Student's Course Fee is 15 Tonne Orange

Student's Course Fee is 15 Tonne Orange

A cash-strapped college student Wu Xiaobin in paid his course fees and living expenses - with five tonnes of oranges. He lives in China.

Wu Xiaobin drove two truckloads of mandarin oranges more than 130 miles from his home on a farm in Quzhou to his college in Hangzhou.

He decided to try to sell the oranges as he couldn't otherwise afford to continue his studies at Zhejiang University of Media and Communications.

"This year my hometown had a good harvest of mandarin oranges, but due to the economic downturn and rumours of orange parasite infections, few sales could be made," said Wu.

"I spent the whole winter vacation helping my father try to sell the oranges but with little success."

Instead, his father gave him a third of their farm's 15 tonne orange harvest for him to try and sell in Hangzhou to pay for his studies.

And, thanks to local media covering his story, he sold all of the oranges within an hour of his trucks arriving on campus.

Companies bought boxes of oranges for their staff to support Wu and local families also came to buy fruit to help him stay on at college.

Missing Mobile Found Inside The Stomach Of Cod Fish

Missing Mobile Found Inside The Stomach Of Cod Fish

A businessman named Andrew Cheatle lost his mobile phone on a beach. He was amazed when it regained from the belly of a giant cod.He thought it had been swept out to sea after it slipped from his pocket.

But a week later his girlfriend's mobile rang and it was fisherman Glen Kerley saying he'd found the phone in a 25lb fish, reports The Sun.

Andrew got the handset back, dried it out - and amazingly it still works.

Andrew, 45, said: "I was messing about with my dog and my phone must have fallen out and been swept out in the swell. I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days."

He was shopping for a new phone with girlfriend Rita Smith, 33, when her mobile went off.

She told him: "Your old mobile number is calling my phone."

Andrew continued: "She said some guy was going on about my phone and a cod so she handed it over to me and he told me where he had found it.

"I thought he was winding me up but he assured me he had caught a cod that morning and was gutting it for his fish stall and that my Nokia was inside it - a bit worse for wear."

Glen, of Worthing, West Sussex, said: "Cod are greedy fish - they'll eat anything. They have big heads and big mouths.

"I've found plastic cups, stones, teaspoons, batteries and I've also heard of someone finding false teeth in one.

"It was a bit smelly but I was glad to return it."

Railway Station Is The Pasture Place For Cattle

Railway Station Is The Pasture Place For Cattle

A small railway station was found in China where there were so few passengers that it had become a pasture for animals.

Only two train services run from Beihai station, in Guangxi province, and they take twice as long as the bus.

The station is so quiet that cattle grazes on the grass outside, reports the Star Online. Ducks waddle around the entrance while chickens search for scraps of food.

Locals say they have got used to the rural scene and would be surprised if they didn't see any wildlife.

But Beihei is a popular tourism centre, close to renowned beaches and home to one of China's biggest aquariums.

Wang Haibo, director of the railway station, revealed: "In the past six months, we have had only 24,506 passengers. That's too few for a big railway station like this one."

Only two trains stopped at the station and the travel time to either destination was three hours.

"However, it only takes one and a half hours to travel the same distance by bus. Therefore most passengers choose to take the bus," he added.

"We are looking for ways to attract more people to take the train."

Quiz

Quiz

A man meets two men at two doors.

A sign above the two doors says, "One door leads to eternal bliss, while one leads to certain peril.

One of these men always lies, while one always tells the truth."

You may ask only one question.

What question do you ask to be certain that you get to the room with eternal bliss?

Answer : He asks them, "If I ask the other man which way to go, what would his answer be?" They would both answer in the same way. Whatever the answer is, go the other way. If the man you ask always tells the truth, then the other always lies. The man you ask will tell truthfully that the answer would be the wrong way. If the man you ask always lies, then the other man tells the truth. The man you ask will lie and tell you that the other man would tell you the wrong way.In both cases the answer you would receive would be the wrong way. Go the other way.

Husband Helps Wife To Wake Up From Coma By Biting Her Toes

Husband Helps Wife To Wake Up From Coma By Biting Her Toes

Currently a Chinese man has successfully broken the 10-year comatose state of wife by biting her toes.

She had suffered a head injury from an industrial accident and had not shown any signs of movement until one day she suddenly squeezed his wrist.

Zhang Kui, of Shenyang, China, claimed that he had tried everything he could think of to wake his wife and nothing seemed to work.

“I played the radio, sang and talked to her and even tickled her, but nothing worked. I then recalled someone saying that the feet are the home for many nerves. I wondered if I could wake her up by biting her feet,” he told the press.

