1) A Guide to Arab Democracies

2) A Journey through the Mind of Dennis Rodman

3) Amelia Earhart’s Guide to the Pacific Ocean

4) Career Opportunities for History Majors

5) Contraception by Pope John Paul II

6) Detroit – A Travel Guide (with a forward by H. Mainhardt)

7) Different Ways to Spell “BOB”

Dr. Kevorkian’s Collection of Motivational Speeches

9) Easy UNIX

10) Canadian Tips on World Dominance

11) Everything Men Know About Women

12) French Hospitality

13) Bob Dole: The Wild Years

14) How to Sustain a Musical Career by Art Garfunkel

15) Mike Tyson’s Guide to Dating Etiquette

16) Mormon Divorce Lawyers

17) Popular Lawyers

18) Staple Your Way to Success

19) Tasty Bile Recipes

20) The Amish Phone Book

21) Gypsy Sports Heroes

22) Gourmet Recipes From Michigan

23) Chic Mormon Hairstyles

24) Remarkable Texans

25) Around the World in a Peugeot

26) Fat-free German Cooking

27) English Tanning Secrets

28) The Charm of the South

29) Swiss Beaches- A Guide

30) Spicy Irish Cooking

31) Brilliant Spanish Military Campaigns

32) Great Cars of Russia

33) Advances in Chinese Human Rights

34) Investing – The Albanian Way

these are pretty good…….

My boyfriend and I are both sixteen, and we’ve been dating for a long time. We always get each other really adorable gifts. His favorite candy is M&M’s, so for his last birthday, I bought him personalized green M&M’s (we have an inside joke about the green ones), and I got him a bunch of gourmet cupcakes and balloons and stuff.

For Christmas, I already this necklace made for him that has an anchor on it and like another tag that says "only you can hold me down". His family has a yacht and he sails and scuba dives over the summer, so that explains the anchor. I also got him two v-necks, a t-shirt, and a flannel from Urban Outfitters, and I’m baking him a bunch of different Christmas cookies and making chocolate covered pretzels and stuff.

I want to get him one more big gift, but I don’t know what. Money is not an issue, and don’t tell me I shouldn’t be spending so much money on him – we always spoil each other. (Both of his parents are doctors, and he works at a dentists office.) Anyway, I want it to be Original.

Please don’t tell me to cook for him, I do that all the time.
Don’t tell me sex…I do not view that as an actual gift.
Pictures in a frame or a scrapbook is girly, as well as that coupon book idea.
No mix CD’s, or anything simple like that.
I want something he’ll actually use.
He already has an iPod touch, and his parents are getting him a laptop for Christmas…so those ideas are shot. He doesn’t like video games that much.
He plays hockey, but doesn’t like any specific hockey team…so sports tickets would be difficult.
Most of the bands he listens to are old (like The Beatles), so concert tickets would be difficult.

Any ideas? Please please(:

thats so cuteee:DD
it’s good to know that people can prove wrong that whole teenage love thing(;
buuut, for gift ideas- a jersey to any hockey team since he doesn’t have a favorite, or an autographed puck or something. you could get him nikes or something too:P ahah, i can’t really think of any other suggestions. sorry, but i hope it helps!

Once there was a girl who wanted a boyfriend. Her mom wanted to help her, so she set up a blind date for her daughter.

When the girl got back from the date she said "That was the worst night of my life!"

"Why is that?" her mom asked.

"He owns a 1922 Rolls Royce!"

"Isn’t that a good thing?"

"He’s the original owner mom!"

———–

A mild-mannered man was tired of being bossed around by his wife so he went to a psychiatrist.

The psychiatrist said he needed to build his self-esteem, and so gave him a book on assertiveness, which he read on the way home.

He had finished the book by the time he reached his house.

The man stormed into the house and walked up to his wife.

Pointing a finger in her face, he said, "From now on, I want you to know that I am the man of this house, and my word is law! I want you to prepare me a gourmet meal tonight, and when I’m finished eating my meal, I expect a sumptuous dessert afterward. Then, after dinner, you’re going to draw me my bath so I can relax. And when I’m finished with my bath, guess who’s going to dress me and comb my hair?"

"The funeral director," said his wife.

