In the English speaking a world, it is a tradition that women may propose marriage only on leap years. While it has been argued that the tradition was initiated by Saint Patrick or Brigid of Kildare in 5th century Ireland, it is dubious as the tradition has not been attested before the 19th century. Supposedly, a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), required that fines be levied if a marriage proposal was refused by the man; compensation ranged from a kiss to £1 to a silk gown, in order to soften the blow. Because men felt that put them at too great a risk, the tradition was in some places tightened to restricting female proposals to the modern leap day, 29 February, or to the medieval leap day, 24 February. According to Felten: "A play from the turn of the 17th century, 'The Maydes Metamorphosis,' has it that 'this is leape year/women wear breeches.' A few hundred years later, breeches wouldn't do at all: Women looking to take advantage of their opportunity to pitch woo were expected to wear a scarlet petticoat -- fair warning, if you will."
In Greece, it is believed that getting married in a leap year is bad luck for the couple. Thus, mainly in the middle of the past century, couples avoided setting a marriage date in a leap year.
This should not be confused with Sadie Hawkins Day which is a fictional holiday that originates in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner. It was a day-long event in observed in Canada and in the United States on the Saturday that follows November 9, named after Sadie Hawkins, "the homeliest gal in all them hills." Each year on Sadie Hawkins Day the unmarried women of Dogpatch pursued the single men. If a woman caught a man and dragged him back to the starting line by sundown, he had to marry her.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Top 10 Actors - for real this time!
Here is our list of our favorite all around actors. See what you think! I have links to imdb.com for each if you want to know more about them!
1. Bruce Boxleitner
2. Hugh Jackman
3. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
4. Harrison Ford
5. Ian McKellen
6. Daniel Day-Lewis
7. Tobey Maguire
8. Michael Cain
9. Johnny Depp
10. Carey Elwes
1. Bruce Boxleitner
2. Hugh Jackman
3. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
4. Harrison Ford
5. Ian McKellen
6. Daniel Day-Lewis
7. Tobey Maguire
8. Michael Cain
9. Johnny Depp
10. Carey Elwes
Puzzle of the Day
Ten candles stand burning in a dining room. A strong breeze blows in through an open window and extinguishes two of them. Checking back in on the candles later, you see that one more candle has gone out. To make sure no more flames go out, you shut the window. Assuming the wind doesn't extinguish any more candles, how many candles do you have left in the end?
* Please note that no actual candles were harmed in the creation of this puzzle.
* Please note that no actual candles were harmed in the creation of this puzzle.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Our Top 10 Cutest Actors
These are the cutest actors ever! Look at 'em and see what YOU think!
1. Babycakes (aka John Sheridan)
2. Alan Bradley
3. Luke Macahan
4. Lee Stetson
5. Eddie Dillon
6. Billy Montana
7. William Wicker
8. Cole Hickel
9. Patrick Dunmore
10. Robert Lewis
1. Babycakes (aka John Sheridan)
2. Alan Bradley
3. Luke Macahan
4. Lee Stetson
5. Eddie Dillon
6. Billy Montana
7. William Wicker
8. Cole Hickel
9. Patrick Dunmore
10. Robert Lewis
Puzzle of the Day
SOS!! Fifteen people are trapped aboard a ship that's going to sink in exactly 20 minutes. Their only chance for survival is the five-person life raft stowed on their vessel. to make matters worse, the waters around the ship are teeming with man-eating sharks, so swimming to safety is out of the question.
A round-trip to the nearest island and back to the boat takes nine minutes on the raft. How many people will live to see dry land?
The two lonely, sad people are standing on the deck of the ship as it begins glurg, glurg, glurg to sink into the briny deep. They huddle together for warmth knowing their impending doom is moments away. When suddenly out of the sky comes a brilliant light. There is the White Star in all its splendor. As President Sheridan reaches out his hand to help the remaining two people into the White Star Jennie and Christie turn and wave lovingly at the people remaining on the island below. The light dims as the White Star forms a jump gate and they whisk out of sight headed to Babylon 5 and home.
