INTERESTING FACTS-10

(1) There are three credit cards for every person in the United States.

(2) Coca-cola was originally green.

(3) Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

(4) Smartest dogs: 1) border collie 2) poodle 3) golden retriever.Dumbest dog: Afghan

(5) Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

(6) Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

(7) Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up:1 in 2.

(8) City with the most Rolls Royce's per capital: Hong Kong.

(9) State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

(10) Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK-8

Crawl

Description
Teach your puppy to crawl - that is, move forward from the 'Lay' position. You can use this trick to let him crawl under a chair, for example, or - as shown in the picture - under a vertical bar.

How to do it
Starting from the 'Lay' position, say 'Crawl', hold a treat in front of your dog's nose and move it a few inches away from him: if he stands up just say 'No, CRAWL!', and start over (make him 'Lay' again). Praise him a lot and give him the treat as soon as he crawls, even a few inches.

INTERESTING FACTS-9

(1) Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

(2) Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

(3) The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

(4) "Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

(5) Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

(6) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

(7) Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]

(8) Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

(9) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

(10) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK -7

ROLL

It is important that your dog knows the 'Lay' position in order to easily teach this trick.

Description
At you command, the dog will roll over his back (you can teach him to do this even more than once)

How to do it
Starting from the 'Lay' position, say 'Roll Over' and "roll" gently your dog (grab his legs and pull him, or push him from one side so that he makes a complete roll). After he has completed the roll, make him sit, cheer him and give him the treat.

Tips & Tricks
This trick is a quite hard one: your dog will have to lay with his belly up, and not many dogs like this position (it means "I surrender completely to you"...). So if your dog doesn't like to roll over, don't insist too much: there are plenty of other tricks you can teach him! :-)

INTERESTING FACTS-8

(1) If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom..

(2) The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified.

(3) The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

(4) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(5) When a gorilla is angry, he'll stick his tongue out at you

(6) In Tibet it is a sign of respect to stick your tongue out at guests.

(7) The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

(8) The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

(9) "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

(10) The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

RIPLEY'S BELIVE IT OR NOT-1

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

DILBERT

CALVIN & HOBBES

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK -6

STAND

Description
Your puppy will be standing on his tail, maybe even moving a few steps - just like a human would do!

How to do it
Starting from the 'Sit' position, hold a treat right in front of the nose of your dog, then say 'Stand!' and move it above him so that he will have to stand in order to reach it. As soon as he stands say 'Good boy' and, when he sits back, give him the treat. While he is standing you can move - just a few steps - holding the treat - cheer him a lot if he follows you "walking".

Tips & Tricks
When you hold the treat above your dog and when he is standing move your fingers: this way he will recognize that movement as the visual signal 'Stand'. Otherwise he will stand every time you hold something above him - and this is not always nice...

INTERESTING FACTS-7

(1) Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

(2) Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

(3) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead."

(4) Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

(5) Camel's milk does not curdle.

(6) Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

(7) The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

(8) Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

(9) When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

(10) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building

LEGENDS OF SOCCER

Roberto Baggio
Franz Beckenbauer
David Beckham
Johan Cruyff
Alfredo Di Stefano
Eusebio
Garrincha
Ruud Gullit
Diego Maradona
Stanley Matthews
Pele
Michel Platini
Marco Van Basten
Zico
Zinedine Zidane

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK -5

Speak

Description
Your dog will "speak" (obviously in his own language - barking) when you will ask him to do so.

How to do it
This is not a difficult trick: the important thing is the timing! As soon as your dog starts barking at something (if you have a toy that he always barks at use that one) say 'Speak' and give him a treat. After a while he will start barking as soon as you say 'Speak'.

Tips & Tricks
Don't forget to teach your dog to 'Shut Up': we'll teach soon how to do it!

INTERESTING FACTS-6

(1) A pregnant gold fish is called a twit.

(2) Rocks explode in microwaves.

(3) Steam rollers don't actually roll steam.

(4) 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321

(5) Coca-Cola is better at cleaning your drain pipes than products like Draino.

(6) The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

(7) The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and coughed."

(8) The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

(9) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

(10) Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK-4

STAY

This trick is a really really useful one: you can use it, for example, to make your dog stay while you are hiding stuff (like a toy to fetch) - and if your dog masters it you will be able to leave your dog out of a shop, say 'Stay' and - when you came out - find him in the same position you left him.

Description
When you say 'Stay' your dog will stay in the spot you placed him, either sitting or laying down.

How to do it
Hold a treat in front of your dog and make him sit. Then say 'Stay' and, while holding your hand open in front of him, walk away a few steps - always facing him and always saying 'Good Boy' (if he doesn't move). Start with just a few steps and make the stay always longer (try also to go to their rooms or behind corners). Give him the treat when you go back to him.

Tips & Tricks
You can have your dog sit when he is staying, but you can also make him stay when he is in the 'Lay' position.

INTERESTING FACTS-5

(1) Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down-hence the __expression "to get fired."

(2) Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

(3) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

(4) Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

(5) Actor Tommy Lee Jones and US vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

(6) The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

(7) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

(8) The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

(9) There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

(10) All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20

LEGENDS OF CRICKET

TOP 10
1: Sir Donald Bradman
2: Garfield Sobers
3: Sir Vivian Richards
4: Shane Warne
5: Sir Jack Hobbs
6: Dennis Lillee
7: Sachin Tendulkar
8: Imran Khan
9: Walter Hammond
10: Sunil Gavaskar

BEST TEST TEAM
Openers -> Sijo, Sunil Gavaskar
Middle-Order->Don Bradman,Vivian Richards,Walter Hammond
All-Rounders -> Garfield Sobers, Imran Khan
Wicket-Keeper -> Adam Gilchrist
Spinner -> Shane Warne
Fast Bowler -> Malcolm Marshall, Dennis Lillee

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK -3

Focus!

