Monday 17 December 2012

A year's end cornucopia of frivolity ....

Phobias...true or false?

Ornithophobia - fear of Birds
Verbophobia – Fear of words
Spectrophobia – Fear of mirrors and reflection
Pupaphobia - Fear of Puppets
Luposlipaphobia – The fear of being chased by wolves while 
wearing socks on a recently waxed floor.
Venustraphobia – The fear of beautiful women.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – The fear of long words.

Barophobia Fear of gravity
Pentheraphobia - Fear of Mother in Law





Riddle:
I have one, you have one.
If you remove the first letter, a bit remains.
If you remove the second, bit still remains.
After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains.
It dies hard!





Riddle:
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.



Riddle: 
Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn’t know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.
Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?



Friday 14 December 2012

A true Chanteuse ....

We have a celebrity in our midst...!

Those of you well versed in all things funbus will be fondly acquainted with our inspirational senior role model namely the esteemed A Jefford esq. Well he is blessed with having a celebrity wife who not only puts up with him and his quirky ways but also finds time to exercise her vocal prowess in the company of fellow songsters.

The Fleet Rock Choir ....of which the talented Mrs J is a leading Diva...is a mighty professional troupe of choralists who have excited and delighted at numerous 'gigs' around the northern hemisphere. Suffice to say that their fame has spread so far they were personally invited to perform for royalty at the Albert Hall for William and Kate

Something inside so strong... and Walking on Broken Glass were the performances of the evening as they brought the house down...

Check them out - they are seriously good.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rock-Choir/231809461993

Mrs J...the funbus applauds you and confirms your induction into the hallowed Funbus Hall of Fame and henceforth you can proudly proclaim you are indeed
.....a fellow funbuser!






Mrs J celebrates her
Albert Hall triumph
and being inducted
into the Hall of Fame
with fellow Funbusers

Wednesday 12 December 2012

We are a Year old ...


The Bish and I have reached that point in life where if a year was a week then we have lived a year...'ll let you work that one out

Reflecting upon this at probably too much length I have a few thoughts to share ...they are my thoughts but someone else's words. No reason for sharing them except I think they are worth stating.

So here they are and as a challenge see if you can identify which kindred spirit articulated them.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” 

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music. 
And death a note unsaid.”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away


Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.


Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's learning to dance in the rain.


There's no fun in a perfect life.
So make a risk
Take a chance
Go where the wind takes you
Have fun

..........and my personal favourite

There may be trouble ahead
But while there's music and moonlight 

and love and romance
Let's face the music and dance


So who said what??


Douglas Adams   
Stephen King
Jonathan Swift    
Gordon B Hinckley
Langston Hughes  
EE Cummings
Amy Tan
shing xiong
Dr. Seuss
 idk
?
Irving Berlin