April 26, 2007

• Pet Peeves

  Pet peeves plague the United States

  RIVERSIDE, Calif. (UPI) — California psychologist Sally Dhabi says people could be irritated by small things, commonly known as pet peeves, because they are smart.
  
  “People with high intelligence pay more attention to detail,” she says. “They find little things irritating to them.”
  
  But the Riverside, Calif., psychologist adds that they might also just be insecure.
  
  “Insecure people get upset very easy because they’re not sure of what’s going on around them,” she said.
  
  Pet peeves include being annoyed by things such as people who use improper grammar, being cut off on the freeway. But what seems to offend people most is other people, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Monday.
  
  “Most of my pet peeves have to deal with people not being considerate of others,” said Carolyn Thistle, 47, of Murrieta, Calif., “I think our society is so me-oriented that people don’t even consider their neighbors.”

  What’s your Pet peeves?   (Be careful according to the article pet peeves reveal lack of or presence of intelligence. – lol) 

   

  Two caterpillars

  Two caterpillars are sitting on a leaf when a butterfly zooms by, startling them.
  
  One turns to the other and says, “Boy, you’ll never get ME up in one of those things.”
  

  
  This reminds me of the time I was driving our “Wild Thing” bus.  I was picking up kids and stopped in a parking lot of an apartment building.  I had to back up.  Well I didn’t see the small truck and actually pushed it several feet before one of the kids (who had been watching me do it.) said: “Pastor Randy, you’re pushing a truck backwards.”

  Now you know: 

  *John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.

  *There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

  *The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

  *The “57? on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

  *The dot over the letter “i” is called a title.

  *40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

  *Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.

  *India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

  *Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).

  *Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

  *Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

   

   

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