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how could grumpy beethoven write such wonderfull music

how could grumpy beethoven write such wonderfull music

So Rooney signed a five-year deal. But he's ninety years old now!.............Sorry, got confused with Mickey Rooney - short, stumpy, way past his peak........Easy mistake to make.

Dave Cox: It's Beethoven with a capital B and wonderful with just one L. That's without getting in to a capital for the first word of a sentence, and a question mark at the end of a question...

A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I would like to buy some cyanide."

The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?"

The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband."

The pharmacist's eyes got big and he explained, "Lord have mercy! I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband, that's against the law? I'll lose my licence! They'll throw both of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen. Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!"

The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife.

The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, "You didn't tell me you had a prescription."

Do people in Australia call the rest of the world "up over"?

Fruit count as one of your 5 a day.
Sweetcorn counts as one of your 5 a day.
Dried fruit counts as one of your 5 a day. Even if you eat it fresh from the microwave.
Popcorn does not count as one of your 5 a day. Why?








I actually know the answer to this but I use it to get my students questioning 'facts' they are told and thought you'd appreciate the brainteaser nature of the question. Real answer later...

is it the same as sweetcorn?

Yes. Popcorn is made from the kernels of sweetcorn that have got older and dried. It's the same plant, the same kernels, just different time frames.

would popcorn count if you had forgotten to eat any sweetcorn?