表达方式

皇帝梦到自己所有的牙齿都掉光了。于是，一觉醒来，他召来一位智者为他解梦。智者说：“陛下，您很不幸，只要掉一颗牙，就预示着您会失去一个亲人。”

皇帝听了非常生气：“你这个大胆的狂徒，竟然敢在这里胡说八道，重打一百大板！”

然后，皇帝又下令找来另一位智者。智者听完皇帝的诉说后说：“陛下，您真幸福啊！您做的梦非常吉利，意味着您的寿命比您亲人的寿命还要长。”

皇帝非常高兴，令人奖赏这位智者一百两黄金。

这位智者走出宫殿的时候，一位太监很不解，问他说：“真没想到，同样是对一个梦的解说，为什么他受到惩罚，而你却得到奖赏呢？”

第二位智者语重心长地说：“道理非常简单，所有的事物都是由表达方式决定的。”

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Dishwasher safe

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与其抱残守缺，不如果断放弃

飞速行驶的列车上，一位老人刚买的新鞋不慎从窗口掉下去一只，周围的旅客无不为之惋惜，不料老人立刻把剩下的那一只也扔了出去。众人大惑不解，老人却从容一笑：“再好的鞋剩下一只，对我来说，已没有任何用处。把它扔下去，也许捡到的人会得到一双，说不定他还能穿。”

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Euphemisms for vomiting

Paint the town green
Plant beets
Polishing your shoes
Protein spill
Psychedelic spit
Redecorate the toilet
Reverse gears
Round trip meal ticket
Spill the groceries
Technicolor yawn
Unrecoverable application error

What else can you think of?

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Mindboggling signs

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Hair today, gone tomorrow

Here's a shocking video of a hair-care commercial.



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一个事实，两个说法

据说朱元璋做了皇帝后，有个从前的小伙伴来到皇宫，想让朱元璋给他封个官或者赏赐点什么。为了让朱元璋勾起儿时的回忆，此人跪在朱元璋面前说道：“万岁，还记得吗？小时候，咱们都替别人放牛。有一天，我们在芦花荡里，偷来豆子放在瓦罐里煮，大家争抢着吃，结果罐子破了，豆子撒了一地，汤都泼在地上。你只顾从地上抢豆子吃，却不小心连红草叶子也塞进嘴里。叶子梗在喉咙，你憋得脸都红了，吓得大哭起来。我出主意叫你用青菜叶子放在手上一起吞下去，才把红草叶子吞下肚里的。。。”

当着文武百官的面，朱元璋怒不可遏，大喝一声：“哪里来的疯子，打出去！”

结果，那个人被赶了出去。另一个当年的小伙伴听说这件事之后，也来面见朱元璋：“万岁，还记得我吗？当年微臣随驾扫荡芦州府，打破罐州域，汤元帅在逃，拿住豆将军，红孩儿当关，多亏菜将军。”

话句句属实却不失体面，朱元璋龙颜大悦，想起了当年自己和小伙伴们同甘共苦，当即给此人封了个御林军总管。

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I wonder...

Who would want to have "Dyeing Manager" printed on his/her business cards?


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Chaos theory

Jeremy Gutsche, Chief Trend Hunter of TrendHunter.com, may not have been the first to write about the dynamics of the current economic turmoil, but his new book, Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change, documents the many exploits you could make in these uncertain times.

Wonderfully illustrated with easily digestible snippets that mirror the trend of Twitter's 140-character-limit and the attention span required to read those, Exploiting Chaos outlines four tactics (Culture of Revolution, Trend Hunting, Adaptive Innovation, and Infectious Messaging) to adapt quickly to changes and is filled with vivid stories of how remarkable companies have risen from chaos. Jeremy's contrarian approach in this book is a refreshing change to the gloom and doom dished out by mainstream media these days.You can take comfort in the fact that "Once you accept the inevitability of perpetual change, you can abandon your quest to gain control, and instead, go with the flow."

Exploiting Chaos is slated for release on September 1, but through a special arrangement with TrendHunter, you can download chapter 1 of the book for free.



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I'm back!

My blog has magically reappeared, having gone AWOL for almost a week. Because of this, the pagerank for my blog has gone down to 0. Bloody hell!

Also, it seems that the people at Blogger can login to your account without your knowledge and forcibly remove widgets and the underlying HTML codes. So much for "do no evil".

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Can you handle the truth?

Do you have what it takes to be a tobacco executive? Check out the 7-section Flash video on thetruth.com to find out. Or play games such as "Urea Collector", "Tough Love" and "Addictor Click".

The site uses a bunch of interesting content to combat the slick advertising employed by Big Tobacco and show how cigarette manufacturers have repeatedly deceived the public about the health implications of smoking.

It's no wonder the cigarette industry is the only industry that sees a payoff when its product kills its customers, and thinks it's a good thing. That's one hell of a customer retention strategy.

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Know which side your bread is buttered

A description of Harvard University by Chris Langan (from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers) that pretty much sums up the situation at SPH and the rest of the government machinery in Singapore:

"The people running it are not necessarily searching for truth and knowledge. They want to be big shots, and when you accept a paycheck from these people, it is going to come down to what you want to do and what you feel is right versus what the man says you can do to receive another paycheck. When you're there, they got a thumb right on you. They are out to make sure you don't step out of line."

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Does it have to be Bill Clinton?

Bill Clinton may be getting all the credit for the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two female American journalist detained by North Korea, but there may be a reason why it has taken so long for the hostage situation to be resolved:

Years ago, police documented something called the Stockholm syndrome. Robbers had held up a bank in Sweden and held the patrons and employees hostage. After days of negotiations, the captives were freed and emerged from the bank enraged - at the cops. Psychologists determined that a lifeboat mentality develops between hostages and their captors. Them and us, with them being the police outside screwing things up. Since that time, hostage negotiators have been trained to slow everything down, play for time, because the bad guys are very reluctant to hurt the people with whom they have bonded.

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Redundancy & euphemism

Ever wondered why all announcements on an airplane sound like they’re spoken in some weird language from a parallel universe?



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Wishful sleeping

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