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    Pete Hanlin said:
    Yes.....you quessed it! I'm left handed.
    My condolences, Harry... If I'm not mistaken, left handed people have an average life span that is 9 years shorter than right handers (a strange but true fact if ever there was one). :(

    Let's hope you're a righty at heart! :p
    Uh Oh!...........9 years gone just like that As i'm left handed also

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    Cows have two stomachs?






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    Is this somehow connected to the national obsession with the sport Curling?


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    Unless I have been misinformed in my youth, cows have four stomachs.

    When being examined for visual acuity, women invaribly want to tell you the line "they can't see" when asked to read the lowest line they can.

    Most women don't know right from left without looking for a ring.

    Women must alway describe the quality of a line with an adjuctive (cearly, fuzzy, ghosty, or something) when asked the to read the lowest line they can on an eye cart.

    If you tell women to rinse thier contact lenses in a glass of water as stay away from the laboratory when handling contact lenses. When questioned about thier habits trying to find the cause of scracthed contacts, they invaribly say: "But I put a towel down in the sink."

    When you tell female soft contact lens weares to use "Only Ivory Bar Soap" they invaribly ask if they can use a pump soft soap or an anti-bacterial soap.


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    Smilie Chip

    No flack from me. I remember the cows stomach from things my grandfather told me.

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    chip anderson said:
    Unless I have been misinformed in my youth, cows have four stomachs.

    Yes, Chip, that is correct. Here is all you wanted to know about cow digestion and more:

    http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20010110.html


    BTW, Chip, what's with the female thing??????????:hammer:
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    For Cindy

    Cindy:

    I have just gotten old and burned out. I get so tired of women responding when we put them in front of the eye chart and asking them "What is the lowest line you can read?" and we get the response:

    "Clearly?" " I can't see line 9." Or they start at the 20/200 line and work thier way down. They read the 20/30 line, we ask: "What's the next line?" and with prompting they work thier way down to 20/15 with no mistakes. Instead of reading the lowest line they can see, they study the chart, make facial expresssions for five minites while I am standing there with a bad back holding a trial lens. I don't want to know what they might be able to guess at with a months study.

    Usually when I give them an instruction on contact lens insertion, or removal they try to modify it or come back with some alternative.

    One shoud retire and change professions every thirty years or so and I wasn't smart enough to do so.

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    Sean, I was quite sure that "whistler's mother" is hanging in the Musee de Orsee, there amonst most of the worlds most famous impressionists works on the 7th floor...it is across the river Seine and up a couple blocks from the Lourve. really quite impressive, used to ba an old train station...
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    Big Smile Thanks for the info Cindy

    Good to know you guys have the facts straight. Sorry about the wrong number.




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    Re: For Cindy

    chip anderson said:
    Cindy:

    I have just gotten old and burned out. I get so tired of women responding when we put them in front of the eye chart and asking them "What is the lowest line you can read?" and we get the response:

    "Clearly?" " I can't see line 9." Or they start at the 20/200 line and work thier way down. They read the 20/30 line, we ask: "What's the next line?" and with prompting they work thier way down to 20/15 with no mistakes. Instead of reading the lowest line they can see, they study the chart, make facial expresssions for five minites while I am standing there with a bad back holding a trial lens. I don't want to know what they might be able to guess at with a months study.

    Usually when I give them an instruction on contact lens insertion, or removal they try to modify it or come back with some alternative.

    One shoud retire and change professions every thirty years or so and I wasn't smart enough to do so.

    Chip
    Chip,
    On behalf of all the female patients you either have or will see, I apologize!
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    Texas Ranger said:
    Sean, I was quite sure that "whistler's mother" is hanging in the Musee de Orsee, there amonst most of the worlds most famous impressionists works on the 7th floor...it is across the river Seine and up a couple blocks from the Lourve. really quite impressive, used to ba an old train station...
    Hmmm.......i'm going to have to check into that one.Is there a chance that it could have been moved at one point or another?

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    Sean, it is possible that it could have been moved; I saw it there in October of 2000. It was on the wall adjacent to Van Gogh's self-portrait. Another quite interesting art fact. On the wall opposite the "mona lisa" in the Lourve, is a painting of the coroantion of Napolean, by David(last name), but there is an almost identical painting at Versailles; it is said that the King (Louis?) loved the first one so much that he commissioned a dupicate be made, it took a couple years to paint, I don't know the exact dimensions, but it's maybe 30' x 25', i'd guess, has something like a hundred people. to me, that is an awesome accomplishment!

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    Texas Ranger said:
    Sean, it is possible that it could have been moved; I saw it there in October of 2000. It was on the wall adjacent to Van Gogh's self-portrait. Another quite interesting art fact. On the wall opposite the "mona lisa" in the Lourve, is a painting of the coroantion of Napolean, by David(last name), but there is an almost identical painting at Versailles; it is said that the King (Louis?) loved the first one so much that he commissioned a dupicate be made, it took a couple years to paint, I don't know the exact dimensions, but it's maybe 30' x 25', i'd guess, has something like a hundred people. to me, that is an awesome accomplishment!
    I would say then that you are correct.........It must have been moved. As i heard that fact about 8-10 years ago.Thanks for the update.:bbg:

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    Sean, I can relate, when you're so afflicted, you've got all the battle you can handle!

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    Harry, makes you wonder, most laws are enacted because the community was offended that someone breaking the law that wasn't the law yet!

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