Andhra Maverick

What does Love mean? Touching words from the mouth of babes. What does Love mean? A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca- age 8 "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." Billy - age 4 "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." Karl - age 5 "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." Chrissy - age 6 "Love is what makes you smile when you're

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. Modern Version The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant ' s a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper allowed suffering so?

From the University of Georgia: Bar Stool Economics Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20." Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide t

*Top 10 Ways to Lose Your Money... (24) 14-Dec-07 22:53 #10 - Put all of your efforts into finding the perfect technical indicator. Once you find this magical indicator, it will be like turning on a water faucet. Go all in. The money will just flow into your account! #9 - When your technical indicator says that the stock is oversold, BUY IT RIGHT THEN. Always do what your technical indicator says to do. It takes precedence over price action. #8 - Make sure to visit a lot of stock trading forums and ask them for hot stock tips. Also, ask all your friends and family for stock tips. They are usually right, and acting on these tips can make you very rich. #7 - Watch what other traders do and be sure to follow the crowd. After all, they have been trading a lot longer than you so naturally they are smarter. #6 - Pay very close attention to the fundamentals of a company. You MUST know the P/E ratio, book value, profit margins, etc. Once you find a "good company", consider going on

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*When Mr Gubin`s wife is Mrs Gubina* ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *It's important to learn the nuances of business etiquette in the country you are visiting. * * * *A young vice-president of a large Indian engineering firm went on his first business trip to China last month and had, quite thoughtfully, taken small gifts for his hosts based in Shanghai. His experience shows why it's important to learn the business etiquette in the country you are visiting. For, it varies widely from country to country and not knowing the nuances of business etiquette can cause a major embarrassment. * * * *At his first meeting, the executive offered a nicely gift-wrapped present to his Chinese counterpart. The HR manager in his company had told him that the Chinese love token presents. To his surprise, the Chinese gentleman smilingly declined to accept the gift. Thinking that he was just being polite, the Indian executive offered the gift again, but rather sheepishly put it back in his bag as the Chine

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy? I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York . My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden (?), $250k annual income is not enough. I'm here humbly to ask a few questions: 1)      Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaura

by Joel Bowman on Wednesday, 21 November 2007  Tourists visiting 27 World Heritage Listed sites in India , including the Taj Mahal, will no longer be able to pay in dollars after it was announced Tuesday that the flailing currency was not welcome. Entrance fees to the Mughal tomb in Agra and over 100 other sites run by the Archaeological Survey of India have rejected payment in US dollars, accepting only Indian rupees. According to the Time UK, "The Indian Ministry of Culture said that it was ditching the dollar to correct 'any anomaly' caused by currency fluctuations that were adversely affecting its income." But the new payment will cost tourists up to one-third more. Where tickets for the Taj Mahal and other World Heritage Listed sites had previously been set at $5, the new price of 250 rupees converts to approximately $6.40. Indian residents, however, are extended a discounted rate of 20 rupees to visit their national sites. The US dollar has suffe

  A touching one, brings tears to eyes and forced to thing, what we are going to earn and leave for the family, society we are in, we moved out for greener pastures, but feel strongly come back, the desires will or won’t they end up????       As the dream of most parents I had acquired a degree in Software > Engineer and joined a company based in USA , the land of braves and > Opportunity . When I arrived in the USA ; it was as if a dream had come > true. >   > Here at last I was in the place where I want to be. I decided I would be > Staying in this country for about Five years in which time I would have > Earned enough money! To settle down in India . >   > My father was a government employee and after his retirement, the only > Asset he could acquire was a decent one bedroom flat. I wanted to do some > Thing more than him. I started feeling homesick and lonely as the time > Passed. I used to call home and spe

After just a few years of marriage, filled with constant arguments, a young man and his wife decided the only way to save their marriage was to try counseling. They had been at each other's throats for some time and felt that this was their last straw.    When they arrived at the counselor's office, the counselor jumped  right in and opened the floor for discussion.      "What seems to be the problem?" The wife began talking 90 miles an hour describing all the wrongs within their marriage.      After 15 minutes of listening to the wife, the counselor went over to her, picked her up by her shoulders, kissed her passionately for several minutes, and sat her back down. Afterwards, the wife sat there speechless.      He looked over at the husband who was staring in disbelief at what had happened.  The counselor spoke to the husband, "Your wife NEEDS that at least twice a week!"   The husband scratched his head and replied... "I can hav

You'll never look at the ocean the same way... The average blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates, but only 10% of that actually makes it into his mate. So 360 gallons are spilled into the ocean every time one unloads, and you wonder why the ocean is so salty...   Pass it on .......Don't swallow the water

A couple had two little boys, ages eight and ten, who were excessively mischievous. The two were always getting into trouble and their parents could be confident that if any mischief occurred in their town, their two young sons were involved in some capacity. The parents were at their wit's end as to what to do about their sons' behavior. The parents had heard that a clergyman in town had been successful in disciplining children in the past, so they contacted him, and he agreed to give it his best shot. He asked to see the boys individually, so the eight-year-old was sent to meet with him first. The clergyman sat the boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?" The boy made no response, so the clergyman repeated the question in an even sterner tone, "Where is God?" Again the boy made no attempt to answer, so the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face, "WHERE IS GOD?"

                Plato:                  For the greater good.                   Karl Marx:                  It was an historical inevitability.                   Timothy Leary:                  Because that's the only kind of trip the                 Establishment would let it take.                   Oliver North:                  National Security was at stake.                   Carl Jung:                  The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt                 necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at                 this historical juncture, and therefore                 synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.                     Jean-Paul Sartre:                  In order to act in good faith and be true to                 itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the                 road.                   Albert Einstein:                  Whether the chicken crossed the road or the