—

How To Ask A Man To Do Something

Always remember these six important rules when asking a man to do something:

1. Make sure the man is conscious.

2. Crash the hard drive on his computer and line the bird cage with the sports section.

3. Be brief! Limit your nagging speech to two, three hours, max.

4. Reward him for cooperative behavior. Offer to cook him something that doesn’t have a peel-back cover.

5. Punish him when he refuses to cooperate. Microwave his remote on high power for 55 minutes.

Rotate 1/4 turn, and microwave again for another 35 minutes.

6. Use "would you" or "will you" instead of "you’d better" or "do as I say and no one will get hurt."

—–

One day three blondes were walking down the beach when they saw that something had washed up on the beach.

The first blonde shouts, "Look it’s a dinosaur!"

The second blonde says, "No stupid. It’s the Titanic. Duh."

The third blonde chuckles. "You’re both dumb. It’s obviously a genie in a bottle." So she proceeds to pick up the bottle and rub it. Sure enough! A genie pops out!

The genie streched and looks around to find the three blondes. "Normally," the genie said, "I would grant three wishes, but since there are three of you, you each get one wish."

The first blonde steps forward. "Ok, I don’t like being a dumb blonde so I want to be 50% smarter."

The genie bobs his head and says, "Done." He turns her into a brunette.

The second blonde says, "I don’t like being a dumb blonde either so I want to be 100% smarter!" The genie turns her into a redhead.

The last blonde ponders her wish for a moment and finally says, "I LIKE being a dumb blonde. I want to be 100% dumber."

The genie turns her into a man.

—-

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.

To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

—

Walking up to a department store’s fabric counter, a pretty girl asked, "I want to buy this material for a new dress. How much does it cost?"

"Only a kiss a yard, " replied the smirking male clerk.

"That’s fine," replied the girl. "I’ll take ten yards."

With expectation and anticipation written all over his face, the clerk hurriedly measured out and wrapped the cloth, then held it out teasingly. The girl snapped up the package and pointed to a little old man standing beside her. "Grandpa will pay the bill," she smiled.

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Ok, a blonde walks into a building and goes up to a lady and says "Can I have a cheeseburger, fries and a shake?"

The lady looks at her dumbfounded and says
"Miss, this is a library."

So the blonde moves closer and whispers,
"Can I have a cheeseburger, fries and a shake?"

Thanks for lightening up things. At first I did not get the last one but did in the end.

Do others find theseannoying? There seem to be two types 1. Which is the most luxurious, butler services, gourmet cooking hotels in the city or 2. Which is the VERY cheapest, even if you are sleeping in a dirty dorm, hotel in the city. Most of us are looking for something between these two extremes. safe, clean, courteous and reasonably priced. There is an article on Yahoo today about making your tourist $ go further in these days of the dropping $, saying that you can stay in a room in a luxery hotel in Bangkok for $270/night, believe me there is good accomodation available at $60 and OK at $30

There are as many styles of travel as there are travellers. And, I try to be non-judgemental of those who choose a different style from my own…
The problem is this: Travel is not a passive experience. Travel is not something we get done to us, like a haircut or a massage. Travel is not something out there that we find on the road. Good travel is life-changing travel. But good travel is a creative act, a fusion of the traveler and the world.

So instead of trying to rack up trips, instead of trying to see every place on earth before you die, I say go for for quality instead of quantity. Pick one place you think you’d love and go there completely. Too many people out there, from luxury travelers to backpackers, seem to just be traveling for bragging rights. They’ll hit dozens and dozens of countries and have nothing to show except a few posed shots with “the locals.”
Anything else smacks of your own form of elitism. If someone enjoys getting a small taste of 100 places, or an emersion in 2 places, good for them.

Husband has just finished reading a book entitled: "Man, Master Of The House".

He calls to his wife and says: "I am master of this house, and you will do just as I say. First, you will cook me the finest gourmet dinner. Then you will go to the off-licence and buy me the finest bottle of Scotch you can find, you will come home and pour me a generous measure, which I will drink while I am watching the football on TV. Then, you will go upstairs and run me a bath, which I will take before going to bed, where we will have the wildest sex ever, during which you will fulfill my wildest fantasies. Then tomorrow, guess who is going to wash me and comb my hair?"

Wife replies:" The funeral director would be my first ******* guess."