Zhang would not give up and he bit her toes gently and faithfully every day for 10 years until one day, well, one day, it worked!

His wife of 27 years, Lv Fengshuang, is still unable to speak, but she can move her arms and smile.

“I got goose bumps. It was like a dead person suddenly gripping your hand,” Zhang said.

Zhang hopes that some day soon he will once again hear the voice of the woman he has loved so well and so long.

Marriage In Christian Style

Marriage In Christian Style

The youth in Japan are more and more wanted to choose foreign system such as wedding ceremony of Western style.

The foreign wedding business is booming in Japan. Oddly, even though Christians number only 1% of Japan’s total population, renting a pastor to perform a Christian-style wedding comprises about 60% of all nuptials.

“Christianity is a foreign religion in Japan. It is an image thing, similar to thinking: If you want your pipes fixed, you get a plumber and not a trash collector,” says Todd Thicksten, a 36-year old American missionary who performs ceremonies in Tokyo.

There is something to be said for popularity and trends, and people wanting to do what is the “in thing” to do.

And who’s to say what should or should not take place when people seek ways to honor their very special wedding day?

The News We Dont Want To Hear

The News We Dont Want To Hear

The Communist Manifesto as read by Ronald Reagan

The Torah as read by Louis Farrakhan

The Koran as read by Salman Rushdie

The Anarchist's Cookbook as read by Theodore Kaczinsky

How To win Friends and Influence People as read by Dennis Rodman

Europe on $10 a Day as read by Steve Forbes

The Godfather as read by John Gotti

Uncle Tom's Cabin as read by George Wallace

I'm Ok You're Ok as read by Rush Limbaugh

Moby Dick as read by Jonah

Crime and Punishment as read by OJ Simpson

A Tale of Two Cities as read by Ed Koch and Rudi Giuliani

The Gulag Archipelago as read by Josef Stalin

Feynman's Lectures On Physics as read by Dan Quayle

The Joy of Cooking as read by Hannibal Lecter

The Wealth of Nations as read by Fidel Castro

Weird Jokes

Weird Jokes

@ How many publishers does it take to change a light bulb?

Three. One to change it and two to hold down the author.

@ How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?

"Do we have to get author's approval for this?"

Two, one to change the bulb and one to issue a rejection slip to the old bulb.

@ How many proofreaders does it take to change a light bulb?

Proofreaders aren't supposed to change light bulbs. They should just query them.

@ How many mystery writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two. One to screw it in almost all the way in and the other to give it a suprising twist at the end.

@ How many writers does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to change the bulb and one to tell a long story about it.

@ How many literary critics does it take to change a light bulb?

Literary critics don't know how, but rest assured they'll find something wrong with the way you do it.

Tips For Good Writing

Tips For Good Writing

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.


2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.


3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)


4. Employ the vernacular.


5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.


6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.


7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.


8. Contractions aren't necessary.


9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.


10. One should never generalize.


11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."


12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.


13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.


14. Profanity sucks.


15. Be more or less specific.


16. Understatement is always best.


17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.


18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.


19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.


20. The passive voice is to be avoided.


21. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.


22. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.


23. Who needs rhetorical questions?

Elephant Books In Different Langguages

Elephant Books In Different Langguages

The French book The English book The Welsh book The American book The Japanese book The Finnish book The German book The Icelandic book The Canadian book The Swedish book The Swiss book The Israeli book The Danish book

The Sex Life of the Elephant Elephants I have Shot on Safari The Elephant and its Influence on Welsh Language and Culture How to Make Bigger and Better Elephants How to Make Smaller and Cheaper Elephants What Do Elephants Think about Finnish People A Short Introduction to Elephants, Vol 1-6 Defrosting an Elephant Elephants: A Federal or State Issue? How to Reduce your Taxes with an Elephant The Country Through Which Hannibal Went With His Elephants The Elephant and the Jewish Problem Elephants - 100 easy ways of cooking them

The Shortest Books of The World

The Shortest Books of The World

1000 Years of German Humor


Everything men know about women


The Code of Ethics for Lawyers


Italian War Heroes


Who's who in Puerto Rico


Americans' Guide to Etiquette


Royal Family's Guide to Good Marriages


Safe Places to Travel in the USA


Jerry Garcia's Guide to Beating Drug Addiction


Contraception by Pope John Paul II


Career Opportunities for Liberal Arts Majors


Cooking Gourmet Dishes With Tofu


Gun Control for The New Millenium: NRA Handbook

Top 10 Children Books ( Not Recommended By The National Library)

Top 10 Children Books ( Not Recommended By The National Library)