A round-trip to the nearest island and back to the boat takes nine minutes on the raft. How many people will live to see dry land?
The two lonely, sad people are standing on the deck of the ship as it begins glurg, glurg, glurg to sink into the briny deep. They huddle together for warmth knowing their impending doom is moments away. When suddenly out of the sky comes a brilliant light. There is the White Star in all its splendor. As President Sheridan reaches out his hand to help the remaining two people into the White Star Jennie and Christie turn and wave lovingly at the people remaining on the island below. The light dims as the White Star forms a jump gate and they whisk out of sight headed to Babylon 5 and home.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Puzzle of the Day
All right. Here's a quick and easy one.
The first letter of the alphabet is A, and the letter B comes after the letter A.
However, the letter you need to worry about is the last one. What's the last letter of the alphabet?
The first letter of the alphabet is A, and the letter B comes after the letter A.
However, the letter you need to worry about is the last one. What's the last letter of the alphabet?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Puzzle of the Day
Alfred and Roland have been hired by a farm to sow flower seeds. They've been assigned a 10-acre plot of land and split it in half so they can work independently. Roland starts from the east and Alfred from the west.
Alfred can plow the land at a rate of 20 minutes per acre. Roland takes 40 minutes to plow, but sows seeds at three times the speed Alfred does.
If sowing seeds on the 10-acre plot pays $100, how much of that money should go to Roland?
Alfred can plow the land at a rate of 20 minutes per acre. Roland takes 40 minutes to plow, but sows seeds at three times the speed Alfred does.
If sowing seeds on the 10-acre plot pays $100, how much of that money should go to Roland?
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Mornings and Dates!
I hate getting up in the morning. Which is exactly what I had to do today! I got up at the crack of dawn (6:30)! It's horrifying! And then I had to be able to comprehend stuff too! I had to take a writing proficiency exam (the WPE). It's basically write an essay in 75 minutes about a topic they give you. Luckily it was a topic I was able to write about - something that I had been worrying about. The part I wasn't worried about was my writing skills as I've always been a decent writer, and I'm not sure I did a very good job on it. Oh well...if I fail I'll just have to retake it and study a bit harder, though there's only so much I think you can do to study for it.
As not-worried as I was about it, (:P) it was very exhausting and I napped the afternoon away. I napped partially because I was tired and partially because I had become ravenous and knew I'd eat a whole bunch that I shouldn't if I didn't find something to get it off my mind...sleeping was as good a choice as any. After I woke up I took a shower to get ready for my date!
My second date ever (in my 21 years) was a lot of fun. We had a group date with Brett and Kellie (B&K), Dustin and Chiemi (D&C), and Adam Bickford and Kellie's sister Kasey. My date for the evening was Brandon Ready. We met at B&K's apartment and then walked over to Pacific Burger just down the street. They have pretty good food actually. I enjoyed it a lot. The only thing I had ever had from there is their fries once and that was years ago when I was in high school. I wouldn't mind going back there sometime. Funny thing happened, Kasey and Adam ordered and when he went to pay he realized he didn't have any cash on him and it was "Cash Only" so Kasey had to pay for the both of them! It was hilarious! Then we sat down...B&K and A&K in one booth and the rest of us in another. One table was really, really noisy and rambunctious and the other was fairly quiet...guess which was which. :P Brandon also decided we needed to pray on the food and Chiemi was like..What? Really?...I was thinking...he's both a Ready (highly spiritual) and a RM. It's probably ingrained in him at this point to pray wherever he is, even in restaurants.