Never heard it before. Very funny

love to cook so anytime i get the opportunity to show off my talanet I do. I am hosting Christman dinner at my new home and i am so excited. i am african american so r christmans is a soul food christman but my plan is to cook soul food dished but with a gourmet/ kick to them. I have to cookbooks Pattie Labell and Chef G. Garvin my sister has cooked from Patties and the dishes r sooo goood. Has anyone cooked from Chef G. Garvin book? he has a recipe for 5 cheese mac and cheese that i wanna try put them patties had some good looking things also. I wanted to cook some of the dishes ahead of time to c whats works but i dont havr the monet to do that. o yea i need a good recipe for lamb simple not to fancy my family will be like "gurl what u trying to do" . funny story i had a cheese dish with brie cheese and fruit toppings my aunte thought it was cheese cake lol

Everyone knows the great Patti Labelle, I’ve never heard of the chef you mentioned, sorry.But you could make the baked mac and cheese with whatever cheeses you like. I usually put cheddar, american, colby, and monteray jack, but you could put asiago, or whatever.You could make collard greens with hamhock, hoppin johns (blackeyed peas.) And for the lamb just salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, keep it simple. You could also throw some potatoes, carrots, parsnips, around the lamb. Enjoy your new home, and the holidays. Blessings.

A guy just got finished reading the book You can be the Man of the house, and decided he would use what he learned and told his wife a few rules…..Starting now I want u to go in the kitchen and cook me a gourmet meal and after dinner I want U to draw me a bath and do the dishes…after the dishes come back in a scrub my back and massage my feet. After the bath i want U to have the type of sex I want and then want U to let me sleep.. In the morning U will get up and guess who will be dressing me??? The wife said..Probably the Damn funeral director!

That is hilarous.. That joke rules.. Thanks for the joke..
Deb

A husband found a book in his bedroom entitled "How to become the ‘man of the house’." He was livid…He went storming downstairs and shouted at his shocked wife…"HEY!!…I’M the man of the house and always WILL be. Just for that you will cook me a gourmet meat tonight, followed by a sumptious dessert. Then we’ll go up to the bedroom and have sex the way I WANT. You’ll then run me a bath with salts and guess who will be drying me and dressing me after that???"

To which his wife replied…"The funeral director by the sound of it."

LMFAO

Very good.

I found this article at http://www.newsweek.com/id/161559/page/1
I’ve added my thoughts and opinions into the article so when you see UPPERCASE words in (parenthesis), thats me talking.
Post your comments about the article

For the last 15 years, Dawn Jackson Blatner has been what’s now called a "flexitarian" or "almost vegetarian." (CAN YOU SAY OXYMORON?) She eats lots of fruits, vegetables, nuts, barbecued tempeh and veggie burgers with guacamole. But she sometimes indulges in a pork chop or her grandma’s pot roast.

It might seem like being a vegetarian of convenience isn’t particularly inspiring, but a growing number of experts and even some famous foodies are fans. They say that cutting back on meat, rather than abstaining completely, may be a practical compromise that benefits our bodies and our environment.

"It gives you the health benefits of a vegetarian diet without having to follow the strict rules," (WHY IS IT CONCIDERED STRICKED? YOU CAN EAT JUST BOUT EVERYTHING YOU WANT. EVER HEARD OF MEATLESS MEATS PPL!?!?!) says Blatner, a registered dietitian and author of "The Flexitarian Diet: The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life" (McGraw-Hill, October 2008). "We know that people live longer and live healthier when they eat vegetarian, but it’s just too darn hard to do it 100 percent of the time."

Even gourmet food writers, used to nightly courses of filets and pates, are advocating the eat-less-meat movement. In January, Mark Bittman, author of "How to Cook Everything" (Wiley, 1998), is coming out with new book called "Food Matters," (Simon & Schuster) about how our diet affects global warming and "globesity" (global obesity). Bittman has been very critical of what he calls America’s "meat guzzling" tendencies. "I am an advocate of what I like to think of as a much saner diet—a largely plant-based diet," he says. A meat-based diet is, he says, "not even close to sustainable." Last year, Bittman published "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian," (Wiley, 2007), though he is not a vegetarian himself.