10. Clifford the Big Dog is Put to Sleep


9. Charles Manson Bedtime Stories


8. Daddy Loses His Job and Finds the Bottle


7. Babar becomes a Piano


6. Controlling the playground: Respect through Fear


5. Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence


4. The Boy Who Died from Eating All His Vegetables


3. Things Rich Kids Have, but you never will


2. Let's Draw Betty and Veronica without their clothes on


1. The Care Bears Maul Some Campers and are Shot Dead

Thoughtful Picture

Thoughtful Picture

Wanna Believe Girls - See This Picture

Wanna Believe Girls - See This Picture

Jokes About Taxpayer

Jokes About Taxpayer

"How have you managed to buy such a luxurious villa while your income is so low?" asked the IRS auditor.


"Well," the taxpayer answered, "while fishing last summer I have caught a large golden fish.


When I took it off the hook, the fish opened his mouth and said, 'I am a magical fish.


Throw me back to the sea and I'll give you the most luxurious villa you have ever seen'.


I threw the fish back to the sea, and got the villa."


"How can you prove such an unbelievable story?"


"Well, you can see the villa, can't you?"







A nervous taxpayer was unhappily conversing with the IRS auditor who had come to review his records.


At one point the auditor exclaimed, "We feel it is a great privilege to be allowed to live and work in the USA.


As a citizen you have an obligation to pay taxes, and we expect you to eagerly pay them with a smile."

"Thank God," returned the taxpayer. "I thought you were going to want cash."

Brain Buzz

Brain Buzz

You want to send a valuable object to a friend.


You have a box which is more than large enough to contain the object.


You have several locks with keys.


The box has a locking ring which is more than large enough to have a lock attached.


But your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. Note that you cannot send a key in an unlocked box, since it might be copied.


How is this done?

Answer: Attach a lock to the ring.

Send it to her.

She attaches her own lock and sends it back.

You remove your lock and send it back to her.

She removes her lock.

Coca Cola For 40 Years Without Any Other Liquid

Coca Cola For 40 Years Without Any Other Liquid

A Croatian man drinks Coca-Cola for more than 40 years. He says he is in perfect health. At this time he does not take anything.

His name is Pero Ajtman, 71, of Karanac. He started his Coke only diet in 1968 after promising his mum he wouldn't drink alcohol.

"My mum didn't like me drinking when I was a young man as she was very religious. She made me promise never to drink again and Coca-Coca was the only thing that tasted as good as wine so I started drinking that," Ajtman told daily 24 Sata.

But the pensioner was soon hooked and stopped drinking anything but the fizzy soft drink.

"Now I have a glass in the morning, before and after lunch, with my dinner and then before I go to bed. I never drink anything else," he said.

"My mother isn't here to tell me not to drink anymore but I'm not even tempted to quit coke for alcohol. Coke is my drug now, and I'll drink it till I die."

New Toy Mini-Mes

New Toy Mini-Mes

Currently a Japanese Toy Company is offering to make tailor-made robot Mini-Mes for its customers.

Robotics firm Little Island claim they can create a tiny likeness of anyone - even replicating the sound of their voice.

Customers place their £1,500 order and simply submit a photo of the person they'd like their new toy to resemble.

Six months later, and their very own Mini-Me will turn up on their doorstep.

The dolls can be taught to sound like the customer via an in-built microphone, a computer and voice recognition software.

The robots, which are created in a technology centre just north of Tokyo, are equipped with 80 gigabytes of storage and a webcam.

The advanced version can even download the latest news and weather and then read back the reports - in your voice

Weird Jokes

Weird Jokes

An Spanish bandit made a specialty of crossing the Rio Grande from time to time and robbing banks in Texas. Finally, a reward was offered for his capture, and an enterprising Texas ranger decided to track him down.

After a lengthy search, he traced the bandit to his favorite cantina, snuck up behind him, put his trusty six-shooter to the bandit's head, and said, "You're under arrest. Tell me where you hid the loot or I'll blow your brains out."

But the bandit didn't speak English, and the Ranger didn't speak Spanish. Fortunately, a bilingual lawyer was in the saloon and translated the Ranger's message. The terrified bandit blurted out, in Spanish, that the loot was buried under the oak tree in back of the cantina.

"What did he say?" asked the Ranger.

The lawyer answered, "He said 'Get lost, you turkey. You wouldn't dare shoot me.'"

Quiz

Quiz

A boy leaves his house one summer day,


and began to run into the woods to his grandmother's house which is on the other
side of the woods.


It should also be known that the boy reached his grandmother's house.


How far did the boy run into the woods?

Answer: Halfway. The reason is that once you reach the middle, you are then
running out of the woods.