Month: January 2012

Jokes

Joke Of The Day

Barack Hussein Obama was travelling in China. In a remote village, he came upon an elderly Chinaman skipping stones across a lake. At each bounce of the stone off the water, the mountains surrounding the lake echoed back, “CHING…CHANG…CHUN…”

Obama was amazed. He asked the Chinaman what was going on.

“Oh”, said the Chinaman, “Magic spirit of the lake echo back the names of your ancient ancestors as your stone skip upon the sacred waters”.

“Wow”, said Barack, “Can I try it?”.

“Certainly”, replied the Chinaman.

Obama picked up the biggest stone he could find, and gave it a mighty heave across the waters… and as it skipped across the waters, the mountains echoed back “CHIM…PAN…ZEE….”

Amusing

Taiwan Garbage Collection

Taiwan is a small and densely populated island. Many years ago, their waste disposal system was faced with a huge issue – the public garbage collection spots were overflowing, smelly and infested with rats and insects. The Taiwanese government rose to the occasion, coming up with a unique solution – musical garbage trucks.

Instead of having people dump their household waste at designated spots, a policy was created so garbage never touched the ground. In the new system, garbage trucks would pass through every street and people had to bring out their trash bags personally, to dump into the trucks. How would they know when the trucks arrived? Through music of course. For several years, the trucks have played the tune of “Für Elise” by Beethoven and “A Maiden’s Prayer” by Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska. The sound of these tunes had city-dwellers emerge from their homes almost every night, with blue plastic bags filled with trash and another bag of recyclable waste, to dump into the truck.

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