All categories - 30 April 2007

The cobbler astrologer
Sittara wanted a magnificent jeweled robe like the astrologer's wife, so she talked her humble cobbler husband, Ahmed, into becoming an astrologer. He sold all that he had and purchased astrology instruments and went into the market. Through misunderstanding and coincidence, he solved two thefts and became famous, catching the eye of the king, who appointed him to solve a robbery. Again luck and coincidence play into his hands (in the manner of "Old One Eye") and he succeeds. The king rewards him with the hand of his virtuous daughter, and the former wife is left to fend for herself.

The cat who went to Mecca
(Animal fable)
After the king of the cats made a hajj, the king of the mice thought he should visit him, for he would have changed his former sinful ways. The other mice were not convinced, so he went by himself and found the new hajji praying. When he saw the mouse, he stopped praying and sprang into attack. The king of the mice reported to his subjects that the cat prayed like a hajji, but pounced like a cat.

Division of the prey
(Animal fable)
When the jackal, the fox and the lion went hunting, the jackal divided their prey evenly, but the lion growled at him and slapped his head, drawing blood. Then the fox divided the prey, giving everything to the lion. The lion asked "Who trained you in the law and taught you to divide so justly?" The fox replied that it was the crown of blood on the jackal's head that had instructed him.


The donkey driver and the thief
A thief steals a simpleminded farmer's donkey, then harnesses himself and tells the farmer that he just returned to being a man at the end of a seven-year hex. A few days later when the farmer attempts to buy a new donkey, he recognizes his old beast which the thief had sold and chastizes him for getting himself hexed again.

The guest who ran away
A Beduin has his wife prepare two chickens for a weary traveler, but she cannot resist a taste for herself and her son, and they wind up "tasting" both chickens to the bones. To cover the crime, they arrange for the traveler to overhear a discussion in which the son says that when guests arrive, his father cuts off both their ears and roasts them over the fire for him to eat. The traveler quietly tiptoes out of the tent. When the Beduin asks why, his wife replies that the guest had stolen the chickens. The Beduin gave chase, saying "Let me have one at least!"

2007-04-30 02:01:12 · 2 answers · asked by Watching it all fall. 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I have a 96 Tercel that is having a problem with the clear coat starting to peel off. It's seems to be happening only on the left side of my car (under the windows and on the top back area above the passenger side door). This is the area where I had collision repair work done several years ago (pretty much from the driver side door to the end of the car). Is this probably because the paint job wasn't done properly? I haven't seen this problem anywhere else on my car (at least not yet). How much approximately would it cost to have it repainted? Any suggestions on a reputable place to take it to? I can't really buy a new car right now as much as I want to.

2007-04-30 02:01:10 · 5 answers · asked by TechNewbie 2 in Maintenance & Repairs

I am trying to figure out what 80's Superstar has the nickname The Piano Man?

2007-04-30 02:01:08 · 15 answers · asked by tnlovebugsboy187 2 in Music

2007-04-30 02:00:15 · 13 answers · asked by Ryan c 1 in Fish

2007-04-30 01:59:55 · 6 answers · asked by akbalu 1 in TVs

Just out of curiosity how many of these cars were sold in the UK and world wide before being axed?

2007-04-30 01:59:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Car Makes

2007-04-30 01:59:51 · 3 answers · asked by süleyman k 1 in Languages

And what time did you get up this morning??? I went to bed at 2:30
:( and got up at 6:20 :(

2007-04-30 01:59:47 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

The LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The President decides to give them all a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and has each of them try and catch it.

The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that the rabbit does not exsist.

The FBI now goes in. After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it including the rabbit, and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

Then the LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten racoon. The racoon is yelling, "Okay, Okay!!! Im a rabbit, Im a rabbit!"

2007-04-30 01:59:43 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Jokes & Riddles

Are they using twisting logic to interpret the following quote, from Bush, as saying that?

