"'To have and to hold, 'til death do us part.......' are mere words for some who give the sanctity of marriage no more than lip service, but for others, they remain sacred vows before God, never to be violated. While I failed in this respect, it heartens me enormously that there are people in this world who do manage to remain married and still stay happy with each other. Meet Karam (aged 107) and his wife Katari Chand (a spring chicken of a mere 100 years). Born in the Punjab, India and now living in Bradford, they have been married for 87 years! They are the world's longest married couple. Their marriage is 5 years longer than the current Guinness record holders.The key to their successful marriage in the words of Karam is, 'My trick is to make Katari laugh. I like to tell jokes and make her smile. Being funny is my way of being romantic. Laughing makes you live longer.' I will now need to revise my funniest joke which came in the form of a piece of advice from a marriage sceptic: 'It's a waste of valuable time for any man to get married. Instead, just find a woman that you start off not liking and give her a house, all your assets and half your income for the rest of your sorry life!'" William Forde: March 6th, 2013.
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Thought for today:
"'To have and to hold, 'til death do us part.......' are mere words for some who give the sanctity of marriage no more than lip service, but for others, they remain sacred vows before God, never to be violated. While I failed in this respect, it heartens me enormously that there are people in this world who do manage to remain married and still stay happy with each other. Meet Karam (aged 107) and his wife Katari Chand (a spring chicken of a mere 100 years). Born in the Punjab, India and now living in Bradford, they have been married for 87 years! They are the world's longest married couple. Their marriage is 5 years longer than the current Guinness record holders.The key to their successful marriage in the words of Karam is, 'My trick is to make Katari laugh. I like to tell jokes and make her smile. Being funny is my way of being romantic. Laughing makes you live longer.' I will now need to revise my funniest joke which came in the form of a piece of advice from a marriage sceptic: 'It's a waste of valuable time for any man to get married. Instead, just find a woman that you start off not liking and give her a house, all your assets and half your income for the rest of your sorry life!'" William Forde: March 6th, 2013.
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Thought for today: " So, let me get this straight so that I completely understand the situation. If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labour. If you cross the Afghanistan border illegally, you get shot. Two Americans recently got sentenced to 8-years imprisonment for crossing the Iranian border without the proper documents. If you cross the French border illegally, you will be put on the next ferry for Great Britain. But if you cross the U.K. border illegally, you will get a job, a driver's licence, food stamps, a place to live that nobody earning less than £50,000 a year could afford, education and a tax-free business for seven years if you sell the 'Big Issue' and state that you are self-employed. If the Emigration Authorities ever catch up with you and try to deport you, you will be able to spend the next fifteen years and £3 million of tax payer's money hiring the best barristers in the land to defend your human rights.Meanwhile, you and your extended family will be fully provided for. We really are a joke and kid ourselves if we think that we all bat on an even wicket. I'm Irish by birth and yet it really offends my sensibilities that the people of England are taken for granted and ignored as a race. No wonder we're in debt!" William Forde: March 5th, 2013. Thought for today: " I can think of a hundred good reasons why we should get out of the Common Market and Europe at the earliest opportunity and will only vote at the next election for a party who will give me an unequivocal 'in-out' say in a referendum. Having racked my brain, there is the only one good reason I can come up with for staying in closer ties with Europe at the expense of loosening our ties with the USA and this is it; their love for fish as opposed to hamburgers and french fries!" William Forde: March 4th, 2013. Thought for today: " Hugs are essential to the well being of mankind.There isn't anything on this earth which is as powerful at certain times in one's life. Along with the kiss (and probably even surpassing it), there is simply no other action of emotional expression between two people which can be substituted by word or that means as much. In conventional jargon, 'What you see is you get'. We hug when the emotion that we feel is stronger and seems more appropriate than any words we can speak. What the hug says cannot be truly expressed in words or substituted by them. When we meet a loved-one, sweetheart, family member or life-long friend after having been parted for a long time, a hug says, 'I love you and I'm so, so glad to be with you again.' We also hug at moments of deep sadness, when we have just given or received news pertaining to the death of someone we dearly love. We also hug if ever we have that sad task of telling or hearing from our partner that the medical examination just undertaken has identified a fatal illness, or when our best friend tells us that they are dying. Hugs are of huge importance in our lives and if we're wise and have a partner with whom we share a bed, the very first and last act of every day should be a hug. It is so enduring and cannot be beaten. All children and adults and pet creatures need them!" William Forde: March 3rd, 2013. Thought for today: " They do say that when swans mate, they mate for life and that when a mate dies, the remaining swan is so stricken down with grief that it also starts to die. How fitting that such magnificent-looking creatures should be able to manufacture such an end to a life of romance swanning here there and everywhere!" William Forde: March 2nd, 2013. Thought for today: " Even the great Marilyn had to start off somewhere before the idea of the century came to her. Always being one with an eye for the camera, she caught on very early in her life how to perfect the art of seduction through innocence; thereby enabling something to happen that she wanted to happen and making it look like an accident." William Forde: March 1st, 2013. |
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