Not your ordinary housepet

This is not my cat, but I came across these pictures and just had to share them. I’m pretty sure this isn’t in the U.S. but it’s a beautiful cat and amazing that it’s being taken care of in a regular household.

Vanilla Ice Cream Car

Ok, this is the weirdest story I’ve ever heard. For some reason Vanilla Ice Cream was affecting this car’s motor! Read on for the whole story!

Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General Motors

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Many of you, unlike me, might have come across this long ago, as it is in circulation for years now. But I just received it today and was spellbound by the incident. For those who are not aware of it, it goes like this -
Never underestimate your Clients’ Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem!

This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive. Please read on…..

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

‘This is the second time I have written to you, and I don’t blame you for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night, but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we’ve eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It’s also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a  problem….

You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start back from the store my car won’t start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine. I want you to know I’m serious about this question, no matter how silly it sounds “What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?” The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but sent an Engineer to check it out anyway.

The latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine neighborhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it wouldn’t start.

The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, they got chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start.

Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man’s car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end he began to take notes: He jotted down all sorts of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to drive back and forth etc.

In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavor. Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the back of the store at a different counter where it took considerably longer to check out the flavor.

Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car wouldn’t start when it took less time. Eureka – Time was now the problem – not the vanilla ice cream!!!! The engineer quickly came up with the answer: “vapor lock”.

It was happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavors allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapor lock to dissipate.

Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be simple only when we find the solution, with cool thinking.

Creative Art

I found these amazing pictures and I just had to share them with you all because I was very impressed by them. It looks like they’re photoshopped or altered with some kind of computer graphics program but they are just wonderful to look at.

Coffee Art

These are amazing! There is also a video of how they make these creations but I love the pictures. This is so creative and sure to bring people into your coffee shop if you learn how to do this.

Art In The Coffee Mug

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Friendship Quotes

This is a great list to send to a friend of yours. They will really enjoy reading them especially if each quote reminds them of you. I hope you have many people in your life that these quotes apply to. Enjoy!

I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.– E.E. Cummings

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.– Samuel Johnston

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. –Thomas Jefferson

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.– Edward Everett Hale

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.– Miguel de Cervantes

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. –Oprah Winfrey

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? –Henry David Thoreau

Friends, like flowers, give pleasure just by being. –Unknown

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.–James Fenimore Cooper

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. –Proverbs 17:17

A true friend is someone that knows the song of your soul, and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words.—Anonymous

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship. –George Eliot

My friend is one… who take me for what I am. –Henry David Thoreau

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. –Unknown

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. –Albert Schweitzer

Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, ‘for friendship’s sake,’ is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good. – Cicero

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. –Proverbs 27:6

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.–Anatole Broyard

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person! Having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out just as they are, chaff and grain together. Certain that a faithful hand will take them and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.– George Eliot

Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. –Oliver Wendell Holmes

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. –Unknown

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. –Dave Tyson Gentry

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. –George Eliot

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. –Mary Catherwood

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship. –Susan P. Schultz

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. –Albert Schweitzer

It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. It not only costs time, affection, patience, love, but sometimes a man must even lay down his life for his friends. There is no true friendship without self-abnegation, self-sacrifice.—Anonymous

Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an opportunity.– Kahil Gibran

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
–Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.- C. S. Lewis

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.–Norman Mailer

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.–Oscar Wilde

Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. – James Francis Byrnes

The friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.–Cyril Connolly

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.–Eleanor Roosevelt

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. –Francis Marion Crawford

When you’re looking for a friend don’t look for perfection, just look for friendship. –Unknown

Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.- Abraham Lincoln

“A needle’s eye is not too narrow for two friends, nor is the world wide enough for two enemies.”

World without Engineers

My father was a civil engineer so I learned at a young age how important their job is. I also met many other engineers and found out how much they really do. So when I found this vibe on www.madebig.com I just had to share it with you all. It’s great for a laugh especially if you know an engineer. Since I did not originally write this, please follow the link below and give the creator a good rating and a high5 for her great work! Thanks!

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World without Engineers

I want to give BIG THANKS to all Engineers for doing their job
very well. This vibe is for them to show their WORTH and BIG
contribution in order to have a modern world.

World without Aeronautical Engineers

World without Electronics Engineers

World without Mechanical Engineers

World without Civil Engineers

World without Communication Engineers

World without Computer Engineers

I know I got a laugh out of it too.

I have found a lot of great things on MadeBig and I love it. I spend a lot of time on the site and enjoy every minute of it. Here are some things from the site you might like. It is free to be a member and there are a lot of things on the site that are unique. I love learning new things, getting answers to questions, and finding new and interesting things.

The BrainTrust section of the site is one of my favorites. Members ask questions on the site and other members can answer them. I love asking questions and getting opinions or advice. I also love giving my opinions and advice. Here is a question I found on there the other day.

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The MarketPlace is another favorite of mine. You can buy and sell things using MB Coins and you never have to use money. I have sold old things I don’t need anymore, then bought things I really want on there. You also earn MB Coins on other parts of the site. Here is an item I found today in the MarketPlace.

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MarketPlace items are used most of the time but if you don’t want to buy something used you can check out the Shopping section. I like this section because I love to search by sales price. You can find great deals on things when you search by sales price. Here is a list of items that are 25% off!

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There’s also a Local section where you can rate and review businesses and sometimes find coupons you can’t get anywhere else, a Zone section where you can post pictures, create forums, blogs, and vibes . You can find new friends, and manage your messages/inbox, and play an MB Game where you can win MB Coins too! Like I said, I spend a lot of my time on the site and I love it. Check it out see if it’s something you’ll like.

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