After dinner we went back to the apartment and played a few games. They are the kind of games that are hard to describe without you being there but if played right can lead to the most fun you have ever had. They are good for groups like that. They make you laugh so HARD!! I got so hot but by the time I would have taken my jacket off it was getting later and I didn't want to start getting settled in or anything. D&C managed to bow out to relieve their babysitter, Vicki, of her duties so she could go home. I couldn't find a nice way to bow out as I couldn't have said that I needed to get home to sleep as that is blatantly untrue for anyone who knows me. I am a complete night owl and don't generally go to bed before midnight most nights. But whatever. I had fun and I'm home now, that's all that matters.
As not-worried as I was about it, (:P) it was very exhausting and I napped the afternoon away. I napped partially because I was tired and partially because I had become ravenous and knew I'd eat a whole bunch that I shouldn't if I didn't find something to get it off my mind...sleeping was as good a choice as any. After I woke up I took a shower to get ready for my date!
My second date ever (in my 21 years) was a lot of fun. We had a group date with Brett and Kellie (B&K), Dustin and Chiemi (D&C), and Adam Bickford and Kellie's sister Kasey. My date for the evening was Brandon Ready. We met at B&K's apartment and then walked over to Pacific Burger just down the street. They have pretty good food actually. I enjoyed it a lot. The only thing I had ever had from there is their fries once and that was years ago when I was in high school. I wouldn't mind going back there sometime. Funny thing happened, Kasey and Adam ordered and when he went to pay he realized he didn't have any cash on him and it was "Cash Only" so Kasey had to pay for the both of them! It was hilarious! Then we sat down...B&K and A&K in one booth and the rest of us in another. One table was really, really noisy and rambunctious and the other was fairly quiet...guess which was which. :P Brandon also decided we needed to pray on the food and Chiemi was like..What? Really?...I was thinking...he's both a Ready (highly spiritual) and a RM. It's probably ingrained in him at this point to pray wherever he is, even in restaurants.
After dinner we went back to the apartment and played a few games. They are the kind of games that are hard to describe without you being there but if played right can lead to the most fun you have ever had. They are good for groups like that. They make you laugh so HARD!! I got so hot but by the time I would have taken my jacket off it was getting later and I didn't want to start getting settled in or anything. D&C managed to bow out to relieve their babysitter, Vicki, of her duties so she could go home. I couldn't find a nice way to bow out as I couldn't have said that I needed to get home to sleep as that is blatantly untrue for anyone who knows me. I am a complete night owl and don't generally go to bed before midnight most nights. But whatever. I had fun and I'm home now, that's all that matters.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Did You Know?
Here's your helpful hints for today:
1. Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little "stringy things" off of it. That's how the primates do it.
2. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
3. Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
4. Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
5. Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
6. To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
7. For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
8. Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
9. Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yum!
10. Reheating Pizza: Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
11. Easy Deviled Eggs: Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
12. Expanding Frosting: When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
13. Reheating refrigerated bread: To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
14. Newspaper weeds away: Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
15. Broken Glass: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
16. No More Mosquitoes: Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
17. Squirrel Away!: To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
18. Flexible vacuum: To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
19. Reducing Static Cling: Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and -- ta da! -- static is gone.
20. Measuring Cups: Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out. Pam or other vegetable spray also works.
21. Foggy Windshield?: Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
22. Reopening envelope: If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
23. Conditioner: Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair.
24. Good-bye Fruit Flies: To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2" with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
25. Get Rid of Ants (this is for Janet): Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it "home," can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
1. Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little "stringy things" off of it. That's how the primates do it.
2. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
3. Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
4. Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
5. Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
6. To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
7. For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
8. Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
9. Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yum!
