For the last few months one of the other companies that share the building I work in has had a poster hanging from the cafeteria door. This poster is for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. It is a large poster that covers the upper half of the door. Most of the poster is devoted to some images of the kids you could help out by donating, along with a description of their wish. Along the bottom is a strip of space devoted to tracking the total donations to date. You simply color in the bar graph as the donations climb. This area isn’t just white space, or graduated with percentages of the goal. There is an image there, and it’s not just one image, it’s a pattern of the same image repeated along the length of the area.

As I said, this has been hanging for months. The whole time I have been wondering, “Why would they have a poorly drawn outline of Idaho on that poster?” I just couldn’t figure it out – until today.

Today was the day that I walked past the poster, and like the vase and faces image, the true nature of the appearance of the bad outline of Idaho revealed itself to me. It’s not the state of Idaho, because you are not supposed to be looking at the black area of the image.

The white area of the image is the profile of a face.

Lesson of the day – try to look at something you see everyday in a different way, you might be surprised.

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Most reasonable people would not even think to use a shotgun to remove a seized bolt of any kind. Maybe he saw the episode of The Simpsons where Homer was using a gun for all sorts of houshold tasks.

I thought it would be fun to make a list of things you can do with a gun, so you can replace many items with just one useful tool. Some of these you probably already know about, some no so much.

So, here it is, my top 11 list of useful things you didn’t know you could do with a gun:

1. Open another beer – I say “another” because it’s likely that you have already had a few.
2. Paper punch, just make sure that if you are punching holes for use in a 3-ring binder you space them properly.
3. Tire removal, as described in the article.
4. Releasing air from a tire.
5. Celebrating, just like they did in the old west, or at least in movies about the old west.
6. Signaling the start of a race.
7. Adding ventilation to the soffit of a house.
8. Fixing a leaky faucet.
9. Aerating your lawn. There is a potential safety issue here – make sure you have your utility lines marked before you do this. A shotgun with large pellet size would probably work best.
10. Harvesting apples.
11. Getting a cat out of a tree.

I feel it is my responsibility in this world where people don’t know that coffee is hot before they pour it into their laps that I am not responsible for anything you do with this list. Actually, it’s probably best if you don’t read it at all.

If you have any uses for guns, other than their intended purpose, share and enjoy!

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A blonde walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the Loan officer. She says she’s going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.

The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for the loan, so the blonde hands over the keys to a new Mercedes Benz SL 500.

The car is parked on the street in front of the bank, she has the title and everything checks out. The bank agrees to accept the car collateral for the loan.

The bank’s president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the blond for using a $110,000 Benz as collateral against a $5,000 loan.

An employee of the bank then proceeds to drive the Benz into the bank’s underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later, the blonde returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41.

The loan officer says, “Miss, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire.

What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?”

The blonde replies, “Where else in New York City can I park my Car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return?”

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So, my question to you is, once the way that you look at something has been changed, how do you quantify that change?

Now that I think about it, I believe that the way that I look at denture adhesive has been changed as well. In your comments, be sure to mention what it was that you look at that changed, and how you discovered how you used to look at it.

Here are some things that I believe the way I look at them has been altered:

Tea
Denture Adhesive
Long Distance Bills
Frozen Foods

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- religion
- royalty
- sex
- mystery

The prize-winning essay read:

“My God,” said the Queen. “I’m pregnant. I wonder who did it?”

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