Bittman notes that Americans eat about 200 pounds of meat, poultry and fish a year—twice as much as the global average (YUCK!). He argues that not only is a heavily vegetable diet healthier for us physically, but that it’s also true that the industrial production and processing of grain-fed livestock consumes a huge amount energy and has a negative impact on the environment (NEGATIVE IMPACT!!!).

It’s unclear how many people are official "flexitarian" converts, but nutritionists believe there are a growing number of people who are simply eating fewer meat entrees whether it’s for health, or economic reasons or because there are more good meatless dishes on offer. Think how many Americans regularly eat peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches, pasta, bean burritos and cheese pizzas as their main courses, says Blatner. "I do feel like that is a shocking thing, when you think about how much vegetarian food we eat without even trying." (THIS IS THE SAME GUY WHO SAID VEGETARIANISM WAS STRICT?!?!)
And while only 2 to 3 percent of Americans are traditional vegetarians, who shun anything that ever had a face, according to the Vegetarian Resource Group, vegetarian foods have become increasingly popular among non-vegetarians. "If you look around at every regular, mainstream grocery store, you have soy milk right next to regular milk, you have veggie burgers in the frozen section, and tubs of tofu sitting there in the produce section," says Blatner. She suggests that many of those who buy these products may be flextitarians and not even realize it. Even dedicated vegetarians say they are somewhat flexible. A 2003 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that two out of three vegetarians say they can’t stick to a pure veggie diet all the time (DO YOU THINK THIS IS TRUE?).

Some vegetarian advocates hope that a movement that begins with eating less meat might lead to more people embracing a no-meat, no-fish and no-fowl lifestyle. Vegetarian Resource Group co-director Charles Stahler, calls it a "step in the right direction." It should also inspire even more restaurants to create veggie options, and more people to realize that it’s "easy to be a vegetarian," he says. In fact, it already has become a bit easier for gourmet food lovers to find good meatless entrees. Last year a National Restaurant Association survey found that more than 50 percent of chefs rate vegetarian entries among their top 10 trendiest menu items (I THOUGHT THIS WAS INTERESTING).

Still, not everyone agrees that it’s a great idea to be mostly vegetarian instead of going whole hog—so to speak. "Given the environmental, cruelty and health impact of a meat-based diet, going vegan is best, going vegetarian is good, and being a flexitarian is like smoking two packs of cigarettes instead of ten, beating one pig down the slaughter ramp instead of two, and pouring a p
If you don’t care about the article, then I don’t bout your response. Grow up and get a life other than leaving comments that waste ppls time! Report you for being an a$$!
haha i know its a ridiculous term, but that was the name of the article, i had nothing to do with it
i see where your going with it, but once again, NOT MY ARTICLE, i did not write it, i found it on msn.com, I just posted it to see what ppl thought, so stop thinking its mine, k?

well i didnt read all of the article because i just dont feel like reading it
but i want to say that a "flexitarian" or "part-time vegetarian" is absolutly ridiculous
us true vegetarians dont take a brake or take weekends off

i dont think its fair that i have dedicated part of my life to sumthing and somebody else who does not even care or feel passionate about it can just decide to be "part-time"
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Do colleges actually look at your level of involvement in the extracurricular activities you participate in or just the overall amount of clubs, etc you’ve been involved with. How do they know how well you "did" in that certain activity (if they do at all)?

I personally have only been involved in newspaper (illustrator) and environmental club during my high school career (I’m a junior), partly because I’m an extremely harsh, irritable, matter of fact, and negative person (who isn’t much fun to be around) and partly because I’d much rather record/compose music, read my science and history books, or play with my dogs than cook gourmet chicken with the culinary team. The clubs aren’t school aren’t meant for people like me, or maybe I’m just not made for them. There’s only so many hours in the day you know.
Lose the negativity? Lose the basis of my personality- I think not!

This makes total sense. I wasn’t hugely involved in extracurriculars. It doesn’t matter too much. Colleges look for talented individuals who excel in one or two unusual fields. You can really persuade admissions people by writing a brilliant essay. So possibly describe music composistions in your college essay. Or describe omitted histories from required history texts . . . like why is the Korean war a "forgotten war" when North Korea is one of the most infamous nations. Anything intellectual, which doesn’t list credentials, will aid in your thesis and college entrance.