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The 5 questions are as follows: 1) How long was the 100-year war?
A) 116
B) 99
C) 100
D) 150
The Turk says "I will skip this".
2) In which country are the Panama hats made?
A) BRAZIL
B) CHILE
C) PANAMA
D) EQUADOR
The Turk asks for help from the University students.
3) In which month do the Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
A) JANUARY
B) SEPTEMBER
C) OCTOBER
D) NOVEMBER
The Turk asks for help from general public.
4) Which of these was King George VI's first name?
A) EDER
B) ALBERT
C) GEORGE
D) MANOEL
The Turk asks for lucky cards.
5) The Canary islands, in the Pacific Ocean,has its name based on which animal:
A) CANARY BIRD
B) KANGAROO
C) PUPPY
D) RAT
The Turk gives up.
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If u think you are indeed clever and laughed at our Turk friend, then please check the answers below:
1) The 100-year war lasted 116 years from 1337-1453.
2) The Panama hat is made in Equador.
3) The October revolution is celebrated in November.
4) King George's first name was Albert. In 1936 he changed his name.
5) The Canary islands has its name based on the animal: Puppy. The Latin name is INSULARIA CANARIA which means islands of the puppies.
Don't ever laugh at our Turk friends again.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Golbarg
Oxford Dictionary's latest definition of the following words (new
edition edited by: Cynic Skeptical):
Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are
early.
Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer
to the notes of the students without passing through the minds of
either.
Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody
believes he got the biggest piece.
Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.
Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and
everybody disagrees later on.
Classic: A book, which people praise, but do not read.
Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you
actually do.
Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to
decide that nothing can be done together.
Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of
when dead.
Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you
actually look forward to the trip.
Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your
confidence after.
Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls
into a river.
Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel tower says in midway
"See I am not injured yet."
Criminal: A guy no different from the rest.... except that he got caught.
Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
Father: A banker provided by nature.
Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a
fool on the other.
Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by
feminine waterpower.
Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his
bills.
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight (this last one was
not edited by Cynic Skeptical!)
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Golbarg
Maria Sharapova began the U.S. Open with as much buzz about her sponsorships as her strokes, as much talk about her getups as her game.She's long insisted she's more about substance than style, though, and now she owns a second Grand Slam title to prove it.
Better on the biggest points all night, the third-seeded Sharapova beat No. 2 Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4 in the U.S. Open final Saturday to add a follow-up championship to her breakthrough title at Wimbledon in 2004.
"I experienced it two years ago, and I knew that I wasn't done," Sharapova said. "I had a lot more in me."
What Sharapova had on this night was a lot more force on nearly every shot, from groundstrokes to serves to returns. She faced only one break point all match, broke Henin-Hardenne three times, and compiled a 20-15 edge in winners.
"She's been a real fighter tonight," said Henin-Hardenne, who would have moved up to No. 1 with a victory. "The better player won tonight."
Quite a concession from the Belgian, who leads the tour this season in matches won (54), Grand Slam matches won (25) and tournament titles (five). She was the first woman since Martina Hingis in 1997 to reach a year's four major finals.
"She didn't give me a lot of opportunities," Henin-Hardenne said.
The only times Sharapova lost her composure came after Henin-Hardenne put a forehand into the net to end the match.
First, Sharapova dropped to her knees and covered her face. Then she hopped up and down, giggling -- like the teenager she is. Then she tried to climb through the stands to hug her father, Yuri, and hitting partner, Mike Joyce, but got lost, and needed guidance from an usher. When she hoisted the trophy overhead, its lid fell off.
And then came her at-times petulant postmatch news conference, which Sharapova began by saying, "Let's make this a positive session tonight, please. Por favor." She got into a bit of a testy exchange with reporters who asked about the apparent signals sent by Yuri and Joyce about when to eat bananas or sip drinks at changeovers (coaching isn't allowed).
All of which led to a sentence that it's fair to say had never been uttered by a Grand Slam champion. Or anyone else, for that matter.
"I believe, at the end of the day, personally, my life is not about a banana," Sharapova said.
"It's not about what I wear. It's not about the friends that I have. My career right now is about winning a tennis match. And right now, I'm sitting here as a U.S. Open champion, and the last thing I think people need to worry about is a banana."
She became an immediate endorsement darling after her out-of-nowhere triumph at the All England Club at age 17. But then, on the court, she kept coming oh-so-close at Slams without producing title No. 2. She lost five consecutive major semifinals until beating No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo on Friday. Now Sharapova is only the eighth woman to beat the players ranked Nos. 1 and 2 at the same Grand Slam tournament.
"I think she felt a little pressure. People were talking like she didn't have her Slam," Joyce said. "It was just a matter of time. I think she had to prove to herself that she could do it."
If that's so, she proved it to everyone under the lights at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Two games into the final, a man's voice came from the sellout crowd of 23,712, screaming the tag line from Sharapova's oft-played current TV ad: "I feel pretty!" In the commercial, that tune is sung by various people as Sharapova walks out onto court. The punch line: Sharapova swings her racket and lets out one of her trademark shrieks.
Those high-pitched screams were muted at the start of the match, but within a few games, Sharapova was wailing as loudly as ever. Not that Henin-Hardenne was silent, punctuating winners with, "Allez!"
Sharapova won the coin toss and elected to receive, then went out and stood right at the baseline while Henin-Hardenne hit practice serves at the end of the warmup session. Picture Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter taking batting practice against Red Sox starter Curt Schilling -- it just doesn't happen in other sports.
Perhaps Sharapova noticed something, because she immediately earned two break points in the opening game. Henin-Hardenne saved both, then broke for a 2-0 edge with the aid of two double-faults by Sharapova, who never faced another break point.
But Sharapova broke right back, helped by the shot of the evening: a half-volley drop winner to close a 10-stroke exchange. That was enough to claim the first set.
With the outcome still in doubt at 3-3 in the second set, Sharapova won eight of nine points to break Henin-Hardenne for the third time -- yelling "Come on!" as she ran to the changeover -- then hold for a 5-3 edge.
"Come on!" from someone born in Siberia? Well, Sharapova has made her home in Florida since she was 7. After calling her mom with a cell phone while waiting for the trophy ceremony, Sharapova leaned forward in her chair and said, "This is crazy!"
During her comments to the crowd, Sharapova thanked Billie Jean King for her work for women in tennis, including for equal prize money. Sharapova earned $1.7 million with her victory, although she makes far more from endorsement deals than prize money.
Clearly, she finds more gratification in trophies.
"You can't buy a Grand Slam title, you know?" Sharapova said. "You can't buy it."
She's still only 19 and has two. After the singles final ended, Martina Navratilova, who's 49, collected her 59th Grand Slam title by teaming with Bob Bryan to win the mixed doubles final 6-2, 6-3 over Kueta Peschke and Martin Damm.
"See, if you play long enough, good things happen," Navratilova said. "I should know."
Golbarg
man pirooziye ghahremaanaaneye sharapova ro be hameye mariya doostane aziz be khosus baradar arman tabrik migam.
salavaat!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
two jokes
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