MkNotes

Smoking Pot https://t.me/MkNotes/727

Moods of a Woman: An angel of truth and a dream of fiction, a woman is a bundle of contradiction, she's afraid of a wasp, will scream at a mouse, but will tackle her boyfriend alone in the house. Sour as vinegar, sweet as a rose, she'll kiss you one minute, then turn up her nose, she'll win you in rage, enchant you in silk, she'll be stronger than brandy, milder than milk, at times she'll be vengeful, merry and sad, she'll hate you like poison, and love you like mad. Moods of a Man: Horny Hungry Thirsty Sleepy

Man O Man When without money, eats wild vegetables at home When has money, eats same wild vegetables in fine restaurant. When without money, rides bicycle; When has money, rides exercise machine. When without money, walks to earn food When has money, walks to lose the fat Man O Man! never fails to deceive thyself! When without money, wishes to get married; When has money, wishes to get divorced. When without money, wife becomes secretary; When has money, secretary becomes wife. When without money, acts like rich man; When has money, acts like poor man. Man, O Man, never can tell the simple truth! Says share market is bad but keeps speculating; Says money is evil but keeps accumulating. Says high positions are lonely but keeps wanting them. Man O Man ! Never means what he says and never says what he means!

Rape Herblock, Washington Post, 1984 https://t.me/MkNotes/724

Maz Jobrani: humanizing immigrants through comedy - CNN https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/13/middleeast/maz-jobrani-immigration-and-comedy/index.html

How Sophia the robot copies human facial expressions - CNN Style https://www.cnn.com/style/article/sophia-robot-artificial-intelligence-smart-creativity/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fedition_world+%28RSS%3A+CNNi+-+World%29

A traveling salesman rings this doorbell. 10 year old little Johnny opens the door, holding a beer and smoking a fat cigar. The salesman says, "Little boy is your mother home?" Little Johnny taps his ash on the carpet and says, "What do you think?"

Write On... Put Your Mind into Writing... Give your comments on the passages in ILI Advanced Books. E.g. questions, ideas, further reading, links, disagreements, and so on. You may also comment on the topics which were discussed in class. Here are the original sources of some of the passages: http://adrd123.blogspot.com/

Two factory workers are talking. The woman says, "I can make the boss give me the day off." The man replies, "And how would you do that?" The woman says, "Just wait and see." She then hangs upside-down from the ceiling. The boss comes in and says, "What are you doing?" The woman replies, "I'm a light bulb." The boss then says, "You've been working so much that you've gone crazy. I think you need to take the day off." The man starts to follow her and the boss says, "Where are you going?" The man says, "I'm going home, too. I can't work in the dark."

monk = a religious man who spends much time praying and thinking about religion. monastery = a place where monks live. a vow of silence = a promise not to speak A man wanted to become a monk so he went to the monastery and talked to the head monk. The head monk said, "You must take a vow of silence and can only say two words every three years." The man agreed and after the first 3 years, the head monk came to him and said, "What are your two words?" "Food cold!" the man replied. Three more years went by and the head monk came to him and said "What are your two words?" "Robe dirty!" the man exclaimed. Three more years went by and the head monk came to him and said, "What are your two words?" "I quit!" said the man. "Well," the head monk replied, "I am not surprised. You have done nothing but complain ever since you got here!"

Why Democrats are donkeys and Republicans are elephants - CNN Style https://www.cnn.com/style/article/why-democrats-are-donkeys-republicans-are-elephants-artsy/index.html

HOW WE PREFER TO ACT RATHER THAN THINK There’s a fundamental distinction to be made between two kinds of thinking: figuring out what we would like to achieve and working out how to achieve it. Or, put another way, there’s a key difference between strategy on the one hand and execution on the other. Strategy is about determining our overall aims, and execution comprises everything that follows once we’ve decided: the practical activities required to put our plans into action. There are tragic consequences to this over-devotion to execution. We rush frantically to fulfill hastily chosen ends, we exhaust ourselves blindly, we chain ourselves to schedules, timelines and performance targets – but all the while, we avoid asking what we might really need in order to flourish and so frequently learn, at the end of a lifetime of superhuman effort, that we had the wrong destinations from the start. Even in daily life, raising strategic questions can feel tiresome and odd. To ask ‘what’s the point of doing this?’ is easy to mistake for a piece of provocative negativity. If we challenge our acquaintances with any degree of seriousness with ‘What is a good holiday?’ or ‘What is a relationship for?, ‘What is a satisfying conversation?’ or ‘Why do we want money?’, we risk coming across as immediately absurd and pretentious – as though such large questions were by definition unanswerable. https://t.me/MkNotes/712 https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/how-we-prefer-to-act-rather-than-think/?utm_source=The+School+of+Life&utm_campaign=dbb167c3ef-TBOL_ENEWS_02112018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_717e06d46b-dbb167c3ef-22277669&mc_cid=dbb167c3ef&mc_eid=62fb72e0b8

What is the longest sentence in English? Answer: “I do”. The word "sentence" has another meaning in English. A sentence is the decision of a judge - how many years must a person spend in prison? When you say "I do", it means you are getting married. And just like going to prison, getting married means you have to give up your freedom. In that case, marriage is the longest sentence. https://t.me/MkNotes/711

How can you uncover your best self? Start by judging other people | https://ideas.ted.com/how-can-you-uncover-your-best-self-start-by-judging-other-people-really/

Mohammed bin Salman Is the Next Saddam Hussein – Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/29/mohammed-bin-salman-is-the-next-saddam-hussein-mbs-iraq-iran-rumsfeld-reagan-gulf-war/

Christiane Amanpour: Exploring Common Traditions in Judaism, Christianity and Islam - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/International/christiane-amanpour-exploring-common-traditions-judaism-christianity-islam/story?id=17924552