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 5 Sep 2007 @ 13:54
Russian mayor bans phrase 'I don't know'
By BAGILA BUKHARBAYEVA, Associated Press Writer
Tue Sep 4, 6:56 PM ET
MOSCOW - The mayor of a Siberian oil town has ordered his bureaucrats to stop using expressions such as "I don't know" and "I can't." Or look for another job.
Alexander Kuzmin, the 33-year-old mayor of Megion, has banned these and 25 other phrases as a way to make his administration more efficient, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
"It's a suggestion to the staff that they should think before saying something," Oksana Shestakova said by telephone. "To say `I don't know' is the same as admitting your helplessness."
To reinforce the ban, a framed list of the banned expressions has been hanging on the wall next to Kuzmin's office for the past two weeks, Shestakova said. More >
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 24 Aug 2007 @ 10:37
Today is meant to be my special day.
First thing this morning my older brother rang to wish me Happy Birthday. I haven't spoken to him in a couple of months. He said he would be coming round later with a card and gift. My mother came in to wish me Happy Birthday and I received a card and gift from her. Another friend called and sang Happy Birthday and wished me a lovely day.
I've also received several birthday greetings via emails too, which were lovely. More >
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11 Aug 2007 @ 10:47
"Life moves pretty fast… If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -- : Ferris Beuller
There are some films I watch over and over again and still find joy in them: Ferris Beuller's Day Off is one such film. I watched it again on television last night and I love it.
Ferris Beuller is a teenager in his final year at school and about to graduate. He wakes up one morning and decides it's too beautiful a day to be in school so he tells his parents he's not feeling well and he would like to stay home. They leave him tucked up in bed. More >
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11 Aug 2007 @ 10:17
This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It is reported to have been listed in the Atlanta Journal. More >
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 11 Aug 2007 @ 09:50
The following fairy tale was sent to me via email.
Enjoy...
EJ
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This is the fairy tale that should have been read to us when we were little:
Once upon a time
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in a land far away,
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a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess
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