"It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But MUCH of the intelligence turned out to be wrong." Said Mr. Bush, "We did not find THOSE weapons."

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What reading level would one have to finish, in order to realize that is not an "admission of no WMD", but saying that some intelligence was wrong, and we have not found the ones we were looking for?

2007-04-30 01:59:28 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Just curious...

And what's a "small" one? Size matters!!

2007-04-30 01:59:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

2007-04-30 01:59:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

1) what colour are your eye's
2) what colour are your parents eye's
3) do you believe the most dominaint colour is the one a child gets.....................


they reckon if a parent has brown eye's then so will any children born to them, but I know someone who has brown eye's and bot his kids have blue eye's..............

2007-04-30 01:59:20 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

i'm set to complete this week but it's really stressful! I heard that you have to wait till you are called on the day for them to confirm the transaction has gone through etc. So you don't know for sure you'll moving to the last minute!! I find this very stressful and hard to plan for!

Has anyone got any tips or could tell him the usual things that happen on the day?

2007-04-30 01:59:18 · 7 answers · asked by interestiblez 2 in Renting & Real Estate

the only time i can get it is when i visit my in laws over there. but i really would love to try and make it here.. the local asian markets sell Ube but i need the recipe for the pie itself. thanks

2007-04-30 01:59:11 · 2 answers · asked by eric 2 in Philippines

I saw a picture of her, and she should have been paying him.

2007-04-30 01:59:01 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

My husband was caught cheating on me with several different girls and I found out and have him on tape stating that he did drugs while watching our infant while I was working. He says that he is not going to sign the divorce paperwork and it cannot go through. I need to find something legal to show him to prove to him that he cannot keep me in a marriage I do not want to be in. Or can he? I need the anwser. Thanky ou.

2007-04-30 01:58:58 · 11 answers · asked by sxyhzleydgrl 2 in Marriage & Divorce

lol, i'm serious, because i read this on another question:

"The human brain, it absorbs forty megabytes per second of data while awake. That is two terabytes of data a day. At night, it sorts and stores that data through the creation of new chemical bonds and synaptic connectors."

2007-04-30 01:58:22 · 3 answers · asked by Sorrowful W 2 in Biology

some people don't believe me, but you do, don't you?

2007-04-30 01:58:22 · 30 answers · asked by ¡Que molleja! 1 in Polls & Surveys

the colors, where did they come from? not the design, just the colors. i am asking about the U. S. Flag.

2007-04-30 01:58:11 · 4 answers · asked by FarmerCec 7 in Independence Day

2007-04-30 01:58:03 · 4 answers · asked by kelliewish69 3 in Television

hi i am looking for the option codes that are found in the trunk and i was wondering what the codes and codes ment it is a 2000 pontiac grand prix gt with 3.8 series 2

2007-04-30 01:57:47 · 3 answers · asked by tj d 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

Does anyone know what the knew permit and drivers license laws are in Oklahoma?

2007-04-30 01:57:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

... answer this question?

2007-04-30 01:57:12 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I know that there are morals and ethics that change from one culture to another. But surely there are enough in common to suggest that many morals and ethics are hard wired into us at birth. Behaviours that have given us a better chance of survival, like loyalty to loved ones and parents putting the lives of their children first.

All animals have developed instincts for survival. Do many of our morals and ethics fall this catergory?

2007-04-30 01:57:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

me and my girlfreind are no long going out and i expeced that she be angery or a lit sad but she was which is ok but i still dont know haw long to wait to ask out one of her freinds (that is also a freind of me)

2007-04-30 01:57:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

I'm currently using a D-Link DI-624 wireless router. I thought that, by default, either computer would be able to see the other in "My Network Connections" or somewhere like that. Currently, neither computer can see the other at all. Curiously, they can both access my wireless network-enabled TIVO Series 2 box.

I'm sure there's a simple answer for this. Any takers?

P.S. By the way, my ethernet wired PC runs Windows Vista and my laptop runs Windows XP SP2 ...