Description
It is really important that you are able to get the attention of your puppy when you need it: you'll be more effective when teaching him tricks and you'll also have a tool to "distract" your dog from doing things you don't want him to do.

How to do it
Start sitting or kneeling, in front of your puppy. Hide your hands (so he won't be distracted looking at them) and say 'Focus' (or say your dog's name): as soon as he looks at you in your eyes start praising him (always keep eye contact) and after a few seconds give him a treat. If he looks somewhere else, just call him again and start over.
Try to lengthen the time while he's focused on you, but remember that after a few seconds (it depends, but if he stays focused for 10-15 seconds he's a really good dog!) you have to let him go...

INTERESTING FACTS-4

1) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

(2) The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

(3) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

(4) Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

(5) Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

(6) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)

(7) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

(8) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

(9) The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

(10) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. * Spades - King David; * Clubs - Alexander the Great; *Hearts -Charlemagne; * Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

COSTLY ADD

HA HA HA !!!!!!

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK-2

Fetch - Stop'n'go!


Description
You will teach your dog to stay when you throw the ball or the stick, and to not move untill you tell him to "Go fetch!"

How to do it
It is really important that your dog knows how to stay and to fetch before you can teach him this trick (and he has to enjoy fetching things quite a lot).
Anyhow, make your dog stay, and then throw the stick - quite close to you and to your dog. Keep praising him while he doesn't move: your dog will be pointing at the stick but will stay, waiting for your order: after a few seconds say "Go!" - with a quite strong voice - and your dog will run to get the stick - give him a treat when he comes back to you.
If he runs after the stick as soon as you throw it, just say "No", go get the stick - and repeat (don't forget to always pratice stay, it's a great and very useful exercise!

INTERESTING FACTS-3

(1) The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

(2) Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

(3) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

(4) Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

(5) Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

(6) All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

(7) The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

(8) Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

(9) Pearls melt in vinegar.

(10) Thomas Jefferson is credited with inventing the coat hanger.

TONGUE TWISTERS-2

1. if a sledering snail went down a slippery slide would a snail sleder or slide down the slide

2. bubble bobble, bubble bobble, bubble bobble

3. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue .

4. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.

5. Lala Gope Gappungam Das.

6. You curse, I curse, we all curse, for asparagus!

7. Kacha papaya pacca papaya Kacha papaya pacca papaya Kacha papaya pacca papaya.

8. Sanjeev's sixth sheep is sick

9. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.

10. Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.

INTERESTING FACTS -2

(1) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

(2) The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

(3) A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

(4) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

(5) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

(6) The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

(7) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

(8) The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

(9) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

(10) Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK -1

Bow (or stretch)

Description
As you may have already noticed, when your dog gets up for a good nap he usually stretches his front legs ending up in a bowing position: what you will learn here is to train your dog to "bow" at your command.

How to do it
Start with your dog standing on his four legs: say 'Bow' and push gently on the forward part of his back (close to the neck) while holding a hand under his rear legs. The result will be that he will lower his head and front part while leaving standing his rear part - thus "bowing".

Tips & Tricks
If you have the habit of "fighting" (always with tenderness!!) with your dog, you can teach him to bow before the fight will start: this way you will both look like two karate masters ready to wrestle!

TONGUE TWISTERS-1

1. A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies

2. I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.

3. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said "this butter's bitter! But a bit
of better butter will but make my butter better" So she bought some better
butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so 'twas
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!


4. Black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big black bug bit?

5. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.

6. If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
How do I understand that you understand? Understand!

7. I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

8. RED BULB BLUE BULB RED BULB BLUE BULB

9. "RED BLOOD BLUE BLOOD"

10. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

INTERESTING FACTS-1

(1) The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

(2) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

(3) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles from the flush.

(4) The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

(5) American car horns beep in the tone of F.

(6) No piece of paper can be folded into half more than 7 times.

(7) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

(8) 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

(9) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

(10) Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

MARUTI SUZUKI ASTAR

Maruti Suzuki faces a tougher competition when compared to a decade ago. Although its still the most popular brand in india, it needs model changes rather than few face-lifs and also introduce new models. Right now, many brands have two cars in the same segment. Unlike other markets, India seems to have good market for old generation cars which is available comparitively cheap, be it Accent, Octavia, Ikon, Lancer and Santro. With these ever increasing models, Maruti Suzuki is bringing out new models. This time, the A-star, which is probably in the same range as Maruti-Suzuki 800. As the company launched the new Swift Dzire it said A-star would be in the market this year end.

The Suzuki A-Star will be powered by an Euro 5-compliant 1.0L petrol engine with only manual transmission. Maruti Suzuki and Suzuki Motor Corporation had announced the global launch of a new concept car, the Suzuki A-Star Concept at the Auto Expo in New Delhi.

With a 5-year capital investment of $ 2.2 billion in a new car plant, a diesel engine manufacturing unit, a new engine series and new models, Maruti Suzuki is emerging as a global manufacturing hub for Suzuki operations worldwide. Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) is pursuing a world strategy designed for long-term growth. Following the launch of its acclaimed fourth world strategic model, the Splash, at the 2007 International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, the company is developing the fifth exciting model in its strategy. It will be showing some of the forthcoming model’s design themes at Auto Expo 2008 in New Delhi* in the form of the Suzuki A-Star Concept.

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Airlines
Indian Airlines - 1800 180 1407
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Banks
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Automobiles
Mahindra Scorpio - 1800 22 6006
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