Michael's Musings

September 12, 2011

Stuff You Didn't Know You Didn't Know:

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S.  Treasury. 

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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

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Coca-Cola was originally green. 

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: 

Alaska 

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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.

(now get this...) 

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:

$ 16,400

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The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour: 

61,000 

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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.. 

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The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. 

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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. 

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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:


Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

Diamonds - Julius Caesar 

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111,111,111 x
111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321 

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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died because of wounds received in battle.

If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.


I'll have more of these interesting facts later.  In the meantime, have a creative day.

Michael

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September 9, 2011

Here's a joke I was sent:

The first surgeon, says: "I like to operate on accountants because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."


The second surgeon, responds: "Yeah, but you should try electricians.  Everything inside of them is color coded."


The third surgeon, says: "No, I really think librarians are the best.  Everything inside of them is in alphabetical order."


The fourth chimes in: "You know, I like construction workers.  Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over."


But, the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed: "You're all wrong.
Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine -- and the head and the ass are interchangeable." 

You have a creative weekend and I'll be back on Monday.

Michael

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September 8, 2011

If you are an animal lover, I suggest that you do not see HANNA, which has just been released onto DVD.

This is the 2011 movie about the young teenage assassin that stars Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett.

Why shouldn't you see it?

In the opening scene the Hanna character is out hunting and she kills a reindeer with a bow-and-arrow.  Since the sequence was shot in Finland and the Animal Humane Society was not involved, there is a serious concern that the reindeer was, in fact, killed.

Truthfully, I don't know if the deer was killed or not.

I spoke to people at the Animal Humane Society and they weren't sure either, though the picture's distributor, Focus Films, told them it wasn't.

[Animal Humane has received many calls on this scene.]

But, even the deer wasn't killed, that scene was a big mistake.

If you are an "animal person," then once this scene appears on the screen, you sit there wondering if the deer was really killed...and it takes you out of the picture.

Frankly, I could never get involved with the movie because I kept thinking about the reindeer.   I even watched the entire end credit sequence, looking for the "No animal was harmed..." disclaimer that never came.

The director (Joe Wright) could have made exactly the same point by shooting the reindeer sequence a different way, and if he had done that, he would not have alienated a segment of his audience.

Yes, I'm a "Bambi lover," and very proud to be one.

You have a creative day.

Michael

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