renowned for its accuracy and chimes, stopped ticking for 90 minutes, an engineer said Saturday.
"Officials do not know why the 147-year-old clock on the banks of the River Thames stopped at 10:07 p.m. Friday. It resumed keeping time, but stalled again at 10:20 p.m. and remained still for about 90 minutes before starting up again, a spokeswoman for the House of Commons said on condition of anonymity, citing government policy.
"There has been speculation a recent spell of hot weather may have been to blame. Temperatures in London reached 90 Saturday, and forecasters called it England’s hottest day in May since 1953."
By the way, if the musical allusion interests you, GET THE LYRICS. My grandparents occasionally sang this song for me when I was a child and the idea of a clock stopping to mark someone’s death — time standing still in mourning — always fascinated me.