Flash Your Fur Friday

An oldie but goodie :)

Only in America ......do drugstores make the sick walk
all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while
healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
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Only in America ......do people order double cheeseburgers,
large fries, and a diet coke.
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Only in America ......do banks leave both doors open and then
chain the pens to the counters.
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Only in America ......do we leave cars worth thousands of
dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
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Only in America ......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and
buns in packages of eight.
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Only in America ......do they have drive-up ATM machines with
Braille lettering.
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EVER WONDER.....

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
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Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
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Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
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Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?
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Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?
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Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing
liquid made with real lemons?
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Why the man who invests all your money is called a broker?
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Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush
hour?
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Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
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Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
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Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
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You know that indestructible black box that is used on
airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
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Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
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Why are they called apartments when they're all stuck together?
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If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of
progress?
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If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal

What to do in an Earthquake

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster
Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI),
the world ' s most experienced rescue team. The
information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.
I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with
rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in
several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams
from many countries...
I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for
two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the
world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.
The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in
Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was
under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of
their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to
their desks in the aisles. It was obscene,
unnecessary and I wondered why the children were not in
the aisles. I didn't at the time know that the
children were told to hide under something.
Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the
ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside
crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them.
This space is what I call the "triangle of life".
The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will
compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void,
the greater the probability that the person who is using
this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you
watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the
"triangles" you see formed. They are everywhere.
It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY

1) Most everyone who simply "ducks and covers"
WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE are crushed to death. People who get
under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.
2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the
fetal position. You should too in an earthquake... It is a
natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a
smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to
a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void
next to it.
3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to
be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with
the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building
does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the
wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick
buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will
cause many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete
slabs.
4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake
occurs, simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist
around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival
rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on The back of
the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor,
next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.
5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by
getting out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in
the fetal position next to a sofa, or large chair.
6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings
collapse is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and
the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed
by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you
will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be
killed!
7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different
"moment of frequency" (they swing separately from
the main part of the building). The stairs and
remainder of the building continuously bump into each other
until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people
who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads -
horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn ' t
collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a
likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the
stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may
collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They
should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of
the building is not damaged.
8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them
If Possible - It is much better to be near the outside of
the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are
from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the
probability that your escape route will be blocked.
9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road
above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles;
which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the
decks of the Nimitz Freeway... The victims of the
San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their
vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily
survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their
vehicles. Everyone killed would
have survived if they had been able to get out of their
cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had
voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had
columns fall directly across them.
10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed
newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper,
that paper does not compact. Large voids are found
surrounding stacks of paper.

In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology
to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of
Istanbul , University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated
to film this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home
with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover," and
ten mannequins I used in my "triangle of life" survival method.
After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through
the rubble and entered the building to film and document the
results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under
directly observable, scientific conditions, relevant
to building collapse,showed there would have been zero percent survival
for those doing duck and cover.
There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for
people using my method of the "triangle of life."
This film has been seen by millions of viewers on
television in Turkey and the rest of Europe , and it was seen in the
USA ,Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.

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