2007-04-30 01:56:38 · 3 answers · asked by shaungitt 1 in Computer Networking

1 of my fave songs!

2007-04-30 01:56:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Reasons it's great to be a guy:

- Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

- Movie nudity is virtually always female.

- A 5 day vacation requires only one suitcase.

- You don't have to monitor your friends' sex lives.

- Your bathroom lines are 80% shorter.

- You can open all your own jars.

- Old friends don't give a crap whether you've lost or gained weight.

- Dry cleaners and haircutters don't rob you blind.

- When clicking through the channels, you don't have to stall at every shot of somebody crying.

- All your orgasms are real.

- You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.

- You can go to the bathroom without a support group.

- Your last name stays put.

- You can leave the hotel bed unmade.

- You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.

- Nobody secretly wonders whether you swallow.

- Sex means never worrying about your reputation.

- Wedding plans take care of themselves.

- If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend.

- You don't have to shave below your neck.

- None of your coworkers has the power to make you cry.

- You don't have to curl up next to a hairy butt every night.

- If you're 34 and single, nobody even notices.

- You can write your name in the snow.

- Everything on your face gets to stay its original color.

- Chocolate is just another snack.

- You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger's seat.

- Flowers fix everything.

- You can wear a white shirt to a water park.

- Three pairs of shoes is more than enough.

- You can eat a banana in a hardware store.

- Nobody stops telling a good dirty joke when you walk into a room.

- You can whip your shirt off on a hot day.

- You never feel compelled to stop a pal from getting laid.

- You can quietly watch a game with you buddy for hours without ever thinking "He must be mad at me".

- The world is your urinal.

- Hot wax never comes near your pubic area.

- One mood, all the time

- You never have to drive on to another gas station because this one's just too skeevy.

- You can sit with you knees apart no matter what you're wearing.

- Gray hair and wrinkles only add character.

- You don't have to leave the room to make an emergency crotch adjustment.

- Wedding dress: $2,000; tuxedo rental: $75.

- You don't care if someone's talking about you behind you back.

- With 400 million sperm per shot, you could double the Earth's population in 15 tries, at least in theory.

- You don't mooch off others' desserts.

- If you retain water, it's in a canteen.

- The remote control is yours and yours alone.

- People never glance at your chest when you're talking to them.

- You can drop by to see a friend without having to bring a littlegift.

- Bachelor parties whomp butt over bridal showers.

- You have a normal and healthy relationship with your mother.

- You can buy condoms without the shopkeeper imagining you naked.

- You needn't pretend you're "Freshening up" to go to the bathroom.

- If you don't call your buddy when you say you will, he won't tell your other friends you've changed.

- Someday you'll be a dirty old man.

- You can rationalize any behavior with the handy phrase "Screw it."

- If another guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you just might become lifelong buddies.

- Your pals can be trusted never to trap you with: "So...notice anything different?"

Things that suck about being a guy:

- The Ferrari 550 Maranello lists for over $200,000.

- External genitalia are vulnerable to knees and fastballs.

- Even if you get your head caught in an industrial wood chipper, you're not allowed to cry.

- Ribbed for her pleasure - not yours.

- You have to wear ties.

- You can't flirt your way out of a jam.

- "Women and children first."

2007-04-30 01:56:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Jokes & Riddles

In this dream there was a large group of people in a warehouse. We were all being violently murdered in the name of some religious group (not of Christ). An old friend, who has always been a devout Christian, was there. The murderer spared me for the moment and I ran, and saw my old friend. We were huddled up together, and she showed me this beautiful piece of paper. On the paper was my name and some words that didn't spell anything, and the word "Salvation" written beside it. The words that didn't mean anything were something like "etii" and "ew??". So it was writeen "Cassandra etii ew?? Salvation"

I know this is strange, but do u have any guess? Or can u explain it? Thanks!!

2007-04-30 01:55:56 · 6 answers · asked by Cassandra K 2 in Religion & Spirituality