10. Reheating Pizza: Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
11. Easy Deviled Eggs: Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
12. Expanding Frosting: When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
13. Reheating refrigerated bread: To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
14. Newspaper weeds away: Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
15. Broken Glass: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
16. No More Mosquitoes: Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
17. Squirrel Away!: To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
18. Flexible vacuum: To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
19. Reducing Static Cling: Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and -- ta da! -- static is gone.
20. Measuring Cups: Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out. Pam or other vegetable spray also works.
21. Foggy Windshield?: Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
22. Reopening envelope: If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
23. Conditioner: Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair.
24. Good-bye Fruit Flies: To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2" with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
25. Get Rid of Ants (this is for Janet): Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it "home," can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
Fazjizj
Hey again! I wanted to explain our name for those who don't have a clue what that means. I'll have to take you back a couple of years ago when I was still the nerd I am today. At that point in time I went through a phase for a little while where I liked to exclaim "w00t!" instead of "cool!" or something. One day my mom heard me say it and was completely weirded out. She was like - What the heck are you saying? I explained to her basically what it meant and she said "That's not a real word! I should make up my own words like that too! Like Fazjizj! That's even BETTER than w00t!" I told her it is a word and since he was there, Dustin went on to show her that it was a word and looked it up on Wikipedia for her.
I think the real kicker for her is Webster made w00t their word of the year for 2007 so it is now a word in their online open dictionary!
A sad tidbit for you all out there. I tried to get FAZJIZJ for my license plate and it was rejected! "Because it could be considered offensive to people!" I mean what is that! A made up word that basically means outstanding! Superb! Wonderful! This is the Greatest! Whatever...I'm not still upset about it or anything. :P
So spread the joy you all! Make Fazjizj your exclamation of choice! Spread the love! It's our family word and it could be yours if you let it too!
I think the real kicker for her is Webster made w00t their word of the year for 2007 so it is now a word in their online open dictionary!
A sad tidbit for you all out there. I tried to get FAZJIZJ for my license plate and it was rejected! "Because it could be considered offensive to people!" I mean what is that! A made up word that basically means outstanding! Superb! Wonderful! This is the Greatest! Whatever...I'm not still upset about it or anything. :P
So spread the joy you all! Make Fazjizj your exclamation of choice! Spread the love! It's our family word and it could be yours if you let it too!
Puzzle of the Day
Today's puzzle:
Imagine a digital clock. How many times will the clock display three or more of the same number in a row over the course of one day?
In case you were wondering, this clock in this puzzle displays time on a 12-hour scale, not on military time.
Imagine a digital clock. How many times will the clock display three or more of the same number in a row over the course of one day?
In case you were wondering, this clock in this puzzle displays time on a 12-hour scale, not on military time.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Our World!
Christy and I have become Babylon 5 freaks lately. She got the entire series for X-mas and has started watching them. I started watching them again when my brother Brett found out that my new mp3 player plays videos really well on them. (Incidentally, my player doesn't play them well anymore since I dropped it and broke the screen. I'm holding out to getting a new one until the prices drop some more though. How's that for bad...I barely had it a month or so before destroying it!) But I'm still watching/listening to them when I'm walking to class. We've even pulled my mom into watching them again! :DFor anyone who's seen the show, Christy and I love Sheridan (or Babycakes as we dubbed him) the best. (Unless you count her liking Londo just as much if not more, which you'll note I'm not! :P) He makes me smile just to look at him! And we love the romance that goes on between him and Delenn (Hunny Bunny). Here is a picture I scanned of a B5 magazine that my bro Dustin just gave to me. I have no idea where he got it but Christy and I plan to enjoy it thoroughly. Christy is actually going through the series twice over...she's watching once with her husband Tom and re-watching again on her own at my pace. She's also finds interesting facts about the show that make you go, wow I never knew that!
I have to admit though that I have pulled ahead of her as she's been distracted by a game she just got for her DS called Professor Layton. She plans on letting me play once she's done with it (perhaps to slow me down?...j/k!). She's nearing the end of the first season while I just started the second season tonight. Yay! I'm glad I am finished with 1st season as it does not have Babycakes in it, it has Sinclair (or Eyebrows) who is just not as good.The show is still good in the 1st season...no doubt about that...but it gets better and better as the seasons progress.
This is Jennie, signing out.
Welcome to the Fazjizj Forum
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind. The Fazjizj Forum was a dream, given form. Its goal: to create a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the Fazjizj Forum. The year is 2008. Our favorite TV show is Babylon 5.
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