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My son sent me this first one. I thought it was weird, so I had to pass it on.
SCIENTISTS RECYCLING...CORPSES?
Hate the idea of becoming fodder for the worms? Forget that. A Swedish scientist has found a way to recycle corpses into enriched soil in just a few weeks. The new method turns the human body into organic matter in a matter of weeks compared to the 55 years it takes when our bodies are buried in a coffin.
Biologist Susanne Wiigh-Masak was searching for more eco-friendly forms of dealing with the dead. Cremation emits poisonous gases with unknown effects, making it even less eco-friendly than conventional burial, she says. In the new green method, the body is immersed in a bath of liquid nitrogen, producing up to 65 pounds of pure organic matter, which is put into a thin, easily degradable coffin. This is then buried near the ground surface, enriching the soil the way autumn leaves do as they break down. On the question of ethics, the Church of Sweden has already given its blessing to the new burial method. "We are promised a new body at the resurrection and so we have no need for the old one," Kerstin Lindquist, a senior prelate, told Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish newspaper.--Jennifer Joseph
Only in America...can a homeless combat veteran live in a cardboard box and a draft dodger live in the White House.
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though they were a very large mammal, their throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
The teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; itwas impossible
The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah."
The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"
The little girl replied, "Then you ask him."
BRINGING UP FATHER
When I was a boy of 14,
my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have
the old man around.
But when I got to be 21,
I was astonished at how much
the old man had learned in seven years.
~~~~~~~MARK TWAIN~~~~~
A lawyer returns to his parked BMW to find the headlights broken and considerable damage. There's no sigh of the offending vehicle, but he's relieved to see that there's a note stuck under the windshield wiper.
"Sorry, I just backed into your Beemer.
The witnesses who saw the accident are nodding and smiling at me because they think I'm leaving my name, address, and other particulars. But I'm not." | 
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