The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
(At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.)
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...)
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg In the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the
bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
-- The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention.
-- The only cure for insomnia is to get more sleep.
-- Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
-- Bald Guys never have a bad hair day.
-- Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- We have to believe in free will. We have no choice.
-- If you lost your left arm, your right arm would be left.
-- Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
-- Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.
-- Middle age is when you burn the midnight oil around 9:00 pm.
-- Age only matters if you're cheese.
-- He who laughs, lasts.
-- Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye opener.
-- Forget love, I'd rather fall into chocolate.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would forestall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Insults - Good Ones
A few clowns short of a circus.
A few fries short of a Happy Meal.
An experiment in Artificial Stupidity.
A few beers short of a six-pack.
Dumber than a box of hair.
A few peas short of a casserole.
Doesn't have all her cornflakes in one box.
The wheel's spinning, but the hamster's dead.
One Fruit Loop shy of a full bowl.
One taco short of a combination plate.
A few feathers short of a whole duck.
All foam, no beer.
The cheese slid off her cracker.
Body by Fisher, brains by Mattel.
Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
He fell out of the Stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
An intellect rivaled only by garden tools.
As smart as bait.
Chimney's clogged.
Doesn't have all his dogs on one leash.
Doesn't know much but leads the league in nostril hair.
Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor.
USELESS INFORMATION YOU NEED TO KNOW
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.
Or that Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications)
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services(two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not Pre-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
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.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.
I live in my own little world, but it's OK. They know me here.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, Thyroid problem?'
When you stop believing in Santa Claus is when you start getting clothes for Christmas.
I see your IQ test results were negative.
Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, you won't either.
If God had intended for man to use the metric system, Jesus would have only had ten disciples.
I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected.
The most precious thing we have is life. Yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and shithead's.
If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.
Travel is very educational. I can now say "Kaopectate" in seven languages.
I was on a date recently, and the guy took me horseback riding. That was kind of fun, until we ran out of quarters.
Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at bowling alleys.
After all is said and done, usually more is said than done.
I am a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.
That Claudia Schiffer must be a genius. I told a friend my plan to attain world peace, and he told me I have "Schiffer Brains."
No one ever says "It's only a game," when their team is winning.
I gave my son a hint. On his room door I put a sign: CHECKOUT TIME IS 18.
How come we choose from just two people for president and 50 for Miss America?
How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?
Most nudists are people you don't want to see naked.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands.
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
Porcupines float in water.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head".
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
1997 Statistics:
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S.
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
Dogs can hear sounds that you can't.
Today's Best One-liners
1. Jesse Jackson, Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book ... It's called: "Ministers Do More Than Lay
People."
2. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary!
3. The difference between the Pope and your boss. The Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.
4. My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.
5. The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.
6. I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once, the seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well it really chilled her mood.
7. It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too.
8. A husband is someone who after taking the trash out, gives the impression he just cleaned the whole house.
9. My next house will have no kitchen -- just vending machines and a large trash can.
10. A blonde said, "I was worried that my mechanic might try to rip me off, I was relieved when he told me all I needed was turn-signal fluid."
11. I'm so depressed ... My doctor refused to write me a prescription for Viagra. He said it would be like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.
12. My neighbor was bit by a stray rabid dog. I went to see how he was and found him writing frantically. I told him rabies could be cured and he didn't have to worry about a will. He said, "Will? What will?
I'm making a list of the people I wanna bite."
13. Definition of a teenager? God's punishment for enjoying sex.
"Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward."
-- Thomas Leonard, Scottish poet
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
"I decided to stop worrying about my teenage son's driving and take advantage of it. I got one of those bumper stickers that say "How's my driving?" and put a 900 number on it. At 50 cents a call, I've been making $38 a week." ~ Unknown
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~ Wayne Dyer
"Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character." - I Corinthians 15:33
Life is a Theater - Invite Your Audience Carefully....
Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of, or at least minimize, your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships/friendships.
Observe the relationships around you.............Pay attention!
Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know or appreciate you?
The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.
"If you cannot 'change' the people around you, change the people you're around."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~ Winston Churchill, British statesman, prime minister, author
How many roads must a man travel down before he admits he is lost.
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American Poet
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ~ Albert Einstein
I N S T R U C T I O N S F O R L I F E
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R's:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." -- Irving Berlin, Russian-born American songwriter
"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." -- Dale Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist, philanthropist, educator
"Just when you think you got the world on a string, someone comes by with a pair of scissors."
What happens when a president gets elected in a year with a "0" at the end?
1840: William Henry Harrison (Died in Office)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Assassinated)
1880: James A. Garfield (Assassinated)
1900: William McKinley (Assassinated)
1920: Warren G. Harding (Died in Office)
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Died in Office)
1960: John F. Kennedy (Assassinated)
1980: Ronald Reagan (Survived Assassination Attempt)
And to think that we had 2 guys duking it out in the courts to be the one elected in 2000!
"Both tears and sweat are salty, but render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change." ~ Jesse Jackson
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ."
An open attitude toward the learning process is the key to continuous self-improvement.
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." -- Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
"One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try." -- Sophocles, Greek dramatist
Clones are people two.
Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Leave me the hell alone.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.
It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any.
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
Don't squat with your spurs on.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you drink, don't park; accidents cause people.
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.
Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.
Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Duct tape is like 'the force'. It has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse
Some Inspirational Statements:
1- Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
2- Birthdays are good for you: the more you have the longer you live.
3- Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.
4- You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
5- Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
6- A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
7- Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
8- We could learn a lot from crayons: Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors.... But they all have to learn to live in the same box.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. A left-handed pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live.
Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.
If Walmart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free yet?
You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors.... but they all exist very nicely in the same box.
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.